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Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system

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Post by pixelbill » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 8:38 PM UTC

So as an update to my previous post, I've booked a trip to Taiwan. I will be there for a month from Feb 6th-March5th.

Could anyone recommend a dentist/oral surgeon around Daxi/Taipei? I am staying there with my friend in Daxi. I can travel too, but I am not 100% certain on the transit system in Taiwan (he lives in a rural area as well, but can probably give me a ride or I can rent a scooter).

I would ideally like to get a few dental implants (I am missing 7 teeth in total) during my first week there, so I have a few weeks to heal before my flight back. One tooth will need to come out in the near future and I am missing both teeth around it, so I think an implant would be ideal (molar).

Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system

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Post by dang » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 6:34 AM UTC

whatyoucantsay wrote: post #83

yorwba wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't consider it surprising that a Taiwanese would use characteristically un-Taiwanese expressions on an English-language forum. I'm not sure what to think of your approach of suggesting that they are lying, but then self-congratulating your charity for not outright saying that. While rice and noodles may be staples of Taiwanese food, that doesn't mean that everyone is eating healthy. In the West, you might say th…

I haven't suggested that anyone is "lying", as you put it, but it was clear to me that the parent's comment was disingenuous and an appeal to identity, or worse to racial authority. FWIW "chow mein" is a HK phrase / dish. > I don't know how often Taiwanese drink sugary drinks or eat sweets in addition to their meals I do. Unlike everyone else in this thread AFICT, Taiwan is my homeland and where I've chosen to build…

Please don't be uncivil here; we ban accounts that do this. Also, please give others the benefit of the doubt when commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system

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Post by ci5er » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:02 PM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #52

ImaCake wrote: post #19

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I have encounted free general practice doctor places in Australia that operate on seeing as many patients as possible. Basically useless if you have a difficult to diagnose problem, but very useful for getting a referal, a script for a pill, or antibiotics.

This is how many GP offices work in the USA as well, especially in urban areas or offices associated with hospitals. Unless you already know what kind of specialist you need to go see, and you can afford to go see the right one (might involve multiple visits to multiple specialists), you might literally never get help for a chronic problem that is not obvious on a differential diagnosis. There really needs to be two…

My old GP (now retired) called himself a "diagnostician", and never spent less than an hour on any visit. He'd ask a lot of (prying?) questions about home-life and work-life and social-life as part of getting a holistic view of you...

He also didn't take insurance - because he didn't want to bother with it. And he wanted to be more honest in his notes than his libertarian heart felt comfortable disclosing to the insurance company or the government payers.

Re: How Taiwan transformed its health care system

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Post by whatyoucantsay » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 12:25 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #92

whatyoucantsay wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't suggested that anyone is "lying", as you put it, but it was clear to me that the parent's comment was disingenuous and an appeal to identity, or worse to racial authority. FWIW "chow mein" is a HK phrase / dish. > I don't know how often Taiwanese drink sugary drinks or eat sweets in addition to their meals I do. Unlike everyone else in this thread AFICT, Taiwan is my homeland and where I've chosen to build…

Please don't be uncivil here; we ban accounts that do this. Also, please give others the benefit of the doubt when commenting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Excuse me?

I've bent over backwards to remain charitable even after receiving uncivil and ideological barbs such as "problematic" and "reductionist characterization" flung at me in the midst of an exceedingly dubious comment.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Read them many times and believe my comment, unlike the ancestor comment, was in harmony with them.