Dr. Wang’s assailants appeared to be family members of at least one patient waiting to be treated by him and his colleagues, news reports said.

The settlement was reached in a compensation claim against the Northern Health and Social Care Trust. The child, who cannot be identified, suffered hypoxia due to a delay in her delivery at Antrim Area Hospital in 2007.

According to the Guangdong General Hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, the hospital is organizing senior experts and doctors to help save Chen Zhongwei, who is in the intensive care unit for further medical observation and treatment after surgery.

Paul Raftos, a GP at Maroubra, in Sydney's east, sent Steven Iacovone home with a script for the anti-anxiety medication Xanax after the then 35-year-old patient visited his surgery complaining of chest pains on June 7, 2010. About two hours later, Mr Iacovone suffered a very serious heart attack resulting in cardiac arrest and hypoxic brain damage. His heart stopped beating for at least eight minutes and he remained in an induced coma for about 10 days.

Melissa sought unspecified damages and said she sued to ensure that nobody else will ever experience what happened to her mother, reported ABC News. "In accepting this settlement, I am able to put the legal aspects of my mother’s death behind me and ensure that those culpable for her death have accepted responsibility for their actions quickly and without equivocation," she said.

The shock of his diagnosis was replaced by a sense of optimism that Frank, a long distance lorry driver, could enjoy many healthy years ahead with his wife Christine and their three children.