I’d like to point to the blog of Jenny Hao, a UK citizen. She wrote up a bit about her experience as a summer intern in Jishuitan, a Beijing hospital:
Here is an interesting highlight:
I find Chinese patients are very different to British patients. Chinese patients who have come a long way to Beijing to seek help are often those who are not given any hopeful options in their hometown. They come bearing gifts, lots of gifts, so much that I had to enlist the help of another person to take them to the doctor’s car. The patients are very desperate, very emotional, luckily the morning’s consultation was mainly full of good news, but even then there were lots of tears during the clinic, a lot of which were shed by the patients’ families.
On a funny side, she notes that it was the “First time I’ve seen a surgeon asleep in theatre!”
This will probably suprise anyone who has not worked in China but it is very common for everyone to sleep at work in their office.
Hopefully her second part will come out soon.
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