Following a series of recent hospital scares regarding the misdiagnosing of diseases, a 27 year-old journalist from local Beijing rag BJ News recently went down to some hospitals to do some investigative work.

The journalist hit up Beijing’s Tongji Hospital on June 19, and after performing a health examination hospital Director Mr Peng declared that a part of the reporter’s body was inflamed. Despite the reporter urging that they were unnecessary, doctors insisted that further checks such as a blood test and ultrasound were needed, which would have racked up a bill of 561 RMB. After some negotiation however, both sides agreed that some routine checks were all that was needed and the reporter only paid 161 RMB.     

However when it came to the rectal examination, the reporter saw that no disinfectant and lubricant was being used, and the following procedure proved to be, you guessed it, pretty painful.

On June 20, the same reporter paid a visit to Beijing’s Shuguang and Ditan hospitals, who told him different stories: Shuguang said he had prostatitis, and Ditan told him he had a venereal disease. Finally, the journalist visited two more hospitals: Tongren Hospital and the China-Japan Friendship Hospital (yes there is such a thing), who told him that he had nothing to worry about.  

Upon explaining his findings to the hospitals which misdiagnosed him, some accepted their mistake and agreed to refund his hospital fees. However some refused to pay him back and claimed that the hospitals who said he was fine didn’t perform detailed enough examinations.

Investigative journalism award of the month perhaps?

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