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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

論醫德

論醫德

  最近在一場合與本地一名著名華裔醫生A先生閒聊,由政治說到本地醫療,名醫的敢言和率直令我佩服,也有無限的感慨。

  A醫生說,別以為一大清早便到醫院巡房的醫生最勤奮,其實他們最不關心病人。因為早上六七點到醫院,大多數病人仍在睡眠當中,昨日所做的檢查或化驗報告還沒有送來,晨曦時份巡房其實作用不大,並且會打擾病人休息。A醫生認為這類超早班醫生只是為了自己方便,沒有考慮醫療效果。有一次,A醫生上午到醫院看病人,發現紀錄上寫著病人不神智不清,但他眼前的病人是好好的。於是A醫生明白了,那位超早班醫生看到病人睡了,便以他昏迷。

  筆者有同感,我也遇過一位超早班肺科醫生,早上七時不到便開始巡房,但不到一分鐘便離去,真的如俗語說的:「快過打針」。A醫生馬上知道我說的那一位,補充說:他在行內不稱做肺科醫生,是叫做「廢」醫生。

  談到醫生的別號,A醫生提到一位在界內被稱為「收賣佬」的普通家庭科醫生。為什麼叫做「收賣佬」呢?是因為他什麼病人都收,而且越多越好。可是病人多了自然沒有好照顧,而該醫生最善長是轉介,但轉介的必要性和水平卻不保證。

一個實例,「收賣佬」的一名長者病人投訴腳痛,被介紹看另一名華埠執業骨科醫生。A醫生說該骨醫又是埠內有名缺醫德的,果然該骨醫要求病人做磁力共震檢查。看過片後,骨醫即說病人是脊柱舊患復發,需要打止痛針,於是又轉介該病人到另一止痛專科打了四支止痛針。結果三個多月後,病人仍舊痛楚難忍而入院。駐院醫生查看同一份磁力共震片子,即時判斷與脊柱無關,再仔細找尋痛源,終發現是癌細胞入骨。同一樣的片子得出不同的判斷,其分別處除了技術外,相信更重要的是醫德。

  華裔父母喜歡鼓勵子女學醫,華人社區的醫生也真的不少,但本地華人是否因此便得到更佳的醫療照顧呢?看來主要還是要看是否幸運遇到有仁心仁術的醫生了。

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There are a few items I can add to your experience.

Medical doctors are drug pushers too. They write prescriptions with the "trial and error" attitude. Oh, this doesn't work (side-effects), why not try this?

They are also the "licensed to kill". Wrong diagnoses kill people due to delayed treatment.

They are also "lincensed to make money". Take a look at the medical office, they have to hire nurse, office manager, billing clerk, office worker to run a business. That's why they have to cut people up (surgeries) to create income.

They are also multi-tasking. They always overbooked their appointments and spend three minutes with their patient. How well they can diagnose correctly in three minutes. However, the patients have to wait for more than one hour to get a three minute attention.