Chinese demand for overseas schooling, holidays and medical treatment has contributed to a persistent deficit in the country\u2019s services trade, but signs of a tentative counter-current are emerging as a growing stream of foreign patients heads to China.<\/p>\n
While patients in the United States or Europe may wait months to secure their first appointment with a specialist, an entire medical journey can be compressed into just a few days in Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese megacities.<\/p>\n
The contrast has become a trending topic on Chinese social media platforms as a rising number of foreign patients praise the speed, efficiency and affordability of medical treatment in China.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s China speed,\u201d said Wu Peng, a doctor specialising in orthopaedics and sports medicine at Shanghai 10th People\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n
His most recent foreign patient, an American with an anterior cruciate ligament injury, took just a week to progress from initial consultation and imaging to reconstruction surgery and a post-operative check-up.<\/p>\n
\u201cChinese doctors have extensive experience, and treatment here is far more affordable,\u201d Wu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese demand for overseas schooling, holidays and medical treatment has contributed to a persistent deficit in the country\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[188623,147916,8580,196493,49,48,95,196492,196496,196491,48748,84,392,135655,77667,90459,196494,196495,196490,6549,12157,18262,3592,152295],"class_list":{"0":"post-488416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-acl","9":"tag-anbound","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-bookimed","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-chinese-hospital-association","16":"tag-david-li","17":"tag-foreign-patients","18":"tag-hainan","19":"tag-health","20":"tag-healthcare","21":"tag-heilongjiang","22":"tag-medical-tourism","23":"tag-mri","24":"tag-national-administration-of-traditional-chinese-medicine","25":"tag-national-immigration-administration","26":"tag-services-trade","27":"tag-shanghai","28":"tag-shenzhen","29":"tag-south-korea","30":"tag-thailand","31":"tag-traditional-chinese-medicine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}