Statutory Warnings

摘要

There are hospitals,and then there are Beijing hospitals.My first brush with the medical profession in China was actuated by an emer- gency of sorts,when my girlfriend collapsed and blacked out briefly as she exited from the toilet of an Indian restaurant (the food was not the culprit,not this time).Flustered Chinese waiters revived her with water,but she awoke to sharp,crippling pain in the lower abdomen.I called our landlady,and bless her sweet overflowing Chinese heart, she arrived within minutes and escorted us to the nearest hospital.