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I love Weibo. China’s microblog world is currently the most astonishingly interesting snapshot of Chinese society. Last week one video making the rounds involved a young, well dressed woman apparently giving CPR to a “beggar” on the street. Most comments were quite cynical, doubting that a woman would help a beggar, but it also brought up a healthy larger debate about CPR (cardiopulmonary recusitation), which I discussed in this week’s podcast on EZFM’s Beijing Hour, which you can listen to by clicking on the links above. One essential take-home message for CPR is thatchest compressions, and not the mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths, are essential. This new guideline should make it a lot easier and less scary for people to help others in need. Here’s a quick 3-minute video showing how to perform CPR. If you cannot see the video below, please click here.

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You can always listen live to my radio interview each Wednesday around 7:35am Beijing time, on the Beijing Hour program on EZFM 91.5, which is broadcast from 7-8am every weekday by host Paul James. EZFM is the popular bilingual radio station on the China Radio International network, broadcasting here in Beijing and on multiple stations all over the world, as well as live online here.

You can listen to all my previous podcasts at the podcast archive.