Guo Wenhuang's essence as a doctor, a story of Returned overseas Chinese

Seek truth from facts and treat ourselves, others and society objectively.

Serve the motherland and serve the people heart and soul.

Heal the wounded, rescue the dying, carry forward the revolutionary humanitarian spirit.

These are the three mottos that accompanied the life of Guo Wenhuang, an old returned overseas Chinese from Xiangtan.

This year's Guo Wenhuang has been nearly 90 years old, and the medical bond life he did two "ten thousand". As a doctor, we have treated more than 10,000 critically ill patients. As teachers, he has cultivated more than 10,000 students.

In June 1951, Guo Wenhuang bid farewell to relatives and friends, carrying heavy luggage to Guangzhou Zhongshan Memorial Hall to sign up for the examination, and finally was admitted to Xiangya Medical College (in October 1953, the name was changed to Hunan Medical College). After graduating from the university, Guo Wenhuang stayed in the school to engage in medical anatomy and teaching.

Soon after the hospital, Hengyang Changning Penglai Commune occurred a blast furnace leakage accident, more than 10 people carbon monoxide poisoning. Guo Wenhuang with the nurse the first time rushed to the scene, the patient to implement mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, chest compression and infusion treatment and other rescue work, saved all the patients, was the local steelmaking headquarters awarded the "model Communist Youth League member" title.

In early 1959, Hunan Medical College was short of physicians. Guo Wenhuang took the initiative to apply for transfer to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hunan Medical College and was assigned to work in the emergency room. "Patients from all over the province are under great pressure to seek medical treatment. We often have to stay up all night at night, but the thought that we can reduce patients' pain and save more lives makes it worth the pain and fatigue." Guo Wenhuang recalls his days working in the emergency room with a faint smile on his face.

In 1963, Guo Wenhuang was transferred to the Xiangtan Workers' Hospital (now the First People's Hospital of Xiangtan City) to help work, as a doctor in charge, Guo Wenhuang supported the workers' hospital of the large internal medicine, in addition to responsible for the consultation of five factory and mining hospitals, but also to manage the emergency room, infectious ward and medical ward, heavy tasks and responsibilities.

"I remember once when more than 100 people were burned in Xianggang, I immediately volunteered to transfer from internal medicine to surgery to assist in diagnosis and treatment. After fighting through the night, dozens of patients were saved in time. On another occasion, many people in Shaoshan had an epidemic of meningitis. The Party Committee of the Municipal Health Bureau mobilized the whole city to fight in the war, and the workers' hospital was turned into a hospital for the treatment of patients with meningitis." There are many more such emergency rescues.

During the epidemic of meningitis, Guo Wenhuang made a special report on how to rescue and treat patients with meningitis on the basis of his years of medical experience in the city's medical and health system. He also participated in the compilation of the Municipal Health Bureau's Handbook on Prevention and Treatment of meningitis. Finally, he defeated the epidemic with the joint efforts of the people of the city.

In January 1969, Guo Wenhuang was sent to the western township of Liuyang to support the rural medical and health undertakings. He worked there for 10 years.

As Guo Wenhuang recalled, the local medical conditions are backward and the infrastructure is poor. There is only one outpatient department, all of which are barefoot doctors. Patients can only be transported by a ferry to see a doctor, and emergency patients can hardly get timely treatment.

After much thought, Guo Wenhuang suggested the director of the hospital to empty the office and immediately went to liuyang county to buy medical equipment and cloth to make bed sheets and quilts. After a few days of preparation, a simple hospital with 7 wards and 13 beds was set up.

What impressed Guo most was that he successfully saved a patient who suffered from shock for 67 hours, so many patients and their families called him "the immortal of Guo".

"One time I brought in a critically ill patient with deep jaundice, prerenal renal failure and so on. Her husband said to me, 'Dr. Guo, I have even put the coffin on the door. If you can see the doctor, you can take it back. I don't blame you. 'I stayed with her for a day and a night, and I did everything I could to save her, and in four or five days she was well enough to leave the hospital." Fifty years later, Guo Wenhuang still recalls the tears of joy on the faces of the patients and their families.

In 1970, Guo Wenhuang successfully rescued a woman who had a difficult birth. The husband was an engineer at the Xiangtan Architectural Design Institute. Grateful to Guo, the engineer offered to design drawings for the new hospital. With the support and help of the county and district governments and local people, the hospital has become better and better after its completion. It has become the practice hospital of Hunan Medical College, Hunan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xiangtan Health School and Zhuzhou Health School. Now it has become the Fourth People's Hospital of Liuyang City.

In July 1976, Guo Wenhuang was transferred to Xiangtan Health School to engage in teaching work, and in 1983, he became the vice principal in charge of teaching work. During my tenure, the maternal and child health professional of Xiangtan Health School won the championship in the provincial unified examination for three consecutive times. After knowing the serious shortage of stomatologists in Hunan Province, the department of stomatology was opened for the first time in the province. Until his retirement in 1998, Guo continued to teach students regularly.

From an energetic young man to a white-haired old man, Guo Wenhuang has done two things in his life: Healing the wounded and saving lives, teaching and educating people. After retirement, Guo Wenhuang did not want to be idle at home. He gave health lectures for the returned overseas Chinese and their relatives many times, and organized old overseas Chinese to carry out learning and exchange activities to give play to his residual heat.