Posted By Damjan DeNoble Yesterday I wrote an article called What’s happening at ParkwayHealth Shanghai? where I asked whether or not ParkwayHealth’s recently negative PR  may stem from a managerial vacuum.  The focus of the article was two fold. The first focus was a series of recent online complaints tied together by two common strands [...]

Posted by Damjan DeNoble [Note: A response to this article by Dr. Jonathan Seah, former President of ParkwayHealth in China, can be found here.] A few months ago we posted an interview by Shanghai television station ICS with then President (CEO) of ParkwayHealth China & North Asia Division, Dr. Jonathan Seah.   However, shortly after [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble Last week I went out to hot pot with my fiancee and two friends, sisters, from Nigeria, one of who happened to be volunteering as a medical staff in a Nigerian private clinic.  Over dinner, they described a chaotic private health care industry where hospitals often had no water at night, [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble In a post at Speak Without Interruption, an online magazine, Lloyd Lofthouse, author of My Splendid Concubine , comments on how health care in China is following the American private health care model down a path that will lead to greater inequality in health provision. In 141 B.C.E., more than two thousand [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble China’s parallel markets are familiar to anyone who’s done business here. For those who haven’t been on that adventure, China’s rural market is characterized by small mom and pop shops, outside bazaars where farmers sell all manner of goods,  local made products such as three wheeled vehicles fitted with tractor motors, [...]