Insights and Updates

On the morning of December 26, 2019, I arrived early at Beijing Aviation General Hospital. Dozens of hours earlier, a doctor-killing had occurred here. A family member of a 95-year-old patient murdered a female emergency physician working the night shift; the victim, Dr. Yang, could…

Last night was Christmas Eve, but Christmas Eve was not peaceful. An aunt of mine was admitted to the hospital ICU on Christmas Eve after a ruptured cerebral aneurysm caused brain hemorrhage, and the hospital told us to prepare 100,000 yuan for surgery. A female…

Tonight is Christmas Eve, and tomorrow is Christians' most festive day of the year, Christmas. Here I wish all my readers and patients a merry Christmas Eve and a merry Christmas! I also wish all readers and patients a lifetime of peace, good health, and…

I have had low-back and leg pain for three or four years. During these years I have treated myself and sought doctors everywhere. After all, I am not an orthopedic surgeon and am not expert in this kind of pain; a doctor does not treat…

In July this year, The Lancet published a survey on disease and death caused by national dietary structures around the world. The report shows that, among the 195 countries surveyed, China has the highest proportion of disease and death attributable to the Chinese diet. This…

I began self-studying the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) in 1998, and after 21 years I still now and then go through its various annotated editions. Since last year I have also been teaching the Shanghan Lun to my students. In the process of…

The day before yesterday, a cancer patient's family member I have known for years came to see me from Nanjing. I thought she was bringing her elder sister to me—her sister had previously come to me for lung adenocarcinoma—but unexpectedly she came alone. Her first…

Recently, because of falling temperatures and the spread of influenza A (H1N1), many people have caught colds. Frail and elderly cancer patients should take precautions during this flu season and avoid crowded places. Many cancer patients do not die of cancer but of influenza. One…

Among the folk, there have always been people treating superficial tumors by external application, mostly using highly toxic, corrosive Chinese herbs or various vesicant herbs. I have seen in news reports that some Westerners are also trying their own local traditional topical methods for superficial…

Winter is the high season for depression. Although we do not yet fully understand why depression strikes more often in winter, it is a universal fact that people's moods sink and their interest declines in the cold season. Depression rates in the cold Nordic regions…