Saturday, March 03, 2007

An Artificial Heart


On March 21st, 2004 the largest hospital in ShangHai succeeded in replacing a boy’s diseased heart with an artificial heart. He was only seven years old. The boy only lived a little more than one year. He died in June, 2005.


The parents of the boy decided to sue the hospital for three reasons:
1. When their child felt uncomfortable,. they sent him to the hospital. The hospital staff didn’t examine the child very carefully and didn’t take x-rays, either. The hospital staff only touched the child’s feet and hands. Then, the staff told the child’s parents that the child had to change his heart immediately. If not, the doctors said, the child would die that night. The parents had to borrow a large amount of money for the child’s expensive surgery.


2. The hospital imported the artificial heart from Germany without the permission of the Chinese government.


3. The artificial heart from Germany was still being tested. It wasn’t 100 percent safe. The hospital just wanted to use the child’s body to test the artificial heart.


So, the parents thought the hospital was responsible for the death of their child.

1 comment:

Richard Blum said...

An Artificial Heart
March 21st 2004. A largest hospital of ShangHai succeed to replay an Artificial heart for a boy, who was only seven years only but the boy lived only more than one year and dead in Jane,2005.
The parents of the boy decided to sue the hospital with three reasons:
1. When their child felt uncomfortable,. They seat their child to the hospital .the hospital’s staff didn’t check up their child very careful and didn’t take x-ray for their child .The hospital’s staff only touch their child‘s feet and hand. Then the staff told the child’s parent that the child had to change his heart immediacy. If not the child would die at that night. Then the child’s parents had to run a large amount of money for the child’s expensive medicine surgeon
2. The hospital imported the artificial heart from German with permission of Chinese government
3. The artificial heart in German was during the time of exam, didn’t success 100 percent. The hospital just wanted to use their child’s body to exam the artificial heart.
So they thought the hospital was neglected the life of their child.