First and last experience. Absolutely horrible. I came in late with a big flesh wound. The doctor sewed it up and told me to come back in the morning "perhaps to redo it, and to change the bandage". When I did come back the next morning, they just changed the bandage and sent me off.
When I peeked at my own wound, I noticed it was horribly done. "Like a vet did the stitches," as someone commented. I then had to stay a night in a different hospital in order to do it right, with a 40% chance of getting infections. This cost me a lot more, thanks to Richland fucking up in the beginning.
Whatever X-rays were taken were not printed out and given to me so I couldn't go to another hospital for a second opinion or treatment.
The nurses didn't seem to know where half the things were and the doctors had to repeat orders to get basic things like scissors.
In the next hospital, it was noticed that I had fractured my jaw in two places. On the five X-Rays taken at Richland, they did not notice the fractures.
Pretty sure these people are not actual doctors and are therefore criminal.
Heavy rains wreak havoc around Yunnan
Posted bynot the nujiang nor the tiger leaping gorge or any other canyon are safe around this time. massive boulders coming down.
You do wonder how much people here actually learn from experience. I know the climate is usually dry, but the rains are annual. Yet, when it suddenly started raining during my bike trip coming down Changchongshan, we saw three accidents, including a minivan on its head.
Governor: Provincial highway bathrooms China's worst
Posted byMain problem is that people don't know they have to flush. They grew up in a place with only a septic pit so they forget about it. Then no one wants to clean up afterwards and the whole cycle (no pun intended) continues.
So yeah, education.
I think most public facilities in Kunming are actually alright, including the one on wenlin jie. It gets a lot worse on the highways. Although I may want to make an exception for the one nearby Nordica on a bad day.
Hani terraces garner UNESCO status
Posted byThere are just more of them in Yuanyang and further in Lüchun County. Hundreds of kilometres of endless rice terraces, from 200m in altitude to a whopping 2000m. Also the ones south of Shaxi may not be part of an over 1000-years old Hani agricultural tradition.
Granted, if you just want a nice picture, you can go elsewhere.
Hani terraces garner UNESCO status
Posted byDoes that mean that there will now follow some unbridled terrace building and exploiting, even to the furthest mountain tops where the Hani have so far kept their hands off (in keeping with their own legend and pure logic, which says that everything will die if they deforest the mountain tops).
Probably. Sad. Hopefully UNESCO shows a little more guts in this matter than in the case of Lijiang.
20 years in Yunnan with Jim Goodman
Posted byif you argue on the internet, you've already lost. get on topic.