déjà vu
拿刀斧狂奔被捕 散工送院离奇身亡
刘丽仪 2007-03-08
一名男子忽然狂性大发，拿着斧头和菜刀在组屋下狂奔，被警察逮捕后前早在医院离奇死亡。...死者家属对警方和医院的处理方式不满，怀疑是医院未问明他对药物过敏而为他注射抗生素、或者警方在扣留他时未为他妥善处理刀伤导致病毒感染而丧命。
...警方发言人昨晚受询时说，李德顺在星期一被控拥有攻击性武器，法官下令将他还押心理卫生学院，以检查精神状态。“当他被送到心理卫生学院时，医生检验出他发高烧，于是将他转送到樟宜综合医院治疗。他在星期二清晨6时左右逝世。”
...他的弟弟、女友和母亲星期天下午到警局了解状况。他弟弟说，他们原本打算为李德顺保释，但被警方拒绝，也不许他们探访。
他说，直到前天早上7时左右，警方打电话通知家人，说他哥哥发高烧，情况危急，要他们立刻到医院去。李德顺的妹妹李琪说，他们赶到医院时，李德顺已断气，死亡时间却是早上6时，因此他们对警方还在一个小时后打电话通知说他哥哥情况危急感到费解。
李琪说，她哥哥对盘尼西林有过敏反应，但医院却未联络家人问明情况就为他注射抗生素。院方只告诉家人，当他们发现李德顺呼吸困难，立刻进行心肺复苏术，抢救40分钟后失败，却不提注射抗生素的事。
Hmm, another 2 kidneys, 1 liver, 1 heart, and 2 corneas.
Nowadays, go hospital very dangerous. Better be careful.
Note:
I am not alleging that the hospital has deliberately not rendered proper medical attention in order to harvest organs. But I am asserting that with or without HOTA, Singapore's hospital medical care has always been terrible to begin with.
Firstly, the ratio of doctors and nurses to patients is not up to developed countries' standard, and secondly there is no check and balance - the judiciary almost always ruled in the favour of doctors in malpracice suits, in its misguided attempt to contain medical cost. Thus there is hardly any motivation for hospitals to improve their procedures or systems. Likewise, doctors are not motivated to be extra careful.
That's not to say we do not have excellent doctors. We do. But the two points mean that mistake due to heavy workload (pt 1). carelessness and apathy (pt 2) is somehow inevitable.
I am expressing my fear that with hota, the possibility of such poor quality care escalating to abuse, becomes very real. Even if it had not happened in this case, it may happen in future or it may already have happened in the past.
Who knows? Nobody knows! No press freedom (zaobao is already quite "daring"). No open inquiry (Police said in the report that there will be a coroner's case for this man, but tell me, will there be one for Mr. Sim?). No freedom of speech. It's a very scary little Island, where all skeletons are kept in closets under double locks! (In NKF's case, the skeletons were buried for more than 10 years).
Hence, nowadays, better go private hospital (Gleneagles, Mt. Elizabeth etc) if can afford. Better be safe than be sorry. Better be called a paranoid, than make our families worry. Peace of mind is everything. To our Matrix Master, the life of human batteries are very cheap...
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
Labels: Organ Robbery
posted by The Human Battery @ 3/08/2007
6 comments
6 Comments:
> To our Matrix Master, the life of human batteries are very cheap...
but our organs are expensive. keke. Some VIP recently advocated organ trading. Kept saying that the principle is good. Who doesnt know that? HOTA, mercy-killing, organ trading all have very sound principles. Most opponents have no quarrels with these high-soudning principles. What they worry is the potential for abuse. And on this "very scary little Island" (to borrow your words), such a possibility is very real. Hence my objection to these policies.
> Hence, nowadays, better go private hospital (Gleneagles, Mt. Elizabeth etc) if can afford.
Sometimes it is not a matter of can afford. Heard there is a rule that if there is an accident, even if the accident is just outside a private hospital, the casualty must be sent to the nearest govt (or restructured) hospital to keep the medical/hospitalization cost down. So if kenna accident and one becomes unconcious... then no choice.
Does that ridiculous rule apply to people not taking public ambulance? I mean, if I were to bring an accident victim to Gleneagles' A&E dept in my car, they can turn the victim away and risk him dying on the way to some public hospital?
I think it would be good if some of these Chinese posts could be translated. Thanks. I would be good to read and have a feel of what the Chinese Ed heartlander are writing about.
Actually, I believe most of these zaobao reporters/writers are neither Chinese ed nor heartlanders :) Many are young men and women schooled in our national-wide english school system. Perhaps they majored in Chinese in university, but other than that, they are in every way as "elite" as those grad reporters who majored in English and ended up at Straits Times.
The diff however is that firstly the Chinese press is no longer under the radar of the govt, unlike those 1970s days when the govt was very concerned that its reporting would sway the thinking of the masses. Currently, its readership and hence influence cannot match the Straits Times'. The up-side is thus that it now seem to have more leeway in its reporting. Secondly, I feel that its reporters, being able to speak Chinese, are able to establish rapport and hence get exclusive detailed interviews more easily with heartlanders' victims, compared to English-only ST reporters. These 2 pts means that if one wants to get more truth to various news, it pays to read the Chinese press to "balance" the very skewed reporting and low quality interview that the 146th-ranked ST feed us daily :)
> if I were to bring an accident victim to Gleneagles' A&E dept
Think if you physically managed to bring the victim to the private hospital's A&E and sign a declaration that you're prepared to pay *all costs* incurred, then maybe you have a chance to get the victim admitted into the private hospital. But if you call for the public ambulance, the rule is to send to nearest govt/restructured hospital.
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