Archive for the ‘Beijing Mission’ Category

Beijing Mission - Part 4

Monday, July 14th, 2008

We left Beijing and the fabulous Olympic Village yesterday morning and flew two hours south to a city of seven million lying on the east China Sea , Wenzhou. It is a Jingjang city beyond belief as an industrial power in a state of modernization with a mixture of the ...

Beijing Mission - Part 3

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Yesterday 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 ...

Beijing Mission - Part 2

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Our hotel is immediately across from the Beijing National Stadium where the opening ceremonies will take place (locally known as the Bird's Nest because of the architecture). Designed by a Chinese architect, the blue swimming and water sport venue was deigned by an Australian architect It seems a copy of ...

Sheinkop’s Orthopedic Mission in Beijing - Part 1

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Arrived in Beijing today to start my orthopedic mission. This is the 74th country in which I will have taught surgery or instructed in the past seven years. My assignment is 20 to 60 minute instructional presentations rather than the standard three to seven minute scientific outcome presentation. Spent several ...