Comments on: Chinese Clinics Let Patients Walk Around with IVs. http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/chinese-clinics-let-patients-walk-around-with-their-ivs/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:11:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: k20878 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/chinese-clinics-let-patients-walk-around-with-their-ivs/comment-page-1/#comment-130766 k20878 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:07:08 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/chinese-clinics-let-patients-walk-around-with-their-ivs/#comment-130766 I saw the same thing when I lived in Korea. Even at very good hospitals, if you are ambulatory you are expected to walk around the hospital to get your tests done with your IV slung over shoulder. I actually liked it after a while because it gives the patient a lot more freedom instead of being more or less chained to the bed. I saw the same thing when I lived in Korea. Even at very good hospitals, if you are ambulatory you are expected to walk around the hospital to get your tests done with your IV slung over shoulder. I actually liked it after a while because it gives the patient a lot more freedom instead of being more or less chained to the bed.

]]> By: Dinobuddy http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/chinese-clinics-let-patients-walk-around-with-their-ivs/comment-page-1/#comment-127313 Dinobuddy Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:52:18 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/chinese-clinics-let-patients-walk-around-with-their-ivs/#comment-127313 I lived in a suburb of Busan, South Korea for about 4 years. Korea, at least compared to the US, thinks nothing of giving you an IV for something as slight as a nasty cold. Usually, it's just a glucose drip ("pododang"). The nature of Korean business districts is such that you'll have upwards of twenty or thirty different businesses in a single 6-story building--everything from a health club, bakery, internet cafe, doctor's office, tae kwon do studio or bar. Thus, rather than just sit and wait for the IV to empty, people go about their other business and return when it's done. Saw this all the time. I lived in a suburb of Busan, South Korea for about 4 years. Korea, at least compared to the US, thinks nothing of giving you an IV for something as slight as a nasty cold. Usually, it’s just a glucose drip (“pododang”). The nature of Korean business districts is such that you’ll have upwards of twenty or thirty different businesses in a single 6-story building–everything from a health club, bakery, internet cafe, doctor’s office, tae kwon do studio or bar.

Thus, rather than just sit and wait for the IV to empty, people go about their other business and return when it’s done. Saw this all the time.

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