'Rude' doctor suspended indefinitely
published : 7 Nov 2022 at 12:02
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
A doctor at Chiang Saen Hospital who went viral for ranting at a patient following a disagreement over treatment has now been suspended indefinitely.
The hospital said the doctor in question has now been suspended indefinitely, as opposed to five days as it had initially ordered.
The hospital has also ordered an internal investigation into the incident.
In a video which went viral on social media over the weekend, the doctor could be seen sitting on a chair, fiddling with a mobile phone while engaging in an argument with the patient and the patient's relatives.
At one point in the video, the doctor could be heard calling the patient "stupid".
The patient, a 36-year-old pregnant woman, had come to the hospital to seek treatment for her nausea and vomiting, for which the doctor prescribed an injection.
However, the patient refused the treatment due to her heart condition.
A heated argument with the doctor immediately started.
Taweesilp Visanuyothin of the Public Health Ministry acknowledged the need to improve the doctor-patient ratio at hospitals nationwide, to reduce stress and pressure on medical staff.
Vocabulary
- condition: the physical state of a person, animal, thing or place - สภาพ
- fiddle (verb): to keep touching or moving something with your hands, especially because you are bored or nervous - ปัดมือหรือส่ายมือเล่นไปมากับ
- heated: angry - โกรธ, ฉุนเฉียว
- indefinitely: for a period of time with no fixed end - ไม่มีข้อกำหนด
- injection: putting a liquid, especially a drug, into a person's body using a needle and a syringe - การฉีดยา
- nausea: the feeling that you are going to vomit (throw up food from the stomach) - อาการคลื่นไส้
- patient: someone who is receiving medical treatment - คนป่วย, คนไข้
- ratio (noun): the relationship between two numbers or amounts, one number over another number, proportion, fraction - อัตราส่วน, สัดส่วน, อัตราเปรียบเทียบ
- stress: mental pressure or worry - ความตึงเครียด
- suspended (verb): not allowed to participate or to do a job for a period of time; not allowed to be used for a period of time - ถูกระงับ
