In the middle of the “gap” between the two major cardiovascular hospitals, Fu Wai and Anzhen, the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Union Hospital opened a way out with a scalpel under the leadership of Miao Qi, the head of the department. The first time I saw a patient, I was able to see him for seven days and seven nights. The miracle. “Cardiac surgery is very dangerous, 5% mortality rate is a tolerable figure for the medical profession, but my goal is to make this figure infinitely closer to zero.” Last year, Miao Qi led a team that achieved a mortality rate of 1 percent. Behind this was the hard work of him and all the doctors on the team. “I once guarded a post-operative patient for seven days and seven nights without going home.” During those seven days, Miao Qi supported a marching bed and slept in the corridor, going over to check on the patient every hour or two. “I had to go home after seven days because my clothes were rancid.” Now when young doctors are on night shift, they call him in case of emergencies. “I even took a call at 2:00 last night, thinking it was the alarm clock going off. I couldn’t sleep after answering the phone, so I drove to work.” What makes Miao Qi feel lucky is that his wife is very supportive of his work, “She is not a doctor, but she understands me and never complains.” In the fall of 1992, Miao Qi went to Antarctica as a researcher and health doctor to participate in a scientific expedition for more than one year. After the novelty of the first visit to Antarctica passed, loneliness gnawed at one’s spirit every day like termites. To prevent his loneliness from collapsing, some people shouted, some people dropped things, and Miao Qi’s way to relieve loneliness was to copy a book: he prepared an English medical book and copied it every day. When he couldn’t go on copying, he went hiking alone. Out of the expedition station, an empty space. “Aren’t you afraid that animals will come out?” “I’m not afraid of animals, I’m afraid of people.” Miao Qi says, “People think there are always penguins in Antarctica, but in fact they only visit in the summer.” After returning from Antarctica, Miao Qi lost 50 pounds, so much so that when he returned to the section, everyone thought Miao Qi’s brother had arrived. That experience in Antarctica made him firm in his determination to be a good doctor, and after calm reflection in the vast Antarctic, he decided to resist the temptation to go to sea to earn big money and stick to his ideal belief of practicing medicine to save people. In 1997, Miao Qi was sent to the famous Tokyo Heart and Blood Pressure Institute to study. “The bosses always came to check the rooms after 11:00 at night, and after a round, it was already midnight. This dedication of their work deeply influenced me.” At that time, some of the domestic doctors who studied in Japan worked part-time; Miao Qi did not work once in two years, but learned the fastest and most clinical knowledge. When he was running, he was thinking about surgery; when he was dreaming, he was also operating; when he woke up, the surgery was not finished. …… Miao Qi’s busy figure and hurried footsteps were imprinted day after day in the magnificent building of the Tokyo Heart and Blood Pressure Institute. In 2007, Miao Qi went to the top-ranked Cleveland Heart Center in the U.S. for further study, and he still works hard. Now, every day, he is still working hard. This dedication to his career has brought increasing influence to the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Union Hospital. Relying on the strong comprehensive strength of the Union Hospital, in recent years, the Department of Cardiac Surgery has been treating more and more patients who were “pushed” out of other hospitals: they either had multiple complications or were too old …… to be transferred to the Union Hospital, and their lives were turned around. It is Miao Qi and his team who bring hope to their lives.