A record number of complaints against doctors in Hong Kong were filed with the Medical Council last year, particularly during the 79 days of the Occupy protests. In a recent judgment the High Court criticised the self-regulating body’s delay in handling the complaints – up 38 per cent from 452 in 2013 to 624 last year – as “a lamentable state of affairs”. Many complaints were “political in nature”, council chairman Professor Joseph Lau Wan-yee told the South China Morning Post, and were directed against medical practitioners who refused to treat police officers during the Occupy movement. READ MORE: Doctors ‘probed by...
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