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...Inspired by Jiang's courageous stand, more Chinese physicians may begin saying no. I believe the doctor who helped deliver my son, and who couldn't look me in the eye as she explained what she'd done with the other baby, hopes that day will come soon...
...Clearly upset by the incident, the doctor told me she had little choice in the matter. China's one-child policy encourages families to raise the best little emperors they can; doctor-aided euthanasia is not uncommon when children are born with birth defects. Infanticide is just one of the many ethical compromises forced upon China's doctors by an authoritarian government. Obstetricians under orders from bureaucrats perform late-term abortions, and psychiatrists commit sane political dissidents to mental institutions. In March and April, hundreds of doctors knew that Party officials were risking lives by denying the scope...
...Even if the country's physicians subscribed to the Hippocratic oath, the ancient moral dictum that guides Western medical workers, they would have to violate it. In China, doctors serve the all-powerful state, and when a professional code of conduct conflicts with the Party line, the latter often holds sway. "Of course it's an ethical problem," says a doctor who participated in Beijing's SARS cover-up. "We want to be honest, but if we don't go along, we can't exist...
...Shanghai doctor Zhang Shuyun discovered the perils of following her conscience after exposing abuses at Shanghai's main orphanage in the early 1990s. For years, the orphanage cleared room for new children by neglecting existing charges until they died, often emaciated and lashed to their cots. Shanghai officials fired Zhang for demanding an investigation. She fled to England with a suitcase full of documents and photographs that became the basis for a chilling 1996 Human Rights Watch report called Death by Default. Her actions helped clean up the orphanage, but today Zhang fears she has sent the wrong message...
...Meanwhile, Jiang Yanyong, the military doctor who exposed the government's SARS cover-up by publicly accusing the Minister of Health of lying about the capital's outbreak, has become a local hero. The China Women's News ran his photo ahead of those of government officials in a front-page piece headlined HONOR ROLL OF SARS FIGHTERS. Although Jiang has been told not to give interviews, he seems to have escaped retribution. Partly that may be because, as a top surgeon who has saved the lives of military leaders, he could count on protection. In an earlier interview with...