Imagine if you will, breaking your hand and then being informed by the doctor to get back to work two days after that.
A construction worker was told just that when he received treatment at Raffles Hospital — and his injury got even worse days after he was discharged.
The errant doctor has since been found guilty of professional misconduct and was suspended for six months, according to the Singapore Medical Council (SMC). It took over four years for the judgement to be passed since the time of the incident in 2011, but justice was indeed served in the end.
51-year-old Dr Wong Him Choon had treated the worker on Sep 3, 2011 after an accident at a construction site. He assessed that the patient sustained a distal radius fracture on his right hand, and performed surgery on it the next day.