Minister should heed cries of medical negligence
A letter to Health Minister Chua Soi Lek
You have ignored my cries of ‘medical abuse’ so far. Can you at least hear your fellow doctor crying out in pain in this Malaysiakini letter? Do you seriously believe this to be ‘just another isolated case’?
Will justice be served or will it be swept under the rug yet again because, as usual, the interests of the medical profession comes first before that of patients or even an individual doctor’s? Who is protecting the interests of 25 million patients, I ask you yet again? I dare say it’s definitely not the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) even though it is the Council’s duty to protect the public against errant medical practitioners!
“...the council is not ordinarily concerned with errors in diagnosis or treatment...” Chairman, PIC 1 MMC inquiry (24 Jan 2005). In my opinion, the MMC’s disciplinary inquiry seems to be just a ‘sandiwara’ because, as the Chairman puts it, “…we are obliged to listen…” This was one of the reasons for withdrawing my complaint from the MMC which I brought against a private hospital orthopaedic surgeon.
Please believe there could be tens of thousands of other victims of medical negligence who have cried, who are crying and who will cry in pain due to careless, irresponsible and errant medical practitioners - not forgetting medical errors, adverse drug reactions, etc.
Please urgently (it means right now) reform all medical laws and the MMC, including revamping all of its ‘weak and lame’ policies and procedures to inculcate amongst others - truth, justice, integrity, honesty, speed, accountability, and good governance. The ‘old faces’ in the MMC’s Disciplinary committee who have been too used with the ‘old ways’ need to be renewed as well. The MMC seems to comprise only doctors. What can a complainant (patient/layperson) achieve against six professional doctors in an MMC inquiry? Is it not biased and prejudiced right from the start? Shouldn’t the disciplinary comittee also consist of other stakeholders as well?
Ke arah perubatan Malaysia cemerlang, gemilang dan terbilang.
‘Saya yang menurut perintah tuhan’
P. Kumaraguru
Shah Alam
You have ignored my cries of ‘medical abuse’ so far. Can you at least hear your fellow doctor crying out in pain in this Malaysiakini letter? Do you seriously believe this to be ‘just another isolated case’?
Will justice be served or will it be swept under the rug yet again because, as usual, the interests of the medical profession comes first before that of patients or even an individual doctor’s? Who is protecting the interests of 25 million patients, I ask you yet again? I dare say it’s definitely not the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) even though it is the Council’s duty to protect the public against errant medical practitioners!
“...the council is not ordinarily concerned with errors in diagnosis or treatment...” Chairman, PIC 1 MMC inquiry (24 Jan 2005). In my opinion, the MMC’s disciplinary inquiry seems to be just a ‘sandiwara’ because, as the Chairman puts it, “…we are obliged to listen…” This was one of the reasons for withdrawing my complaint from the MMC which I brought against a private hospital orthopaedic surgeon.
Please believe there could be tens of thousands of other victims of medical negligence who have cried, who are crying and who will cry in pain due to careless, irresponsible and errant medical practitioners - not forgetting medical errors, adverse drug reactions, etc.
Please urgently (it means right now) reform all medical laws and the MMC, including revamping all of its ‘weak and lame’ policies and procedures to inculcate amongst others - truth, justice, integrity, honesty, speed, accountability, and good governance. The ‘old faces’ in the MMC’s Disciplinary committee who have been too used with the ‘old ways’ need to be renewed as well. The MMC seems to comprise only doctors. What can a complainant (patient/layperson) achieve against six professional doctors in an MMC inquiry? Is it not biased and prejudiced right from the start? Shouldn’t the disciplinary comittee also consist of other stakeholders as well?
Ke arah perubatan Malaysia cemerlang, gemilang dan terbilang.
‘Saya yang menurut perintah tuhan’
P. Kumaraguru
Shah Alam
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