14 articles
Government
Why around 9,000 doctors in South Korea have walked off their jobs in protest
Thousands of doctors in South Korea protested in Seoul against the government’s plan to increase medical school admissions and its per...
Michelle De Pacina
News
Wuhan Doctor Speaks Out Against China for Censoring Her Coronavirus Warnings in December
After the passing of many of her colleagues from coronavirus (COVID-19), a doctor in Wuhan is now openly criticizing Chinese health authorit...
Ryan General
Racists are Refusing to See Asian American Doctors Because of Coronavirus
Renowned writer and public speaker Wajahat Ali recently took to Twitter to share his dismay over the attitudes of racist patients toward Asi...
Fourth Doctor Who Worked With Coronavirus Whistleblower Dies
Dr. Zhu Heping is the fourth colleague of coronavirus whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang to die of the disease. The doctor was pronounced dead at...
Drunk Chinese Man Throws Up a Throat Tumor, Swallows it Again
A drunk man who vomited a 10-centimeter (4-inch) tumor in China decided to swallow it back out of fear of losing a vital part of his interna...
Asia
Vietnamese Man Pumped With 15 Cans of Beer to Save His Life From Alcohol Poisoning
A man from Vietnam who was dying from alcohol poisoning was reportedly saved by doctors after pumping 15 cans of beer into h...
Editorial Staff
Nearly 30 Doctors and Nurses Perform CPR For 5 Hours To Keep Dying Boy Alive in China
A medical team in China was able to keep a dying boy alive by taking turns performing CPR on him for five consecutive hours. The patient, id...
Chinese Doctor Finds Live Tapeworm Inside Woman’s Eye After She Ate Raw Meat
A Chinese woman’s love for “exotic” food may have led to her contracting a parasitic infection after she reportedly ingested a tapeworm from...
Woman Loses a Toenail After Fish Pedicure at Spa
A woman’s toenails stopped growing and began falling off months after getting a fish pedicure, a recent doctor’s report revealed. The beauty...
Girl in China Needs Skull Surgery After Trying to Remove Blackhead
A 10-year-old girl from Guangzhou, southern China, reportedly went through an open brain surgery to get a part of her skull removed after ge...
Bryan Ke
Asian and Black Doctors Most Likely to Face Prejudice From Their Own Patients
Black and Asian healthcare professionals in the United States are more likely to face prejudice and hear offensive language from their own p...
Chinese Doctors Replace Cancer Patient’s Spine With 3D Printed Vertebrae
A Chinese patient who was suffering from a massive neck tumor was recently saved by doctors after she was given a 3D printed spine. Doctors ...
Chinese Surgeons Remove 30 Inches of Man’s Intestines to Relieve Painful Constipation
A Chinese patient recently underwent a three-hour procedure with a team of surgeons to remove 30 inches of his bloated large intestines. The...
Fight Randomly Breaks Out Between Nurses Inside Chinese Hospital During Surgery
An operating room in China became the unfortunate venue for a one-on-one brawl between two nurses. In a widely shared CCTV video, a scene o...
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