@Geezer: I've never been an inpatient in China - I was referring to outpatient services. It's best to learn Chinese. Do nurses yell at inpatient foreigners a lot in Chinese hospitals? The guy who had the triple bypass didn't mention any of this. His Chinese is almost nonexistent. Enough of the staff at the hospital he went to spoke English so that language was not a problem. In state hospitals this is less likely to be the case, of course - my doctor, however, could speak a little, and pretty much knew the medical terminology in English. $400,000 for 4 operations - okay, I was wrong - it's 5 times more expensive in the US than in an excellent private hospital in Kunming.
I have an American friend who had a triple bypass here, at a private hospital, a couple months ago - it may have cost him as much as US$20,000 - peanuts in the US. Surgeon came down from Beijing to do it. Saw him about 2 weeks ago at Salvador's, having a drink; looked better than he has for at least a year, very happy about his choice.
For my own condition I used the Kunming #2 Hospital - no complaints, although you do have to run around a bit to different places in the hospital (blood test here, X-ray there, pay bill somewhere else, etc. - but it's not rocket science to figure it out, even if your Chinese language ability is not so good yet.
@virus4762: I don't have any medical insurance, which would cost much more almost anywhere I bought it than the amount I'm ever likely to have to spend on medical care in China. I may have spent as much as US$1500 over the past 12+ years - most of this was for care for a fairly serious health problem, or anyway one that could become life-threatening. I'm now doing fine. Compare that to US health insurance prices - what you pay even when you don't get sick. Thank god for national health schemes - may the US someday wise up.
@Liumingke: Nonsense - who would be running any agenda for depopulation by letting people from affected African nations into the US?
@Magnifico: lowering the human population seems a good idea, but only if it's done by having fewer children - the planet can only stand just so much life-affirmation.
Will this building make things better or worse? Besides putting more cash in the pockets of a few people without them doing anything productive for it, I mean.
Really, Kongming, you should know by now: it was once thought that machines should be made responsible to the needs of human beings; but since machines have no sense of responsibility, it has long been understood that it is the responsibility of human beings to conform to the needs of machines. Anyone who has ever thought about the layout of a modern city - especially the transportation sector - or has attempted to converse with an electronic entity, should know this.
Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Spring City's tallest skyscraper nears completion
Posted byTrue, Edward, but I'm never sure about that 'forward/progress/must' thing - occurs to me the pilots are self-selected.
Spring City's tallest skyscraper nears completion
Posted byWill this building make things better or worse? Besides putting more cash in the pockets of a few people without them doing anything productive for it, I mean.
Kunming bank opens first biometric outlet in Yunnan
Posted byReally, Kongming, you should know by now: it was once thought that machines should be made responsible to the needs of human beings; but since machines have no sense of responsibility, it has long been understood that it is the responsibility of human beings to conform to the needs of machines. Anyone who has ever thought about the layout of a modern city - especially the transportation sector - or has attempted to converse with an electronic entity, should know this.
Kunming bank opens first biometric outlet in Yunnan
Posted bySpooky.
Mid-Autumn Festival, China's harvest celebration
Posted byOh - oops - it's a different Li Bai poem! Stupid of me.