20080921_9ht_05 Photograph taken with Sigma SA-300N 35mm film, scanned with Epson V700

20080921_9ht_06 Next to the Drum Tower Photograph taken with Sigma SA-300N 35mm film, scanned with Epson V700

20080921_9ht_09 Just outside the Dumpling Restaurant. Looking south-east towards the Bell Tower.

20080921_9ht_10 Fish tank at the hotel

20080921_9ht_11 (These are not goldfish)

20080921_9ht_13 Park next to the Big Goose Pagoda

20080921_9ht_14 Park next to the Big Goose Pagoda

20080921_9ht_17 QuJiangQunXiao, a park next to the DaYan (Big Goose Pagoda)

20081005_2005 QuJiangQunXiao Park, next to DaYan (Big Goose Pagoda)

20081005_2006 QuJiangQunXiao Park.

20081005_2008 Wrestling sculpture next to DaYan park. (Big Goose)

20081005_2009 XiangZiMen Youth Hostel. Formerly a mansion, you can now book a room here! But be careful, in the old days, the women of the household were not allowed out any further than this screen (the front door is about two dozen metres further away).

20081005_2013 XiangZiMen Youth Hostel

20081005_2015 XiangZiMen Youth Hostel

20081010_185 Dr Sam V discusses the diagnostic set with Dr Cao. We had some unexpected media coverage!

20081010_187 Using the new otoscope.

20081010_188 Dr Sam, Dr Cao and (I think) Sherry

20081010_033 Packing an examination couch into the bus, prior to leaving BeiGuan hospital. We donated a cough to each of two village clinics.

20081010_034 The ELA team at Beiguan, prior to boarding the bus!

20081010_191 (Outside Dr Cao's clinic). Enjoying the media circus...

20081010_036 Heading to Dr Cao's clinic...

20081010_192 Richard G (nurse-midwife) finds another satisfied patient.

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20081010 (photo taken by Brian) bearing gifts ... weight scale, diagnostic equipment, UV tube and a fridge to store vaccinations

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20081010_074 Good speech, David Ling.

20081010_080 Examining more of the gifts

20081010_082 Did we remember to bring some batteries?

20081010_091 Dr Cao checks David's only normal vital sign...

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20081010_098 Outside Dr Cao's clinic

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20081010_108 Setting up the free clinic

20081010_110 Preliminary checks at the clinic. blood pressure, blood sugars.

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20081010_741 This gentleman has had a stroke earlier...

20081010_744 Conducting a (limited) public examination, under full gaze of a TV camera...

20081010 (photo taken by Richard G or Brian) Dr Sam V and patient both think carefully...

20081010_753 Could you repeat that statement in English?

20081010_116 Richard G checks that blood pressure again...

20081010 (photo taken by Brian) Why does the TV camera come when I am using the most unreliable examination technique?

20081011_193 ChangAn Lu at night. North and south-bound traffic has been squeezed into just a few lanes due to the subway construction (which can be seen on the left of this photo). The traffic jam is worse because it is Friday night and a well-known Taiwanese pop-singer was performing in the vicinity. It will all be worth it in the end...

20081012_195 Fishing in the Xi'an moat, just outside YuXiangMen. Can't believe anyone has actually caught fish from this moat, and even less that anyone would dare to eat their catch...

20081012_199 When will they learn that to be Western and cool is not the same as smoking tobacco? Photo taken in one of the many clothes shops just east of city wall ChangDongXi Lu.

20081013_112 Lunch at the BeiGuan Hospital.

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