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I first came into contact with the internet in 1998, after I entered university, and in a flash it has been a full twenty years. Because I love writing, what I have left online over these twenty years is chiefly the various words I have…

Medical workers in China are all far too busy, and I am no exception. I am ashamed to say that the outcomes I achieved for cancer patients in my early years were better than now. My results have not improved as my clinical experience grew,…

Recently, several of my patients told me one after another that Beijing Tongrentang's Xihuang Wan (Xihuang Pills) had risen sharply in price. What used to cost three or four hundred yuan a box, obtainable at medical-insurance designated hospitals, had suddenly jumped to 1,180 yuan. When…

The new year has arrived. For cancer patients, this is a day worth celebrating, because we have lived through another year, and our cancer age has grown another year. By nature reclusive, I do not like making friends, so the people I have known over…

Many years ago, when my elder brother and I had just entered the working world, with little experience and scarce social resources, we kept running into walls. My brother quoted a famous line from Kafka to express his inner feeling—"Every difficulty can conquer me." At…

Every year at the year's end, I write an article to bid the year farewell. What theme should this year's year-end article take? I thought it over and chose this title: A Joyful Heart, Beyond Gain and Loss. After experiencing one parting and one bereavement…

For the past month or more, I have spent most of my time in a temple halfway up a mountain. The temple has very few worshippers; on most days not a single pilgrim comes the whole day, and the temple is left untended, so I…

Review Humankind has a very long history of understanding cancer. In the Zhou Li (Rites of Zhou) from the pre-Qin period, there is already a record of the "yongyi" (ulcer physician), a doctor who specifically treats tumor-like ulcer diseases. The ulcer physician's duty was to…

Liu Ling, courtesy name Bolun, was a man of Peiguo. He was six chi tall and very ugly in appearance. He let his feelings and will run free, always regarding the cosmos as small and all things as equal. He was quiet and sparing of…

These past two days, my Moments have been flooded with the news that Li Yong, the famous CCTV host, has died of cancer. May Brother Yong rest in peace! A public figure dying of cancer is a collective lesson in cancer prevention for the public;…