Chinese Nurse Fired After Posting Strange, Contorted Baby Photos on Blog
- Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:54am by
Liz Klimas
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(Photo: Xiao Shiyu via MSN)
A Chinese nurse has been fired after she was caught practicing an odd pastime: contorting babies under her care.
Xiao Shiyu, a student at the Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, held sleeping babies improperly, put them with props (such as a pig nose), took photos of them and posted them on her blog.
According to Shanghai Daily, the student intern’s posts on the mircroblogging site Sina Weibo notably upset parents and others. Xiao has since apologized for her actions, but she was still fired from her position at the children’s hospital in Hangzhou. Shanghai Daily reports the incident occurring in April but the story has continued to go viral.
Xiao is reported using these words to accompany some of her photos:
“I almost died laughing?“ and ”the babies are too small to resist my mischief.”
China Daily reports Xiao also writing:
“What’s wrong, baby? Wake up. Are you still alive?” [..] “This makes me laugh my head off. You even know how to mimic the dead.”
Although some of the photos are harmless and just in bad taste, others concerned medical professionals as the babies heads weren’t properly supported. China Daily notes several medical professionals on Xiao’s Weibo site, as well as from the hospital, emphasizing the importance of supporting a baby’s weak neck.
(Photo: Xiao Shiyu via MSN)
China Daily has more from colleagues of Xiao on her actions:
“We hope the public treats the incident as an individual case and doesn’t magnify it,” said Pengat the university.
“We have a complete education system of professional ethics beginning from the orientation for freshmen.”
Shen Beijuan, an associate professor at the nursing college who knows Xiao well, said the student is compassionate but with a simple outlook.
“She told me she just did it for fun and didn’t imagine the pictures would trigger the unexpected calamity. I believe she meant no harm,” she said. “What she did really went against our instruction.”
On June 2, Xiao apologized saying she meant no harm, asked for forgiveness and noted the lesson she learned in “consciously [showing] professional integrity.” At the time of her apology, Xiao deleted the photos from her account. The next day she was fired.
[H/T MSN]
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tharpdevenport
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:33pmOh, cry me a river. Boo freakin’ hoo — her Chinese supervisors didn’t like that? I guess that must be the only hospital in China that doesn’t EVER perform forced sterlizations, forced abortions, throw babies in trash cans to die, or the common practice of puncturing the babie‘s skull with a surynge while being born and injecting the brain with alcohol so it’s born dead.
Yes, that’s ALL OKAY in China with over multi millions of abortions each year, but she crossed the line for dressing babies up in props and posing them oddly for pictures. I supposed she’d get a raise if she helped track down an illegally pregnant mother.
Report Post »Abila
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 7:18pmThis knucklehead nurse belongs in a mental institution.
Report Post »Cruelnunusual
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:18pmWhat went on that we’re not seeing pictures of?
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:04pmWell what do you expect this is a country that does not believe in God!!!!
Report Post »piper60
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:17amWhat would she have done next? Pictures of a baby hanging up side down?
Report Post »geomann
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:59amThe piglet photo was a bit funny, even if unprofessional. The contorted neck photos, however, indicated she may be unstable and dangerous.
Report Post »js1964
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:50amagreed
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:51amJust for context, the nurse was fired for distorting pics of live babies and also making some very odd if not disturbing comments, but it‘s ’all good‘ to either kill newborns or kill babies in utero late term and dry the remains and make a ’nutritious’ powder amongst other sick practices.
And no, I’m not defending her, just find it contradictory.
Just an odd country with many skewed moral compasses in many ways.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:11amShe contorted the neck of a baby? If you don’t properly support a babies head while holding it, most mothers will give you the 5th degree.
Teddy Roosevelt had it right. Learning without morality is useless.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:10amCreepy…….
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:10amWTF is WRONG with people????
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:25amPeople who work in the medical profession sometimes develope a gallows humor.It comes with seeing too much tragedy.Its not proper, but it is understandable, to a degree.I don’t she should work around children any more however.As to the rest of the world, good luck. If I had the answer for that I’d be rich. Most likely wouldn’t be on this blog at this time of the morning either.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:44amI know what you’re saying. I do work in health care (now in a non-clinical setting) and I definitely understand the gallows humor, but I have never felt that it was even remotely appropriate where the disabled, the terminally ill, babies and children are concerned. A line has to be drawn and this moron clearly crossed it.
Now, if you want to talk about patients who are willfully non-compliant with their medical treatment, then have at it! In fact, I’ll probably join you. But when that sense of humor is applied to those who cannot help themselves… I’m sorry, but there still has to be some standards. But that’s just me. Someone else will disagree, but there are just some patient populations who should be off-limits.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:37amI agree with you up to a point.Those who are willfully non compliant though aren’t always something to laugh at.They may have been the victim of ID thft perpetrated by enemys of the state ciminals or others.The imposter gets medical treatment for their problems while the victims file is littered with dieases conditions they don’t have.Many times it prevents the victim from getting treatment for those problems they do have.Worse yet some health care workers complicate it,They refuse to give the victim the answers knowledge they need to protect themselves.IYou have a responsibility and right to prevent someone from treating you for conditions and diseases you don’t have.Especially when fraud has been commited to force treatment for non existant diseases and conditions.There is a more perverse reasoning with the enemy of the state performing this.It involves fraud for cash and a host of other frauds[fiduary fraud and life insurance fraud.They are hoping that their targets either commit suicide or homicide=either way they believe they won't get caught.The target is out of the picture this way.That is only if the treatment for the non existant disease or condition doesn't kill them, which is what they really hope will happen.Its cleaner that way]This should be vitally important if you work in the midatlantic.The highest concentrations of potential targets live in this area.
Report Post »If you have ruled out the above by all means use a little gallows humor for those who are non complian
sooner12
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:05amThis woman is sick. She has no reason to be in a hospital setting. Those above her did the right thing in firing her.
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