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Angered by son’s ‘wrong diagnosis’, Hanoi man makes doctor kneel in apology

Angered by son’s ‘wrong diagnosis’, Hanoi man makes doctor kneel in apology

Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 15:47 GMT+7

A doctor in Hanoi has been assaulted and forced to kneel down and apologize by an angered father for making the wrong diagnosis of his son’s injury.

The doctor diagnosed the man’s five-year-old son with simple flesh wounds, while doctors at another hospital found that the boy was suffering from a bone fracture that required casting.

Police have detained the violent father on charges of assault.

Vietnam Sports Hospital in Hanoi where V. – the doctor in question – was practicing traditional Vietnamese medicine held a press conference on Monday to announce information surrounding the assault on their physician.

According to Vo Tuong Kha, the hospital’s director, V. had just arrived for work on Saturday afternoon when two men approached him just outside of the hospital’s main entrance.

The men used their bare hands and feet to punch and kick V. in the face, head and torso for 15 minutes, before dragging him into his office and continuing the violent assault there.

It was there that the duo forced V. to kneel down and apologize, Kha said.

One of the men was the father of a five-year-old patient who had received treatment at the hospital on May 30, he added.

V. had been directly responsible for the boy’s examination and diagnosis, Kha said.

Prior to the assault, V. had told the hospital’s board of directors that the boy’s family members had demanded to arrange a meeting with him to discuss the diagnosis, he added.

“The hospital had not received any formal complaints from the patient’s family prior to the incident,” Kha said.

According to Colonel Nguyen Van Lan, deputy police chief of Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem District, police have detained 25-year-old Tran Tuan Anh, the boy’s father, to investigate his “disturbance to public order."

Police are still searching for Anh’s accomplice, To Van Quy, who has been on the run since the assault.

Quy used his phone to film the two’s assault of V. as well as the doctor’s apology and uploaded the footage to the internet, Lan said.

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Vietnam Sports Hospital, where V. was assaulted on June 17, 2017. Photo: Tuoi Tre

Anh admitted to the crime at the police station, claiming he had done it out of anger over V.'s wrong diagnosis of his son’s injury.

According to Anh, he had taken his son to Vietnam Sports Hospital on May 30 to examine the boy’s injury from a fall, and was told by V. that it was only a flesh wound.

However, after seeking treatment at another hospital, Anh found that his son had instead suffered from a fracture that required immediate casting.

Angered by the thought that V.’s wrong diagnosis could have had a grave impact on his son’s health, Anh asked Quy to join him in an assault to force an apology out of the doctor, according to the man’s testimony.

Before the assault, Anh had asked to meet with V. but the doctor had not found time for the meeting due to conflicts with his professional training agenda, Lam said, citing V.’s statement to the police.

According to Lan, police are evaluating the severity of V.’s injuries and how to charge Anh and Quy with deliberate infliction of injury and humiliation.

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