Towards the end of last year, as some of you may remember, I was hospitalised twice and documented my food here. A lot of it was OK.
One of the suggestions from the quacks was that my ailment was caused by my poor nutrition! Clearly, as a foreigner I have no idea how to eat. One particularly nasty doctor claimed I didn't eat enough protein.
Yet, at no time, not even once, never, did anyone ask me what I do eat. I mainly eat the same as they do. Except, I probably eat more protein than they do! Chinese cuisine is generally lower on protein; higher on vegetables and rice.
It is possible that they could monitor what I ordered from the hospital canteen (but I doubt they did) and that I ordered something doesn't mean I ate it. I almost always did - once or twice I looked at it and told myself not to put that in my mouth!
I did get one visit in the weeks I was there from a nutritionist who spent her entire time with me trying to sell me some expensive protein food supplement, again without asking anything about my diet. She failed.
I don't know about the situation where others are, but here, despite the Chinese being obsessed by food, medical schools apparently don't subscribe!
