Healer, renshu also; benevolent, lover also. As a profession of treating diseases and saving people, doctors have always enjoyed a high status in society, because they can help people expel diseases, return to health, and even save a dying life through what they have learned, but excellent doctors can not only save people, but also save the country.
Lu Xun was once a medical student, but he felt that studying medicine could not save Chinese, so he abandoned medicine and followed the text, and used words to awaken the People of China.
But studying medicine can actually save people, and Bethune is such a doctor, who has always insisted on using what he has learned to save lives from war.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > the duties of the doctor</h1>
In 1914, Henry Norman Bethune, who was studying at the University of Toronto School of Medicine, enlisted in the Army and followed the Canadian Army to Europe to fight in World War I.
As a medical student, Bethune was tasked with treating the wounded, shuttling between trenches and tunnels in the smoke-filled battlefield, constantly carrying back wounded soldiers on stretchers.
However, Bethune's first military career came to an abrupt end half a year after he joined the army, and in the process of transporting the wounded, his left leg was hit by shrapnel, and he was incapacitated, and he was placed to recuperate in a hospital in Britain, and three months later, because he failed to pass the physical examination, he was arranged to return to China to continue his studies.
In 1916, Bethune graduated and joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon and was awarded the rank of lieutenant.
In the field of medicine, Bethune improved many medical devices to make them more convenient to use, and also pioneered surgical treatments for tuberculosis that were common at the time, and published a large number of influential academic papers.
But Bethune's identity was far more than that of a doctor, he joined the Communist Party of Canada in 1935, and the following year he participated in the Spanish Civil War, and the turbulent situation and the dead and wounded people made him extremely disappointed in capitalism and militarism.
In the process of treating the military and the people, Bethune set up a mobile blood donation station to treat everyone indiscriminately, and he was one of the first doctors to propose universal health care.
Bethune's social practice made him more firm in his belief in communism, and also made him hate militarism and war even more, that is, during this period, he resolutely joined the anti-fascist struggle.
A well-educated medical student born in a capitalist country, raised in a capitalist country, and finally in an endless war, sees the ugly face of capitalism and militarism, a person can not decide his origin, but can decide what kind of person he wants to become.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > trip to China</h1>
The situation in Spain is complex, the number of foreign forces behind the warring forces on both sides can be called a rehearsal of the Second World War, the contradiction between capitalism and communism can no longer be reconciled, and in the case that the war cannot end in a short time, Bethune hopes to go to a place where the conditions are more difficult to support the cause of communism.
Bethune eventually set his sights on the East, and in January 1938, with his own medical team and medical equipment, he boarded a ferry to Macau and traveled from there to Yan'an.
Hearing of the arrival of international aid, Chairman Mao personally received Bethune and his party, which was the first time they met, but also the last.
As peers, Bethune and Chairman Mao chatted for three hours when they first met, discussing the international situation and analyzing the direction of the future revolution.
Bethune recounted his experience over the years, chairman Mao briefed him on the recent situation in the revolutionary base areas, and at the end Bethune expressed to Chairman Mao the plan of the trip, he wanted to form a professional medical rescue team for the Chinese Communist Party and save the lives of more wounded soldiers.
The three-hour meeting made Bethune feel the difference of Chairman Mao, and he exclaimed in his diary that Chairman Mao was a charismatic person, the greatest person in the world today.
Bethune confidently began his plan, but he was taken aback when he saw the backward medical conditions in the base area.
Bethune clearly knows that the road ahead is difficult, but he still resolutely chooses to come to China, his arrival is not only to practice the duties of a doctor, but also to pursue his ideals and fight for his beliefs.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > a noble man</h1>
Although Bethune had also worked as a field doctor for many years and had certain preparations for the harsh medical conditions on the battlefield, the situation in China was far beyond his imagination, and there was not only a shortage of medical treatment and medicine, but also a lack of professional guidance for medical workers.
His plan had to be adjusted, and in order to save more lives, he proposed moving the field hospital forward so that the doctor would go to the wounded soldiers, rather than the wounded soldiers to the doctors.
Bethune used his superb medical skills to save countless lives, in his experience, as long as the treatment is timely, more than 70% of the wounded on the battlefield can recover as before, but all this is simply a fantasy for the enemy base area facing blockade, Bethune also realized that his understanding was too idealistic, but he still insisted and made his own efforts.
Bethune braved the war, moved from base to base, trained local medical workers everywhere he went, imparted medical experience without reservation, and personally demonstrated and corrected the problems in the treatment process, in four months, he walked 750 kilometers, mastered more than 300 surgeries, and established 13 operating rooms.
Just as everything was moving in the direction of Bethune's plan, an accident took his life, and during an operation, Bethune was slashed by a scalpel on his left hand, and he knew that there was a risk of infection, but he insisted on the operation.
Unable to find medical gloves, Bethune's wound was exposed and several surgeries continued until he died of sepsis on November 12, 1939, at the age of 49.
Bethune's time in China was less than two years, and during this period he only met chairman Mao once, but such a foreigner who came to China from thousands of miles deserves our respect, and chairman Mao deserves to write a eulogy for him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > conclusion</h1>
Saving the country is important, saving people is equally important, different people choose different paths, but as long as they have the same belief, in the end, they will end up on the same path. Chairman Mao chose to use the method of armed revolution, And Bethune chose the way of studying medicine to save people, and they are all realizing their ideals and convictions with their own actions.
Bethune is not just a doctor, a doctor is his profession, but he is also a warrior, he gave up a good life and chose the most difficult environment, because he knows what he wants, even if there are only a few things that individuals can change, but as long as they change, there will always be miracles.