Everyone has his or her beloved, whether he is a great person or an ordinary person, in the deepest part of the soul, there is always a heart that makes waves for him or her.
More than seventy years ago, Comrade Mao Zedong once wrote a famous chapter- "In Memory of Bethune", "Comrade Bethune was a member of the Canadian Communist Party, and in order to help China's War of Resistance Against Japan, he came to China from thousands of miles."
In that fiery era, the spirit of internationalism was pursued by many people with communist beliefs, and Bethune was a warm-hearted man in his youth, and regarded his career as his life, which also brought him marital tragedy.
Bethune was born on March 3, 1890 in the small town of Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada, a well-known forestry area with a population of more than 26,000 people.
Bethune's father was a priest and his mother was a devout believer, but born into such a family, his parents did not hold his son down to let him learn any theology, but to cultivate him with an open-ended education that followed his interests.
Bethune has loved creatures since childhood and has a desire to explore everything in nature. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the University of Toronto. The young man was quite self-reliant, and although he could not find a satisfactory job after graduation, he insisted on not reaching out to his family, but instead worked as a restaurant waiter, firefighter, newspaper reporter, and even a lumberjack, elementary school teacher, boilermaker, etc.
The choice of multiple careers has made it more and more clear for him to find his own interests and the profession he is determined to pursue all his life, that is, doctors.
In 1923, at the age of 33, Bethune passed an exam to become a clinical graduate student at the Royal College of Surgeons, which was quite difficult to pass, and only three people were admitted each year.
Here he met Frances, a 22-year-old Scottish girl. The two actually fell in love. This relationship is actually not optimistic about friends on both sides, because Bethune has an unusually bold personality, likes to drink, prefers to participate in various forms of parties, life is informal, and more importantly, he likes all kinds of adventures.
On the other hand, this Frances girl, with a quiet personality, likes to read, and is most willing to stay at home, at most going out with her girlfriend.
Originally a young man like Bethune, Frances would not like it. However, this is always the case in the world: men's enthusiasm, indomitable pursuit, often breaks the door in women's hearts and accepts feelings that should not be accepted.
Bethune is a man who identifies the goal and never gives up, he has a deep affection for Frances, and through unremitting efforts, he finally embraces the beauty.
Love is always warm and blind, and in the whirlpool of feelings, girls always seem very passive, and their inner desire for love, many times, is particularly easy to be moved by men's "indomitable, enthusiastic persistence".
In fact, in Bethune's eyes, Frances is not only related to his feelings, but also the protagonist of his "sketch works".
On August 13, 1923, only half a year after knowing each other, Frances married Bethune in London, despite the objections of her family and friends. After marriage, the young couple went to Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other places to visit.
It was also the best time in their tangled relationship, even if it was only a year' time.
A year later, after Bethune completed his studies, he left England with Frances and came to Detroit, the United States, to officially begin his medical career. At that time, doctors were very scarce, Bethune went out to greet the morning star in the morning, and returned home with starlight at night, and when he arrived home, he often went to the emergency room, and the whole person was physically and mentally exhausted, and naturally snubbed Frances.
The introverted Frances is full of bitterness about this snubbed married life, but her personality determines that it is difficult for her to communicate openly and honestly with Bethune face-to-face, and the dissatisfaction in her heart cannot let Bethune understand in detail, and Bethune, his eyes are currently only work, coupled with his personality and cheerful, or the kind of big grin, in life, his mind is not so meticulous, not too concerned about women's psychological needs.
The feelings of the two people began to have a crisis at this time.
In the summer of 1926, Bethune contracted tuberculosis, a condition that is easier to treat today, but was a disease that was extremely difficult to cure in those days.
Their marital relationship has also come to the brink of rupture.
Bethune called his wife Frances to his side, and Frances's anxious look made Bethune both distressed and helpless, and he also knew the danger of his illness, and the great probability was that he would not survive.
"One thing I have to tell you, I don't know what the other doctors said to you, but I'm dying, and you're only 25 years old, and you have a whole life ahead, I want you to divorce me and go your own way!" 」
At this time, it was only a little more than three years since they met and a little more than two years after they were married. Young Frances was opposed to divorce, although at this time she was already somewhat dissatisfied with their marriage, but in her heart, she had not yet reached the point of divorce, and moreover, one day husband and wife Hundred Days, she really had no intention of leaving Bethune.
However, after some patient persuasion, Frances finally agreed to divorce Bethune. Their marriage is over, and their love story seems to be coming to an end, at least because Bethune, Frances, and their friends and family think so.
But it's not over yet. At that time, there was a "artificial pneumothorax" method in the medical community, which had the potential to cure tuberculosis, but this method was very risky, and for the average person, they might be afraid to refuse to use this method, except for the adventurous Bethune.
He decided to make a good bet with Death, and resolutely asked the doctor to give him this method of surgery, and he won.
In 1928, at the age of 38, Bethune was discharged from the hospital, and he returned to Montreal, Canada, where he became an assistant physician in the Canadian Thoracic Surgery Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital, during which he invented and improved 12 surgical instruments and published 14 influential medical papers, which were recognized and respected by his peers and established his position in the medical community.
By this time, Bethune had been divorced from his ex-wife, Frances, for two years. When they first divorced, it was not that the relationship was broken and could not be bridged, but because Bethune had a "terminal illness". Now, bethune, who had regained his health, missed Frances more and more intensely.
He wrote to his ex-wife many times, confiding his incomparable thoughts about her. The sensual nature of women, at this time, was revealed again, and Frances, who had been dissatisfied with their feelings, could not refuse Bethune's sincerity, and was once again moved, and in the autumn of 1929, ran from Scotland to Canada again and remarried with Bethune.
But this remarriage still can't save their feelings.
Five years later, Bethune became one of five executive board members of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, and his scholarship reached its peak. Bethune, who is constantly rising in his career and busier at work, who already has a persistent momentum for his career, seems to be more engaged, works more with "madness", and returns to ignoring the old attitude of snubbing Frances.
Once again, their marriage is headed for a dead end.
Emotional snub, Frances seems to be able to endure, but the details of life, she is about to go crazy. One afternoon, when she returned home, she saw Bethune fiddling with a skeleton, and she was greatly frightened and very unhappy.
When she opened the refrigerator to prepare to cook, wow, Frances actually saw a human intestine inside, which Bethune had brought home from the hospital, ready for further study.
Frances screamed in fright, and the unhappiness accumulated in her heart over the years exploded in an instant.
The difference in life's interests led to the end of their reunion, and they divorced again, this time by Frances.
In fact, strictly speaking, Bethune not only practiced medicine, but also wrote, painted, liked to travel, and was a person full of emotions and knew feelings. It's just that in his bones there are more adventures, more irregularities, and more of a career he loves.
For the cause of internationalism, he ran to practice medicine all over the world, and in order to help China resist Japan, he went to the ocean and came to China from thousands of miles.
When he first arrived in Yan'an, in order to take care of this "baby-level" doctor, we wanted to put him in the rear, so that he could play a better role in cultivating the team of doctors. But Bethune was resolutely unwilling, and in order to go to the front, he even dressed himself up as a commoner, but he ignored a problem: big nose and blue eyes, which he could not dress.
In the end, we were unable to keep Bethune quietly in the rear, so we agreed to let him go to the front to treat the wounded. Comrades saw an unusually brave and dedicated foreign doctor, risking artillery fire to rescue and treat the suffering wounded, and everyone's respect for him is also increasing day by day.
Unfortunately, this great doctor, on November 12, 1939, on the anti-Japanese front line of Skyscraper Ridge, unfortunately died of an injury and infection during surgery, at the age of 49.
We can't know what Frances felt in her heart when the news of Bethune's death came, but we prefer to believe that there may be a hint of pain in her heart, after all, she has been in bed for several years, and has been with each other for so long, there are no feelings, and there are memories.