Similar blunders have occurred before in Taiwan. What was especially regrettable was that none of the doctors who saw the original patient made a correct diagnosis, and none of them took note of the fact that he had recently returned from Nigeria, where he could easily have contracted malaria.
這樣的案例過去也曾耳聞，令人遺憾的是，從開業醫師到醫學中心，竟沒有一個醫師診斷得出來，也沒有醫師從病人由奈及利亞回國可能感染瘧疾的方向去思考。