Anyone here ever done research or worked in a hospital in China run by the Chinese? (read details)?
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It really depends on which part of China. Not all Chinese hospital are unsterilized, dirty, dangerous. Many of them, in fact, are brilliant. Just because there are a bunch of unauthorized dirty hospitals, and "hospitals run by the Chinese" is stereotyped into that.\nMost hospitals in big cities in China are up-to-standard, unless they are operated by some money-snatching people too bothered with making money and not bothered with people's lives. In that case, I'm afraid they won't need your help. For more rural places, the condition would be worse. However, if you're not Chinese-speaking, you might find it a bit difficult to communicate with the people there. (Honest, even doctors can be terrible at English - some doctors in rural villages may not have professional training) That said, if you can be there to help them it would be great. In fact, you can try contacting Medecins Sans Frontieres. I know that they often have missions to the more rural areas of China, and they welcome all kinds of help.
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No, not that program, although you can always Google it.   If you're planning to host a student or to be a hosted student, check out this site:    http://www.43things.com/things/view/73\nbecause it will give you insight into the exchange programs -- good and bad.  \nWe had a Chinese exchange student and were quite surprised that this student was the opposite of our stereotypes -- the reality in China is quite different than the fantasy.  Be sure to check out these programs thoroughly -- you might also search for blogs by people already studying in China.  Good luck.
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probably best to get in touch with your local ICU-possessing hospital and seeing if they can supply you with any suitable (anonymised) materials, or even if you can go down make the notes yourself (which will certainly give you a more true to life experience / record of the patient care, symptoms etc which may have been sugar coated in official materials or those sent out from the hosp)
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no, china is still exectuting people, and lots of Europeans are travelling there to buy organs.  Because the orgens cost so much money, and there is a big demand for them, there is no way of knowing if the chinese are executing people too early (ie if their trial has finished)or if they will execute someone just for the money.  Its a sick situation.
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No.. but they invited me to a party but wouldn't tell me where it was.\n\nThey called me once and told me off for something I did...\n\nI was impressed as I was in China at the time and didn't leave a contact number, but boy.. they found me.
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No greater chance than anyone not from the US or UK\n\nIt's actually more likely that you wouldn't come back as a Chinese baby, but if you did - would that be so bad?\nThat's where all the manufacturing jobs seem to be!\n l☺l
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A medical degree in China or any other country is generally respected, especially is from a reputable college/university. Nevertheless, don't think that you can take it easy by studying in a foreign land and getting the degree there. You have plan on working just as hard and understand the material. There is a chance that they will test you when you want to get a job to see if the material covered/the amound of understanding that you have is the same.
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Sorry. I don't have any websites, but I live in China. The elderly are very well respected by the people, but the government does not care for the old. In fact, the government does very little for anyone. There are no free schools or free medical care in China. Where I teach, we have a relationship with an "old-folks" home. This is a new thing in China because before the one child policy, everyone cared for their own parents. Now, each child has two parents, four grandparents, and eight great-grandparents to care for. Multiply this by two for a married couple. This is impossible, so these "old-folks" homes are beginning to appear. The old are treated very well at these homes, but they are not well-funded so the facilities are a bit Spartan. \n\nChinese people have great respect for the old and the young. The people who work in orphanages and old-folks homes do it out of dedication and as a calling, whereas, oftentimes in the US, people who work in these types of places do it as a job and don't really care for their charges.\n\nAs an aside to n thomas, while on the surface it might seem cold and unfeeling to allow your parent to enter a nursing home, think about it. If you were in your 80s, would you prefer to live with your children or in a community with a lot of other people your age. People who share your understanding of the world and like the same music you do or the same activities. A place where there are daily activities to choose from. My grandfather joined one of these communities after my grandmother died. At first he resisted, but my mother knew he was depressed living on his own and would become even more depressed becoming dependent on her, so she insisted. He got himself a girlfriend and said before he died that those years were the best of his life.
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When you take any kind of med. They have to list all side effects that happened when they were doing a drug study. So if somebody was in a drug study and had a heart attack, even if is was not the medications fault they have to list this. Blindness could have happened to one person out of millions that took it. So on whether you should take it or not, Depends how bad you want to go to China.
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Yehh.. i have actually! The main reason being that I'm FROM Singapore.. hehe. \nOk lame, but hey.. I'm a fellow Singaporean so you'll cut me some slack right?\nI know where its located of course.. and no, its nowhere near China peeps!\nAlways wondered why even as Singapore is becoming an increasingly reknowned country, many still dunno where its truly located. \nGood question to poll whether ppl still think Singapore is a part of China, Jason!  :)
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i live in china right now, so ask me
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Not sure what country you're asking about.\nRanking of America's best hospitals for 2005;\nSee link below
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I’ve read one article written by a Chinese doctor who emigrated, and she wrote, that many babies where killed at birth, she was describing a couple who had twins, and where begging to keep them both, and they weren’t allowed, one was killed…
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And you are so much better than they are by stating these things in this crude manner in an open forum?\n\nDo you have the proof to back these allegations up with or is this just your opinion on how things are in China?
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One of my buddies used to work in housekeeping at a HOSPITAL.  Now think about that for a while and see if that would be worse than housekeeping at a hotel.\n\nI think housekeeping at a hospital would be worse.
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♡Yes I have, lots of them!(*^o^*)\nAnd all very nice, I might add.\nAnd I agree, Koreans are different from Chinese...♡
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Unless you are in China --- Good Luck!