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Home > Blog > Travel & Hospital NavigationKey Takeaways • The absence of a standardized General Practitioner (GP) gatekeeper system in China often requires international patients to navigate complex, highly specialized Tier 3 hospital departments directly.   • Public hospital outpatient models emphasize high-throughput efficiency, resulting in average face-to-face consultation times of approximately 3.47 minutes, which heavily shifts diagnostic reliance onto imaging and objective lab tests.   •

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