This doctor has a system

Chapter 623, Section 685: A Bizarre Death

Inside the lobby, staff from the medical affairs office are communicating with family members.

"Youliang, what brings you here?" Director Dong Zhida asked upon seeing Li Youliang.

"Director Gao heard about this and asked me to come and see what's going on," Li Youliang explained.

"Sigh! Ma Liang is just unlucky." Director Dong sighed. "He's still in the duty room right now. You should go find him directly."

“If you have any questions, you can come inside and tell us,” Officer Liu from the medical affairs office told the family. “What you’re doing won’t solve anything.”

"Yes, if this continues to disrupt the medical order, we'll have no choice but to call the police," Director Dong said. "That would put us in a very passive position, wouldn't you say?"

"It was your hospital that killed him." Jia Tianyuan's wife burst into tears again as she spoke.

"He only took the medicine you prescribed, nothing else!"

According to her description, after returning home, Jia Tianyuan took the medication and then lay down to rest in bed.

Around 7 a.m., she got up, made breakfast, and called to him to get up in the living room, but there was no response.

I went into the bedroom and was so frightened that I was completely at a loss. I immediately dialed 120.

The accompanying doctor examined the patient and found him already cold, with rigor mortis visible on his body. However, despite the family's insistence, they followed procedure and attempted resuscitation for half an hour before finally declaring him dead.

“It’s that simple,” Ma Liang said to Gao Feng over the phone. “I’m just unlucky to have run into something like this.”

"Go home and rest first. The hospital will handle everything," Gao Feng comforted her.

"Well, I'll go back and write a statement first," Ma Liang sighed.

After hanging up the phone, Gao Feng felt some sympathy for Ma Liang and the patient.

From his perspective, Ma Liang did not make any mistakes.

The patient has a clear history of allergic rhinitis, and the symptoms are consistent with an acute attack. The prescribed medication has been used before.

If we were to nitpick, some might say that the doctor's diagnosis of the patient's condition was inaccurate and that necessary examinations were not conducted.
But people who say this are often either stupid or malicious.

Put yourself in their shoes. Your symptoms are very typical, but the doctor still makes you do all sorts of tests. How would you feel?
If the blame is still placed on the doctor who treated the patient in this situation, what will happen in the future?

If a doctor who has been wronged once will be wronged a second time, will he?

How many people who can become doctors have low IQs?
The consequence is that every patient has to undergo examinations. If you refuse to be examined, it's okay, you just need to sign a form.

Otherwise, where do you think those seven or eight informed consent forms come from every time I'm hospitalized?

Of course, this patient also deserves our sympathy. He was not very old, and the pain his sudden death brought to his family is immeasurable.

However, this pain was not caused by the doctor. If the family has grievances, they can pursue them through proper legal channels. Bringing a group of people to the emergency room and crying is highly inappropriate and illegal.

However, in China, death is a major concern, and most hospitals prefer to negotiate with the family members first.

In fact, for family members, negotiation is the best option, as the benefits obtained through legal means often fall short of expectations.

However, Jia Tianyuan's situation is clearly not the case in most cases.

He was not a hospitalized patient, and his death occurred at home.

Whether the accident occurred after taking medication prescribed by the hospital requires further investigation.

“We understand your feelings,” Director Dong said, “but you have no evidence whatsoever, and you’re just making baseless accusations that our hospital killed people. We find that hard to accept.”

"Since you say he only took the medication prescribed by our hospital, please provide evidence."

"Otherwise, if every patient who has an accident at home claims it was because of medication prescribed by the hospital, then the hospital might as well just close down!"

"Are you saying we're trying to extort you?" one of the family members said angrily.

"I didn't say that." "That's exactly what you think!"

"Regardless of whether that's what I think, our primary task now is to figure out exactly how the patient died," Director Dong said. "If we can't even determine the cause of death, what responsibility are we talking about?"

“I don’t want the hospital to take responsibility, I just want that doctor to be sentenced!” Jia Tianyuan’s wife said.

Upon hearing this, Director Dong was so angry that he laughed.

"I think you still have some sense; at least you didn't say that our doctors should pay with their lives."

"I have a few questions."

"First, was the patient experiencing an allergic rhinitis attack when they sought medical attention?"

Jia Tianyuan's wife did not answer, but Director Dong did not care.

"Secondly, has the patient taken either of these two medications before?"

"Third, if the doctor had directly advised him to be hospitalized, would your spouse have accepted that suggestion?"

Fourth, where exactly did our doctor go wrong? You can point it out so we can discuss it together.

For a moment, the doctor-patient communication office fell silent.

Two minutes later, Jia Tianyuan's wife burst into tears.

"But apart from this rhinitis, he's always been in pretty good health. This sudden thing..."

"Your hospital needs to give us an explanation!"

In the end, the two sides parted on bad terms.

This is quite normal. Even if a settlement can be reached eventually, once a patient dies, it will still take a long time and a lot of back and forth.

The family's expectations are certainly very high at first, and this tug-of-war process is also a process of gradually lowering those expectations.

In addition, various other situations may arise in the process.

Jia Tianyuan's situation quickly attracted attention thanks to the efforts of his relatives, and netizens' opinions mainly fell into three categories.

One group sympathizes with Jia Tianyuan, believing that his death is inextricably linked to the hospital.

"When someone dies, the hospital has to take responsibility!"

"I support this! I suggest the doctor be held accountable!"

"A perfectly healthy person went to the hospital and died."

"Why would you go to the hospital? Are you going out to have fun?" someone retorted from below.

"There's definitely something wrong with the medication at the hospital; it might be counterfeit," commented a netizen named "Egg."

"Brother, that's the Provincial People's Hospital, not your neighborhood pharmacy!" one netizen said dismissively.

"Don't you watch the news? There are so many counterfeit drugs these days!" Egg said sadly.

"The person upstairs is going too far! My family runs a small pharmacy, but we've never sold counterfeit medicine!" commented a netizen named Pharmacist Little Bell.

Another view is that doctors and hospitals bear no responsibility.

"These are all commonly used drugs, and I don't think the patient's death is related to these two drugs." - Netizen "Tu Dali, who moves bricks".

"Same here! I also have allergic rhinitis, and I've tried both of these medications." A netizen commented, "I want to sleep until 9:30."

"You can't just blame the hospital every time something happens. I saw family members even causing a scene in the emergency room. That's really bad behavior!" commented a netizen named Gugugu.

(End of this chapter)