At 5 p.m. on January 13, 2015, a long queue formed in the underground cab waiting area of Beijing West Railway Station, as usual. Among the bustling crowd, a lady in her forties suddenly clutched her head with both hands and let out a heartbreaking moving cry, shocking the surrounding passengers. Under the family’s explanation, we learned that it was her headache attack! “Never seen a headache can torture people like this!” The people around were surprised and saddened, and the passengers waiting in front of the line took the initiative to make way for the lady, who was assisted by her family and quickly got into a cab and headed straight to the Aviation General Hospital on the North Fifth Ring Road in Chaoyang District. In the car, her sister quickly took out a syringe, a series of four tramadol for her injection, more than ten minutes later, the manic she regained her composure. This unfortunate lady surnamed Lou, from Henan Zhoukou. She had been suffering from headaches for more than 8 years. One day in 2006, shortly after giving birth, Ms. Lou had a sudden onset of headache, tearing and runny nose, which was slightly relieved after taking some analgesics from a local hospital. But soon after, the condition again and more serious, in Zhengzhou, a university hospital for medical treatment, was diagnosed as trigeminal neuralgia, burn surgery, but also did not work. She had no choice but to take an internal retreat, and accompanied by her family, she went to major neurosurgery hospitals in Henan, Shanghai and Beijing, but her condition never improved, and the frequency and length of attacks continued to increase. “When the pain is up, I feel like my head is so swollen that it’s about to explode!” Ms. Lou said. “When she had an attack, she rolled on the bed in pain, and a cry of pain scared her daughter to tears, and often even the neighbors were alarmed.” Once you think back to the suffering of her sister, Ms. Lou’s sister is heartbroken. Over the years, oral tramadol pain relief simply does not work anymore, must be injected, she needs the injection dose from the initial 1, 2 increased to 4, the frequency of injection also from the beginning of two or three days once, increased to twice a day. In order to take care of her in time, my sister had to quit her old job and move near her home. It was heartbreaking that once her sister broke her wrist and her 8-year-old daughter learned to give her injections, and for 8 years she went through physical torture and huge expenses that destroyed her otherwise happy life in a small town. She spent all her savings, took out debts among relatives and friends, and finally even sold her house and land deed. “Maybe death is the only relief!” Faced with the torture of illness and hopeless life, she had the idea of dying many times! She wanted to ask her sister to take care of her only daughter, but her family refused her request in order to encourage her to live. Like a lost sailor, she sailed by night in the infinite darkness of pain. “When God closes all doors to you, he may open a window for you.” Ms. Lou’s nephew had been harboring this belief and was struggling to find a remedy for his aunt’s life. One day, he suddenly saw a report on CCTV.com about Director Jin Yongjian’s neurological decompression procedure at the Aviation General Hospital for intractable headaches, and no matter what the outcome, he had to give it a try! The family took Ms. Lou to Beijing with a last glimmer of hope, and the opening scene occurred. Ms. Lou’s pain was mainly concentrated in three points, the front right occipital area and the back left and right sides of her head. After a detailed examination and case discussion, Director Jin determined that her headache was caused by ectopic compression of a nerve by a blood vessel. In order to reduce trauma and save her medical costs, Director Jin deliberately divided the surgery into two steps based on years of clinical experience, i.e., doing both sides of the back of the head first and then doing the anterior occipital area according to the actual results of the treatment. On the third day after Ms. Lou was admitted to the hospital, Director Jin performed minimally invasive nerve decompression surgery on the left and right sides of the posterior part of her head, and the entire operation took just over an hour to complete. A few days later, due to her condition, Director Jin performed another decompression of the front right occipital area. The headache that had been tormenting Ms. Lou for 8 years was finally completely relieved! “As soon as I got off the operating table, I felt like a hundred pounds of weight had been lifted, I was so refreshed, it was a feeling of relief I had never felt before, I was so happy I wanted to fly!” Ms. Lou shared with the reporter her excitement and joy after her first recovery from a long illness. “Although life played a cruel joke on me, but the director of the aviation general hospital Jin gave me a second life.” Ms. Lou paused for a moment and said emotionally. In the midst of all the feelings, she could not help but weep. “Tramadol needs to stop as soon as possible! When you go home, you also need to strengthen the psychological counseling and care for the patient; then follow up with a period of antidepressants, and you will fully recover.” Every time he checked the room, Director Jin did not forget to exhort and encourage Ms. Lou’s family. It turns out that long-term pain and the use of morphine-based drugs will not only cause depression, but also make the patient strongly dependent on such drugs. One week after the operation, Ms. Lou was discharged from the hospital and went home happily for the New Year with her family by her side! Director Jin Yongjian is both a pioneer in the use of neurological decompression for migraine in China and the specialist who has performed the largest number of surgeries for this type of disease. Director Jin has treated countless patients in his 20 years of cerebrovascular disease work, but Ms. Lou was destined to be a special one. Whenever she thinks of her unfortunate encounter with poverty due to her illness, Director Jin is overcome with emotion and has a deeper appreciation for the responsibility on the shoulders of a doctor. (Song Nan) Related links: Jin Yongjian, a young neurosurgeon, director of traumatic cerebrovascular neurosurgery of Aviation General Hospital, medical doctor who stayed in Japan, chief physician, associate professor, former head of the collaborative treatment center for cerebrovascular disease of Yuquan Hospital of Tsinghua University. After graduating from university, Dr. Jin has been engaged in the treatment of cerebrovascular disease for more than 20 years. He studied at the National Circulator Center Neurosurgery Department in Osaka, the largest cerebrovascular disease treatment center in Japan, and studied under top neurosurgeons such as nagata (the chief expert of cerebrovascular disease neurosurgery in Japan) and mori (the founder of mori typing). After returning to China, he was the first one to carry out blood flow reconstruction surgery for ischemic cerebrovascular disease, microvascular decompression surgery for migraine and neurointerventional surgery in China, and was awarded the title of “Pioneer of Economic and Technological Innovation in Beijing Health System” in 2004. He has published more than 20 papers, including 2 influential SCI papers, and has been awarded 1 Beijing Initial Fund Project and 1 Returnee Fund. Specialties: surgical treatment of hemorrhagic and ischemic cerebrovascular diseases, neurointerventional treatment, surgical treatment of intractable migraine. Part-time position: Member of Chinese Medical Association Neurosurgery Branch, Member of Japan Neurosurgery Kansai Region Cerebrovascular Disease Neurosurgery Branch