Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Yu Yanhong
Correspondent Wang Hui Bai Tian
Gathering with family during the Spring Festival is undoubtedly the desire of everyone's heart. However, when they chose the profession of medical worker, they shouldered a heavy responsibility. Chinese New Year's Eve night, this group of "white-clad night watchmen" from the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, as always, gave up their small homes and for everyone, and for 365 days without interruption, they insisted on their posts, abided by their duties, and guarded the lives and health of the people.
In the first year of their marriage, they spent the "reunion year" together in the hospital.
Dr. Lin He's alarm clock rang at 6:50 a.m. every morning, and after a quick wash and a simple breakfast, she returned to work at the fever clinic. Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, she will stick to her post and carry out 12-hour duty work. At 7:50 a.m., Lin He had arrived at the department and was on shift with the doctor who had worked the night shift the night before.
Just in November 2021, Lin He just got married, and her husband is Dr. Luo Jin from the anesthesia department of the same hospital, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the newly married two cannot go back to their hometown to hold the wedding, and the husband also has to work in the operating room for 24 hours on the first day of the New Year. Although the two have not returned home for two years, fortunately, this Chinese New Year's Eve night, the two can spend a "reunion year" in the hospital for the first year of their marriage.
Near the end of the year, the temperature plummeted, and the outpatient clinic received many patients with colds and fevers. Lin He and his colleagues on duty threw themselves into the busy reception work. During the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, fever clinic is the "first pass" of hospital infection prevention and control, medical care often needs three levels of protection, after putting on protective clothing, often work for 4 hours, during which it is inconvenient to eat and drink and go to the bathroom, but for Lin He and other colleagues who Chinese New Year's Eve fever clinic, it has long been accustomed to it.
The first time you Chinese New Year's Eve on duty, you need to slowly get used to the characteristics of your profession
When a fever patient is treated, nucleic acid specimens are being sent to the laboratory for rapid testing, while the laboratory department also receives other test specimens such as blood tests in batches, and patients and doctors are waiting for the test results for subsequent diagnosis.
Dr. Xu Zuo, from his hometown in Hubei Province, could not go home Chinese New Year's Eve. As a young doctor who Chinese New Year's Eve on duty for the first time and wanted to be alone in Guangzhou for the New Year, Xu Zuo, although his heart was full of emotions of missing his parents, he could only slowly "get used to it". As an "invisible doctor", Xu Zuo and his colleagues should be "behind the scenes" in the laboratory to timely examine all kinds of specimens for patients who come to the clinic, and issue results as soon as possible to assist the doctor's clinical diagnosis and do a good job in supporting the treatment of patients.
"Chinese New Year's Eve also want to go home and reunite with my family, but in our profession, there is only the difference between duty and not on duty, and it is very simple to come when we meet." Dr. Luo Ting, who Chinese New Year's Eve on duty for the first time in the emergency department, already had a "calm" view of this profession. She will be on duty until 8:00 a.m. on New Year's Day, ready for the 120 command center call that may ring at any time.
On duty as a "mother-to-be", full of expectations to usher in the "tiger baby"
Wu Yingying, a midwife in the delivery room, has to be on duty from 16:00 to the early morning, "Last year I was also on duty Chinese New Year's Eve, although this job is busy, but I love it very much, and I feel that it feels good to welcome new life!" ”
Although the queue is Chinese New Year's Eve on duty, the warmest thing is the understanding, thoughtfulness and care of the husband. Whenever there is a New Year's festival or a night shift on weekdays, Wu Yingying's husband will come to pick her up on time and rain, so that her busy work has no worries, and let her feel touched and happy every moment.
This year, Wu Yingying's identity has changed, and she has become a "mother-to-be" who has been pregnant for 23 weeks and is looking forward to welcoming her "baby tiger". Pregnant with the baby, she has a little more understanding of the mother than before, the process of her own pregnancy, let her know more about the "greatness of being a mother", she patiently comforted the pregnant woman who was waiting to give birth: "You have not yet given birth, I am still at work, it does not matter, I am also pregnant, I accompany you through this Chinese New Year's Eve ..."
Chinese New Year's Eve on duty, he took it for granted and booked potted vegetables for an "ordinary" night
Peng Yuhua, deputy chief physician of the emergency department, learned that Chinese New Year's Eve night duty, and he had been working for more than 20 years, as usual, arranged in advance for his wife and children to spend the holiday with the elderly. However, he ordered Cantonese-style potted dishes and prepared to take them to the office, hoping to spend an "ordinary" Chinese New Year's Eve night with the "comrades-in-arms" on duty when he had time.
As in previous years, Peng Yuhua and other doctors on duty performed their duties as usual, some on duty at the reception desk, some in the 120 emergency ready, some in checking the newly admitted patients and inpatients... The busy figure makes people forget that this is a special day of family reunion.
"I hope that everyone in the New Year is healthy and safe, and don't come to the hospital today!" This is the common wish of Peng Yuhua and the medical staff on duty such as the emergency department on Chinese New Year's Eve night.
As with every night on duty, only when the patients who come to the doctor have been properly arranged and no new patients come over for the time being, Peng Yuhua can "squint" for a while, but like other medical personnel on duty, during the night shift, even if it is an occasional "nap", their spirit is also "tense", and when there is an emergency, they must immediately wake up and enter the "fighting" state.
"Choosing this profession, I know the responsibility of this white dress." For this group of "white-clad night watchmen" who insist on their posts, as long as they can save one more patient and alleviate more pain for patients, it is their greatest comfort. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie
Image | Courtesy of the hospital
Editor-in-charge | Sun Wei