Internet Public Opinion Through the Lens of the Former Peking Union Medical College Doctor Incident

This morning, a trending topic appeared on Weibo: “Doctoral student from Peking Union Medical College accused of deceiving multiple female patients.” With the casual curiosity of someone spectating Western medicine drama — never quite sure how ripe the melon is — I clicked in. Once I started reading, the emotions came flooding.

The backstory is fairly straightforward. During his doctoral studies, Dr. Peng was training at Beijing Badachu Plastic Surgery Hospital — what the profession calls “standardized residency training.” These are essentially students working for the hospital: not formal employees, but holding prescription privileges, able to admit patients, and subject to dual oversight from both the university and the hospital, with the primary supervisor bearing first responsibility. Outsiders generally don’t understand this dynamic, which is why public commentary often misses the mark.

During his studies, Dr. Peng had a girlfriend while allegedly engaging in “overly intimate behavior” with several female patients (taking a page from Alibaba’s playbook, as the Chinese internet would say). One of these patients eventually realized that Dr. Peng wasn’t interested in a serious relationship, grew unhappy, conducted her own investigation, found cracks in the story, and reported him to the university. When the school couldn’t resolve the matter to her satisfaction, she purchased a trending spot on Weibo.

A careful analysis suggests this doesn’t quite qualify as “deception.”

Following the logic of Professor Luo from Houda Law Exam — who always emphasizes analyzing the defendant’s motives — we need to examine “Person A’s” incentives. Clearly, Person A believed that being involved with a doctor carried certain advantages. When the doctor was willing to provide those advantages, she willingly engaged in the intimate behavior. Only later, when she discovered the doctor wasn’t controllable and her hopes for greater benefits couldn’t be realized, did she brandish the banner of medical ethics and accuse him of deception. In reality, this was mutual consent — or, more bluntly, following at the scent of a piece of meat, then turning around to bite the hand that fed it. The law should not protect such conduct.

That said, Dr. Peng’s behavior undoubtedly qualifies him as a scoundrel. But what specific authority did he actually abuse? None of the available material clarifies this. At most, he leveraged the professional prestige of his occupation and the golden reputation of Peking Union Medical College, along with the kind of care and attention a doctor might offer a patient — perhaps sacrificing his own rest time to squeeze in a surgery sooner. This attracted Person A and enabled him to fulfill desires that were legally permissible but morally questionable.

This situation is unlikely to end well for anyone involved. With medical ethics serving as a veto factor in professional evaluations, it remains to be seen whether Renji Hospital can weather the storm.

Traditional Chinese Medicine has seen its own curious cases in this regard — qigong practitioners performing “rituals” that required patients to undress, or the bizarre incident at Hangzhou Tongrentang involving uterine massage. But when such cases hit the trending lists, they are almost invariably characterized as fraud rather than deception or rape.

Happiness rarely arrives suddenly. This melon? Definitely ripe.

从北京协和医院前博士事件看网络舆论

今天一早，微博热搜就出现了一条”北京协和医学院博士被指诱骗多名女性患者”的热搜，本着吃西医瓜不保熟的心态，我点进去看了，这一看不要紧，情绪来了。

事情的原委比较简单，彭博士在读博期间在北京八大处整形医院培养，业内一般叫规培，属于给医院打工的学生，不属于医院员工，但有处方权，可以收病人，受到学校和医院双重管理，第一责任人是导师，这一点圈外人士一般不懂，吃瓜吃不明白。彭博士在上学期间谈了个女朋友，同时又跟几个女患者可能有”过度亲密行为”（跟阿里学的），有一位女患者最后发现好像彭博士不愿意好好谈恋爱，就不乐意了，四处侦察发现破绽，捅了一楼子学校发现没法处理，于是乎买了热搜。

仔细分析一下，这事不算诱骗。

按照厚大法考罗老师的逻辑，这事得分析张三的动机，很显然，张三觉得跟医生处对象有好处，医生又愿意提供好处，就不由分说地满足其过度亲密的意愿，事后发现医生似乎不受掌控，自己想获得更大的好处不能实现，于是乎拿出医德的金字招牌，指责其诱骗，其实是两厢情愿，或者说给一块肉就马上跟着走，现在倒打一耙，法律应该不保护这种行为。

彭博士这种行为当然是渣男无疑，但他到底利用了什么职权，各路资料并没有说明，只能说他利用了自己的职业光芒和协和的金字招牌，顺便给了一点医生能给予患者的关怀和照顾，比如说牺牲一下自己的休息时间插个队做个手术什么的，吸引了张三，实现了自己合法而不合道德的过度亲密的欲望。

这件事情不会有很好的结果，但目前医德作为一票否决的重要因素，就看仁济医院能不能扛得住。

中医在这个问题上也发生过很多奇妙的案例，比如说气功做个法让你脱衣服顺带占个便宜，比如说曾经杭州同仁堂发生的按摩子宫奇闻等等，但这种案例一旦上热搜大概率是会并定性为骗子，几乎不可能会定性为诱骗强奸。

幸福一般都不会来的太突然，这瓜保熟。