Insights and Updates

Last night, returning home and watching the news, I learned that China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 from Kunming to Guangzhou had crashed; the 132 passengers and crew on board were missing. I was both grieved and shocked. The suffering of the families of these 132…

On March 20, the Spring Equinox, I tilled and fertilized the soil in the small vegetable plot I rent, preparing to plant vegetables. The granddaughter of a cancer patient I had treated was troubled by depression. As I tilled the soil, at her family's request…

In the season when warmth returns but cold still lingers, a sudden blizzard descended on Beijing, and the temperature plummeted to around freezing. Still, I kept riding my bike in the snow and, over the weekend, renewed the lease on the small vegetable plot I…

Marc Schoen, clinical assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, has devoted his life to research, clinical practice, and teaching in mind-body medicine, behavioral decision-making and performance under stress. He wrote a book specifically on modern restlessness: Your…

From the start of the pandemic to the present, people worldwide have been deeply affected. From early 2020 until now, the number of people seeking psychological support worldwide has risen sharply. Recent WHO data show that in the first year after the outbreak, the global…

The World Health Organization proposes four cornerstones of health: a balanced diet, moderate exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction, and mental health. The first three are easy to put into practice because their standards are objective, but the last—mental health—is not so easy to define.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, I called my fourth uncle to wish him well and chatted about family matters. There are some conflicts in our family involving my branch, mostly arising from accumulated grievances among the four brothers—my father…

The patient, Lei, male, 52 years old, from Wangjiaqiao Town, Songzi, Jingzhou, Hubei Province. In mid-December 2021 he was diagnosed at Jingzhou Central Hospital (inpatient No. 21846890) with non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma, consistent with the features of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma. Imaging showed enlarged bilateral…

I once treated a melanoma patient with widespread metastases. He was from Zhejiang and one of the best friends of my life. He was a deeply compassionate and hardworking man; even after falling ill he kept doing high-intensity work without pause, which was a major…

A depressed patient once described her experience of seeing a doctor: she went to see a doctor and poured out her suffering; the doctor listened in silence and, after she finished, sighed deeply with compassion. That sigh brought tears to her eyes; she felt an…