Doctor's Inner Voice ⁽¹⁷⁾

After finishing the American physician Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, my heart would not settle for a long time. On the WeChat Read app this book carries a recommendation score of 95.3% and is hailed as a masterpiece. As I write this, 55,000 readers…

1 A patient with a skin leiomyoma, long after surgery, suddenly grew a growth near the original surgical scar; every tumor patient inevitably grows anxious at the sight of a mass. The patient was terrified it was a recurrence; I saw its shape was still…

Every day I witness the deaths of roughly 3–10 cancer patients. This is because my articles carry considerable influence among cancer patients, so many cancer patients and their families add me on WeChat. I often see obituaries posted in my Moments; each obituary means a…

Some talented young people in Chinese medicine have asked me to share my experience of self-protection in medical practice. I am a practitioner who took up Chinese medicine late, essentially self-taught. I have practiced Chinese medicine for more than ten years; my virtue is thin…

Today a family member of a cancer patient I have long known consulted me by video about her mother. The mother has leukemia, gallstones, viral warts, and more. Children always worry about their parents; every time the hospital diagnoses something new she grows tense. Often…

The two longest-lived elders in Chinese academia, Zhou Youguang and Professor Zheng Ji, were both tuberculosis patients; they lived to 112 and 111. Besides TB, Zhou had depression and prostate problems; Zheng had chronic gastric disease and three surgeries. None of this affected their longevity.

Last night my older brother called. As we talked, he mentioned a visit he had made to my uncle, who spoke of the days before my aunt (his wife) died. He said that on the very day she passed away she had still been at…