From: nguyen@scs.carleton.ca (HH Nguyen)
Subject: Re: [CULTURE] Differences!
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:11:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.063844.2858@u.washington.edu> vavo@milton.u.washington.edu (Tuan Nguyen) writes:
>


	Are you sure that the so-called Japanese treatments
that you've listed are not of jocular purposes ? They sound
jocular to me !

	H.H. Nguyen



>Hi!
>
>Thought this may be interesting to SCVers. What follows is from a book
>titled "Japan-Think, Ameri-Think".  Enjoy!
>
>Condition    American treatment   Japanese treatment       VNese treatment
>---------    ------------------   ------------------       ---------------
>
>cut finger     Band-Aid           hospital, professional      Anybody want
>                                  bandage from elbow to tip   to volunteer
>                                  of finger, thirteen         for this
>                                  varieties of pills, half     column?:-))
>                                  day off work, revisit
>                                  hospital everyday for the
>                                  next five days
>
>headache       aspirin            hospital, brain scan, eight
>                                  varieties of pills, complete
>                                  day off work, eye checkup
>                                  next day
>
>stubbed toe    curses and         hospital(overnight), X-rays
>               aspirin            fourteen pills, two days off
>                                  work, cane, professional
>                                  bandage encasing entire foot
>                                  and ankle
>
>scraped knee   disinfectant and   hospital, antibiotic pills of
>               Band-Aid           every color in the spectrum,
>                                  revisit hospital daily for 2
>                                  weeks for redressing bandage,
>                                  continue wearing knee pad until
>                                  end of Rainy Season
>
>sprained ankle cold compresses    see "stubbed toe" above, except
>               later hot ones     walking cast, one week off
>                                  work, and six more pills
>
>tired,         eyedrops           hospital, four types of
>scratchy eyes                     prescribed eyedrops (depending
>                                  upon time of day), 16 varieties
>                                  of pills, a great, whopping
>                                  white eye patch (worn on
>                                  alternate days), no time off work
>                                  (except for daily hospital
>                                  visits) but sit around office
>                                  all day doing things alternately
>                                  one-handed.
>
>cold           aspirin, plenty    badge of honor is white face
>               of fluids,         mask, worn until gray, and
>               tissues            37 liters of green tea per day
>                                  until next birthday
>
>broken arm     visit doctor, in   rarely happens (Japanese tend to
>               and out same day   have shorter, thicker bones) but
>                                  when it does, gangbusters:
>                                  hospital confinement for 3 weeks
>                                  intravenous feeding, a banquer of
>                                  pills (equal otherwise to one
>                                  square meal), trip to Hawaii to
>                                  recuperate.
>
>pneumonia      visit doctor, bed  hospital (by ambulance), one
>               rest, pills,       month confinement, tests
>               chicken noodle     every day for tuberculosis,
>               soup               white face mask until next
>                                  birthday
>
>broken leg     could spend the    see "broken arm" except
>               night in hospital  hospital confinement until
>               could be in        end of year, crutches until
>               traction at home   spring; will tak pills
>               certainly some     until end of life
>               crutch action
>
>broken gall    operation,hospital hospital, operations, rumors
>blader         as long as three   as to whether or not it's
>               to five days       cancer ("since doctors won't
>                                  tell patients that they have
>                                  cancer, the fact that the
>                                  patients says he doesn't have
>                                  cancer means the doctor told
>                                  him he doesn't which means he
>                                  probably does have it but the
>                                  doctor told him he doesn't"),
>                                  confinement until eldest child
>                                  graduates from highschool,
>                                  plastic surgery to fix stitch
>                                  marks, medical leave of
>                                  absence from work until "bonus
>                                  season," admonitions about ever
>                                  eating Western food again,
>                                  recuperation at Disneyland in
>                                  California
>
>
>T.