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Q: Did you ever get a problem seeing doctors?
one of my friends said that he got a chest pain and went to see a doctor, he couldn't speak Chinese, and unfortunately, the doctor couldn't understand English. And guess what, he had to use the translation software on his iphone to express for him. A real example of human-machine interaction.
11 years 10 weeks ago in General - Other cities
to me, too many people crowded into one hospital and complicated register procedure are the biggest problem....
I have recently been visiting a hospital a lot, apart from zero people with even basic English skills I also see that the staff is very young, I doubt there is anyone above 40 in the hospital, except for a couple of cheery chaps serving food in the canteen.
Other than that, I have yet to wait at hospitals. Went for an eye check, borrowed a bit of guangxi and walked straight from the entrance to the office of the head of the eye department. Pretty sweet, and pretty fucked up when I saw who I jumped ahead of. (e.g. a small girl sitting and crying, looking like she had pain in the eye that was covered in makeshift bandages) Sadly that is the Chinese way.
Kitten:
when there is a large population, everything can be a problem. Too many people share limited resources.
Kitten:
and by the way, how did the doctors get your point if they have no English skills? : )
Scandinavian:
the argument about a large population doesn't cut it. more people means more people to deal with the tasks at hand
my wife is Chinese, so that takes care of communication with doctors.
actually recently a clinic near by my home has hired an all-round doctor to help foreigners seeking medical attention, very helpful in case no one is around to translate, another hospital in town, i have learned, are giving some of their nurses English classes. In both cases it is of course a battle of attracting the foreign patients
Even in a relatively small city like Nanning (3,000,000 population) the hospitals I visited always had a doctor or nurse that could speak English. Going to a Chinese hospital is like going to the DMV here in the US. Interesting to note as far as I know there are no private physicians in China, they all work for a hospital. Maybe that is why their medical system cost about 50 times less than the US. Where you have doctors, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals etc etc making a financial killing off people that have no other choice. Franck3
Scandinavian:
or maybe its cheap because their education is lacking, the buildings are crap, the beds all come from a state owned manufacturer and they in large use knock off medicine
If you have problems seeing a doctor................ go to an ophthalmologist. 
