DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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Chinese surgery patient dies as doctors flee fire

26th August 2011

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A man in China was left to die on the operating table after his doctors fled from a fire that had broken out in the next-door room, a hospital official in Shanghai admitted on Friday.

Let’s hear it for government-run health care.

One Response to “Chinese surgery patient dies as doctors flee fire”

  1. Dennis Nagle Says:

    And of course that would NEVER happen under our wonderful system, would it? We specifically add a “in case of fire I’ll finish” clause to the Hippocratic Oath over here.
    I propose a test: let’s set fire to the room next to RealRick’s surgery and see if the doctors stick around to finish.