Monthly Archives: September 2009

What Chinese doctors need to know

Every now and then I like to pull something off my Chinese shelf and give it a read. Sometimes I just open to a page and start reading, sometimes I browse the table of contents for some inspiration on a challenging clinical case. Today, it was the former motivation and as I was feeling a…

Dr Jiang’s thoughts on treating the exterior

Like so many foreigners, soon after I first got to  Taiwan I experienced the joy of illness in a strange land. The lungs are my weak organ system, and given the Brillo pad atmosphere of Taipei, intensely cold AC mixed with murky heat and subtropic humidity, and stress of calling a very foreign country “home”…