Per Editor: Peng Shuiping
On the afternoon of September 28, the hot topic "Zhong Nanshan said I was just a doctor who saw a doctor" quickly landed on the second hot search on Sina Weibo.
According to the official microblog of China Daily, from "transferring the most critically ill patients to me" 18 years ago to the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020, "the country needs us to go, we must go today", Zhong Nanshan has always shouldered the mission of a doctor and charged forward to protect life as his mission. "Zhong Nanshan said that I was just a doctor who saw a doctor", but the simple and unpretentious language expressed the benevolence of the doctor. Even though the 85-year-old has long passed the retirement age, Zhong Nanshan still insists on being on the clinical front line and is an extraordinary figure worthy of tribute in the extraordinary era!
According to Southern People Weekly, when he officially became a doctor, Zhong Nanshan was 36 years old. The path of practicing medicine came much later than he expected.
In 1936, Zhong Nanshan was born into a family of doctors, his father Zhong Shifan was an attending physician in the Department of Pediatrics of Nanjing Central Hospital, and after the founding of New China, he became a first-class professor of Sun Yat-sen Medical University and a famous pediatric expert in China. Her mother graduated from Peking Union Medical College majoring in Advanced Nursing, was the vice president of the Cancer Hospital of Sun Yat-sen Medical University, and was one of the founders of Guangdong Cancer Hospital.
In 1955, Zhong Nanshan was admitted to the medical department of Beijing Medical College (now Peking University Medical College). His athletic achievements are more prominent than those of medicine. In his junior year, Zhong Nanshan participated in the Beijing University Games as a sports student representative and won the first place in the 400-meter run. During the 14th National Games, the news that "Zhong Nanshan broke the national record in the 400-meter hurdles at that time in the test match of the first National Games in August 1958" was excitedly forwarded by netizens and quickly appeared on the hot search. After the competition that year, he refused the invitation of the Beijing Sports Commission and stayed in the school to teach radiation medicine. The path of practicing medicine has always been unavoidable.
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According to Southern People Weekly, "I was a teacher in college, pursued a new major, and later engaged in radiobiochemistry. Always obey the distribution, always be a pacesetter, advanced. So, from 1960 to 1971, I didn't work as a doctor for 11 years. Being a doctor is my desire, but not something I can choose. Zhong Nanshan recalled. In 1971, Zhong Nanshan, with the help of his wife Li Shaofen, left Beijing to come to the Fourth People's Hospital of Guangzhou (now the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University) and became a doctor.
After that, Zhong Nanshan practiced and researched at the same time, and from 1979 to 1981, he went to the University of Edinburgh School of Medicine and the Department of Respiratory Medicine of the University of London in the United Kingdom for further study. In 1996, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and became a representative figure of Chinese respiratory medicine.
The SARS epidemic in 2003 was the most legendary of the many turns in the life of Zhong Nanshan, who had been a doctor for 31 years and was 67 years old. In Guangdong, where the epidemic first broke out, as a representative figure of respiratory medicine in Guangdong Province and even the whole country, Zhong Nanshan, who was originally only famous in the industry, was pushed to the front of the stage.
In this serious crisis, Zhong Nanshan advocated timely public disclosure, provided accurate information, and came up with evidence-based treatment measures, and quickly became the "leader" in the fight against SARS. Every one of his speeches can occupy the eye-catching pages of the media, and his every move has become a bellwether for the SARS epidemic. He was labeled "dare to tell the truth" and became the best representative of medical workers during the SARS period.
Zhong Nanshan, 85 years old, is past retirement age, but has never stopped. He hadn't rested in years. "I have Saturdays and Sundays, but I'm going to work." He said. No matter how many positions he holds and how many honors he receives, Zhong Nanshan will always repeat a sentence: "I am just a doctor who sees a doctor." ”
Source: Daily Economic News Comprehensive China Daily Weibo, Southern People Weekly
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