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By Amanda Yong SHE had complained about the pain in her right elbow and shoulder. And he diagnosed her with osteoporosis and recommended her a $1,500 drug that would last her for a year. Mrs Wong Chen Li Chu, 63, agreed to go ahead with the treatment. Three days after the drug injection, she was taken to a hospital emergency department and diagnosed with renal impairment. One month later, doctors told her she had chronic renal failure. This later developed into end-stage renal disease. In August 2009, 11 months after the drug injection, she got started on dialysis and has been on it since. Mrs Wong is now suing consultant orthopaedic surgeon Dr Chan Heng Thye of Chan Orthopaedic Clinic at Gleneagles Medical Centre for medical negligence. The clinic is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit filed through her lawyer, Mr Yap Gim Chuan of Soh Wong & Yap, in September. Mrs Wong claims among other things that Dr Chan did not warn her of the possible side effects of the drug, known as Aclasta, and failed to put her through blood tests to check her kidney functions and calcium levels as recommended by the drug manufacturer, Novartis. ************************************ There are three kinds of doctors. The first only interested in money. The second cannot be bother. The third who has passion. Today the third is extinct. So if you treasure your life, keep away from the doctors. | |||||||||
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