HK Photos + CN Shutters Online Doctor Appoitments: WSJ Blogs

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(1) Rosa de Acosta, Dizzyingly Vertical Hong Kong. Scene Asia. May 28, 2013
http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2013/ ... vertical-hong-kong/
(Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze of France; a wide-angle Sigma lens with a 10 mm focal length; a book)

Note: Sigma Corporation
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(2) Laurie Burkitt, Olivia Geng and Paul Mozur, Residents Decry Beijing’s Shuttering of Online Doctor-Appointment System. China Real Time Report, May 27, 2013.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... appointment-system/

Quote:

"an online appointment system that Taobao — the e-commerce arm of Internet giant Alibaba Group — set up in Beijing, Shanghai and 18 other provinces * * * The system enabled patients to enter their identification and make appointments online, free of charge, with doctors at more than 600 hospitals in China. Authorities in Beijing’s Municipal Health Bureau closed the service after three days, restricting it to non-public hospitals.

"There is no system [in China] by which patients can call ahead for doctor’s appointments, so the ill must go to the hospital, grab a ticket and wait. Hospital queues are infamously long