Expat group beats up doctor
By Cai Wenjun |
August 20, 2011, Saturday
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A group of expatriates allegedly beat a doctor in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, because one of them didn't receive preferential treatment as a foreign patient.
The doctor from the No.2 Hospital affiliated with Wenzhou Medical College was beaten by the Italian patient's son and others on the back and arm, authorities said. A slap on the physician's face seriously injured his right ear, perforating the eardrum, according to zjol.com.cn, a government-run news portal in Zhejiang, yesterday.
The dispute took place about 11pm Wednesday night, when an Italian man with an eye injury was escorted by his son and two other people who appeared to be Asian. A witness said online that one was a Japanese woman who could speak Chinese and the other was a Chinese man.
The doctor, surnamed Lin, checked the patient one minute after the patient arrived, according to the hospital's camera footage. An on-duty nurse, Fang Yuan, said the patient came in with a red face and walked unsteadily while entering the clinic and that he smelled strongly of alcohol.
After Lin finished checking the patient, he went to a computer to issue documents for tests. At that point the woman complained in Chinese, "Why did foreigner receive such slow treatment in China?"
Lin replied that Chinese and foreign patients were treated the same, and the patient's son and the Chinese man responded by shouting and pounding on the doctor's desk, according to the witness.
Camera footage shows the two men smashed items on the desk and pulled a fish tank and the computer screen to the floor. They even pushed and tried to beat a family member of another patient who tried to stop them.
Lin fled the clinic to the corridor but returned to finish filling out the test documents. The patient's son then threw a steel folder onto Lin's back and the Chinese man smashed a plastic flower pot on Lin, who injured his arm while fending off the pot.
Even as hospital security staff and police arrived to stop the beating, the patient's son still ran toward Lin and cornered him. Lin said the man slapped his face and his right ear went deaf immediately.
The doctor from the No.2 Hospital affiliated with Wenzhou Medical College was beaten by the Italian patient's son and others on the back and arm, authorities said. A slap on the physician's face seriously injured his right ear, perforating the eardrum, according to zjol.com.cn, a government-run news portal in Zhejiang, yesterday.
The dispute took place about 11pm Wednesday night, when an Italian man with an eye injury was escorted by his son and two other people who appeared to be Asian. A witness said online that one was a Japanese woman who could speak Chinese and the other was a Chinese man.
The doctor, surnamed Lin, checked the patient one minute after the patient arrived, according to the hospital's camera footage. An on-duty nurse, Fang Yuan, said the patient came in with a red face and walked unsteadily while entering the clinic and that he smelled strongly of alcohol.
After Lin finished checking the patient, he went to a computer to issue documents for tests. At that point the woman complained in Chinese, "Why did foreigner receive such slow treatment in China?"
Lin replied that Chinese and foreign patients were treated the same, and the patient's son and the Chinese man responded by shouting and pounding on the doctor's desk, according to the witness.
Camera footage shows the two men smashed items on the desk and pulled a fish tank and the computer screen to the floor. They even pushed and tried to beat a family member of another patient who tried to stop them.
Lin fled the clinic to the corridor but returned to finish filling out the test documents. The patient's son then threw a steel folder onto Lin's back and the Chinese man smashed a plastic flower pot on Lin, who injured his arm while fending off the pot.
Even as hospital security staff and police arrived to stop the beating, the patient's son still ran toward Lin and cornered him. Lin said the man slapped his face and his right ear went deaf immediately.
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