This morning I could not restrain myself from writing a letter after reading the one by D. Chan, ‘The doctor who saw the tortured teen was in a police station not a clinic’ (SN, February 12).
In my opinion it matters not where the teen was seen, what matters is that the said doctor who was supposed to be a professional should have instructed the police that the young man needed to go to a medical institution immediately because of the severity of his burns. He should also not have been examining a patient with his head covered. What is this world coming to?
I wonder what this writer would say about the hundreds of doctors who are operating under not so normal circumstances in Haiti. They have a job to do and have to get it done by any means necessary. Does the writer think because this doctor treats people who have no money that his conduct can be accepted?
I do not know this doctor personally and I am not in the habit of judging people; that is left to someone in a higher order and authority – the Almighty. I agree that we all are human and make mistakes but this ‘pill’ is really too hard to swallow.
Yours faithfully,
Dean M. Jackson
