From Shenzhen Daily, 1 Aug 2012
titled "Reporter tests hospital with urine trick"
"A
TV news program in which a reporter submitted green tea as a urine sample and
was then diagnosed with various diseases has accused private hospitals of
overprescribing patients.Some doctors questioned the reporter’s method of using
green tea to judge the accuracy of medical tests, calling the ploy
“unprofessional.”In the China Central Television program, an undercover
reporter went to a major public hospital in Beijing for a health check, and his
results all turned out fine. He then went to several private men’s hospitals
and submitted a small cup of green tea as his urine sample.The reporter was
stunned when doctors at a hospital in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, told him
they found an excessive level of white blood cells in his “urine,” indicating
that he was suffering prostatitis, an inflammation of the prostate gland, and
orchitis, swelling in the testicles.A doctor said he would need to undergo
seven days of treatment, with each day costing 546 yuan (US$86).At another
private hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, a doctor checked another green
tea sample and diagnosed the reporter with spermatoceles, or cysts near his
reproductive organs. The doctor said the reporter needed immediate surgery that
would cost 5,000 yuan.A third hospital, in Changchun, Jilin Province, told the
reporter he needed to pay 8,000 yuan for a health check.The program sparked a
public outcry online.Some people said they wouldn’t know where to seek medical
help after watching the program. Others said the journalist shouldn’t have set
up such a trap for hospitals because a doctor should believe the sample was
from the patient, without having to check its authenticity.
(SD-Agencies)"
Pix shows a "pee pee boy". That's what they
called it in the mandatory tourist tea shop when you take a package tour in
China. This 3 inch very porous clay figurine is filled with water when
immersed. Place this boy on your tea table/tray and pour boiling hot
water on its head. The expansion of the air and water inside the pee pee boy will result in the clay boy pee-ing away. Great fun
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