Sometimes articles in the newspaper will give you some courages to write out something.....

Today there is an article which talk about the doctor nowadays, and it really gives me a blow on the way that doctors treat their patients, especially those who doesn't have money....

The main essense of the article saying that an old lady was knocked down by a car and was seriously injured last year. Yet, there was a private hospital located just opposite the place where the accident happened. Guess what? When the private hospital received a report on the incident, they did send out an ambulans immediately. However, the ambulans was surprisingly sending the old lady to the Government Hospital instead of the private hospital, which is nearby... Of course, due to the late treatment by the doctors in Government Hospital, the old lady had passed away... The same scenario also happened in Petaling Jaya on 28th May this year, which is about a reporter of Nan Yang Shang Pau involved in an accident after being chased by a road bully. Her family members were also facing the same problem and forced to send her to the Government Hospital. Yet, the late treatment also results in the death of the reporter.....

I wonder what is the responsibility of the doctors, aren't their job is to rescue people!? 

Well, after thinking, I think those private doctors who do not want to give their hands to the injured people have their reasons, not only is because of money, but most of the time is they do not want to get involved into trouble! They will think if I cannot save the victim, then his/her family will blame me for the poor treatment, and yet not only I couldn't receive the money. my name will also be black-listed, and I will lose a lot of patients, so why should I get myself into trouble? On the other hand, what will I get if I manage to save the victim? A praise for my kind-hearted? Will I get my treatment fees if the victim comes from a poor family? Well, it may not as the family members will claim they didn't ask me or call me to save the victim, it is totally my will to save her only, and I can't deny it also. Plus, the victim will need a lot of medicines, and a bed to stay also, if the family members are not going to pay me, why should I save her?

I think this is the thinking of those private doctors, although they are good doctors, but this "business" is clearly unbeneficial, and we cant actually blaming them for being cold-hearted also.... However, I hope next time if same incident happened again, those private doctors will at least pre-treat the victims first before sending them to the Government Hospital, so that the victims can hold their breath before they reach there. This will not cost them a lot actually and they won't lose anything, so why don't they do so? Aren't saving people is their responsibility?

*Written after reading an extract titled "Ò½Õ߸¸Ä¸ÐÄ" in Nan Yang Siang Pau, 4th Jun 2007