Chapter 22 March 31

Do you believe that everyone is equal before life? Whether you are a high-ranking official, a beggar, a celebrity, or an ordinary person, you are equally weak when you are sick, and you are equally vulnerable when you are injured. It all depends on luck to live and to go. This is my understanding of life before the age of twenty.Even if you have a lot of money, even if you are a prince and marquis, you can't escape a disease.In the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Feitian was not afraid of anything, but when Zhuge Liang wrote a sick word on his palm, he was terribly afraid. When my father got sick, the doctor told him that all available medicines were given to you. The Vice Premier of the State Council and you had the same disease, and the two of you took the same medicine.

Today, I'm skeptical of that view.In the face of diseases, human life is divided into three or six grades. Some diseases can be cured if you have money, and some diseases can be cured if you have no money.AIDS was an incurable disease 20 years ago, and those who had no money passed away. Those with money, like Johnson, have been sick for more than 20 years today, relying on new special drugs to maintain, and they are still alive.If he has enough money, he might be able to wait until the day when AIDS is conquered. A horrible patient came to the emergency room today.When he came in, the nurse was really scared.A steel wire ran through his brain from the left temple to the right temple, and he had a high fever.

I asked him about his condition. He was already at the advanced stage of bone cancer. He had amputated a leg, and the cancer had metastasized to the lymph. The life span judged by the doctor was theoretically only a few months. He said that his family was poor in the mountainous area of ​​Yunnan, and he couldn't afford to see a doctor. He came out of the hospital by himself. The pain was so bad that he didn't want to live. He removed the steel wire from the bicycle rim and smashed it in himself.Who knew that no one would die after smashing it in for a few days, but it was shaken again in the past two days, and he didn't want to die anymore, so please help him take it out.

The department held a special meeting on his case, repeatedly discussing the feasibility of taking out the steel wire, which is very dangerous. This steel wire runs through many large blood vessels. It's a month's life, so let's just leave it like this!What's more, he is here alone, and he doesn't even have a family member who signed it, so there is no way to operate on him. But it's not a problem for this guy to hang around the emergency room all day with his head poking on wires. After the water was drained and the fever subsided, I talked to him again. What he said made me feel sick to my stomach.He said that his life was almost over when he was just 30 years old. From the time he dropped out of school to farm and work in his teens, he married a wife and gave birth to two children.He doesn't know how his children and women will live in the future.He wanted to die because he was afraid of burdening them. The family had no money, so it wasn't worth incurring debts for a useless person like him, but he wished so much that he could live and watch the children grow up.

He came to this big city with the only money he had, and he was full of envy as soon as he got off the train.How tall are the houses here, how rich are the people here, how beautiful are the cars here!We are all human, why he doesn't even have money to see a doctor, and many people get what they want. At the end, he said: "I want to take revenge. I want to take revenge on this society! Anyway, I am dead and have no money. I really want to find a bundle of dynamite and put it on the subway. Everyone will die! No matter how rich you are, how much money you will have." Bullish, you will always be like me when you die, right?"

I shudder. How many people in this hospital are so desperate.How many people are struggling at the bottom. In this building, there are six or even eight people in a ward for people below the tenth floor, and there is a large group of people waiting outside the building who need medical treatment but cannot line up. People above the tenth floor lived in luxurious single rooms, and there was an endless stream of visits, and gifts were overwhelming. Recently, Corey accepted a VIP patient, just look at the scene of the emergency surgery doctor!Injured in a car accident, the patient crashed into the back of a big truck because of drunk driving, his facial bones were shattered, and his brain was injured.In time, a family member called. The leaders of the relevant departments of our hospital were waiting at the door for consultation. Only for thread cutting on the side.All this is because the father of the injured is a high-level leader, and the mountains are shaken by every movement.

The operation went well, but the head nurse was in a headache. Every day, visitors flocked like a mountain and a sea. The small ward was often surrounded by more than ten or twenty people. The air was dirty. How to control the nosocomial infection?How can you refuse to stay with more people?No way, I am a VIP, so go ahead and talk, the patient’s mother is crying like hell, any inappropriate words may get punched; don’t say it, many heads are looking at us in the corridor of the ward, this floor It was as lively as Qipu Road.I bite the bullet and put forward my opinion. Not to mention that too many people will affect the patient's rest, and it will also increase the possibility of the patient's infection. After all, it is impossible for family members and friends to disinfect and then operate.

Everyone was quite cooperative, but an astonishing and dumbfounding scene appeared. The visitors consciously lined up in two lines, carrying condolence items in their hands, chatting calmly, waiting, and entering the ward one by one. Go in lightly, come out on tiptoe.The eyes waiting outside were full of envy, while the ones coming out raised their hands and raised their heads full of complacency.In this way, it is hard for you to say anything, the number of companions in the ward is indeed implemented according to the regulations. I really want this leader to listen to the words of this farmer with a tightrope in his brain.If the gap between the two ends of this society is getting bigger and bigger, does he think he can enjoy peace forever?If there are more people with wires inserted into their brains, who would not live in fear?Who knows whether he will have today or tomorrow?

When I was in the regular meeting, I repeated what I said when I put a needle in my brain.The director was silent for a long time and said: "Society has changed. Everything has changed. You new doctors may not have learned an article called 'For the Brothers of the Sixty-one Classes'. There is a sentence in it that I have never read. Remember: In our big socialist family, the hundreds of millions of working people are an intimate whole. A red thread runs through and hearts are connected. We all breathe together and share weal and woe..." In my father's time, he was a worker. When he was sick, the trade union sent people to take care of him in turn, and neighbors, colleagues, relatives and friends all came to help.The life at home is difficult, and the organization helps, and the people around help.Compared with today, the days at that time were too bitter.We have no television, no entertainment, no high consumption, no mansions and villas, but our spiritual world is rich, we have not experienced hardships, our hearts are very peaceful and at ease, we know that there are any difficulties, we will not be left behind , we have to rely on at any time.

"And now? In the environment of the hospital, we have seen how many people were fired by the company because of illness, couples divorced because of illness, and lost confidence in living because of illness." "This society has no soul." "How important the soul is to people! In Western society, once a person is diagnosed with cancer, the first person to appear in front of you is a priest, a church member, and your soul comforter, not a doctor. Family members. Here, we have no religion, no karma, no respect, and no spiritual support. For a person who is on the verge of death, how terrible it is!"

"I have an idea. I first admit that I treat this patient from a rational point of view. It is wrong to think that he has only a few months to live and it is not worth wasting money and energy or even taking risks to operate on him. I apologize. Even if a person is judged by science as having no medical value and whose life cannot be saved, he is still a human being and an integral part of our society. If everyone treats the patient with a utilitarian perspective, he can be cured , Those who can continue to contribute to society will be rescued, and those who are useless will be taken out to feed the dogs. I think the lips will die, and those who are alive will think, what if one day I go to this field? The hospital should not be a hospital. An enterprise should not be a profit-making organization. Although the reality makes us feel awkward and the practitioners are helpless, I always firmly believe that sooner or later, it will become a part of social welfare and humanistic care. I think we should admit this patient. Professor Song, please report to Director Chen of the medical office later. We have admitted this patient, but we still hope that the medical office can send someone to Yunnan to treat his family members Then, after all, this is a major operation, we must have the signature of his family members. In case of anything, at least there are people around him, his relatives. What do you think?" Professor Song said: "This patient is a very extreme case. He is a relatively small part of the society. If we don't handle it well, we will see the bombing of a certain bus in the newspaper tomorrow. I think everyone here will feel the same. I feel uneasy. The cost of this patient’s operation will not be small, even if the hospital bears this part, but his postoperative care, plus the expenses of his family members, may be a lot of money. Does our department want it? Make a donation and support it.” Everyone is already silently digging out their pockets. "In addition, his disease was probably diagnosed in a small local hospital. We can't rely on his dictation. Now that it's all here, we'll have another consultation with the orthopedic department to see if it's really that serious." Another A group leader suggested that it was also approved. When I went home at night, I found the article "For the Brothers of the Sixty-One Class" on the Internet.I used to be very disgusted with this kind of high-level propaganda. I don’t know what practical significance this kind of praiseworthy articles have for us. But when I read it today, I felt a different feeling in my heart, especially this sentence: There is a fire burning in everyone's heart, and this fire burns more and more vigorously; the deep love for the party and Chairman Mao has turned into endless power, people It is being used to accelerate the construction of our great socialist motherland!Let's build her vigorously and at a high speed, this is our backing, this is the guarantee of our eternal happiness! If there is a fire burning in everyone, if everyone has the right and guarantee of happiness, if everyone has a support in their hearts, then this is indeed a strength that you are willing to give to. On the other hand, if everyone has a cloud of ice in their hearts, everyone is worried about their future happiness, and everyone loses their direction in their hearts, then everyone will only think about themselves, everyone will be short-sighted, and only pay attention to the benefits of an inch in front of them , everyone indulges the greed in their hearts. Because you don't believe in the future, you don't believe in the world, you don't believe in love in the world, you have no tomorrow.