Chinese Hospitals

As far as my personal health, I've been reinvigorated as of yesterday afternoon. This hospital was one of the most horrifying places I have ever been in my life. It looked like a military ward with rationed supplies... the bed sheets were stained with dried human juice. Even the mattresses were stained and dusty. The walls were filthy. They charge for everything... bed, room type, medicine, everything. The nurses mostly ignore the patients, and none of the employees provide food or change bed pans or catheters. Your family or friends have to do that. I have never seen or imagined anything like it. I can't see how someone with a fatal injury could possibly recover in such a place, especially if you have to be conscious to pay for your own treatment. I don't see how someone without any connections could possibly survive... (No one is required to take the Hippocratic Oath here.) My goal is to never end up in such a place. Ever. The things that were common sense to me as far as hygiene are truly irrelevant. 

I feel quite fortunate to be tutoring a doctor. Regardless, I'll be looking up global health insurance later tonight.