https://www.scmp.com/rss/329473/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A respected doctor in China called a brutal knife attack that robbed him of his surgical career “a pleasant surprise” because it forced him to reassess his life. Tao Yong, an ophthalmologist, spoke one year after a patient, Cui Zhenguo, stabbed him in the head and arm with a vegetable knife at Beijing’s Chaoyang Hospital, where he is head of ophthalmology. Tao sustained injuries on the back of his head and the neck and stayed in ICU for two weeks. The doctor required surgery to save his hand,... https://www.scmp.com/health/eye-doctor-calls-stabbing-pleasant-surprise/article/3116772?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/health/eye-doctor-calls-stabbing-pleasant-surprise/article/3116772?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:11:32 +0000 Pediatric services in the US could be overwhelmed by thousands of sick infants and young children – an overlooked group that has a higher risk of serious illness from Covid-19, according to a new study. While children are at a lower risk of fatality from the disease as compared with the elderly, the very young were most at risk of becoming seriously ill, the study said.  It warned the sheer weight of population numbers in the United States meant there was an urgent need to be prepared. The... https://www.scmp.com/health/dont-overlook-risk-covid-19-poses-children-study-warns/article/3080827?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/health/dont-overlook-risk-covid-19-poses-children-study-warns/article/3080827?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:03:54 +0000 Hospital surgical assistant Marco Wan, who has seen many patients taken into the operating room for urgent procedures over the years, was stunned when, at the age of only 34, he was told he had suffered a heart attack. The Hongkonger found himself out of breath and experiencing severe chest pains soon after walking up a steep flight of steps on his regular trip into work at Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road, in Happy Valley, in March 2017. Behind the mask: who are unsung hospital... https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/health-matters/article/3049862/how-life-and-death?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/health-wellness/topics/health-matters/article/3049862/how-life-and-death?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:12:40 +0000 The murder of a doctor in Beijing has overshadowed the passage of a law designed to improve basic health care services in China, and has put a spotlight on the problems the law is trying to fix.  The fatal stabbing was the latest in a string of attacks on medical staff by angry patients and their relatives. Tensions are being fueled by a lack of resources and limited services at many medical facilities. In the latest incident, the doctor Yang Wen was stabbed in the neck on Christmas Eve... https://www.scmp.com/health/murder-doctor-beijing-overshadowed-new-law-and-reminded-people-woes-basic-healthcare/article/3043904?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/health/murder-doctor-beijing-overshadowed-new-law-and-reminded-people-woes-basic-healthcare/article/3043904?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Dec 2019 10:00:08 +0000