We work every hard here to bring you information and perspective that, hopefully, gives you positive value add.  It’s always nice to see when somebody appreciates that work, even when that’s a friend.

Adam Daniel Mezei, a friend, and time to time contributor on Asia Healthcare Blog put together a list of what he calls the China Blogospheres ‘A Team”.  We were humbly included on that list.

Yes, I am linking to it because we are on it, but also because its a great list and the bloggers listed on it are every bit as good as Adam claims that they are.

I encourage you to check it out.

Excerpt about us below.  To dispel any potential rumors…the book I am working on is a fantasy.  Though it draws on Chinese elements, it’s not directly related to the work on this blog.

Asia Health Care Blog (AHCB) has truly lived up to its once-humble origins. Perhaps a small anecdote would suffice before launching headlong into why AHCB is soaring into the stratosphere at supersonic speed.

Story goes that DeNoble met Flanagan back in Beijing while Damjan was still slinging pizza pies and lager steins at the city’s popular Kro’s Nest, a bi-level bistro that serves Beijing’s 2nd-best crispy pizzas and beer (and a place I had the good fortune to spend several hours with James when I was last in Beijing). The two of them met, sat down, and realized the both of them were deeply interested in China health care issues. They observed the astonishingly glaring vacuum of online information about the surging Chinese health care sector and decided – on the spot — to start blogging about it. Hence AHCB was conceived, gestated, and born all on the same evening, an Immaculate Conception that’s delivered the duo no uncertain internet celebrity.

Rumor also has it that AHCB’s “long march” — from how it began, to how it appears today — is the premise of Damjan’s future novel. And if sneak previews – which have since, and smartly, been pulled down from the main AHCB site – are anything to go by, expect a small press page-turner.

What I respect most about AHCB is how fastidious the both of them – like china/divide — are with their source materials. They coax stuff in from practically all corners to bolster the topic under discussion, whether it’s:

• the perplexing Chinese penchant for abortions and C-sections.
• medical malpractice in the Chinese hospital system, or
• the rampant graft which hampers and devastates the chronically-underfunded PRC health sector, more generally.

Their writing is long-form newsy and the intelligence which imbues the various pieces shines through clearly.