When a 34-year-old man in China’s Inner Mongolian region went to a private hospital for an operation on Feb. 28, he thought it would be a straightforward 1,200-yuan (about $200) deal.
But after the doctor, surnamed Yuan, took Mr. Suo into the operating room and got halfway through the surgery, he stopped abruptly to inform him of other problems in the part of his body undergoing treatment.
[pullquote]Halfway in the operation, the doctor told me that I had to hand him another 7,000 yuan (about $1,000).[/pullquote]
