Health

A mother checking her five-year-old daughter's electronic medical record at a town clinic in Guangdong found the word "demanding" — 刁蛮 — written into the child's permanent history by a doctor after a consultation dispute. The case has ended with the doctor under formal investigation and the record corrected.

A Wuhan man's monthlong fever ended when a technician spent three hours washing his stool sample to find fluke eggs — the price of a meal of raw freshwater fish. As China's CDC reports the first cluster of liver-fluke cases in a low-prevalence province, the case is a reminder that the country's raw-fish traditions carry a parasite risk sashimi-grade sea fish does not.

A patient hid a blade inside a gratitude banner and stabbed a doctor who had never treated him, in a Guiyang hospital. As the suspect is detained and the wounded physician's clinic stays dark until late September, the case has reignited a national argument over why hospital security checks, on the books for years, are so unevenly enforced.