On the evening of January 18, the Donggang Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Rizhao City, Shandong Province, issued a briefing: At about 16:00 on the same day, the police received a report from the masses that a doctor suspected of broadcasting gynecological surgery clips on the Internet, so they immediately investigated the relevant personnel of the hospital involved, and at about 18:00, the doctor involved, Li Mou, was arrested. The case has been filed and the case is under further investigation.
Subsequently, more details surfaced. Some netizens broke the news that they accidentally entered a live broadcast room on the afternoon of January 15 at Station B, and learned from the dialogue content of the live broadcast room that a male anesthesiologist was broadcast live when a female patient underwent gynecological surgery.
This incident caused netizens to exclaim. The doctor involved is suspected of violating the privacy of the patient and expects the police to give the follow-up investigation results as soon as possible.
There is a famous "Hayne's Law" in safety production: behind every serious accident, there must be 29 minor accidents and 300 attempted precursors and 1,000 accident hazards.
In the field of medical live broadcasting, the "Hayne's Law" should also apply, not to mention that medical live broadcasting is still a field of barbaric growth.
Live broadcasting is an outlet of the Internet, and there are many people who want to take advantage of the situation to fly.
In the field of health care, there is no shortage of doctors who are dedicated to it
Some doctors cooperate with the media or Internet platforms to launch relevant popular science and service programs and columns; some doctors open accounts on self-media platforms and publish live content or related videos on their own. Whether it is for the purpose of serving the public or for other purposes, the live broadcasts and videos involving relevant people in the medical field have exposed many problems worthy of attention.
Unlike the live streaming that we are familiar with, the live broadcast in the medical field is more professional, and the public's ability to identify the live broadcast content is low. Like this time, doctor Li Mou live broadcast gynecological surgery footage, only because of the suspected obvious violations, it caused netizens to report. More medical live broadcasts that appear on live broadcast platforms make it difficult for netizens to distinguish between true and false.
And this is the most terrible thing.
In the medical field, there is a huge information asymmetry between ordinary netizens, patients and doctors. Usually, whatever the doctor says, the public and the patient will believe. However, due to the different knowledge, ability, and experience of each doctor, the content transmitted to the public may be uneven, and it is not surprising that even different doctors express diametrically opposed views.
Just like many media have now opened health columns, there are many contradictory contents. For a while, the expert said that eating this was good for the body; the next moment, the expert said that eating this was not good for the body. And so on, so that ordinary people are not divided.
In the case that many doctors have already opened live broadcasts and filmed videos, it is essential to check their content.
But what is embarrassing is that the supervision of online live broadcasting and video is more a matter for the competent network departments. Looking at the whole country, there are few and few medical supervisors who supervise the live broadcast and video content in which doctors participate.
Everything is predetermined, and if it is not predetermined, it is abolished. Shandong Rizhao doctor Li Mou's live broadcast "rollover" is a clear proof. For live broadcasts suspected of violating the law, the public security organs must take decisive action, and more live broadcasts and videos involving medical content need to be checked by medical institutions or medical departments from a professional point of view, and this field cannot be allowed to become a regulatory blind spot.
Online live broadcasting is an outlet, and the live broadcast of medical content is a lucrative field in the eyes of many people. Nowadays, some online medical platforms have launched remote video clinics, online consultations and other services. Mr. Gong himself has sought help from the internet consultation, but found that the doctor's matching is not accurate, the answer obtained from the online consultation is almost the same as the result obtained by the self-online query, and the experience of the online consultation is not good.
It must be faced that the medical field is moving closer to the Internet is a big trend. When internet platforms and doctors join hands, regulators must act immediately.
Remember the so-called "doctors" who changed their "vests" to different "experts" in many TV stations a few years ago? If supervision is always lagging behind the "doctors" who are ahead of the curve, follow-up work is likely to be passive.
For this doctor's live broadcast of gynecological surgery, we can't just treat it as an accident. The problem behind the bottom, urge the supervision to follow up in a timely manner, and prevent problems before they occur, so that we can enjoy more benefits of being in the Internet society, rather than the other way around.