Chinese Journey to Taiwan for Medicine

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Jens Kastner, Taiwan's medical tourism boom. Asia Sentinel, Oct. 6, 2010.
http://www.asiancorrespondent.com/asiasentinel/taiwan-s-medical-tourism-boom

Quote:

"The growth rate of medical tourism to Taiwan has been spectacular. In 2008,
about 5,000 visitors came to the island to undergo health checkups and
cosmetic surgery. In 2009, that increased eightfold to 40,000, mostly from
China * * * More than 100,000 are predicted annually, apparently as fast as
Taiwan can staff up its hospitals.

"with a ratio of 1.3 to 1, China is one of the few countries where doctors
outnumber nurses.

My comment:
(a) I wonder how Chinese from PRC can come to Taiwan without joining a
tourist group.
(b) Doctors outnumbering nurses in China?

No wonder. While I was a graduate student at University of Illinois in 1980s
, there was a lab technician, a woman who held a bachelor's degree of
medicine from University of Nanjing. (Her husband was a graduate student
pursuing a master's in statistics.) She thought nothing of her medical
degree, unhappy that she had been assigned (against her will) upon
graduation.


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