Chinese man convicted of murder after stabbing four hospital staff

The same afternoon, he returned to the hospital and stabbed Wang Hao, a
28-year-old intern, to death with a fruit knife. He attacked three other
doctors, stabbing one of them in his right eye.

His lawyer said he had been frustrated after visiting the hospital several
previous times, at one point receiving the medication for his back which had
been denied on that occasion.

The court has yet to sentence Li, but other doctors said security at their
hospitals had been tightened in the wake of his attack.

Chinese doctors are woefully underpaid and overworked in the country’s public
health system; there is little time for communication between doctors and
their patients and doctors have been accused of being corrupt.

But patients are charged huge sums for medication and for often unnecessary
treatments, and often misunderstand their medical condition.

“There is a tension and conflict between patients and doctors, and a
general distrust,” said one doctor in Peking University Hospital’s
urology department, who asked to be named only by his surname, Wang.

“Doctors give the patients more examinations than necessary in case there
are symptoms the doctor did not initially find and the patients sue us. Just
in case, we do every possible check and that is why the (cost) burden on the
patients is so heavy.”

He added that the reaction to Mr Li’s case, and the public support, had “appalled
him” but that he thought violence towards doctors and nurses was not “the
general state of affairs”.

A spokesman for the Health ministry referred to a previous vow to “maintain
order and stability in hospitals and to strike out illegal acts against
doctors”.

Additional reporting by Valentina Luo

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