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Chinese doctors punished for taking selfies during surgery

Three executives were fired and other staff was docked pay after taking photos of themselves with patients to commemorate the last day of an operating room facility

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SHAANXI, China — Senior executives and a team of medical staff from a Chinese hospital in the northwestern province of Shaanxi have been punished for taking group photos next to apparently unconscious patients after surgery, state media reported on Monday.

A series of photos recently circulated on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site, shows Chinese doctors and nurses decked in scrubs, posing with reportedly unconscious patients on the operating table in the operating theater.

A man makes a V-sign in one of the happy snaps, while other doctors are seen leaning over the patient mid-procedure.

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