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On April 4, 2021, during the Qingming Festival, Dr. Wang Zhuorong, a 27-year-old physician at Tsinghua University Affiliated Changgung Hospital, died of a sudden cerebral accident. Wang was an eight-year-program MD graduate of Peking University Health Science Center who had just started work and was…

Confucius had three thousand disciples and seventy-two worthies; among the seventy-two, Confucius admired Yan Hui most. Unfortunately Yan Hui was unlucky: he died young at forty. Confucius praised Yan Hui for being eager to learn, saying he "did not transfer his anger, and did not…

Below, a man is dying; next door that family plays the gramophone; opposite, someone dandles a child; upstairs two people laugh uproariously, and there is the sound of cards; on a boat in the river a woman weeps for her dead mother. The joys and…

Around five in the morning I woke, opened my phone, and saw an obituary in my Moments: the father of a 15-year-old child told everyone that his child had passed away. The child was the same age as my son, a neuroblastoma patient I had…

What is there in the mountains? On the ridges are many white clouds. They give me joy alone, but cannot be sent to you. ——Tao Hongjing, Written in Response to the Imperial Question “What Is There in the Mountains?” The poet who wrote this poem,…

The winter jasmine in Beijing has bloomed, and the river has thawed. I live by a river in Beijing. The water in this river is said to be the drinking water of Beijing residents, so the river environment is well protected; the water here is…

A Mao's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35. This illness completely changed her life, and she became depressed. She hoped I could help her resolve not only her physical suffering but her spiritual suffering as well. On the day she first came…

Every Lunar New Year, the expensive incense in temples sells at a premium; there are truly too many people burning incense and praying to Buddha for blessings. But misfortune and blessing have no fixed gate; people bring them on themselves. If one creates an evil…

A couple of days ago, a female ophthalmologist a few years younger than I am told me that in her recent work she saw a patient whose son came to her office to discuss the case, asking questions while recording a video on his phone;…

On the last day of 2020, I gave away various medicines from my cabinet to several patients as needed. I thank those patients' families who left medicines their own relatives no longer needed with me for me to give away as fate would have it;…