Health

In a Chinese ER

April 8, 2010

in China, Health, Linyi

Linyi Chinese Medicine Hospital Who: The DH What: Three days of IV antibiotic drips When: Third and final drip Where: Linyi Chinese Medicine Hospital Why: A pesky little respiratory infection How Much: 180RMB for the antibiotics (2) and 250ml bag of 0.9%NS (1); 32RMB for the nursing treatment/ER visit = 212RMB or ~ $31 Chinese [...]

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How To Deal With Mao’s Revenge

February 3, 2010

in China, Expat Life, Health

Ginger Is Your Friend If Mao could see the consumer culture that has swept his land, I’m sure he would have flipped over in his grave a few hundred times (and had he actually been buried.) Instead, he lies cold and waxy in a huge mausoleum in Tiananmen Square. I’ve seen him. It was not [...]

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Oh Bleah!

January 31, 2010

in Health

Oh bleah! For the first time months I am suffering the worst of the dreaded Mao’s Revenge. I don’t even want to stand up… Of course, I managed to reach my iPhone for blogging, not that you really want to read about this. The very sweet DH is in the kitchen as I type, cooking [...]

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What I’m

August 6, 2009

in Aviation, China, Health, Randomness, What I'm

reading/thinking about today: Here’s an update on the company dinner last night: two words – warm beer. Enough said. In other randomness: The pneumonic plague has struck China, and as alarming as that might seem, I could barely be bothered to keep up with the news. I know it is isolated to some village in [...]

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Linyi Makes the News

July 15, 2009

in China, Health, Linyi

Yes, my own little Linyi! On Reuters International for…. giving electro-shock therapy to Internet-addicted teens. Oh, Linyi, this is just the sort of thing I expect from you. So quirky, so fun. From Reuters: China Bans Electro-Shock Therapy 14 July 2009 BEIJING (Reuters) – China has banned electro-shock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, [...]

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China Healthcare Stories?

April 28, 2009

in Blogging, China, Health

I’m working up a couple of new projects for the blog and one of them revolves around health and medicine in China. Anyone out there have any experiences with healthcare in China that they’d care to share? Email me at imaglobalgal at gmail dot com. I’m curious about all aspects of healthcare and I welcome [...]

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Gimme a Break

March 12, 2009

in Blogging, Health

Postings have been sparse as of late! I’m afraid I’m going to have to take a convalescence break from blogging this week, other than perhaps a Photo Friday post. It’s difficult to be witty or even coherent with the sniffles, and I’ve got quite a little cold brewing up here. I’ll be back soon, renewed!

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Abhorrent

October 27, 2008

in China, Culture, Environment, Expat Life, Health, Linyi

Rant Warning! I forgot to mention the appalling things I observed while in downtown Linyi last night. I don’t like to harp on the hygiene issue in China but I find it all so abhorrent that I am going to call them out on every indecent thing I see. It’s just not right. Case point [...]

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I Have Been Drinking the Milk!

September 19, 2008

in China, Environment, Expat Life, Food, Health

The Melamine contamination has spread to liquid milk. It has been found in the milk produced by the biggest dairies in China, the ones that produce the milk I buy. Crap!! I don’t like milk. I can’t drink it. Never have. But I like it in my coffee… and I’ve consumed a TON of yogurt [...]

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Don’t Drink the Milk!

September 17, 2008

in China, Expat Life, Health

I join the rest of the world in being completely appalled by the latest news out of China – the baby milk powder scandal. Seems that Melamine, that pesky toxic compound that found its way into Purina dog chow, has shown up in baby milk powder, sickening thousands of Chinese babies. Corruption in China surely [...]

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