Godfrey Gao's Death: Game Show Conditions

[eastaccidental]

A video came out of other celebrities struggling with the game show.

The Chinese variety show #ChaseMe is putting contestants through extreme physical labour to the point actor Godfrey Gao has collapsed on set and died. Just looking at this video alone you can see they were pushed beyond their limits.pic.twitter.com/iTvfXqsUey
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[shangman]

This is so shocking and sad, he was so young.

This is one of the reasons why it's incredibly bad to force/have a culture of encouraging people to work when they're sick, if you have any underlying health problems they are 100000% worse when you're ill. 2 years ago my mum went to work even though she was recoving from the flu and it was very hot, and she had a stroke. We discovered after that it was because she has atrial fibrillation that was triggered by the illness, heat and exertion (plus genetics, apparently loads of people in our family drop dead in their 50s ffs which she failed to flag with a doctor earlier). We're very lucky that her work is close to a hospital, and a charity that works with people with health conditions so she got off lightly and is mostly ok from it.

[cricket]

God that's really scary. I'm glad your mum's doing okay.

[shangman]

Thank you! It was legit the scariest day of my life, I'm so so thankful for her collegues and the NHS for being so on it.

[su_metal]

This 100%.
Before I got glasses for the first time, I had these awful headaches with nausea that felt like my skull was getting torn into pieces, all this while I was in my last year of medical school and had to do 24 h services every 4 days. My supervisor (an R4 or 4th-year resident) never believed us when we had health issues and forced us to go to the service and see if we were lying or not. If it was true (and it always was) they give us medicine and maybe a couple of hours to rest, depending on the severity, then once we're able to walk without dying, we have to go back to work.

[theflyers]

It's so unsettling how typical this is in medicine. There are certain industries where it's worse than others. Everyone would think that healthcare you'd be more likely to be compassionate, right? Nope. Take a pill, drink some water and get back out there!

I just had to retrain someone on our sick leave laws because they exist for this kind of reason. Sadly it's only a little bit of mandatory leave that everyone gets in the end but you cannot question someone if they call in sick unless it's for 3 consecutive days, then you can request a doctors note.

I can only slowly retrain people to know their rights and use their sick time when they need it. No questions asked on my part because it's not my GD place to question you, you're an adult. Oh no, what if they're lying? Then you have a much bigger problem then, since you have a liar on your hands. They're lying about other things, peg them for that instead of questioning everyone if they're "really sick" or not. BLAH!

[su_metal]

and the sad part is how we have a damn syndicate that is supposed to protect doctors from this type of shit but they're a bunch of corrupted piranhas.

[theflyers]

It's disgusting.

Just like any corrupted system, it's ingrained, it's not just pockets that could be flushed out over time. Given the massive size involved and people who can just fall in line and do whatever they need to because of their own assorted reasons, it's just as messy as government in the end.

Everyone watches out for themselves and their cronies, the rest are just ants to step on to get where you're going.

Yeah...my auntie is in healthcare and asked me if she should keep an eye out for openings in their administration side since I do HR/Accounting and I told her in pretty harsh words that I love her to death but I'll never work in that system, even if it's the last place on earth with an accounting job. I'll go do physical labor first.

[su_metal]

yep! i'm working for the government because 1) it's a pretty safe job in regards that I won't be fired because of my moron boss who doesn't like me and 2) the pay, which is low still, is better than working in ER rooms but the bosses are awful, the resources are nonexistence and the demands are high so i'm going to get a PhD and get the hell out of this shit.

[theflyers]

I'm glad you've found something at least to get through the nonsense until you get your PhD.

I've seen people just cash out right after they got their MD along with those who did the grind for awhile and retired to be like food cart owners because you know what, grilled cheese sounds a heckuva lot better than more surgeries and the nonsense system involved in trying to you know...save lives and shit. Sigh.

[alesh101]

The med student/intern/resident 'work until you drop' culture/requirements terrify me. I want a well-rested doc who's on top of their game, not one who's been on shift for 36-48 hours straight or is sick. How is that providing good patient care?

Not to mention that such working conditions could be considered a form of torture, just from sleep deprivation alone. I don't know how people get through it.

[su_metal]

Exactly but I found that doctors have this mentality of "if I did it when I was doing my internship, you bet I'm going to force you to do it now"

[theflyers]

It's the same mentality as "It didn't kill me, it made me stronger, do it or get gone." that comes with things like Safety regulations, Employment laws and silly stuff like being required to remove sharp frigging edges on playground equipment. "We're coddling the kids, they'll never be as strong and awesome as me! I walked both ways in the snow, barefoot!"

[alesh101]

My dad used to regale us with ages-long ER rotation horror stories. Thankfully he never had it happen, but some of those stories included botched trauma care and significant misdiagnoses. This was in the late 60s and early 70s, so people didn't know these long shifts weren't a thing that should happen, and just accepted what the doc told them, even if it was a million miles wrong because the doc had been awake so long they were basically delusional.

Physicians especially should know better. I hate the idea-not just in medicine- that "I suffered to get through it, so you have to as well." There's nothing noble about suffering through, and a system that requires it should be looked at very closely and then completely overhauled.

[latinkanji]

Americans have this mentality in general and it's just bitter sadism because we have a hard time accepting our personal suffering wasn't necessary.

[thinkweism]

i hate this, the "if i had to suffer through this, then why are you any different? you need to suffer too" mentality.

[eomir]

That's my thought. How do I know my nurse or doctor aren't making mistakes because they are tired or sick or whatever? You can't tell me you are at your best when you haven't slept in 36 hours.