Notes for In-Person Consultation and Treatment in Beijing During Epidemic Prevention and Control

Dear patients:

Because of the epidemic, Beijing has adopted a series of prevention and control measures that will affect your coming to Beijing for consultation and treatment. If you plan to come to Beijing for an in-person consultation or visit, you need to keep abreast of Beijing's control policies at all times.

At present, all medical institutions in Beijing accept only appointment registration and do not provide on-site registration. Appointment registration is also open only to Beijing-local patients with a health green code, or to patients who have been in Beijing for more than 14 days with a normal health code. Those who have just arrived from out of town are not given appointments at all.

So I hope you will not rush to Beijing for treatment. Before coming, please prepare thoroughly and complete fourteen days of quarantine first. Beijing doctors can no longer easily accept patients' invitations to travel out of town for consultations, because returning from an out-of-town visit still requires 14 days of quarantine, which seriously disrupts normal work.

The Beijing municipal government currently encourages patients to seek care first at local hospitals, rather than risking COVID-19 infection by coming to Beijing. Out-of-town patients who wish to see a Beijing doctor should prefer remote online consultation. Medical institutions and pharmacies can mail medicines by express delivery.

Beijing municipal government spokespersons have stated that this control policy will become normalized, meaning these rules at Beijing medical institutions will not change in the short term. Unless there is a special need, out-of-town patients are advised not to come to Beijing's major medical institutions for face-to-face visits.

Patients seeing Chinese medicine can also use video consultation; as long as detailed medical records are provided, video consultation can basically achieve the effect of an in-person visit. If local pulse-diagnosis information is available from a local doctor, the effect may be even better.

The epidemic is upon us and circumstances are unusual; I hope you take care, while closely following developments and adjustments to Beijing's control policies to decide your travel plans. If Beijing introduces new control policies, I will promptly inform you.

This year my services to out-of-town patients will also be mainly delivered online. Patients who have long received my care may give regular video updates, so as to minimize the epidemic's impact on your condition.

As a livelihood, consultations are charged; I hope you will understand.

Thank you all! Wishing you a speedy recovery!