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Doctors are generally regarded more highly by society than the rest of us schlubs, and rightly so: they bring us into this world, sometimes guide us out of it, and all the while in between they do their best to keep us alive.
But of course doctors are just people too, and they’re prone to the same vices and character flaws that anyone might have. For example, one MD at a hospital in Aomori Prefecture let his short temper show recently when he punched a patient in the gut during a late night visit.
But was the doc just a hothead? Or was this particular patient just so obnoxious that the assault was warranted?
Although the details have only recently come to light, the incident is reported to have occurred one night in early August this year. At about midnight one evening, a male patient entered Mutsu City General Hospital in Aomori complaining of a pain in his elbow. He was promptly examined by a doctor and sent home, only to return at 1:30am—this time arriving by ambulance—telling the hospital staff he had another pain, this time in his abdomen.
Again the man was checked over and sent on his way, but only two and a half hours later, another ambulance drove up to the hospital with the same man sitting in the back.
Read more here. (Rocket News)
But of course doctors are just people too, and they’re prone to the same vices and character flaws that anyone might have. For example, one MD at a hospital in Aomori Prefecture let his short temper show recently when he punched a patient in the gut during a late night visit.
But was the doc just a hothead? Or was this particular patient just so obnoxious that the assault was warranted?
Although the details have only recently come to light, the incident is reported to have occurred one night in early August this year. At about midnight one evening, a male patient entered Mutsu City General Hospital in Aomori complaining of a pain in his elbow. He was promptly examined by a doctor and sent home, only to return at 1:30am—this time arriving by ambulance—telling the hospital staff he had another pain, this time in his abdomen.
Again the man was checked over and sent on his way, but only two and a half hours later, another ambulance drove up to the hospital with the same man sitting in the back.
Read more here. (Rocket News)
