Gaming doctor 'caused baby death'

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A five-month-old Chinese baby has died in a hospital because his doctor was busy playing a game online while his condition worsened, reports say.

Officials from the Jiangsu provincial health department said that Dr Mao Xiaojun would be sacked from Nanjing Children's Hospital.

The hospital first said he was working on a thesis but later admitted he was playing an online game of Go.

Parents have been angered by a series of major health blunders in China.

"Mao lied to us a few days ago," Li Shandong, director of health care reform in the Jiangsu provincial health department, told the state-run China Daily newspaper.

"He admitted to playing the game of Go online after our computer experts checked out evidence on his computer."

He said Dr Mao did not follow hospital regulations and that his sluggish attitude towards patients led to the boy's death, the China Daily reported.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8358642.stm

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1. kick

[undeterred]

2. So when your gamer kid grows up to be a doctor

he might still be a gamer. This is an addiction.

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3. yup

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. Gamers probably don't just fall into an 8-year medical education

so I'm thinking the guy got addicted after earning his degree. Such as that degree is, anyway.