Broke his ribs? My wife, a critical care cardiac nurse, tells me that if you're doing it right then it is very likely that you will break ribs when giving CPR.

It's very sad, the amount of apathy in China nowadays is unbelievable.

I don't know the exact time when the tide start to shift, but I remember people were much less litigious in the early/mid 90s. It took less than 20 years for a society to make such dramatic shift.

edited, because I'd misremembered this and having bad medical knowledge floating around is to be avoided. I originally said:

According to Breaking Bad they don't do that compression bit in CPR anymore.

But in actuality, it's the mouth to mouth bit that Breaking Bad mentioned as not being current advice. But the link provided in a reply below, suggests that it is still recommended in certain circumstances, infants and young children for example.

Another in-depth treatment is here on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Is-CPR-no-longer-taught-as-requiring-mo...

I have had CPR training on one of those dolls. Probably half of the class broke rips and I broke probably all the ribs in both sides.