Afternoon at the Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Hospital
September 16th 2015 Great afternoon with the second biggest hospital for cancer in Tokyo. A few facts for the interested - 1st "hospice" in Japan started in 1981, today they have 6,847 palliative care beds in Japan (most are centred in hospital units and very few community teams). Little/no rehab as we would recognise it and 80.8% of people die in hospital (63% would like to die at home) and 12.4% die at home. Almost
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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more 
