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I was about to write something on the series of so-called medical incidents recently, but I was so much distracted by Euterpe's sickness that I paid very little attention to what's going on.

But the evening news on TV yesterday really touched on my threshold: Why should a mistake in drug dispensary, without actual harm to the patient, deserve more description than what was going on, during the very same day, in the legislative council (which was one of the most colourful days in the history of the council, in terms of language, I mean), or the arrangement of Renminbi international clearing between Hong Kong and Shanghai, or the Indonesia dam burst ?

On the first glance, you may think that's because medical incidents are more spicy and have better attraction to the palate of the general public.

But that's not true. To say the least, many of us would be more interested to hear the original sound track of the vivid conversation between our noble council members.

And it suddenly becomes clear to me that even minor medical incidents appear on the media because we have a dedicated team for risk management.

"Everything must be transparent and we need to make it known to the public," so was it said.

In other words, under their management, risk becomes crisis.

It is really the suitable thing to talk about on the April Fool's Day.

PS. By no means I say medication error should be taken lightly. But, you won't publicize your mistake (at least not before you have well planned ahead for the solution), will you ?