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.
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.
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.
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.

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?