User Comments - hiewhongliang

Posted on: What does she look like?

3 out of 4 fits my wife, so I have to say (being on a public forum): pretty good but not perfect! :)

Posted on: Introducing New Voices

Dilu, may the wind carry you in a smooth enlightened cpod journey.

RE your profile photo issue, are you using a Mac? Maybe give it a try on a MS-Windows machine. Had the same problem myself on Mac OS browsers. But then cpod techs had no such problems. Go figure such 莫名其妙-ness...

Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication

啊，是我用错了词！ 在澳洲只有一位医生提供服务的地方也应该叫“诊所”，不是“医院”。很抱歉。谢谢您的改正和解释。

Posted on: Farewell Dinner

You mean you get a meal!!! Wait-a-minute... have I been ripped off all those times I got dumped by email only?... :)

These must really be 散火饭 then, as in "the meal to puts out the flame".

Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication

请问在北京和上海，医院怎么算是小？澳洲的小医院就只有一位医生和一位接待员。中国的大城市医院有怎么小吗？

Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication

Yes, that's what I meant. 各花入各眼 originally (I think) was used to refer to people different aesthetic preferences, especially for 美女 (or 美男, to be non-gender-bias). I borrowed it to refer to pleasure in numbers to our liking. I, like bodawei, like the numbers on the page because Australia came first. But whether it actually is or not... well that's another story.

As they say "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." :-)

Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication

Or we could read the same data and say Japan has the best system! :-) Oh well, 各花入各眼

Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication

Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication

A very interesting lesson topic. Thanks CPod team!

Growing up as a child in Malaysia (a messy system) to now owning a nursing agency in Australia (a relatively good health system), one thing I've noticed is that healthcare systems works only when people understand the system and everyone follows the rules.

Australian health authorities spends a heck of a lot of money on information dissemination and public education on new health systems. The media hammers politicians for these PR expenditures, but I have to say without them reforms will not work.

This public education and preparation work I feel is missing in Malaysia. Is that the same in China. Eg. is there any way for 老百姓 to know how their local hospital triage is suppose to work? Does even the triage people understand the whole system?

Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication

And of course there's the "ranking" appearing on wikipedia's world health care systems page. Like most wikipedia pages, is interesting reading but take with the same pinch-of-salt when consuming ALP internal polling. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system