Sep 2014. Anshan Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a highly respected practice in both Singapore and Australia with government approved doctors and hospitals offering an alternative health care and therapy. Needless to say, in China, traditional Chinese medicine is highly popular and you can find many pharmacies and doctors in every neighbourhood. Here in a... Continue Reading →
Jul 2014. Shenyang It takes 50 minutes to go downtown by Metro. A cab costs me more and will take a longer time because of traffic. From my home, it is the beginning of the line and I have plenty of seat options. It is a different story returning back. The train is always packed.... Continue Reading →
Jul 2014. Shenyang It was a Sunday. My neighbours wanted to bring their twenty-one year old son to a dentist to extract his tooth. They were going to go a dental clinic in a government hospital downtown. I followed them as I was going downtown too. It was also a time when I followed many... Continue Reading →
Shenyang. Mar 2014 It has been four months since I moved to Shenyang from Shanghai and I was still getting used to Shenyang's winter. One day, I woke up and was horrified to realise that I couldn't see anything outside my windows. I was living on the 16th floor and I couldn't see the nearby... Continue Reading →
Dalian. Mar 2014 Today morning, I saw a group of people practicing Taichi in the Dalian beach. You always see them in China: women and men under apartment blocks, in parks and in public spaces. A free and friendly health and fitness group right in your neighbourhood which you can join anytime. I had the... Continue Reading →
Shanghai. Jul 2013 Watson is a large Hong Kong health care and beauty care chain store in Asia and Europe with 8,000 stores and 1,500 pharmacies. I was already familiar with it in Singapore and therefore it was a pleasure to see the turquoise Watsons sign in China. It always delivered a consistent service quality... Continue Reading →
Shenyang. Apr 2014 Phlebotomist. That's the name of the medical professionals who draw blood from you for a blood test. They don't do that in the company's in-house medical centres and therefore I must have gone to a government hospital for the blood test. I cannot recall now what was the blood test for. The... Continue Reading →
Beijing. May, 2016 One day I had a fever while working in Beijing. When you go and see a doctor for cold or fever in China, the first thing they do is to stick a needle in your veins and give you an intravenous drip for two to four hours. I was initially anxious about... Continue Reading →
Shenyang, 2014 There are both international hospitals and local government hospitals in the cities that I have lived. The international hospitals had foreigner doctors from USA, UK, Australia etc as well as English-speaking local doctors. However, the international hospitals were small and did not normally have all the medical equipment as in a full-fledged large... Continue Reading →
Shenyang, 2014 Normally the government hospitals are huge and quite crowded and it can bewildering if your Chinese is not so good. This is where I found the "VIP service" really useful. I used to have occasional lower back pains throughout my 10 years in China regardless of whether I was in Shanghai, Shenyang or... Continue Reading →