Tuesday 29 December 2009

Nut dropped near spine has patient very worried..

Nuts! When I read this news report, Nut dropped near spine has patient very worried.. I didn't know whether to feel very relieved, or, very worried. Relieved that we poor citizens are protected from the wrongdoings and negligence of rich and influential members of the medical profession. But worried tool because it looks to me that unless we appeal the the MCA Complaints Department, and the influential Datuk Michael Chong, we may not be able to seek adequate recourse. If such a case had happened in the USA, UK or even in HK or Singapore, the doctor would have been sued till "his pants are down". Why, in Malaysia, we have to seek the MCA Complaints Department for help? Are Malaysian patients being trampled over by those whom they seek for help in their hours of need? Coming back to this case, I can't imagine anyone telling anyone else that a foreign object accidentally left in the body during an operations, can be safe, and knowing that it has been left there, NOT taken the effort to take it out at that time... This is really a nut case (sorry for the pun). It's time we discuss openly our rights in such cases of Medical negligence

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