Expert Blames Unrealistic Expectations, Poor Policing for Attacks on Doctors

(Beijing) – The public's unrealistic expectations of hospitals and a reluctance of police to intervene in disputes are behind the spate of attacks on medical professionals, a professor says.

Patient-doctor conflicts frequently make headlines in China. On March 5, a group of about 100 people forced a sobbing doctor at Chaozhou Central Hospital, in the southern province of Guangdong, to march around carrying a sign reading: "This doctor killed a patient." The group of people was called together by the relatives of a patient who died in the hospital a day earlier.