KMT lawmaker Huang Hsien-chou's (黃顯洲) office and his doctor yesterday said that it is impossible for the lawmaker to take the drugs he has been accused of taking since he is suffering from a bony spur on his cervical vertebra.
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In response to this accusation, both Huang's assistant Liu Ming-hui (劉明暉) and doctor Chou Te-yang (周德陽) said that it was impossible for Huang to take the drugs, unless the lawmaker does not care about his own life at all.
"He has a history of a bony spur on the cervical vertebra," said Liu.
"Huang was busy running for his re-election pretty much all year last year. On Aug. 24, he was sent to the emergency room at the China Medical College. Doctors diagnosed that there is a bony spur on the legislator's cervical vertebra and immediately suggested that he got an operation right away."
Liu said that after the operation, Huang would be required to wear a neck support during his recovery.
But his campaign advisors thought that it could hurt Huang's image in the election, so he decided not to undergo the operation before the election.
"But in the meantime, he took medicine to maintain his health," Liu said.
Liu said that doctors have warned Huang that he might become handicapped because of this. "Doctors told him not to shake his head and to avoid shaking hands with people," Liu said. "Otherwise, he might become a handicapped lawmaker and end up in a wheelchair."
The lawmaker's aide said that, "Unless Huang wanted to commit suicide, he wouldn't take [illegal] drugs or smoke marijuana. It's impossible."
Liu's words were backed by Huang's doctor Chou Te-yang, who is the director of the Neuropathology Department of the China Medical College's Hospital.
"When he came to see me last year," said Chou, "his left hand was already paralyzed. After I talked with other doctors, all of us suggested to him to have an operation but he decided to put it off.
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