Cao Bin: When the country needs it, do you dare to step out of the ivory tower of Concord? The perception of a Concordia graduate

On the morning of June 30, 2020, at the graduation ceremony of the Class of 2020 held at Peking Union Medical College, Professor Cao Bin, an eight-year doctoral graduate of clinical medicine in 1998 and vice president of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, spoke as a representative of outstanding alumni. The following is the content of Professor Cao Bin's speech.

Professor Cao Bin of China-Japan Friendship Hospital delivered a speech as a representative of outstanding alumni of Peking Union Medical College

<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" style="text-align: center" > the perception of a Concord graduate</h1>

Just now, Sun Xiaoning led the team from the opposite small auditorium to this side, and I saw that the tears were about to fall. Lately I've been a little vulnerable, and it's easy to shed tears when I encounter something touching. When I was in Wuhan, on the last day when the Comrades-in-Arms in Wuhan sent us away, Secretary Zhou Jun asked me to speak, and I said that I could not speak, and that I would shed tears as soon as I spoke, and that I could not speak.

I got my eight-year diploma from President Budd in 1998, and it's been 22 years now. Time flies by quickly, and I never thought that I would one day stand here and share my experience of study and work with my students, because I feel that there are too many doctors who are qualified to stand here than I am.

I am grateful to Concord. At Union Hospital, I received very systematic training in the Department of Internal Medicine. From intern doctors, resident doctors, chief residents of the Department of Internal Medicine, attending physicians. What did Concord teach me? Is it knowledge? Not all. I think most importantly, at Concordia, I found my own role model. In my mind there is such an image, this image is not the image of any one doctor, but the image of a group of people. The image was both vague and clear in my mind. Second, I learned the rules. Rules are very important. And I think that talking about rules, understanding rules, and abiding by rules are themselves a manifestation of one's strength. People who have no self-confidence and no strength dare not talk about rules.

In March 2003, I had just stepped down as the Chief Resident of the Department of Internal Medicine, and the SARS epidemic came. That year, I went to Beijing You'an Hospital to treat medical staff suffering from SARS. Someone asked me: Were you scared at that time? Of course I was afraid. I was 31 years old and my son was less than two years old. Not only was I afraid, but my family was also afraid, and my mother lost 20 pounds in a month because she was worried about me. When the new crown epidemic broke out in January this year, thousands of young doctors and nurses after the 80s and 90s fought side by side in Wuhan. Looking at them, I think of myself in 2003. They did a very good job! Let's applaud the doctors and nurses of the post-80s and post-90s in China!

I returned to Beijing from Wuhan to fight the epidemic, still in quarantine, and received a notice from the National Health Commission to fight the epidemic in the southwest. Once I had the opportunity to visit the Southwest United University Museum. This is my first visit to Southwest United University, which preserves the auditorium and many classrooms. Why is southwestern United University so cattle, and why can it cultivate two Nobel Prize winners? I was deeply shocked by the motto of Southwest United University " Fortitude and Perseverance". Standing in front of the statue of President Mei Yiqi, I couldn't help but think: Why do we read? I seem to hear President Mei say to me, "Dr. Cao, the size of the university is not the size of the building, but the size of the master." As a university president, in President Mei's mind, graduates are his works, and he has an image in his heart: the students I cultivate must be future masters.

When General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Southwest United Congress, he pointed out that education should be closely linked with the destiny of the country and the future of the nation. Some people say that in this era, ideals seem to be a bit vain, but I would like to tell my classmates that ideals are not vain at all, and that everyone's development is closely integrated with the destiny of the country and the future of the nation.

Recently, I carefully read the biographies of Guo Yonghuai, Deng Jiaxian, and other two bomb fathers. In 1958, when the state entrusted Deng Jiaxian with research and development tasks, he was the general person in charge. He graduated from the Physics Department of Southwest United University at the age of 34, and he led a team of 20 recent college graduates. The establishment of the theory took 4 years, there were no resources, all by the team's own efforts. It took another two years for them to build the atomic bomb. Students, compared with them, what do we want to do now? There are new drugs, there are new equipment, as long as you want to do it, there is nothing that cannot be done.

"Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open up peace for all the worlds", this famous saying of zhang Zai of the Northern Song Dynasty has always been the highest spiritual pursuit of Chinese intellectuals. The motto of our Union Medical College is "Science for Humanity". "Science" is the first level, is to turn what we do not know into what we know, Concord Medical College is the most sacred medical temple in China, concord medical college graduates if not innovative, still expect others? The second level is "Humanity", when there is a special drug, the medicine to the disease is to help the patient; there are many cases where we are powerless, when there is no special drug, facing the pain of a dying patient, we use love and comfort to let her/him live with dignity at the end of life is also meaningful, which is also the embodiment of our value.

Union Medical College is an ivory tower, and the conditions here are really too good. I would like to ask my classmates, when the country needs you, do you dare to go out of this ivory tower, to suffer, to suffer? Graduates of Concordia Medical College should have such responsibilities. Chairman Mao said that young people are full of vitality, like the sun at eight or nine o'clock. The future of Chinese medicine belongs to everyone. I have been in the compound of Xiehe for ten years, and although I am no longer working in this compound, I am still in Beijing at least, and I hope that I can still help our students and sisters.

Thank you!

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