You know, when I first got here everyone lived in horror of the Chinese medical system. Doctors you have to pay off with red envelopes, prescribing unnecessary care for extra profit, etc. Now it's totally the opposite. Also instead of the mobs waiting to get into a doctor's office there are take-a-number lines now which actually get obeyed. I used to go in the late afternoon because they were less busy then and just shove my way in. Hey, it's their country, I'm just copying them. Also on every doctor's door where your waiting number is displayed, it's got a hammer and sickle so you can see if your doc is a commie or not. Their care literally saved my life. I got a miracle medicine that had just been approved by the State Council on January 15 and got my first dose in mid-March. I'm pretty sure I was one of the first people to get it in China and possibly the entire world (made by Beigene) because two salesmen came down on the train from Shanghai with it in a cold bag and they gave it to the nurse who dripped it into me. Afterwards I had to go to this outside pharmacy and a private infusion clinic and sit there with all the old ladies on a chair for the hour it took. Usually you get your drugs from the hospital, there is no phoning it in to CVS or whatever. I try logging in to the US healthcare provider and it says "internal server error, it's not you, it's us" which is a fucking lie. It's because I'm using a VPN. Turn it off and log in from a China IP and it magically works. Have to turn VPN back onto post this because Hexbear is blocked by the Great Firewall