"Jaakko Saari" <nothing@nothing.com> wrote in message news:<lR9Xa.217$9h.92@read3.inet.fi>...
> Dear Sandy,
> First, I'm really sorry to hear that your mom had to suffer about her brogen
> leg. That must be very painfull and uncomfortable especially since now it's
> hot.
Thank you. Jaako. I'm glad and feel thankful to have a person to share
with my feeling.
> For me this is very shocking to hear that doctors may behave like that in
> Japan. I have one experience of visiting hospital in Japan though. I had a
> serious "fukubikuuen" (a sinus infection) and I went to hospital and tried
> to explain where it hurts. But the doctor didn't understand it! He never
> examined my sinuses with ultrasound or anything, either he didn't check it
> anyhow. He simply just gave me more these antibiotics thinking it's only
> flu, and he said to the nurse "are?? nani.." looking confused when I tried
> to explain. It was like he never had heard of fukubikuuen which I cannot
> believe.  But that wasn't so bad experience, it was rather OK comparing to
> yours.
The doctor also didn't understand what my mom said. He could speak
English but he used too many technical term of medical that we
couldn't understand and never care about whether we can understand or
not. Then when my mom started to explain about her symtom, the doctor
said nothing but 'it's ok, I see I see.'
> I cannot figure out what causes DOKUHARA. Is it something to do with economy
> in Japan? Are doctors somehow getting too high position in Japan and it
> allows them to behave like that? In Finland the situation is much more
> worse, sometimes patients with a minor heart attack cannot be treated in
> time. There are no enough doctors, nurses, funds for hospitals and so. But
> in Japan I cannot imagine how this would happen.
I'm sorry to hear that there are a few doctors and nurses in Finland.
Yes, there are many doctors and nurses in Japan, and there are medical
department in many universities in Japan. Also, the equipment of the
hospitals in Japan are good. But what I think is, if the doctors are
not good, those equipment don't mean anything.
> My friend who is studying in Japan to become doctor, and she explained me
> that students often don't get any practical training before they start their
> work. Education is strictly based on theoretical training which I'm sure
> affects their ability to handle the patients and be in patients side.
> 
> I recommend you to write about your experience to some major newspapers like
> "Asahi Shimbun". It would be beneficial for people, I'm sure. I believe this
> would bring up good and usefull conversation and raise more attention to
> serious symptom of Japan called DOKUHARA.
Thank you for your advice. I'm now thinking about to write about this
experience to some major newspapers someday.
> 
> Best,
> Jaakko
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> "Sandy" <sandy_exceed_com@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > My mom had her leg boken last year, we went to several hospitals, but
> > each doctor said the different things...Last month, we went to another
> > hospital, the doctor told us that my mother must have an operation,
> > otherwise her leg will not be mended, and said that there're not a few
> > patients are wainting for his operation, so we have to wait until next
> > month.
> > As a patient, my mom hope her leg could have be cured soon, so we
> > asked the doctor if we can move up the day of the&#12288;operation,
> > however, what the doctor said was,'Shitsurei de su ne(how
> > rude&#12288;of you to ask me such a&#12288;question!) Before this,
> > I've saw a TV program about 'DO KU HARA', which means 'Doctor
> > harassment'. It says that nowadays, there are a lot of doctors say
> > cruel things to the patients, they never care about what a patient
> > feel, most doctor think their job is just to cure patients' physical
> > illness but not&#12288;the painful of the mental.
> > I don't know why does a doctor say such a thing, both my mom and I
> > were so shocked and feel angry with that. If a doctor always do so to
> > a patient, how can we trust the doctors from now on?