Yang Ping stayed behind to chat with Director Shi for a while, flipping through the medical records placed on the shelf as they talked.
This patient was also quite young, only in his thirties, male, married—probably the main breadwinner of his family. Before the stomach tube was inserted, he was in good health, able to move all his limbs freely, and now, he's paralyzed from a high-level spinal injury, a truly heartbreaking situation.
This was definitely a medical malpractice incident. Clinical medical work is akin to walking on thin ice, extreme caution is a must, a necessity imposed by the nature of medical work. In the words of Professor Zhang Zongshun, no amount of strictness is excessive.
The mistake was caused by a complete breakdown in multiple processes.