What is the medical path of a healer’s medical dream?

  There was a time when I heard the phrase, “Let’s go slower and slower”. In today’s era of endless streams and everyone catching up, the intention of “slower, slower” is indeed worthy of our consideration and reflection. While running forward, we do not need to stay for a short moment to think about the reason we are running and the goal. And when I think back to the moment when I started, what I taste is a kind of simplicity, purity and hope. I think it was nothing else, it was called our dream.  I remember when I chose a university for my college entrance exam, I silently gave myself two choices: a doctor saves lives and a teacher nurtures people. The doctor is kind, and I am honored to end up as a doctor. In today’s slightly busy work, looking back at the moment when I made the decision, I can’t help but smile. Because what I recall is the innocence of the original idea, the courageous and persistent belief in the unknown future. And when you look at your feet and the future, there is more of a relief, a comfort and a reinforced confidence. I once heard an elder say that when one is young, it is difficult to think clearly about what one’s ideal is, and only after more experience will one understand oneself better and come to a conclusion. I think this statement cannot represent everyone, at least we doctors need the support of our ideals at all times in our growth, and we need to be firm in the ground under our feet and the direction we are going. The long and arduous road of study is often the reason for medical students to compare with the rest of the university professions, and the countless uninterrupted exams seem to test not only medical knowledge but also our will. On the road, we see people fall behind, some fall down, but more than that, we keep moving forward. When I was young or even studying medicine in college, it was hard for me to imagine what a doctor was really like, and I could only appreciate, long for, and admire the pompous plot of some TV series, and the ideal was indeed an ivory tower-like existence at that time. It was only after I entered the hospital internship, graduate school and work that I gradually understood that the reality of the ivory tower is indeed difficult to achieve. Doctors may not be such a respectable job, doctors’ income may not be so desirable, doctors’ daily work may not be so easy and relaxed, doctors’ spare time may not be so dashing and confident; more is the powerful workload squeeze, more is the difficult scientific task of the demand, more is the life does not improve the helpless, more is not understood or even unreasonable violation of the feelings. The more you feel, the more you feel that your life is not improved. I believe that every doctor will have such a period of time, when the ideal and the reality of the contradiction when the bewilderment, constantly looking for reasons to continue to walk and want to change but no way to start the helplessness. I believe that more doctors do this. The patient’s smile of relieving pain drives away the tiredness of the night, the family’s repeated thanks stretches the locked brow, and the success of a difficult surgery or the acceptance of a paper feels like winning the whole world. A colleague, also an elder, told us that most contemporary doctors are lovely. Because no matter how noisy the outside world is, we only need a little encouragement to provide strong motivation, and this encouragement comes from our patients as well as from ourselves. This colleague, Bian Zhengqian, was once known to us for having a bald head, and was also known to our profession for writing and directing a microfilm called “White Collar Journal” that told the story of an intern doctor. Once he told us a story that has always supported his ideals. Once he took a bus to work and the crowded carriage squeezed him to stand next to the window seat, and suddenly a lady sitting there recognized him and said, “Hello, please sit down. Dr. Bian did not know the lady and said with a little self-deprecation, “Excuse me, I’m just a little bald, it’s not enough to give up my seat, right?” . The lady’s answer made him think back for a long time, “No, although I forgot your name, but I remember that you helped me with emergency surgery, which is equal to saving my life, you sit down.” After listening to Dr. Bian’s story, none of us pursued the question of whether he had been seated, almost all of us were immersed in a sudden sense of accomplishment. Finally I asked old Bian, “What is your dream? Dr. Bian said, “It’s very simple, just be a good doctor”. The doctor’s benevolent heart and benevolent art, but finally returned to the basics of the three words “good doctor”, this simple and pure for the first time let me taste the meaning of the dream.  A doctor’s benevolence requires more care. When we look at the future with infinite imagination, we need to be based on the ground under our feet, not to forget the landscape around us. At every departmental and hospital medical meeting, medical safety is always on the mind. Unlike other jobs, every detail of the medical task is related to the life of the patient. There is a popular saying in the industry that even machines can make mistakes, let alone people. I think this saying can indeed explain the inevitability of human error, but as every doctor, how to avoid the occurrence of chance is the most important part of our work. Because every mistake can be costly, time-consuming, and life-threatening. Every life is priceless, how to use a machine metaphor to cover up the loss of life is really pale. In recent years, the media have almost simultaneously questioned the issue of medical safety and successfully applied the title of “white wolf” to doctors, of which there are naturally uninformed, fabricated and confusing bad propaganda, but I believe there are also real examples. How to strengthen medical safety awareness has become an important issue for all hospitals. Details determine success or failure, and I think the only way to avoid tragedies at the root is to pay attention to details. I remember when I was in graduate school, I was helping my mentor to “copy prescriptions” in the outpatient clinic. Once, my mentor reprimanded me heavily in front of the patients because of a mistake that many doctors make, which has the same sound and different words. But it was this experience that made me develop a serious and careful attitude towards everything. I remember a cab driver told me not long ago that the more experienced drivers drive slowly and steadily because they have seen or experienced too many safety accidents. This is similar to the teaching of our senior doctors. The longer you work as a doctor, the more attention you pay to details and the more sensitive you are to small, unintentional problems. I think this is a kind of teaching for us junior doctors, a kind of maturity that can only be appreciated by standing on the shoulders of giants. Not long ago, I was fortunate enough to participate in a doctor-patient role exchange event hosted by Ruijin Hospital and deeply experienced what it is like to be a patient in a hospital. I was mentally prepared for the process of waiting in line, waiting and searching, which is quite normal. But what surprised me was that as a patient my medical knowledge might not be so authoritative, and I began to doubt myself, always fearful and worried about my illness, and put my doubts and hopes in the hands of the doctor I was seeing. I think every patient, even doctors, once the disease worried anxiety will always break through the line of reason, when the truth and truth can not be answered through their own reason, but more need to face their own white angel. This is the case with myself, not to mention ordinary patients who have no medical background. Faced with is such an emotional basis of each patient, how can we let any one mistake or even mistake happen to them, and any machine to make a mistake cloud the reason seems so far-fetched.  The doctor’s kindness in the medical dream, the doctor’s carefulness in the medical road, the doctor’s confidence in the future. A problem will always pass after speaking for a long time, a conflict will always be resolved after a long time. The doctor-patient relationship is such, and so is the doctor-patient conflict. Today’s doctor-patient relationship is in a critical period, which only means that the road beneath our feet muddy, but do not ignore the scenery around us, and do not forget to look up to navigate the colorful, waiting for us to build the future. The sea of medicine is endless, if you are fishing alone because of the wind and waves ahead, will it not fail to live up to the sanctity of creation and the charm of medicine. In recent years, General Secretary Xi has talked about his dream and the dream of the whole Chinese people: to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation since modern times. I think the Chinese dream is big, and the medical dream is the heart. If the dream of every Chinese person is realized, the great goal of presenting the Chinese dream will not be far away.  I don’t think about whether I can succeed or not, since I have chosen a faraway place, I will only travel through wind and rain. I don’t think about whether I can win love, since I love roses, I will be brave enough to reveal my sincerity.