Excessive prescription nearly claimed patient’s life: father

Chan Kwei-chih, 38, charges her doctor, Chen Yen-liang, with turning her inflammation of the middle ear into uremia.

For that her father Chan Chao-sheng will be suing the doctor for malpractice. Chan Chao-sheng said yesterday his daughter went to see Dr. Chen at his Taichung clinic in May last year. She was diagnosed with otitis media.

But the doctor prescribed too many pills for the patient to take, said Chan, who is getting ready to file a malpractice suit.

“Do you know how many she had to take?” the father asked.

There were a score of pills ranging from Astamol to Gastropan to Tagamet to Tinset to “ad infinitum,” Chan complained.

“At any rate,” the father went on, “my daughter was required to take at least 50 pills of many kinds every day.”

She went to a Chinese Medical University hospital in Taichung, where she was found to have suffered uremia, which may be fatal unless she is given dialysis regularly.

The father said he sent his daughter to hospital after she suffered a shock and passed out in last March. “We are afraid she must rely on dialysis throughout the rest of her life,” said the father.

Dr. Chen refused comment. He said he wants to let the court of law deal with Chan’s complaints.

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