Such people are the hope of the hospitals in China

12月22日我从无锡乘一架小型飞机来到了遵义，遵义在我心中不是一座城市，遵义就是我童年的故乡。当年红军被迫进行了艰难困苦的二万五千里长征，他们到了遵义就转危为安了。因为1935年的遵义会议挽救了党，挽救了中国革命。遵义这座小城在中国历史上意义非凡。很久很久以前，父亲在中国水电八局工作。工作地点就是在遵义旁边50公里之外的乌江。这是一个山清水秀的小镇，有近五万人居住在这里，因为他们要为新中国修建建国后第一座石灰岩水电站。两岁那年，邻居小朋友划伤了我的眼睛，父亲紧急送我去了遵义医科大学附属医院。我夜夜啼哭，父亲在老城为我买了遵义蛋糕，这让我心生安慰。我到达遵义的那天是个清晨，我记得天色很早，街上有卖蛋糕的，蛋糕装在搪瓷盆子里卖，码得整整齐齐，父亲买的蛋糕是用牛皮纸包起来的。这个深夜我静静地掉下了我的眼泪。父亲这一生实在太苦了。这个世界上对我最好最好的人，我今生今世却无能报答他。2020年9月12日是我人生第二次去遵义医科大学附属医院。我是去工作的。该院脊柱外科敖主任带我去见了余院长，我告诉了余院长这个特别的故事。在我一生之中我永远无法忘却这家医院，是他们拯救了我的眼睛。改变了我的一生，才让我有了这个世界上最好的工作。我的这份工作可以让他们与这个世界上的关键学术领袖面对面讨论学术难题。医院现有神经内科、烧伤整形外科、消化内科、麻醉科、临床护理、儿科等9个国家临床重点专科，在这五年间还培养了七位临床医学MD博士。共有四位医生获得了国家公派留学CSC奖学金。脊柱外科的王翀团队也成为了黔北地区最先开展脊柱肿瘤治疗的科室。如果中国每一家医院都可以像遵义医科大学附属医院的余院长和魏院长这样对人才的雄心。中国每一家医院的学科建设就一定可以长足发展。当今中国医院困难重重。DRG收费再一次把科室与医生推入风口浪尖之上。现在只有人才才可以成就一家伟大的医院。我每一次来到遵义，每一次看见院长和科主任都有说不出的本分和善良。他们就是未来中国医院的希望。

On December 22, I took a small plane from Wuxi to Zunyi. In my heart, Zunyi is not only a city, but the hometown of my childhood. In those days, the Red Army was forced to undertake the arduous 25,000-li Long March. When they reached Zunyi, they turned the corner and were out of danger. Because the Zunyi Conference held in 1935 saved the Party and acted as the turning point in the Chinese revolution. The small city of Zunyi holds extraordinary significance in Chinese history. A long time ago, my father worked at the Sinohydro Engineering Bureau 8. The workplace was located next to the Wu River, which was 50 km from Zunyi. It was a small town surrounded with beautiful mountains and clear waters. Nearly 50,000 people lived here because they were  building the first limestone hydropower station after the founding of the new China. When I was two years old, one of my eyes was scratched by a neighbor’s child. My father immediately took me to the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University. I cried every night. My father bought me a Zunyi Egg Cake in the old town to comfort me. I remembered that I arrived in Zunyi in an early morning, there were people selling cakes on the street. The cakes were put in enamel basins and neatly arranged. The one my father bought was wrapped with kraft paper. At this late night my tears dropped in silence. My father had endured a lifetime of hardship. He was the kindest person in this world to me, and one I can never repay. On September 12, 2020, I visited the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University for the second time of my life. Prof. Ao, the Director of the Department of Spine Surgery, introduced me to Prof. Yu, President of the hospital. I told Prof. Yu this special story. In my life, I will never forget this hospital. It was they who saved my eyesight and changed my life. Because of them, I was able to have the best job in the world. This job allows me to bring them together to have face to face discussions on academic challenges with the key academic leaders from around the world. The hospital now has 9 National Key Clinical Specialties, including Neurology, Burn and Plastic Surgery, Gastroenterology, Anesthesiology, Clinical Nursing and Pediatrics. Over the past five years, the hospital supported seven doctors for their MD studies in Germany, and four of them were granted the CSC Scholarship. The team led by WANG Chong from the Department of Spine Surgery has also become the first department in northern Guizhou to provide the treatment for spinal tumors. If every hospital in China could have the same ambition for talent training as President Yu and President Wei from the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, the specialty construction of every hospital in China would surely achieve considerable progress. Chinese hospitals are facing numerous difficulties. The DRG payment system has once again pushed the departments and doctors to the forefront of public attention. Nowadays, only talents can build a great hospital. Every time I went to Zunyi, I could see the dutifulness and kindness in the presidents and the directors of the departments. Such people are the hope of the hospitals in China.