Doctor is out collecting herbs

CHENGDU - Gathering herbs for traditional Chinese medicine nearly cost Long Xingchao his life.

As he and the other passengers in a truck hurtled toward the water after a bridge collapsed, the Sichuan businessman only had one thought: "How many people are going to die today?"

The answer, fortunately, was nobody. But his friend's leg bones broke through the skin and his calf muscle flopped out when they slammed into the river.