Doctor Leaves Operating Room Saying "I'm Going to Pick Up My Bonus"

Doctor Leaves Operating Room Saying "I'm Going to Pick Up My Bonus" = Wuhan [Social News] 2011/08/16 (Tue) 11:50

 On the 12th, a doctor at Zhongnan Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University in Wuhan, Hubei Province, reportedly said, "I'm going to pick up my bonus," and left the operating room. The China News Service reported.

 According to a 61-year-old female patient, during an endoscopic surgery to remove an intestinal polyp, the doctor told a nurse, "I'm going to pick up my bonus," and left. The nurse instructed the patient, "The endoscope is inside you, so do not move." The doctor returned about 30 minutes later.

 According to the patient, the surgery, which should have taken about 30 minutes, took three hours, including when the doctor was absent. After the surgery, she developed a high fever of 39.3 degrees Celsius, and continued to experience anal bleeding for several days. Although pre-operative examinations indicated that four polyps would be removed, more than a dozen incisions were made.

 The doctor who performed the surgery explained, "The intestines are long and winding, so some polyps cannot be found during an examination. We are proceeding carefully with the surgery to ensure accuracy. The bleeding is due to the patient's hemorrhoids."

 When asked about how he had left the patient during surgery, saying he was going to collect his bonus, the doctor reportedly said, "If the surgery is long, I sometimes go to the bathroom. Three hours is still on the short side. I have performed surgery that took a whole day. On that occasion, I went to eat with the endoscope still inside the patient's intestine, and continued the surgery when I returned."

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2011/08/16 (Tue) 11:50:08 [Searchina] http://news.searchina.ne.jp/disp.cgi?y=2011&d=0816&f=national_0816_082.shtml

 Sorry for sharing this old news article.

 This is no laughing matter, but it is a funny story, so I've reproduced it here.

 It may seem like a funny story, but the specific name of the university (hospital) is mentioned, so it's probably not a joke.

 I've always thought that when an "incident" like this becomes public, the "perpetrator" is interviewed, the newspaper reports it, and the article is then posted in Japanese on a major Japanese portal site (which is a foreign country), so I get the impression that freedom of the press and disclosure of information are more advanced in China than in Japan. 

 In Japan, stories of this magnitude would not be reported in the newspapers (unless it becomes a criminal case or civil lawsuit).