And Still I Rise

Am assuming most of us would have some story about less than proper medical care.Speaking for myself,once a junior doctor started to put in an IV,excused herself saying she would be back shortly and completely forgot about me.Then,there was another instance where I had to have a second surgical procedure to correct an error.Some of the issues you can easily excuse as just part of being human(e,g the IV incident)rather than being incompetent or negligent.The truth is we are all prone to err although in some cases our error may be the difference between life and death.Still,I won't like to meet this doctor at all:

TOKYO (Reuters) - "Trust me, I'm a doctor" wouldn't describe one Japanese medic who has landed in hot water after hitting and abusing a patient during surgery.

The elderly female patient at a hospital in Shiga, central Japan, was given a local anaesthetic for an unspecified operation early last month, but began thrashing around on the operating table and yelling at the doctor to stop.

After trying to persuade her to calm down, the doctor hit the patient on the forehead and yelled at her to shut up, a hospital spokesman said. The patient needed five days to recover from the injury to her forehead.

The operation was re-conducted last week by another doctor.

I wonder what suspension time he is looking at.