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March 23, 2012 a sunny Friday. But the bright sunshine did not drive away the darkness enviroment between Chinese physicians and patients. A young intern phsician named Wang Hao was murdered by a 17-years age patients. Wang was trained to save others’ lifes, but he could not save the life of himself.

The  heavy news spread around quickly on the internet after Dr. Wang was murdered. Sina news, Tecent news, 163 news etc all reported and emphasized this incident. The official of China Ministry of Health stated the point that the 17-years age murder must be seriously punished.

Also other phsicians in the first affiliated hospital of Harbin Medical University cannot dissimulate their fear after Wang’s death. CCTV broadcasted a special program about this incident three days ago. The title is “Murdering physicians: probably we could be murders too.” Now this incident has become the topist hotspot in China.

Today when I was at outpatient pharmacy, I heard a middle age patient said: “The physician being killed deserved this.” I did not know where the patient came from, what was his job, or what education he had received. But I did know that the middle age patient terribly abominated physicians who cure his diseases.

There is an investigation about Wang’s death on internet. The investigation is “how do you feel about Dr. Wang’s death”. Among the 6,000 respondents, more than 4,000 chose delight about this incident. (more…)

The deceased intern Wang Hao.

It was a black Friday on March 23, 2012, at the first affiliated hospital of Harbin Medical University, about 17 pm. Four physicians of  Dept. Clinical Immunology were under attacked and one phsician died, three wounded. The murder is a Chinese young man aged 17 years.

The physician be murdered named Wang Hao, who was 28 years age. He was an intern physician in the hospital. The mortal wound on his chest by a fruite knife caused his death. According to Wang’s colleagues, he was a nice young man who was handsome, optimistic and pleased to helping others. His academic records always were A, and he won many prizes when in school.

Just before this incident Wang received the offer from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and he was going to pursue his Ph.D study in the university.

Now the murder has been arrested, who is a 17 years age patient. The intention why he murdered Wang is that he thought the physicians did not take care of him enough. The murder is a patient who suffers both ankylosing spondylitis and tuberculosis.

As all we know, ankylosing spondylitis is a disease caused by immune system disorders, so the therapeutic strategies commonly include immunosuppressive agents such as cortisol, methotrexate and so on. But the murder also suffers tuberculosis which is a infectious disease because of the dysfunction of immune system.

So the physicans told the 17 years age child to treat tuberculosis first, after that when the tuberculosis is cure , we will start to treat the ankylosing spondylitis. What the physicians said is true and understandable and all other physicians will adopt this strategy as what Wang and his colleagues have done. But the young patient and murder did not understood this. He just believed Wang and his colleagues did not care enough about him.

So 17 pm, March 23, 2012 at the first affiliated hospital of Harbin Medical University, the young murder bought a fruite knife near the hospital then turned back to the ward of Dept. Clinical Immunology and raided Wang and other three physicians. Unfortunately, the intern physician named Wang Hao lost his life. It was a black Friday for the physicians in the first affiliated hospital of Harbin Medical University.