Perspective
Jul. 14, 2010
Struggling to Survive: Health Care in China
James Wong and Emily Wong offer a glimpse inside the delivery of medical care in China, the largest socialist country in the world.
Your Shanghai contact's been under the weather for the past two days - the victim of some virus that's been going around. He went to the hospital for an intravenous drip yesterday, but his drippy nose and sore throat are no better. He's going back tomorrow - this time instead of just getting saline, he's going to pay a bit more to get an antibiotic in the intravenous drip. That ought to do the trick.
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