Law must treat attacks on doctors more severely
ON TUESDAY MORNING, a physician at Gansu Provincial People's Hospital was stabbed to death by a patient who she had treated for intestinal cancer three years ago. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:
The case is not the only one of its kind. In September 2018, three doctors at No 1 Hospital affiliated to Peking University were attacked by a patient and her two family members; In July 2018, a doctor in Tianjin was stabbed to death by three people when she was on duty. In 2018 alone, there were at least 12 cases nationwide of doctors being attacked, which cost the lives of two doctors.
An attack against a doctor is especially shocking, because a doctor is considered a person who saves lives. And when the assailant is a patient, it is even more heartrending.
