China Scene: East

Hypochondriac keeps emergency staff on toes

Medics at Hangzhou No 3 Hospital in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, are not sure what to do about a young man who insists on visiting the hospital's emergency department whenever he takes medicine.

Su, 27, says he visits the hospital after he takes medicine in case there are complications.

Su, who suffers from gastritis, has been a frequent visitor to the hospital since last year. Although the hospital workers think his is just a problem minor, Su considers it serious. They believe he is simply suffering from panic disorder, which is a kind of anxiety disorder.

(Shanghai Morning Post)

Aggrieved spouses turn to private dicks with woes

Zhong Li, a 40-year-old resident of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, suspected her husband, Xu Fan, of having an affair so she hired a private detective to snoop around for evidence.

Investigators soon collected photographs of the husband walking down the street with a woman, eating with her and embracing her.

That was when the husband approached the investigators - and asked them to collect evidence that Zhong was neglecting her wifely duties.

He said he knew Zhong had hired an investigator, and complained that she had never cooked for him or taken care of their child during nine years of marriage.

However, the investigators refused to accept his case because it was against industry practices to investigate both husband and wife.

(Nanjing Morning News)

(China Daily 04/04/2008 page6)