How to Handle a Medical Emergency Abroad: The Step-by-Step Protocol Minute one: you're on the floor of a Bangkok restaurant. Minute two: someone's calling an ambulance. Here's what needs to happen in minutes three through sixty.
What to Do When You Get Sick in Asia (And You Don't Speak the Language) You're feverish in a Tokyo hospital at midnight, the doctor is speaking rapid Japanese, and your Google Translate keeps saying 'potato' instead of 'stomach pain.'