Healthcare reforms fundamental to end attacks on doctors

A 47-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR working for an armed police hospital in Tianjin was stabbed to death by three people on her way to visit a patient on Thursday morning. ThePaper.cn comments:

The three attackers have been seized and detained by local police, who said that the three assailants did not know the victim and were not her patients either. And witnesses of the violence said the attackers just said the doctor should blame her bad luck for falling prey to them by accident.

Since the killers' motivation for the crime has yet been made clear, it is too early to attribute the tragedy to the tense relations between doctors and patients and their families as some have done.