Susan Lim case

When I heard of the Susan Lim case and heard about the astronomical price of 25 million, I was absolutely shocked. She has been with the patient, the Brunei princess for 6 years and in those 6 years charged around 14 million, already a huge amount. But even more shocking was that in the last 7 months, 25 million was asked to be paid to Dr. Lim. The price of around 25 million for just 7 months for treatment, it was just shocking. If I had tried to get cured at this rate, I would have been broke in just 2 days…. If this was the price of life, only rich people can be alive. That is just unfair to the poor. Everyone deserves to have their life saved, and it is more important than money.

Susan Lim unfairly charged her patient and claimed the prices to be the result of 3^rd party specialists that she had hired. But one specialist that only charged her 400 dollars she charged the patient 200 thousand. This is unfair. Susan Lim cared too much for money than to heal her patient. She left on July 16 as she felt that there was no chance to save the patient anymore. This shows how much she did not care for the patient’s well-being, but more for the money that she would have received from this operation. Instead of showing benevolence, she only cared for the money that she would receive, and not of the patient, which should always come first. She was money oriented instead of being oriented to help the patient. This is wrong and not how doctors should act. I think that benevolence should be before the fees she would receive.

Moreover, I feel that the government should fund these associations so that the doctors that work in these associations can manage to have enough money to have the right equipment and maybe have some money as income. This could be a training center for the new doctors to have experience and also a place where experienced mentors could guide these new doctors. This would kill two birds with one stone, teaching our next generation doctors and also to help the poor cancer victims.