Rural Chinese Doctors Office

This was an unexpected detour. I don't know how people can live out here without a car or mode of transportation.

It wasn't too far if your in a car but I can imagine walking it while feeling ill would probably be a long trip. It was in a large building, well, large for out here but only occupied a very small part of it.

You can see a pile of coal beside the door. Coal is dirt cheap in China, literally, I bet dirt costs more. It has a light steel door that goes directly in to his practice. It was one room, the office, the pharmacy, the waiting room and it seems his bedroom.

One of the differences I noticed between Chinese doctor offices and the ones in Canada, aside of everything, is that doctors here are also pharmacists. They diagnose you free or cheap and then sell you the medicine they prescribe. Out here in the middle of nowhere I doubt he gets many patients.

There is a more modern hospital near the highway by the small shops and the new school if it's something more serious than what this little office can handle. Not much of anything around here accept more farm fields and worn of roads. Keeps out the riff raff I say.