Tag Archives: medical-care-in-China
Why self-medicating is an essential China expat skill
December 4, 2008
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Maybe everyone should take an interest in what pills and pokes their doctor is giving them, despite how frowned upon it is by House. But in China, figuring out what’s really wrong with you, on your own – armed only with Google and Wikipedia – is a tragic, but essential, fact of expat life. Over …
Clinically Better
This morning marked the sixth and final bottle of antibiotics I was required to suck into my veins in an effort to quell the contagion running amuck in my foot. Rather than continually returning to the hospital to get the IVs, we searched out a local clinic that would give me my fix. Clinics in …
