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He tried his best to donate the century-old family education to the country;
He inherited the culture of Chinese medicine and turned a clinic into a tertiary hospital;
He worked hard from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. for 45 years, turning a year into 480 days, and after retirement, he still insisted on visiting the clinic for 7 hours a day, rain or shine.
He is an expert in the State Council allowance, and the consultation fee is only 1 yuan.
We can't count how many patients he has treated in his lifetime, but we know that he is the "big gentleman" in the hearts of the people of Gan'a Liang three states.
He is the "Great Doctor" Chen Huaijiong.
Chen Huaijiong treated Tibetan compatriots. Photo courtesy of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Tianquan County, located in the northwest of Ya'an, is known as the "key of the southwest and the throat of the southwest", and is the ethnic corridor and gateway of Kang-Tibet in the southwest region, with more than 50 counties (cities and districts) inside and outside the region, and 5 million Han-Tibetan and Qiang compatriots multiply.
Chen Huaijiong, the third-generation descendant of Chen's orthopedics, and his disciples practiced medicine in the Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine that he founded. After sitting for 65 years, he was honored as "Mr. Big" by the people of Tianquan County and the Tibetan and Qiang Yi compatriots.
Great Doctor Sincerity: Over thousands of rivers and mountains to see you
In his 65 years of medical career, Chen Huaijiong has treated countless patients with bone injuries with his extensive and exquisite TCM bone injury techniques. His superb medical skills lie in his diagnostic methods of looking, touching, percussion, and moving, and the techniques of orthopedic and bone renewal.
"Mr. Big" photo. Photo courtesy of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
As early as 1982, the famous writer Wei Wei was sent to the traditional Chinese medicine hospital with a leg injury while collecting the Red Army site in Tianquan County. Since there was no X-ray machine in the traditional Chinese medicine hospital at that time, Wei Wei was sent to the county hospital for filming, and the X-film showed that the result was exactly the same as the judgment of "Mr. Big". Wei Wei was impressed by this and decided to be treated by him. After 20 days of treatment, Wei Wei recovered and was discharged back to Beijing. "Mr. Big" also formed a deep friendship with Wei Wei.
In March 2022, 15-year-old Pearl Chucuo in Dege County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, suffered a fracture in her lower leg while playing basketball, and her father was worried that the fracture would leave sequelae, and decided to go to Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to find "Mr. Big" for treatment. More than 700 kilometers from Derge County to Tianquan County, passing through the pass and passing through the tunnel along the way, Pearl Drop Pass's father drove for more than 10 hours and sent Pearl Drop Tso over the mountains to Tianquan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
When a Tibetan farmer in Kardze accidentally broke a bone while riding a horse, he and his family inquired all the way to the hospital after 10 p.m. "Mr. Big" chatted with the patient while treating him with bones, and completed the treatment in less than 10 minutes.
Chen Huaijiong examines the injured. Photo courtesy of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The mountains in the Gan'aliang area are far away, but once people here suffer bone injuries, they are still willing to cross the mountains to Tianquan County to find "Mr. Big".
However, it is such a "great doctor" with a family tradition and supreme reputation, but his life is indifferent. As early as the era of barbaric growth of private medical care, there was a capital that came to the door and was willing to build a new private hospital managed by Chen Huaijiong with him, but he refused. What this investor did not expect was that if "Mr. Big" had used medical digging money, he would not have donated the well-known "Chen Orthopedic Department" in western Sichuan and Tibetan areas to the country and the people.
Bless life: one person, one hospital, one city
Chen's Orthopedics is a family tradition, passed down for more than 200 years, is a "combination of medicine and martial arts" TCM bone injury medicine technology, mainly used in TCM clinical diagnosis and treatment of fractures, tendon injuries, open fractures, chronic bone diseases and other patients; The core diagnosis and treatment techniques are Chen's manual reduction, small splinting, acupoint massage, external application and internal administration of Chen's orthopedic injury medicine, and Chen's orthopedic rehabilitation exercise.
In 1975, Chen Huaijiong, the third-generation inheritor of Chen's orthopedics, decided to donate his family education and clinic, which had always been secret, to the Tianquan County Government.
At that time, Chen's Orthopedic Clinic had already grown in scale and had a long reputation, so why donate the ancestral mastery for 100 years for free? The Chen family was puzzled. In particular, the two cousins who practiced medicine with Chen Huaijiong had different opinions, and after his bitter introduction, the Chen family finally understood his "painstaking heart".
In Chen Huaijiong's view, his "painstaking heart" is that personal and family strength alone cannot save more people, and only by relying on the power of the state and making the hospital bigger and stronger with the support of the government can more people benefit. Chen's orthopedics is an ancestral family study, and if it is not passed on openly, it is difficult to further innovate and improve, and its unique skills will eventually be lost.
One person, one hospital, one city, the donation of the crowd shows the greatness of "Mr. Big" and "painstaking". The original "painstaking heart" was Chen Huaijiong's original mission of practicing medicine for the people, and it was also the original mission of his ancestors to create "Chen's Orthopedics" - to respect life and save life and help the wounded.
Thoughts lead to action. After Chen Huaijiong donated Chen's Orthopedic Clinic, Chen's unique bone injury diagnosis and treatment techniques and ancestral prescriptions to the Tianquan County Government, he soon established the collectively-owned Chengguan Town Surgical Hospital, and the ancestral secret recipe was developed by him and his disciples to form a variety of unique and curative pills, ointments, powders and pills, with extremely high utilization rates, enabling thousands of fracture patients to stand up again.
Chen Huaijiong at work. Photo courtesy of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Today, 48 years later, the original hospital has developed into a modern tertiary second-class Chinese medicine hospital with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine covering an area of 80 acres, 750 beds, 1 provincial key specialty construction unit, 6 municipal key specialties, more than 500,000 outpatient emergency visits per year, more than 10,000 surgeries per year, and 18,000 discharges per year.
According to the data of the seventh population census, as of November 2020, the permanent population of Tianquan County was 132,000. However, Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has 500,000 outpatient emergency visits every year. In this regard, Chen Ruolei, the fourth-generation descendant of Chen's orthopedics and president of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced that one-third of the hospital's patients are from the Ya'an area, one-third from the surrounding areas of Chengdu, and one-third from the Gan'aliang area.
Dedication: 65 years a stop 480 days a year
In 2005, as the founder of the hospital, Chen Huaijiong "retired" as president and continued to practice medicine in the orthopedic outpatient clinic. It is said that it is a sitting hall, but in fact, it is a standing "standing clinic". It is said that such a "standing clinic" began when he was 15 years old and has not changed for 65 years.
At 6:00 on September 8, 2023, patients in the outpatient hall of the orthopedic and traumatology department of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine have lined up in long queues.
"Mr. Big" at work. Photo courtesy of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
"Mr. Big" rode his "electric donkey" to the clinic on time as usual and walked quickly into the consultation room. The 3 assistants had already prepared for the work, he quickly removed the white coat hanging on the wall, quickly scanned the registration slip on the treatment table while wearing it, turned around and walked to a patient with a broken arm, asked a few simple questions, then turned around and told the assistant next to him how to prepare medicine, and then walked to another patient.
At 10:00, a long line was added outside the corridor of the consultation room, and as many as 10 patients were waiting in the consultation room, and "Mr. Big" and his three assistants were busy for a while, standing for consultation, bowing down for examination, medicine, and treatment. Xiao Yang, an official of the party office of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who accompanied the interview, said that Mr. Big's consultation room could not achieve "one person per consultation", there were too many patients, and he and his assistants could only treat several patients at the same time. In this way, "standing for consultation, bowing to treatment", "Mr. Big" insists on 7 hours in the consultation room, receives nearly 100 people a day, handles up to 60 inpatients, and relieves the suffering of tens of thousands of patients every year.
"Mr. Big" is always working selflessly and hard. Before retiring, he worked in the hospital from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. to rest, and then worked at the hospital at 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. or later. Some people have calculated that according to the eight-hour work system, "Mr. Big" works almost 120 more days a year. He never had weekends, only half a day off on Tuesday afternoons every week, and even when his daughter got married, he only took half a day off. After retiring, he returned to the hospital, and still insisted on going to the hospital every day at 6 o'clock to treat patients until 12 o'clock, which has been 17 years.
Boundless love: Cangsheng doctor 1 yuan diagnosis
Sun Simiao said: If there is a person who comes to seek help, do not ask whether he is rich or poor, young and young, resentful of relatives and friends, Hua Yi is foolish, and ordinary people, all as if they were loved ones. It is also forbidden to look ahead and look backward, worry about self-defeat, and spare your life. Seeing that he is troubled, if he has it, his heart is deeply sad. Do not avoid danger, day and night, cold and summer, hunger and thirst, fatigue, dedication to rescue, no heart to do hard work, so that you can be a great doctor.
"Mr. Big" Chen Huaijiong, a inheritor of traditional Chinese medicine who has mastered the family tradition, a senior expert who enjoys a special government allowance from the State Council, his registration fee is only 1 yuan.
In 1959, since inheriting Chen's Orthopedic Private Clinic, Chen Huaijiong has treated poor patients for free; After donating to the clinic in 1975, he charged only 0.5 yuan for registration, and then insisted on it for 28 years. In 2005, because the charging method was changed to computer charging, he adjusted the registration fee to 1 yuan. The 1 yuan registration fee has been insisted on for 17 years. Although the hospital has repeatedly moved to raise the registration fee again, he still advocates charging only 1 yuan. He said: "Most of the people who come here to see a doctor are ordinary people in mountainous areas and ethnic minorities, who live a hard life and have low incomes. ”
A non-local patient took his wife to "Mr. Big" for treatment, and "Mr. Big" was afraid that he would not be able to catch the shuttle, so he first treated them, and took a few boxes of medicine, but he did not expect to charge 4.60 yuan.
An old lady from another county suffered a bone injury to her lower limb, and her children sent her to the "Mr. Big" clinic and quietly left. The old lady was penniless and had no relatives, and "Mr. Big" not only picked her bones, but also comforted her with gentle words and relieved her of all kinds of worries. After the old lady recovered, "Mr. Big" not only exempted the old lady from all expenses, but also sent a doctor to take the old lady home.
Many years ago, a patient with an arm injury in Neijiang City became impoverished by a long period of seeking medical treatment. When he was desperate, he heard that Tianquan's "Mr. Big" had a "unique job", but at this time he was already surrounded by disciple, and could only seek medical treatment on foot. 300 kilometers from Neijiang to Tianquan, this patient traveled all the way. After listening to his medical experience, "Mr. Big" not only cured him of his bone disease for free, but also funded his travel back to Neijiang. When this patient received the money, he couldn't help but cry...
Chen Huaijiong treats patients. Photo courtesy of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Gao Zhitao, the director of the outpatient department, is a native of Tianquan, and he has heard stories about the high morality and free medical treatment of "Mr. Big" since he was a child. He said that "Mr. Big" always has compassion for patients, and when he sees patients who open handkerchiefs and count the gross tickets, he says "it's not enough, make up for it next time", and sometimes also subsidizes the transportation expenses of poor patients who come from afar; Especially in the hearts of Tibetan compatriots, "Mr. Big" has an outstanding reputation and boundless love. There is a cabinet in the hospital full of hadas that Tibetan compatriots gave to Chen Huaijiong, and each hata is a moving story.
"Li Ji Qu Li" said: "From Mr. Yu, do not cross the road and talk to others." Mr. Yu Yu Dao, tending forward, standing upright. Only those who can set an example in personality, morality, and studies are called "Mr. Big". When Chen Huaijiong was respected as "Mr. Big" by the people of Xichuan is impossible to verify.
Neighbors said that Chen Jiaren was righteous and had a good family style and family discipline, often came to the door to see a doctor for the neighbors for free, and in case of emergency and critical patients, he often ignored the wind and rain and ignored the starry night to visit the door, he himself was respected as "Mr. Big", and his two cousins were respected as "Mr. Two" and "Mr. Three".
Postscript of the interview:
Chen Huaijiong is the "Mr. Big" of Healthy China in the New Era
In the teacher worship ceremony and staff training of Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the hospital emphasized that the medical staff of the hospital should keep in mind the spirit of "Mr. Big". The spiritual connotation of "Mr. Big" is: great doctor sincerity, great public selflessness, boundless love, and far-reaching road.
As a inheritor of traditional Chinese medicine and an expert in orthopedic medicine, Mr. Chen Huaijiong has strong ideals and beliefs in healthy China, noble medical ethics, superb peerless family learning skills, and great compassion, benevolence and righteousness, he can be called "Mr. Big" of healthy China; He adhered to medical ethics and medical practices, practiced medical ethics, practiced benevolence, and had the heart to save suffering, and he could be called a "great doctor". (Xue Yujian, Wang Fan, Wang Diploma)