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Update Date: 2008/09/20 19:33 Reporter: You Haoting
The condition of former President's wife, Wu Shu-jen, seems to have stirred up a storm in the white tower of National Taiwan University (NTU). Today, a physician from NTU wrote to the media, expressing his confusion as a doctor about what kind of illness allows one to go shopping and dine out normally, yet poses a life-threatening risk when going to court. He reminded NTU to treat every patient equally, without favoritism, especially towards the powerful and privileged.
Chen Xingzheng, attending physician at the Psychiatry Department of NTU Yunlin Branch: "There should be no differential treatment based on gender, age, identity, status, or race." Reporter: "This is what equality means." Chen Xingzheng: "Yes."
Standing in front of the ethics wall at NTU Hospital, he reminded the hospital to uphold medical integrity. He is Chen Xingzheng, an attending physician at the Psychiatry Department of NTU Yunlin Branch. As the first recipient of the Medical Ethics Award from the Ministry of Education, he went to study in the UK on a public scholarship. Facing the storm surrounding the former first lady at NTU, he decided to continue speaking out as the "crow."
Chen Xingzheng: "I said that NTU is good at talking, like the 'ethics wall,' with many beautiful words, but when it comes to actual situations, there is no backbone, no standards, no principles."
Sounding the alarm, Chen Xingzheng also wrote to the media, stating that as a doctor, he couldn't understand what kind of illness allows one to shop, trade stocks, manipulate official positions, and move overseas funds without any issues, showing great energy, yet claims to be on the verge of collapse when facing court, with life-threatening risks under pressure. NTU doctors should not be impatient with ordinary patients while being overly considerate to the powerful, forgetting that life should be treated equally regardless of gender, age, identity, or status.
Chen Xingzheng: "Many people are afraid of this and that, not daring to speak out. A simple concept that everyone agrees on, but no one dares to say. So I think it's not just an NTU problem, but a problem with Taiwanese culture itself."
The top-tier century-old medical institution, entangled with the mysterious condition of the former first lady and the scales of justice, seems to have reignited a storm in the Taiwanese version of the white tower, caught between what should and should not be done.
Source: http://tw. news. yahoo. com/ article/ url/ d/ a/ 080920/ 8/ 169ro. html
Doctor's Open Letter Criticizes NTU, Sparking Storm in Ivory Tower
The condition of former President's wife, Wu Shu-jen, seems to have stirred up a storm in the white tower of National Taiwan University (NTU). Today, a physician from NTU wrote to the media, expressing his confusion as a doctor about what kind of illness allows one to go shopping and dine out normally, yet poses a life-threatening risk when going to court. He reminded NTU to treat every patient equally, without favoritism, especially towards the powerful and privileged.
Chen Xingzheng, attending physician at the Psychiatry Department of NTU Yunlin Branch: "There should be no differential treatment based on gender, age, identity, status, or race." Reporter: "This is what equality means." Chen Xingzheng: "Yes."
Standing in front of the ethics wall at NTU Hospital, he reminded the hospital to uphold medical integrity. He is Chen Xingzheng, an attending physician at the Psychiatry Department of NTU Yunlin Branch. As the first recipient of the Medical Ethics Award from the Ministry of Education, he went to study in the UK on a public scholarship. Facing the storm surrounding the former first lady at NTU, he decided to continue speaking out as the "crow."
Chen Xingzheng: "I said that NTU is good at talking, like the 'ethics wall,' with many beautiful words, but when it comes to actual situations, there is no backbone, no standards, no principles."
Sounding the alarm, Chen Xingzheng also wrote to the media, stating that as a doctor, he couldn't understand what kind of illness allows one to shop, trade stocks, manipulate official positions, and move overseas funds without any issues, showing great energy, yet claims to be on the verge of collapse when facing court, with life-threatening risks under pressure. NTU doctors should not be impatient with ordinary patients while being overly considerate to the powerful, forgetting that life should be treated equally regardless of gender, age, identity, or status.
Chen Xingzheng: "Many people are afraid of this and that, not daring to speak out. A simple concept that everyone agrees on, but no one dares to say. So I think it's not just an NTU problem, but a problem with Taiwanese culture itself."
The top-tier century-old medical institution, entangled with the mysterious condition of the former first lady and the scales of justice, seems to have reignited a storm in the Taiwanese version of the white tower, caught between what should and should not be done.
Source: http://tw. news. yahoo. com/ article/ url/ d/ a/ 080920/ 8/ 169ro. html