-- SHENYANG, China -- Forget the calls by many Chinese patients for more honest, better-qualified doctors. What this city’s 27 public hospitals really needed, officials decided last month, was police officers.Maybe Belleville General Emerg isn't the armpit of the medical world after all.
And not just at the entrance, but as deputy administrators. The goal: to keep disgruntled patients and their relatives from attacking the doctors.
In June alone, a doctor was stabbed to death in Shandong Province by the son of a patient who had died of liver cancer.
Three doctors were severely burned in Shanxi Province when a patient set fire to a hospital office.
A pediatrician in Fujian Province was also injured after leaping out a fifth-floor window to escape angry relatives of a newborn who had died under his care.
Economic miracle, my hairy arse
Yet more societal blowback... from the folks who brought you lead-painted baby toys...
