Social Injustice?

m2004

24 Jan 04, 11:40

1. Many reason are given for revealing the 12 JI students in ST today. How about the doctor who failed to detect SARS? Why was he not revealed?

2. SCDF defends sending patients to public hospitals even tho there are private hospitals which are nearer to the scene of accidents. One man died because of this rule. If the person who died had been a PAP MP or higher, would SCDF say the same thing? The incident of SM's wife in Britain comes to mind...

wuming78

24 Jan 04, 11:46

Originally posted by m2004:
1. Many reason are given for revealing the 12 JI students in ST today. How about the doctor who failed to detect SARS? Why was he not revealed?

2. SCDF defends sending patients to public hospitals even tho there are private hospitals which are nearer to the scene of accidents. One man died because of this rule. If the person who died had been a PAP MP or higher, would SCDF say the same thing? The incident of SM's wife in Britain comes to mind...

1. wat would be accomplished by revealing the name of the doctor who could not identify SARS?

2. tt man did not die from this rule - even the doctors were saying the difference in time taken might not haf made a difference.
but i understand wat u mean - there would be a greater hoo haa shud it be someone impt who died. and yes, i think scdf should drive emergency cases to pte hospitals who are sufficiently manned and equipped (this can be auditted easily, and for the pte hospitals, y not?) in fact i think scdf does so now, but only to the pte hospitals who "declare" to scdf as being sufficiently equipped. hope there wil be improvements in this area.

gasband

24 Jan 04, 12:27

Originally posted by m2004:
1. Many reason are given for revealing the 12 JI students in ST today. How about the doctor who failed to detect SARS? Why was he not revealed?

2. SCDF defends sending patients to public hospitals even tho there are private hospitals which are nearer to the scene of accidents. One man died because of this rule. If the person who died had been a PAP MP or higher, would SCDF say the same thing? The incident of SM's wife in Britain comes to mind...

1. I am surprised that JI students should be considered parallel to the doctor. Like what Wuming said, why should the doctor be named? Agreed that SARs is very BIG SCALE, but a doctor who fails to detect SARs is similar to a doctor who failed to detect cancer. Do we name every single doctor and put more unnecessary stress on them? I guess if the hospital decides that action will be taken, it will be taken and let it rest there then.

2. I am quite appalled by SCDF's stance too. But again, they were not the cause of the death but the point is, do we want to wait till such problems occur before corrective steps are taken?

stupidissmart

24 Jan 04, 23:20

About the hospital thingy, I got to ask, is tis law set because of private hospital profit making ?

First, the person involved may not want to pay for higher hospital fees. Second the person involved may not be able to pay the medical fees themselves. Wat if it is a vangabond tat suffer a car accident ? For private hospital who only cares about profit, don't u think they will reject patients, or give them poorer medical attention ? For Gov hospital, the vangabond will still be treated lke normal people. If they cannot pay, then tat is just too bad for taxpayers like us.

[ Neo ]

25 Jan 04, 01:10

Every Doctor is under an oath to Save Lives.

Should there be one who rejects this reponsibilty, then I will strongly suggest that the individual rethink his/her career decision in the Medical field.

But since the above tragedy had happened not because of any doctors' refusal of treatment but because of some idiotic administrative procedures, then I will STRONGLY suggest for the policy / procedural chief to do a test run on the current procedural efficiency by chopping one hand off and await transporation to the nearest public hospital.

Hopefully, that brighteye may then get some inspiration or motivation to straighten out some basic logic on what to do during an emergency, such as a life-saving process.

wuming78

25 Jan 04, 09:55

heard from the news scdf is reviewing their policy and intends to include pte hospitals in the list of hospitals tt can react to emergencies.

another case of a boiled frog...