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IV Drip’s All All The Rage In China
Jaywalk was as sick as a dog. Since improving, he’s as sick as a hamster now thanks to IV drips which are all the rage in China. Proof that he is still sick is the fact that his latest post is titled Part 3 of 2. Apparently his illness has impaired the region of his brain that does math, which is a really bad thing since you really do need to be good at math in China with all the bargaining going on all the time.
In case you don’t know, the standard operating procedure in clinics/hospitals in China are to put you on an IV drip. You could be having a minor cold or a major chest infection - it doesn’t matter. It simply freaks me out to visit a medical establishment and see almost every other mother’s child walking around with a tube hanging out of their arms.
You don’t see this happening in Malaysia, Singapore or Thailand. If you’ve got a cold, the doctor gives you the day off and some medicine instead of sticking a drip up your arm.
Jaywalk believes this has something to do with operational efficiency:
Coming back to the question on IV Drips. CowboyCaleb was asking about the logic behind the inefficiency as a result of administering a drip, which can take up to an hour to complete instead of dropping the patient’s pants and get it over and done with in a matter of seconds?
Initially, I was guessing the fatigue factor of the nurses to have to jab hundreds of patients each day which is not entire untrue but I realised the real reason as I collected my IV medication from the dispensary was that to minimise the needle holes on the body.
My theory is that drips are used because they look more extreme and therefore appeal to hysterical China mothers who only have one child due to China’s policy on childbirth. The more extreme the solution, the more likely it is to work and therefore calm down the China mothers.
I mean do you know what happens to China mothers who fail to care for their kids properly?
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