Secrets that cannot be told: There is a lot of chaos in small and medium-sized hospitals – Daily – Zhongshi News Network

There was a scandal involving nurses secretly filming patients in the operating room of Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, which was just upgraded to a medical center this year. Minister of Health and Welfare Xue Ruiyuan said that the case sounds “weird”, but the entire case is currently under investigation.

According to the medical community, in fact, strange things often happen in small and medium-sized hospitals below medical centers. Assistants from instrument vendors even enter the operating room to help doctors perform operations. As a result, there have been cases where business assistants have entered the operating room to secretly photograph patients.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare stated that in order to protect patients’ privacy rights, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on January 30, 2015, an amendment to the “Medical Privacy Protection Standards for Medical Institutions”, which expanded the medical privacy protection standards from “outpatient clinics” to “hospital-wide” application, and Four major amendments have been added to focus on strengthening the protection of patients’ privacy rights. One of them is that during the diagnosis and treatment process, if either the doctor or the patient needs to record or videotape, they must first obtain the consent of the other party.

Xue Ruiyuan said that the actual situation of the Tzu Chi candid filming case depends on the actual investigation status to know which violations of the medical law and related regulations. The Ministry of Health and Welfare has asked the local health bureau to conduct an investigation. It is believed that it is a case of individual medical care and not the general situation of the hospital. .

In fact, there are still “secrets that cannot be told” in operating rooms, especially in small and medium-sized hospitals that lack manpower. According to surgeons’ private disclosures, some veteran doctors will perform surgeries in name, but are not familiar with new instruments and tools. They simply let business representatives with no medical background go directly to the operating table to operate special instruments, especially in orthopedics where the amount of surgery is large and the risk is low. The most common thing is that it is even spread by word of mouth among doctors: “So-and-so sales representative, he prescribes quickly and well.”

Another doctor from the medical center said that many doctors will receive “feedback” from manufacturers. In order to ensure that “the equipment is implanted,” manufacturers will require business assistants to be present and help the surgeons “broach”, and doctors will also provide “Every brand takes care of it.” The same patient’s left and right feet will be operated on by assistants from different manufacturers. Therefore, there was an incident where a sales assistant entered the operating room to take secret photos.