GO SPOTTING: Gaming Doctor 'Caused Baby Death'; Bill Gates On His Failure At Go
Roy Laird, David Drexler | Published on 11/16/2009
A five-month-old Chinese baby died in a hospital because his doctor was busy playing go online while his condition worsened, reports say. Officials from the Jiangsu provincial health department said that Dr Mao Xiaojun -- admitted he was playing an online game of go -- would be sacked from Nanjing Children's Hospital, according to a November 13 report by the BBC. Parents have been angered by a series of major health blunders in China; more than 10,000 lawsuits relating to medical disputes have been filed in Chinese courts every year since 2002, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Gates On His Failure At Go: Billionaire Bill Gates (left) cites go as one of his personal failures. "When I was young . . . I wanted to be the world's best chess player and, of course, I didn’t succeed. I wanted to be the world’s best Go player, too…so I’ve had plenty of disappointments," Gates said in his 1997 book, Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur. Click here to view the book online; the quote appears on page 227. - Roy Laird & David Drexler