Chinese doctor suspended after video shows him smoking while taking scan of patient
A doctor in central China has been fined and suspended from work for a week after he was caught on camera smoking while examining a patient, according to a news agency report.
The medic was strongly criticised on social media after a video showed him pinching a cigarette between his fingers while apparently adjusting a medical scanning device, the China News Service reported.
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A representative of his employer, the central hospital in Maji in Henan province, said the doctor, who was not named, had breached a smoking ban and damaged the image of the medical centre.
“He has also harmed the emotions of our patient and triggered fears among his family,” the representative was quoted as saying.
The doctor was fined 2,000 yuan (HK$2,400) by the medical centre and barred from working for a week.
With the footage circulating around Chinese social media networks, especially Sina Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, a vast number of internet users said there were deep-rooted problems with some Chinese medical practitioners’ treatment of their patients.
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Others wrote on social media that people ought to show more understanding of the pressures faced by doctors as they were only human and can make mistakes.
