Forums > Living in Kunming > Broken leg right at the ankle... need advice... If 20,000 was for the surgery you didn't have, how much did it cost you just to have it set & put in a cast? As for X-rays, I've had them twice in Kunming hospitals (knee in Kunming #2, lungs in the hospital on the corner of Jinhuapulu 2 blocks north of Renminxilu - both very cheap (100-200rmb or something), quick and with results within an hour. Neither for broken bones, but that shouldn't make any difference. My guess is that you could have your set ankle X-rayed if you just asked for it (and, of course, paid for it) - think you should try it, it won't cost much, and you can keep the X-ray photo to show to another doctor if you are not satisfied with the judgement of the doctor's reading of the X-ray.
As for doctors, or their hospitals, profiting from surgery: yes, I think this happens.
Granted that ankles can be tricky, but bonesetting has been around for a very long time.
Forums > Living in Kunming > VPN:s still working? @Peter: I'd have to disagree - not all unmanaged forces here are chaotic, and not all of what is called 'chaos' is negative. More or less organized and 'managed' demonstrations, for example, when carried out with insufficient or slanted information can be negative too, even when they're not 'chaotic'.
Forums > Living in Kunming > US Citizens: voting help and dem community Answering those questions would entail a long discussion, to be held at the table. Anyway, it wouldn't be the way the US Democratic Party does it.
On the other hand, at present one pretty much has to use whatever tables are available, or can be constructed with our limited means.
Forums > Living in Kunming > US Citizens: voting help and dem community @ Geezer, answers to questions in your last comment: no and no.
Forums > Living in Kunming > US Citizens: voting help and dem community The biggest problem is probably the narrow idea we have of 'success'. Coercion is a matter of form - there are many. 'Socialism' is a word, for which there are quite a few bad definitions - perhaps it too is so corrupted that employing the term causes more confusion than enlightenment.
Be glad to discuss it with you around a level table. Tables at bars are pretty level, at least more so than the ones provided by the major American political parties, which are owned by the parties - which, in turn, are owned.
Kunming newspaper publishes child labor bombshell
Posted by@ vicar: I agree, such companies ought to be shut down.
Kunming newspaper publishes child labor bombshell
Posted byGood to see an instance of journalists apparently doing what journalists should be doing as the income gap continues to widen, as reflected in the value of stock portfolios and owners' incomes, and as labor continues to be exploited.
Come join the Have a Heart fundraiser jubilee this Saturday!
Posted byCongratulations, Colin, and all who contributed, for a job very well done - and it was fun!
Wenshan politician, shamed for denigrating Miao, issues apology
Posted byOops, the guy is Yi - okay, but that doesn't indicate Judeo-Christian influence either, only (basically Han-Chinese) ideas of modernity and civilizatiion. And note that witchcraft was suspected of having been practiced by other ethnic groups as well (e.g., certain Taiwan aboriginal groups), as well as by Han practitioners.
In short, ideas about witchcraft can be found all over the world, and are hardly all traceable to the influence of Abrahamic religiion.
Wenshan politician, shamed for denigrating Miao, issues apology
Posted bySorry, what I mean is that the Miao (Hmong) were indeed seen as primitive, but their witchcraft was still dangerous and was feared.
Anyway, although one may speculate, there is no indication that this guy has been influenced by Judeo-Christian ideas on the subject of witchcraft, and even if he has it is likely to be based on older Han-cultural beliefs and attitudes on non-Han peoples.