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  • Doctor Dragged Off United Airlines Flight Identified As David Dao

    Doctor Dragged Off United Airlines Flight Identified As David Dao

    The passenger who was left bloodied and shaken after he was forcibly removed from a Louisville-bound United Airlines flight in Chicago has been identified as 69-year-old grandfather David Dao, according to several media reports.

    The Daily Mail reported that Dao is a Vietnamese-American doctor specialising in internal medicine. He is believed to be practising in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

    Reports also said that Dao had brushes with the law in the past. TMZ reported on Tuesday (Apr 11) that he even had his medical licence suspended due to multiple convictions for illegally prescribing painkillers.

    The Courier-Journal said that Dao was suspended from practising in 2005 and only returned to medicine in 2015.

    TMZ added that Dao was a professional poker player who has earned a total of US$234,664 in the World Series Poker Championships.

    David Dao posing with a picture with his wife Teresa and their granddaughter. (Photo: Instagram/@cdaogladman) 

    Various media outlets and social media users had assumed the passenger to be ethnically Chinese. Internet users across China have called for a boycott of United Airlines and one Weibo user commented: “I hope Chinese people realise this reality and support domestic products.”

    An online petition with a hashtag #ChineseLivesMatters has been submitted to the White House petitions site calling for a federal investigation into the incident.

    United Airlines chief executive Oscar Munoz acknowledged the incident, apologising for having to “re-accommodate” customers for the overbooked flight. However he wrote to United Airlines employees saying the crew involved followed “established procedures”.

     

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    Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Christchurch’s Medical Professionals Pay Tribute To “Unflappable” Dr Husaini Hafiz

    Christchurch’s Medical Professionals Pay Tribute To “Unflappable” Dr Husaini Hafiz

    The death of a mental health registrar has been felt throughout the medical profession in New Zealand and overseas.

    On February 13, Dr Husaini Bin Hafiz’s wife twice drove past an emergency cordon in Hagley Park where, unknown to her, her husband had died suddenly.

    The 50-year-old mental health registrar at Christchurch Hospital died while walking to work.

    “He was one in a million,” Juliana Binte Osman said of her husband.

    The family had since learnt the father-of-five had undetected Wellens’ syndrome, a genetic cardiac syndrome.

    Husaini was a couple of months out from completing his training in psychiatry, so he could help address Christchurch’s increasing mental health issues.

    “He was happy. I’ve never seen him so happy,” Juliana said.

    The family buried Husaini on February 14, and when the Port Hills fires took off the day after, they were forced to evacuate their Westmorland home.

    His daughter, Addeana Binte Husaini, 20, was able to grab passports and her father’s computer and hard drives, before she was forced to abandon the home.

    The prospect of losing sentimental items had been terrifying, but they were now relieved to know their home had come out of the devastation unscathed.

    Prior to his move from Singapore to New Zealand in 2008, Husaini founded the Muslim Healthcare Professionals Association (MHPA) and clocked up over 12 years as a general practitioner in Singapore – as well as endless ‘I owe yous’ from patients, because he wanted to help those who could not afford healthcare.

    MHPA secretary Dr Saiful Nizam said Husaini’s death was a shock.

    “It is another reminder that life is fleeting and that we need to continue the good work that he has started,” he said.

    Husaini’s volunteer services included a stint in Banda Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004.

    While coming to grips with her beloved husband’s death, Juliana had found solace in the fact hundreds of people turned out for his service.

    “We didn’t realise he had affected so many,” Juliana said.

    “He was a hit with the adults and he was a hit with the kids,” daughter Addeana said.

    Addeana, said her father was a strong advocate for the muslim community and had worked hard to bring “everyone together”.

    “We are really inspired to be as good as he was.”

    Canterbury District Health Board chief executive David Meates described Husaini as an outstanding doctor, colleague and friend.

    “All who worked with Husaini recognised his unflappable manner, his respectful attitudes towards patients, families and other staff, and a quality that can probably best be summed up as wisdom.”

    ​Canterbury Muslim Community Trust (CMCT) chairman Rob Dewhirst said Husaini’s leadership, wisdom, enthusiasm and patient guidance permeated throughout CMCT and the wider community.

     

    Source: www.stuff.co.nz

  • Doctor Who Took Wefie With Patient In Labour Identified

    Doctor Who Took Wefie With Patient In Labour Identified

    JOHOR BARU – The doctor who courted controversy by taking a “selfie” while attending to a patient in labour has been identified.

    The patient’s private parts were clearly visible in the photo, which has since gone viral.

    “Such actions by a doctor is unacceptable and we will get to the bottom of this as soon as possible,” said Johor Health and Environment committee chairman Datuk Ayub Rahmat.

    The photo was taken several days ago by an unknown person while the doctor was attending to the patient.

    Ayub warned medical personnel not to misuse technology, especially during work.

    He stressed that the department did not condone such actions, especially when it involved the dignity of patients.

    “This is the first time such a case has been reported in Johor,” he said.

    In the photo, the doctor, wearing a face mask, even flashed a peace sign to the camera.

    The doctor, believed to be in her 20s, came under fire when netizens lambasted her for disrespecting the patient’s privacy.

    Some users also urged others to stop circulating the picture as it brought embarrassment to the patient involved.

    It is learnt that the doctor has been serving as a medical officer in the hospital near Taman Mount Austin here for the past three years.

    Previously, there were complaints of nurses using their mobile phones during working hours at Hospital Temenggong Seri Maharaja Tun Ibrahim in Kulaijaya.

     

    Source: http://news.asiaone.com

  • Doctor Fails To Escape Jail For Molesting Patient

    Doctor Fails To Escape Jail For Molesting Patient

    Medical doctor Winston Lee Siew Boon, 71, failed to escape jail for molesting a patient on two occasions after the High Court yesterday dismissed his appeal against his conviction and a 10-month prison sentence.

    Justice Chan Seng Onn found the woman’s testimony was “completely consistent internally” and that she had no motive to accuse Lee falsely of touching her breast.

    On the other hand, Lee’s testimony was “beset with inconsistencies” and far less logical than that of the woman, said Justice Chan as he upheld the conviction.

    In rejecting Lee’s appeal against the sentence, Justice Chan noted that the general practitioner – who is also known as a motoring writer – had abused his position of trust as a medical practitioner.

    Lee was “particularly cunning” in disguising his act of molestation as part of his explanation of a potential medical problem while examining the patient, said the judge.

    The woman trusted Lee and even gave him the benefit of the doubt after the first incident, he noted. “It is loathsome that he did not relent and tried it again by molesting her twice on the second occasion.”

    Lee, a doctor for 40 years, was allowed to start serving his jail term on Aug 17 and was released on bail of $15,000.

    He had asked for time to transfer his 70,000 patients to other doctors, make caregiving arrangements for his stroke-afflicted wife and undergo a medical check-up.

    Lee was 67 in June 2011 when the woman, 34, a medical products sales representative, went to his Bukit Batok clinic to do an HIV blood test. After her blood was drawn, she complained of nausea and flatulence and Lee told her to lie down on the bed.

    She then told him she had chest pains and asked if she could continue to exercise.

    Lee put his hand under her bra and squeezed her breast as he told her she could exercise as long as she did not feel pain there.

    She brushed it off as part of the check-up, thinking it was the doctor’s way of showing the location of her heart.

    Four months later, when she saw him for a sore throat and to discuss weight management, he groped her breast twice. She was confused but made a police report after checking with her boss and a female doctor on whether Lee’s actions were appropriate.

    Lee’s version was that he had placed a clenched fist over her breastbone to show where she would feel chest pains.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Hearing Expert Claiming Relations With Michelle Yeoh Arrested For Filming Voyeuristic Video Of Patients

    Hearing Expert Claiming Relations With Michelle Yeoh Arrested For Filming Voyeuristic Video Of Patients

    A Malaysian doctor, who boasted that he is Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh’s half-brother, has been jailed for five years in the UK.

    The voyeuristic Dr Yeoh Lam  Hoe, a renowned hearing expert, had earlier pleaded guilty to  videotaping over 1,000 people using the toilet.

    The doctor had installed pinhole cameras at hospital restrooms, train toilets across the United Kingdom, as well as the bathroom inside his own house.

    He had used 23 secret cameras to film his victims, including James Bond-style devices disguised as memory sticks, pens, watches and hearing aid boxes.

    Over more than three years, world-renowned hearing specialist Yeoh – who worked in NHS and private hospitals – amassed thousands of hours of footage.

    5 years’ jail 

    Yeoh, 62, of Banstead, Surrey, who pleaded guilty to voyeurism on Tuesday, was given an eight-year sentence at Croydon Crown Court in London on Nov 26.

    It comprises a five-year jail term and three years on extended licence after his release during which he will be supervised in the community. He can be returned to prison if he breaks the terms of his licence.

    Victims felt violated by the doctor

    Afterwards victims said they had been left feeling dirty and violated by his abuse, reported the Mail Online.

    One former colleague, who asked to be called Sarah, said the experience had changed forever the way she behaves in public. “I can’t go to the toilet in a public place now without looking for hidden cameras,” she said.

    Another woman, who worked with Yeoh for 12 years, said he made 47 videos of her.

    She told the newspaper: “He spliced videos of me talking and laughing with videos of me using the toilet where we worked.”

     “I felt frozen. I felt dirty as though I had been raped by him. I felt disgusting.” – One victim, recalling the moment police asked her to watch the videos back to identify herself.

    “I knew the only way I could be free of him was to face him in the dock and see him vulnerable and small, just like he made me feel.”

    While sentencing Yeoh, who has three grown children, Judge Warwick McKinnon condemned his “nefarious and despicable actions” and said he had disgraced the hospitals where he worked.

    Source: Daily Mail, BBC News

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg