Not long ago, a heart-wrenching incident occurred in Zhejiang: a doctor carelessly violated the law, resulting in 5 women infected with HIV, two of whom were pregnant. When something like this happens, a lifetime of happiness is ruined for the infected person.
Mr. Eight remembered a Japanese drama he had watched not long ago, "The White Tower", a medical drama with a Douban score of 9.5, which also has similar cases, which can bring us a lot of thinking
"The White Tower" mainly reveals the dark side of the Japanese medical community in the early years through the experiences of two doctors with completely different ideas.
Toyomachi (Toshiaki Karasawa) is a highly skilled surgeon at a first-rate medical university and an assistant professor. He is very deep, confident and arrogant, and will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. In order to become a professor, CaiQian did not hesitate to pay bribes, form gangs, and kneel to beg for people, and eventually he became a professor as he wished, and he was also internationally recognized. But can a doctor without medical ethics go a long way? ▼
Satomi (Yosuke Eguchi) is also an assistant professor at the same medical university and is in charge of internal medicine. He is completely different from Cai Qian, he is a very simple person, does not like the inflamed communication, he has a sense of justice, has 100% patience with patients, and often works overtime until late at night to do experiments
One day, Satomi diagnosed a sushi shop owner, Sasaki, with esophageal cancer, and asked Tokuzen to operate on the patient and remove the tumor. At that time, Cai Qian had just been promoted to professor, and in order to humiliate Professor Dong, who had blocked him from becoming a professor, he chose to perform surgery on the day of Professor Dong's retirement. Everyone helped with the operation, and naturally few people sent Professor Dong away.
X-rays showed that Sasaki's cancer cells had spread to the lungs. However, Caiqian was bent on early surgery, so he urged the patient to sign the consent form as soon as possible. In the face of the patient's questions, he said: "If you want to live, you can only open the operation!" ”▼
After seeing the X-ray, the intern doctor Xiaoming proposed to Caiqian that he should further check whether the cancer had spread, but he was reprimanded by Caiqian.
The patient's wife was not at ease, so she asked Rimi to help her. Satomi also found a problem, and advised Cai to do further examination before deciding what kind of treatment to use. Because if the cancer cells spread, there is no point in doing surgery. But CaiQian insisted that the patient was only inflamed, not that the cancer had spread
In the end, Caiqian forcibly performed the operation, and the operation was very successful.
Cai Qian was greatly valued by the dean and was arranged to go abroad for a period of exchange. Akira, an inexperienced intern doctor, was appointed as Sasaki's attending physician.
After Sasaki's surgery, his body did not improve significantly, and he often coughed. Bob thinks that Sasaki should be given a further examination to see if the cancer has spread, so he asks Forehand for instructions. Cai Qian was busy socializing, so Xiao Ming would use the inflamed medicine. After Sasaki's condition deteriorated, Komei wanted to ask Tokuzen to personally diagnose him, but Kizen reprimanded him
His skills were well received internationally, but his patient Sasaki died of ineffective treatment, and died a painful death because of inappropriate treatment
Sasaki died because of misdiagnosis, the hospital did not tell the family the truth, but tried to shirk responsibility, the internal unified voice said that Sasaki died because of inflammation, and advised the family to cremate the body as soon as possible (evidence). Satomi refuses to go along with it, and he suggests that Sasaki's wife perform an autopsy on the body so that the cause of death can be confirmed, and eventually she learns that her husband died of cancer spread
Sasaki's wife was furious and sued Caiqian in court, but lost the first trial, because the medical university found industry experts to identify, experts believe that There is no problem with The diagnosis method of Caiqian, and most doctors will make the same diagnosis.
Sasaki's wife smashed the pot and sold iron to insist on appealing, and at the second trial, the lawyer changed his strategy, proving that Caiqian did not fulfill the duties of the doctor and did not inform the patient that there were other treatment options, and finally won the case. Cai Qian was sentenced to pay huge compensation, but he always believed that it was right to treat the sick and save people
Although the lawsuit was won, Sasaki's family was not happy, because after the fight, many people were hurt.
The Sasaki family's mom-and-pop shop was originally very prosperous, but after the wife filed a lawsuit, she did not get the understanding of society, and many people thought that they just wanted to blackmail money. Their shop struggled to reopen, but business deteriorated and many customers cancelled orders.
After losing the lawsuit in the first instance, they also sold the shop to make money to appeal. Although they won the case in the end, their shop was gone, and they had to work as street vendors
The upright Dr. Satomi testified to Sasaki's side, and although he just wanted to tell the truth in court, such an act was detrimental to the interests of the hospital, and it would be difficult to gain a foothold in the medical community in the future. The president of the hospital threatened and seduced, and his wife even threatened Satomi that if he went to testify, he would take the child back to his mother's house, but Satomi still insisted on testifying in court
Perhaps many people think that Satomi is stupid and gives up a great future to help an irrelevant person, but Satomi feels that it is only by telling the truth that he can be ashamed, and that his appearance in court may be able to change the too utilitarian style within the hospital, let the hospital reflect, and establish a better system to avoid such a tragic event again
Later, in order to get revenge on Rimi, the dean arranged for him to become a professor at a health center, which meant that his previous research had to be suspended, and he could not continue his research in the future. Satomi refused, and decisively offered to resign
Fortunately, Rimi's character was deeply appreciated by another professor, who recommended him to become a doctor in a poor hospital, although the equipment was a little poor, but he could continue his previous research. Moreover, the hospital was not so utilitarian, the interpersonal relationship was simple, and Satomi could be happy and happy to be a doctor who served patients wholeheartedly.
Sasaki's death left him with psychological shadows, so that he occasionally hallucinated, and he was skilled in surgery because of his mental trance, and he made a series of mistakes. Usually keen on socializing, he smoked and drank all day and suffered from cancer.
In the end, Caiqian still preferred to see Limi, who was also a friend and foe, rather than the brand-name hospital where he was located. Because he knows that Satomi will not lie and will treat every patient with all his heart
In "The White Tower", although CaiQian has superb skills, he lacks enough patience with patients, but he cannot gain the trust of patients. And because he was too arrogant and selfish, he was careless and led to misdiagnosis, which in turn accelerated the death of the patient.
"White Tower" tells us that a doctor, in addition to solid technology, but also has good moral character, otherwise it will eventually harm others and harm himself.
Doctors are a profession that controls the lives of patients, and if a doctor does not take the health of his patients seriously, does he still deserve to be called a doctor?