I will give you the shortish version if I may. My wife and I were on the cruise of a life time, celebrating our anniversary, visiting various cities in China on our way to Japan on a super duper 6 star 450 passenger 36000 tonne cruise ship. We sat down at the whizz bang Michelin hatted restaurant ready to enjoy our 15 course degustation, including wines Frois Gras, Caviar and Lobster Thermidor and I woke up 7 days later in the Intensive Care Unit of the Beijing United Family Hospital with tubes in every orifice (orifi?) of my anatomy. I had been intubated on board the cruise ship by the ship’s doctor while the captain made full steam for Tanjin the port closest to Beijing, 13 hours away. I had suffered a seizure x 2 and it was found at hospital a pulmonary embolism. I was interbated and made ready for a 3 1/2 hour ambulance trip to Beijing with an ambulance attendant hand pumping me oxygen every 6 seconds. I was admitted to the Emergency Department where it was going I also had suffered a gastric ulcer brought on by physical stress. Somewhere along the way I contracted pneumonia so my lungs needed suctioning at regular periods. It was later found 6 days later when I regained consciousness that I had sustained a fractured left humurus (not funny) which was also dislocated from the shoulder joint which required an operation to stabilise it with three pins and rebuild the rotator cuff and relocate the head of the bone into my shoulder. For extra fun there was a fractured T7 vertebrae and to top everything off two broken ribs 8 & 9 on the right hand side. So anyway I am back and in the land of the living with thanks entirely to my beautiful wife, the captain, doctor and crew of the Seaborn Soujourn and the fantastic doctors, nurses and staff in the Intensive Care Unit at the Beijing United Family Hospital who rescued me from the brink of death after 6 days in a coma. Now it is the long slow road to recovery. I spent nearly a month in hospital while the doctors were MRI ing and CT scanning me and asking whether I had ever hit my head on or with anything. Putting tubes in to my body and taking tubes out of my body. Balancing and fine tuning my medications and getting me in a fit state to fly so that I could be handed over to my wonderful nurse Wendy who was flown to Beijing from Brisbane Australia by our excellent travel insurance company. Wendy then accompanied me and my wife and took charge for the nearly 24 hours that it took to fly me back to Melbourne Australia and hand me over to the hospital here. Well that is my story. If you need a good hospital in Beijing then go here.