My Medical Theory ⁽¹⁸⁴⁾

I have always been controlling the rate at which my personal influence grows. Two years ago I closed my Weibo and Toutiao accounts, keeping only my WeChat official account and my personal website. In recent years people have repeatedly invited me to publish my articles…

The biggest cold wave of this century is upon us; this morning I saw news that the monkeys at Beijing Zoo are huddling together for warmth. This winter is indeed very cold; in my family of three, two of us developed shoulder and neck pain…

Because many of the cancer patients I serve suffer from intractable insomnia, I once designed a TCM formula for treating insomnia and published it in my social media feed. The daughter of a lung cancer patient saw it, gave the formula to her insomnia-stricken husband,…

Friends often come to me who, upon finding cysts, polyps, or nodules as small as a few millimeters on a physical exam, become deeply worried as if disaster had struck. This is quite unnecessary; most cysts, polyps, and nodules are benign and have no potential…

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that arose in the early 1990s. Its formation and development have had enormous impacts on medical research, clinical practice, medical education, and health policy decision-making, and it has been widely applied in healthcare, scientific decision-making, and scientific…

Blood is an important component of the human body; it is a liquid connective tissue making up about 7%–8% of body weight. The blood system is the transport thoroughfare connecting organs and tissues, carrying various substances through our bodies like a courier. Our lungs use…

A mother of a child patient contacted me, saying that her child's Western attending physician had spoken about the expected effects of chemotherapy without much confidence. The doctor said they could try chemotherapy but could not guarantee efficacy—not the confident assurance that treatment would surely…

Pursue simplicity, and keep reason. — Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher The biologist Hermann Muller said: "If you regard 'academic life' as a way of escaping reality, then do not study biology. Through this discipline, human beings can approach the mystery of life."…

Several years ago I joined a hospital to do both clinical practice and administrative work. I was fortunate to be trusted enough to enter the top management and decision-making body, helping plan the hospital's development direction. At the time I put forward a vision—to practice…

Generally, the higher a cancer patient's education, the longer the survival. This relates to many factors: on one hand, better-educated patients have stronger learning ability and can acquire more anticancer knowledge to make up for the shortcomings of conventional treatment and improve outcomes; on the…