China trying to stop patients from killing doctors

BEIJING – China plans to beef up security in its hospitals to prevent the deaths  zoro costume  of doctors and nurses in attacks by patients' relatives outraged over the cost and quality of care.
Experts say that without significant health care changes to tackle the causes of conflict, the measures will not improve safety.
Attacks on medical staff, mostly by angry relatives, killed seven people and injured 28 in 2012, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission, which issued security guidelines with the Ministry of Public Security, China's police force.
The guidelines suggest that the number of security guards in each hospital should be at least one per 20 patient beds, or no less than 3% of medical staff. The guidelines also call for alarm buttons, security doors and scanning equipment to detect weapons, plus more camera surveillance and foot patrols.
Besides the increased hardware, the authorities say better mediation of medical disputes is necessary and more education to "guide patients to safeguard their rights in a rational manner."
Emotions often run high at Chinese hospitals, a result of resentment over expensive and hard-to-access medical treatment. Anger can be compounded by the need to pay bribes to guarantee good service and supplement doctors' usually low wages.
Monday, several people severely beat three doctors at a hospital in south China's Guangzhou city after they were unable to immediately take home the body of a deceased, elderly relative.
"All medical personnel feel insecure!" wrote Eric Chong, deputy secretary general of the China Hospital Association, on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter equivalent, after the incident. "We need all sectors of society and the government to face up to this, and make a self-criticism! Otherwise China's medical service has no future!" he wrote.
Chong shared a photo of a masked medical worker holding a sign about the Guangzhou case that read, "Demand that the perpetrators are dealt with by law! Zero tolerance for violence in hospitals starts with you and me! No safety for doctors and nurses, no health for patients!"
A survey by Chong's association, released in August, showed the annual average number of assaults on doctors increased to 27.3 per hospital in 2012, up from 20.6 in 2008.
Reasons for the violence included unsatisfactory treatment, poor doctor-patient communication, high expenses for patients and insufficient medical resources, the survey found. Nearly 40% of the medical staff surveyed at 316 hospitals said they planned to give up their profession because of the increase in violence, the survey said.
Zhu Youdi, a medical expert and writer, blamed the violence on "a crisis of mutual trust and mutual communication between hospital and patients."
If a doctor succeeds in curing them, "patients are happy and willing to give bribes. But if a doctor receives bribes but fails to cure the patient, they lost both life and money, and the relatives will be extremely angry, it's impossible to ask them to behave in a rational manner," he said.
The new measures fail to tackle the problem, Zhu said. Only a thorough overhaul of China's medical system will reduce hospital violence, he said.
Huang Jiefu, a former deputy minister of health, says China needs an independent agency to handle medical malpractice disputes for patients who have no confidence in the hospital-run system, according to the Beijing Morning Post newspaper.
China's hospitals must lose some of their administrative authority, Zhu suggested. In U.S. hospitals he has visited, where malpractice may end a doctor's career, "they treat their work carefully, but for doctors in China, an accident is the hospital's business, as the hospital runs everything, including buying medicines, equipment and doctors," he said.
The guidelines are aimed at hospitals of "secondary level and above," which means half of China's 24,000 hospitals, but the nation's remaining 900,000-plus health care institutions, mostly at grass-roots level, should use them for reference, the commission said.
The measures form the latest salvo in China's "Safe Hospitals" campaign begun in 2007. Many urban hospitals have bought helmets and anti-stab vests for security guards and long sticks to keep attackers at bay. The most common weapon in China is usually a knife or kitchen chopper; guns remain rare.
"The strength of security guards is insufficient," joked Dong Guining, an IT salesman in Beijing, on Sina Weibo. "You must use the People's Armed Police, or, when necessary, the chengguan," urban management officials  costume cosplay vampire knight   infamous in China for beating street vendors to death.

Autopsy inconclusive for fetus found in NYC bag

NEW YORK (AP) — An autopsy of a fetus found in a teenage girl's shopping  naruto cosplay costumes  bag at a New York City lingerie store was inconclusive, and more tests will be needed to determine how the fetus died, the city medical examiner's office said Friday.
The needed tests could take a couple of weeks as police continue to look into the macabre case.
Preliminary reports from detectives suggest the fetus was born alive and possibly had been asphyxiated, but chief New York Police Department spokesman John McCarthy said that the case was still being investigated and that police were awaiting the medical examiners' determination of the cause of death.
The case began Thursday when a security guard stopped two 17-year-old girls to examine their bags at a Victoria's Secret store in midtown Manhattan. The guard found the dead fetus in one of the bags.
The girl who had been carrying the bag containing the fetus told detectives she had delivered a day earlier and didn't know what to do, authorities said. Police believe she delivered at the other girl's house.
Both girls were arrested on petit larceny charges. It was unclear whether either has a lawyer.
The girl believed to have given birth was taken to a hospital and remained there Friday. A woman who answered the phone at a possible home number for her said she knew nothing about the matter. A message left at another possible number wasn't immediately returned.
A woman who said she was the other girl's mother said she hadn't spoken with her daughter since her arrest and hung up.
Zami Ford, a neighbor of the girl believed to have given birth, told the Daily News she  cosplay wigs   was unaware of the teen's pregnancy and stunned by the allegations.
"She's a good girl," Ford told the newspaper. "I can't believe she would do that.

Civil rights activist Evelyn Lowery dies after stroke

Civil rights activist Evelyn Lowery dies after stroke
(CNN) -- Civil rights activist Evelyn Gibson Lowery, who Brothers Conflict cosplay  with her husband, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, participated in the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march in Alabama, died Thursday morning at her Atlanta home, a family spokeswoman said. She was 88.
She suffered a stroke last week, and on Wednesday returned home from a hospital after medical personnel decided "there was nothing more medically that they could do," the Lowery family said in a statement released Thursday.
"My beloved Evelyn was a special woman, whose life was committed to service, especially around the issues of empowering women," Joseph Lowery said. "She was a wonderful mother and wife and I thank God that she didn't suffer any pain and that I was blessed having her as my partner, my confidante and my best friend for close to 70 years.
"I will miss her each and every day, but as a man of faith, I know that she is with her God. My entire family has been overwhelmed by the continuous outpourings of love, support and prayers that have come from across the country and we ask for your continued prayers over the next few days."
Pioneers of the civil rights movement
The Lowerys' participation in the Selma-to-Montgomery march supporting African-Americans' right to vote was just one aspect of the couple's historic lives.
They were among the pioneers of the American civil rights movement from its beginnings in the 1950s.
Joseph Lowery -- sometimes referred to as the "dean of the civil rights movement" -- was a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights group formed in 1957. Martin Luther King Jr. was the first president of the group.
Evelyn Lowery was the founder of SCLC's sister organization -- SCLC/Women's Organizational Movement for Equality Now Inc., found in 1979.
The purpose of the group, according to a bio on her group's website, is to "champion the rights of women, children, families, and responding to the problems of the disenfranchised regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, or religion."
In the 1980s, she founded several prominent programs, according to the profile.
One is the Drum Major for Justice Awards Dinner, which honors people who made contributions in the arena of social justice. Another is The Evelyn G. Lowery Civil Rights Heritage Tour that honors icons of the civil rights movement. She is responsible for the establishment of monuments honoring those icons.
She founded the Women's Empowerment Training Center for GED/computer training in 1988 and a mentoring program for girls in1995.
Lowery was the daughter of a clergyman in Memphis, Tennessee, who served in the local NAACP.
"Young Evelyn's eyes were exposed to the injustices (in) society, and before the age of eighteen, she committed herself to working towards making those Yata Misaki Cosplay   conditions better," the website bio said.

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