Wife’s bragging gets Chinese doctor suspended from duty
- Gifts from patients, special treatment for family members and unnecessary tests documented on social media leads to investigation
A doctor has been suspended from a hospital in northeast China after his wife boasted online about the gifts he received from patients, as well as preferential access to medical treatment for her family.
According to the Shanghai-based online news outlet The Paper on Wednesday, the unnamed woman had detailed numerous anecdotes about her husband’s work in Qingdao, Shandong province, in a series of blog posts on Weibo and other platforms, some dating back to 2009.
The woman also posted photos of gifts, such as a box of cherries and live crabs, that she said her husband had received from patients, and claimed her relatives were able to skip the queue for faster access to medical treatment.
The blog posts were circulated on Weibo by an unidentified user on Monday, who wrote in a now-deleted post: “This kind of behaviour violates hospital regulations and is prohibited by ethics. It also reveals that the medical organisation’s internal supervision is not strong.”
In one post, she claimed her husband, surnamed Li, “gave excessive medical treatment” to a taxi driver who it appears had annoyed him.
Qingdao University Affiliated Hospital said in a statement posted on its official Weibo account on Tuesday that it had launched an investigation and suspended the doctor.
