萍水相逢，善意相守

我已记不清是哪一年，有个汕头17岁的孩子得了胸腺癌。孩子的姑姑通过我的一个汕头朋友来找到了我，希望我能帮他们在广州给孩子找个医生看病。虽然我与他们一家是萍水相逢，我还是尽我能力去给这个孩子找了中山大学肿瘤防治中心的教授，还给这个孩子找了广东省人民医院的教授。有一次这个孩子病得很重，孩子的姑姑给我打了电话，我马上让司机开车飞奔到了广东省人民医院的急诊科。孩子非常非常的虚弱，我非常非常的难过，他的家人也非常非常的绝望。我到的那一刻，我就在这个孩子的耳边对他说：“这一次就是上天在考验你的家人，你一定要好好活着，为了你的姑姑，为了你的父母，为了这个世界上所有爱你的人，你是一个懂事的孩子，明年你还要去上大学呢。”当天，我就给我的司机打电话，我让他赶紧回公司，请财务给我取出10万元送过来。我想送这个孩子进ICU。我们认识才一个月。第二天，孩子的姑姑来到了我的办公室，她还是很坚持要把这10万元还给我，她对我说：“我想我们应该是一生的好朋友，他的家人也一定会花钱送他进ICU。”一年之后，这个孩子在广州去世了。2022年疫情发生的时候，孩子的姑姑担心我们公司没钱，她往我的卡里汇了两次款。后来我把这两笔款还给了孩子的姑姑，我除了感激还是感激。这就是我们的善缘。2023年我们公司在厦门召开中欧会的前夕，孩子的姑姑专门给我寄了两条项链到广州办公室来。他们只是小康之家，一个孩子生病了，对整个家庭来说都是至暗时刻，这就是人生炼狱。即使我们是普通人，我跟他们萍水相逢，我也应该去出手相助。一些医生和公司如果借病人治病的钱来敛财的话，他们一定会被金钱所反噬。什么样的医生是恶人？你赚了病人数十倍的溢价，还要让病人来感恩你，你就是十足的恶人，这就是百分百的人渣。病人其实不求医生是神，他们只求医生是个人，像个人一样的做好这份工作。

I can no longer remember exactly which year it was, but I still remember a seventeen-year-old boy from Shantou who was diagnosed with thymic carcinoma, and his aunt found me through one of my friends in Shantou, hoping that I could help them arrange medical treatment for him in Guangzhou. Although we were strangers who met by chance, I still tried my best to reach out to specialists at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center and Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital to seek the best possible treatment for him. One day, the boy’s aunt called me for help because his condition got worse. I immediately asked my driver to take me straight to the Emergency department of Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital. My heart broke when I saw how weak he was, and his family was overwhelmed with despair. Then I said to the boy “What you’re going through is a trail that life has placed before your family. You have to hold on -- for your aunt, for your parents, for everyone in this world who loves you. You are a strong and sensible young man. Next year, you’ll be going to college.” At the same day, I told my driver to hurry back to the company, ask the finance department to withdraw 100,000 yuan in cash, and bring it to me right away because I wanted to help the family get him admitted to the ICU. We knew each other just for a month. The next day, the boy’s aunt came to my office because she insisted on handing back the 100,000 yaun to me. She said to me “I believe we will remain friends for life, and his family will do whatever it takes to have him admitted to the ICU”. A year later, the boy passed away in Guangzhou. During the COVID years, in 2022, the boy’s aunt transferred some money to my account twice because she was worried that our company might be facing financial difficulties. Later, I returned both transfers to her. I remained deeply grateful to her kindness, and I thought the bond between us was something arranged by fate. In 2023, before the opening ceremony of the Sino-Euro Global Forum in Xiamen, she mailed two necklaces as a gift to my office in Guangzhou. For an ordinary family, a seriously ill child can turn life into a nightmare. We are all ordinary people, and although our paths crossed by chance, I felt it was only right to lend a helping hand. Any doctor or organization that enrich themselves with money meant for the sick will ultimately be consumed by their own greed. What makes a doctor wicked? If you profits enormously from the suffering of patients and still expect their gratitude, then you have abandoned everything a doctor is supposed to stand for. Patients do not expect doctors to be saints. They simply ask the doctors to be decent human beings-- to treat people with conscience and integrity.