Beijing Mission - Part 3
July 2, 2008 – 8:47 pmYesterday I gave 80 hours of instructional lectures to several hundred orthopedic surgeons at the Jui Shui Tan second annual orthopedic meeting. I would show a powerpoint slide and make my statements while the Chinese interpreter repeated in Chinese. While we call it Chinese it is mandarin. All Chinese are required to learn Mandarin and English although there are five Chinese autonomous zones that speak other languages and dialects. Additional speakers were from China, Australia, Italy, UK, and South Korea. There is no coffee break here, it is a tea break.
The meeting started at 7am and ended with few breaks after 7pm. We ate at the Crab House after which our group of five went to the Foot message spa. One and a half hours of foot message.. Shortly we leave Beijing to Wenzhou where we visit a regional hospital for the day lecturing and operating. Initially our stop was to be Tianjin but Tianjin is close to the region ofd the earthquake and all priorities are to the trauma victims. We have been told the back log of surgery to fix broken bones may take months.
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