Patients we can kill

for some reason these days watever i read seem to be somewhat related to the stuff sally puts up on her blog... bible verses, and this time... manga as well......LOL maybe there is reali this special attachment btw us... awww...... *hearts flying around*
haha.. enough of disturbing jokes... but yup.. reading a manga called Team Medical Dragon. For someone who doesn't reali watch ER ... manga is prob a gd source to obtain some amateur medical knowledge... ^0^
to think medical research is a cruel competitive world... well hospital is pretty the same... and probably even more cruel in sometimes doctors delibrately kill patients...
in chap 2 of TMD... titled "patients we can kill", the main character Dr Asada arrives at the cardiacsurgery department of his new employer, a uni medical centre... to discover a emergency patient arriving from another hospital. On his way to the operation theatre to watch the head surgeon performing the operation... an intern explained to him this hospital sends them the patient last minute to earn insurance pnts... and pretty much just want to leave the patient to die in a medical centre with the proper facilities... so as long as doctors follow the correct procedure... the patient is literally 'a patient we can kill' and it is insignificant how much effort the doctor wishes to put in such an operation...
the head surgeon... after judging it to be a cardiac tamponade.. drained the blood and let the blood pressure fall... and literally waited for the patient's heart to stop beating after all "correct procedures"... then he said:
THE OPERATION WAS A SUCCESS, BUT THE PATIENT DIDN'T MAKE IT...
The story may be exaggerated... and dramatised.. but this i am so sure is the universal excuse surgeons use when there is an operation failure... And the failure of modern medicine is reali here... not in the curative properties of medicine and surgery.. but the human heart..
And not only surgeons... how many gps and specialists actually make an effort to know and solve the prob of the patient... especially here, when everyone is so scared of lawsuits... and heavy tax... but we must realise the money we will make, is different to everyone else... it is actually based on human lives...
someone who hav lumbar disc prolapse was sentenced to hav her condition worsening till the day she dies... while soon after she went china.. was told by doctors there is of course a cure for it..
to think china is stil the old school medical system that doesn't promote patient centredness... and may hav heaps of foulplay going on inside a hospital... then wat does it leave us? a so called patient centred medical system???
we r so patient centred that we only know how to fear for our own lawsuits... and we don't even care about giving the patient an adequate treatment that can cure him/her...
Patient centred... is it reali reduced to offering last minute comforts and pieces of tissue??? while a treatment is actually available to save the person from the death?
well our story has a good ending... with Dr Asada intervening after judging the situation to be more than tamponade... and giving cardiac massage to revive the patient.. then continued.... a successful operation.. the patient saved...
post-operation... a worn asada emerging from the operation theatre to face an angry vice-head of the centre, who accused him of overriding the head surgeon's decision... which would result in a big commotion... And Asada replied:
'If u can't let it slide... then go back in there and kill the patient again. '
Just treat this post as an aftermath of my anime/manga obsession....^^