Is NUH Still Safe?

The National University Hospital (NUH) is being sued for medical negligence. A cancer patient and the family of dead NSF each seek $500K for their negligence.

The first suit was filed by a 79 year old cancer patient, who has alleged that a botched medical procedure required her to undergo open heart surgery later. She claims she is now unable to work as a result.

The second case has been taken out by the family of Derrick Peh, a national serviceman who became paralysed following surgery for a shoulder injury. Corporal Peh died of pneumonia on July 29 this year, three years and four months after the incident.

Is NUH still safe? I notices that NUH has alot of new doctors in their A&E department. Did they just graduated from medical schools? Recently, my Mother-In-Law had a bad fall & broken her bone at the side of her foot. Upon checked by an A&E doctor, she was asked to be plaster casted from her foot all the way to her kneecap. Don't know why she need that, but we didn't question further as they are the doctors.

Few days later when we went to the Orthopedist at Clinic B, the doctor there was caught by surprise why the plaster casting was done all the way to the kneecap. After looking through the X-Ray, the specialist ordered a duck shoes plaster casting for her instead.

This lead me into thinking that all the patients that visited the A&E had become volunteers for those fresh graduate to experiment and learn. No wonder I was once told that for critical cases, most patients don't want to NUH. This is not only happening at NUH, the other time when I brought my Mother to check up at TTSH A&E also encountered similar issue. The doctor kept asking another doctor for advise with regards to my Mother's High BP issue. End up we stayed many hours at the hospital.