Chinese 'Surgical Selfie' leads to Mass Sacking

Selfie go wrong! A team of Chinese surgeons, doctors and nurses have been sacked after posting a 'selfie' photograph online following a successful seven-hour operation. The 'selfies'  Pictures taken at the private Fengcheng Hospital in Xian were described as an insult to both the patient and the medical profession.

 

The hospital's deputy director, Chen, was sacked and fined three months' salary along with the director, the head anaesthesiologist, the head nurse and all those who appeared in the photographs – who also had to pen self-criticisms, Xian's bureau of public health announced. 
 

The severe punishment has prompted debate about the pressures on medical staff – and when to post 'selfies' online.
 

According to the Shanghai Daily, the photographs, taken in August and depicting three doctors treating a wound while several nurses flash celebratory 'V' signs, were leaked from a private WeChat messaging account by a woman who claims she wanted to "make sure other doctors didn't behave in such a fashion.

The posting of the photographs sparked uproar online, with comments such as: "Where is their ethics, integrity and accomplishment?"