Doctor's Inner Voice ⁽¹⁷⁾

The first night home on every break, I can hardly sleep well. There are many reasons. On every holiday I usually rush home by high-speed rail after finishing seven or eight classes, so it is already very late by the time I arrive; getting home…

"It is God who heals you; I am only a bridge that brings you before God." — A Korean physician While I was working at an international outpatient clinic in Beijing, a senior colleague once told me that a famous Korean doctor had said the…

The more medical and biological knowledge I learn, the more neutrally I regard everything in the world. What do I mean by neutral? Roughly, not wanting to make any moral or value judgment. I once had my own standards of right and wrong, good and…

Less than a month before my mother’s death, knowing her time was short, she had a conversation with me that deeply moved me. She said: “Son, your father and I owe you an apology. The money and effort we spent raising you are far less…

Recently two young doctors at Nanning People's Hospital have taken their own lives one after another, and another young doctor at a hospital in Hunan has also committed suicide. Reading this news filled me with sorrow. Many of my friends are doctors, and in recent…

There are many Grade-A tertiary hospitals near my home, and several are the first choice of out-of-town patients coming to Beijing. My whole family carries Beijing medical insurance, and we used to feel we enjoyed medical benefits that many out-of-town patients could not. But recently…

Yesterday, the son of one of my gastric-cancer patients sent me his own physical examination report, asking what he should do next. The color Doppler showed multiple thyroid nodules, the largest already over 1 cm, with irregular morphology, considered C-TIRADS category 4b. I told him…

Yesterday when I video-called with my father, he told me that some young people from the village who went out to work after the Spring Festival have now come back. Because outside work is hard to find this year, and the work available pays low…

On January 30, 2023, a report in Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao mentioned that the National University of Singapore had recently held a global ethics lecture on the topic of "how to fairly and justly allocate medical resources," delivered by Professor Ezekiel Emanuel, a U.S. health-policy scholar…

The renowned Qing-dynasty physician Xu Lingtai described his own state of mind when treating patients as “standing as though on the brink of a deep abyss, as though treading on thin ice,” and I believe the great majority of clinicians would deeply resonate with this.