In 2015, Liu Weimin, a well-known obstetrics and gynecology hospital, used Da Vinci surgery to remove the tumor of a woman named He who had recurrent ovarian cancer. Less than a year after the operation, He died due to cancer cell metastasis. During the investigation by the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office, it commissioned three appraisals from the Medical Review Committee of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The results showed that Liu Weimin's Da Vinci surgery violated medical practices. The prosecutors prosecuted Liu Weimin for negligent death. He was sentenced to one year and four months in prison in the first instance. He can still appeal. In this regard, Liu Weimin appeared today (23rd) to express his own opinions. He emphasized that the second trial will definitely appeal, "Do you think my choice to have Da Vinci surgery today is related to profit? That is really fart."
The second instance will definitely continue to appeal.
Liu Weimin stated that he would definitely continue to appeal in the second instance and believed that the decision of the medical review committee was not good for him. Most members of the medical review committee were considering this matter based on traditional surgical thinking. These doctors did not have a thorough understanding of Da Vinci's surgery. However, Liu Weimin also admitted that the operation is basically performed by traditional surgery, and the patient may not pass away, and the doctors' experience is more important than traditional surgery, so they may have psychological objections to this minimally invasive surgery, like Da Vinci's surgery.
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Liu Weimin recalled that the deceased patient also underwent computerized tomography during the second operation, which confirmed that the ovarian cancer had recurred, so the operation was performed. At that time, they cleaned the uterus, ovaries, and lymph nodes wherever they could.
Liu Weimin pointed out that the doctors of these medical review committees believed that they could clear the lesions more cleanly by choosing traditional surgery, so the patient might not be prone to recurrence. However, he wanted to tell the outside world the fact that although they had done computerized tomography beforehand, when the surgery went in for examination, they found that the patient's cancer had spread throughout the intestinal surface, and the entire intestinal surface was covered with dots of this cancer. And it can also be found on the liver. Some of the lesions on the liver are also punctate. They are punctate lesions.
Liu Weimin said that if he did not choose Leonardo da Vinci today and had open surgery at that time, "Would you have been able to cut out the liver at that time? This is impossible. If you cut out the liver, do you need to replace it?" Because the patient's dot-like lesions are all over the entire liver surface, and there are also dot-like cancer recurrences on the intestinal wall, can the intestines also be removed? So his idea at the time was to remove her uterus. Personally, he thought that the only thing to do now was to remove the larger lesions as much as possible, and then give it to chemotherapy.
Liu Weimin pointed out that the judge now refers to some decisions of the Medical Tribunal, but if today's surgery is handed over to a doctor who may be better at traditional surgery, he can cut it clean. He thinks that is a fantasy and impossible, so don't deceive yourself. "I have experienced so many cancers. I have also gone from traditional surgery to laparoscopy and Leonardo da Vinci surgery. Wouldn't I know?"
Liu Weimin emphasized that if the judge thinks that he made a major mistake by choosing to use the Da Vinci surgery and must be sentenced, this will make him feel very uncomfortable because he also hopes that the patient's cancer can be cured and that the young patient can be cured. However, if the outcome does not satisfy everyone, then he will file a lawsuit. This is not the attitude that Taiwan should have.
Liu Weimin said, "I don't think it should be like this. My starting point is for the patient, not for myself. Do you think my choice to have the Da Vinci surgery today is related to profit? That is really fart. I never take such words seriously, and I also think it is a slander against doctors. This is the kind of slander I hate the most." It is very shameful to treat medical care as a profit.
