A male doctor live-streamed a patient’s gynecological procedure on a China video-sharing website without her knowledge, raising a wave of questions on medical ethics and privacy violations. A Chinese netizen reported that he stumbled across a live-streaming room on Bilibili, China’s video-sharing website similar to YouTube, commonly called B site, on Jan. 15 and heard…

Commentary “Relieving people of the burden of freedom in order to make them feel safe is a recurring theme in the history of authoritarianism.”—Frank Furedi Egon Friedell committed suicide in 1938. The author leapt from his apartment window in Vienna, warning the crowd below to spare them from his ruin. It was his last selfless…

A directive to Los Angeles County emergency crews to avoid bringing adult patients into county hospitals who have little chance of resuscitation, or are proclaimed dead, reflects the seriousness of overstressed hospital conditions during the pandemic, says one expert. Under the order, emergency medics are not to transport patients to hospitals if “reasonable efforts” to resuscitate failed. “That person could be declared dead in the field rather than being brought…

A directive to Los Angeles County emergency crews to avoid bringing adult patients into county hospitals who have little chance of resuscitation, or are proclaimed dead, reflects the seriousness of overstressed hospital conditions during the pandemic, says one expert. Under the order, emergency medics are not to transport patients to hospitals if “reasonable efforts” to resuscitate have failed. “That person could be declared dead in the field…