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":312201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138004,81861,2102,146191,72,114,146190,146194,113,137965,99148,87948,61,60,19167,14455,146192,146193,118444,5698,2842,541,1667,130609],"class_list":["post-312200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-acl","tag-anbound","tag-beijing","tag-bookimed","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese-hospital-association","tag-david-li","tag-economy","tag-foreign-patients","tag-hainan","tag-heilongjiang","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medical-tourism","tag-mri","tag-national-administration-of-traditional-chinese-medicine","tag-national-immigration-administration","tag-services-trade","tag-shanghai","tag-shenzhen","tag-south-korea","tag-thailand","tag-traditional-chinese-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}