Chinese surgeons punished for taking selfies beside a patient during an operation
A dozen doctors at Fengcheng Hospital, northwest China's Shaanxi province, have been punished for taking group selfies next to a patient undergoing surgery.
A series of photos recently circulated on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site, shows Chinese doctors and nurses decked in scrubs, posing with reportedly unconscious patients on the operating table in the operating theater.
The photos had been viewed 9.9 million times and had generated more than 12,000 comments.
Three officials of the hospital were removed from their posts and all the medical workers in the photos have been given a demerit in their record, an administrative punishment in China.
All of the hospital’s management staff and the doctors and nurses who took the photographs have been deducted three months’ salary and given official warnings by the municipal health bureau.
The hospital’s management made a public apology on Sunday night, saying that as the hospital would soon start using a new operating room, staff had taken photographs as souvenirs after completing for their final operation in the old operating room.
According to the director of the hospital who refused to give his name, they will not release any private information about the patient, like gender, age and what the operation was. They are going to make a month-long rectification to manage medical staff.
The hospital said it would ensure that it improved the management of its medical staff in future.
A series of photos recently circulated on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site, shows Chinese doctors and nurses decked in scrubs, posing with reportedly unconscious patients on the operating table in the operating theater.
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Surgeons posed for a “groufie”
photo next to a patient in an operating room
at Fengcheng Hospital in
August 15, 2014.
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The photos had been viewed 9.9 million times and had generated more than 12,000 comments.
Three officials of the hospital were removed from their posts and all the medical workers in the photos have been given a demerit in their record, an administrative punishment in China.
All of the hospital’s management staff and the doctors and nurses who took the photographs have been deducted three months’ salary and given official warnings by the municipal health bureau.
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A man makes a V-sign in one
of the happy snaps,
while other doctors are seen leaning over the patient
mid-procedure.
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The hospital’s management made a public apology on Sunday night, saying that as the hospital would soon start using a new operating room, staff had taken photographs as souvenirs after completing for their final operation in the old operating room.
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One surgeon holds up a drip
and the other surgeons pose for a picture
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According to the director of the hospital who refused to give his name, they will not release any private information about the patient, like gender, age and what the operation was. They are going to make a month-long rectification to manage medical staff.
The hospital said it would ensure that it improved the management of its medical staff in future.
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