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China, HK, Macau

September 11, 2009

Summer intern experience

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: My Summer as an Intern in China’s Hospitals – Part I

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.

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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.



About the Author

James Flanagan
After a few years of living in Singapore, James headed to Montreal to study at McGill where he received a B.Com in 2006. He jumped on the first plane back to Asia and landed in Beijing. After trying his hands at a couple of different projects, he focused on developing a consulting firm focusing on Asian IT/Biotech firms. Currently, James Flanagan is on the board of The Beijing Rotaract Club, and spends most of his time working on TedxBeijing 2012 with his laptop, in Beijing, PRC.




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