- Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Hospital of the United States, will open South Korea's largest medical examination center, capable of seeing three hundred patients a day.
- The Seoul Metropolitan government has selected fifty hospitals that will be used in the promotion of health tourism.
- Sex offenders convicted before 2008 will retroactively be required to wear ankle monitors.
- The Seoul Metropolitan government will step up inspections of all eateries — including restaurants, bars, and I think street vendors — to at least once a year.
- As new H1N1 infections fade, South Korea has reduced the flu alert warning system to its lowest level.
- Democrats are saying that universal mandates for healthcare coverage were a Republican idea, some two decades ago, even though they now call it "government overreach."
- At the same time, however, many of the arguments of the past, including cries of socialism and loss of freedom, were offered up back when Medicare was first proposed. And expect the Tea Partyers to keep saying that over and over again, like this past weekend.
- Most people — 97.5 percent in fact — can't safely drive while talking on the phone. Of course, many will think they are in the top 2.5 percent.
- Extra padding around the middle can hurt, not help, during traffic accidents.
- India's own problem with suicides.
in my experience, the dirtier a restaurant is, the better the food will be. damn the man.
ReplyDeleteYeah, in Korea and in Japan I've seen something like that: a hole-in-the-wall place might have some really great food.
ReplyDeleteThe best noodle place I've ever eaten at was some rundown dive in Kyoto, while here in Honolulu the best Hawaiian food is a place called Ono's where the owner doesn't know the meaning of refurbish.
In Korea, I think a corollary is that the farther outside of town a place is, the better (if it's in the middle of nowhere).
Still, I don't like the idea of having to play Russian roulette when I go eat. Sure, if the food poisoning I get, if it doesn't kill me, will make me stronger, but it might kill me.