The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
The Chinese are enormously patient.
To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
She has two sons with husband Rob Fried, who she married in 1994. Benjamin who was born in 1998 and Jeremy who was born in 2001.