To the Editor of the month-CuiNa Datty News."
Sim,—It would seem sometimes as} if hospitals were made to hazard life rather than to save it. When hospital regulations and medical ethics prevent such emergency, measure being taken as would save a life, there is something vitally. wrong with those regulations and) those ethics. Red tape which must be unwound to the limit when a life hangs in the balance ought to severed once for all!
preconcerted and dete Barly yesterday morning when a tempt was made en the life of Mr:
Soong (Minister of Finance)
colleagues Mr. Vu-Loo Tang, was seriously wounded. Rushed at once to a well-known hospital, absolutely nothing could be done for a mart! who, was momentarily losing Precious blood because the house surgeon had not yet arrived, Tam in no position to judge why, the great doctor himself could not come within two hours after being informed that there was an emergency operation to be performed. But that red tape and regulations! should so fetter an institation established to preserve life, that fan operating room could not be; made ready, that no X-rays could be taken to'locate the bullets, that nothing could be done to stem the flow of blood, simply because the surgeon had not come to give the order—this I. maintain is not worthy the good name of medical science nor of the honoured profession.
Among the relatives are Chinese doctors' held in highest esteem this city. Because Mr. Tang had been taken toa hospital nearer the scene of the tragedy than their own, his life, And so it did, And now! this feom "American"?! My stof? waxes hot with indignation: As a man of experience I feel that a strong warning to the public is necessary. Never force a surgeon's decision, you will make him a murderer and the responsibility will be the man's who urges on a weak surgeon. If you call a doctor, trast, im, and do not distort facts! when the great sadness of death has Blinded you. Cui bone? Only cool and exact work at the exactly right time will succeed, Eo, Birt, Shanghai, July 24, 193i.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.