Tag Archives: medicine

An environmental protection association, a pyramid scheme, and a 5,000-RMB miracle pill

Posted on 2010-10-26 by Joel Martinsen

The Shenzhen Evening News reports on a fake wonder-drug that’s being used to attract applicants to a pyramid scheme.

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Chicken blood injections and other health crazes

Posted on 2010-10-13 by Joel Martinsen

Zhang Wuben wasn’t the first purveyor of peculiar miracle cures. In the mid-20th Century, Chinese citizens endured fads of chicken blood injections, kombucha, water, and hand-waving.

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China’s private healthcare racket

Posted on 2010-06-21 by Danwei

Why is the price of private healthcare in China rising at 3,000 per cent a year, and how long will the private clinics be able to get away with it for?

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Zhang Wuben and the traditional Chinese medicine racket

Posted on 2010-06-18 by Eric Mu

How diet guru Zhang Wuben, a laid-off worker made himself a Chinese medicine doctor and then was denounced as a fraud.

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A doctor who prescribes beans and eggplant as cure-alls

Posted on 2010-05-28 by Joel Martinsen

Zhang Wuben charges 2,000 RMB for a consult and prescribes mung beans, eggplant, and daikon. Now he’s being exposed as a fraud in the Chinese press.

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Diet treatment to blame for patient’s sudden death?

Posted on 2009-07-28 by Eric Mu

City Evening News: A patient’s sudden death during a course of diet treatment raised question about nature healing.

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It only matters what the machine thinks: getting diagnosed in a Chinese hospital

Posted on 2009-07-21 by Alice Xin Liu

On July 20 The Beijing News printed a reader comment about the kind of medical service they received when they paid a visit to the ophthalmologist.

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Home dialysis cooperative shut down in Beijing’s Tongzhou District

Posted on 2009-03-30 by Eric Mu

Beijing Times: The government busted a group of renal patients who pooled resources to set up their own dialysis machine.

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Dentist arrested as government cracks down on medical quacks

Posted on 2008-12-03 by Eric Mu

Beijing Times: A dentist was arrested yesterday in Beijing, as the government upgraded its effort to crack down on unlicensed doctors.

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A medical scam’s willing participants

Posted on 2006-08-30 by Joel Martinsen

From Oriental Outlook, a personal account by a doctor of patients shilling for bad medicine. Also, a Legal Report episode on how commercials are faked.

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