Surgeon, police express remorse for their roles in hospital scuffle

The police in Shanghai Pudong New Area and a top surgeon exchanged mutual expressions of remorse after a doctor was handcuffed and forcibly removed from Renji hospital following a dispute with the husband of a wheelchair-bound patient.

The police said the husband, identified by his surname, Han, fractured a rib in the incident, and Zhao Xiaojing, the doctor, was slightly injured.

Zhao, a well-known thoracic surgeon in China, said the patient and her husband did not make an appointment and tried to force their way into his consultation room several times when he was seeing other patients.