Continuing to warm people’s hearts with his sincerity, love and skill, is a local doctor whose dedication to treating his patients recently saw him perform no less than five operations while in tremendous pain himself. The following morning, he received an appendectomy.
Meet Wang Wei, Deputy Chief Physician with the Orthopaedics Department of Jurong People’s Hospital in Zhenjiang. That would be the Jurong branch of the famed Jiangsu Province Hospital on Nanjing’s Guangzhou Lu, which dates back to 1936.
On 4 December, Wang was scheduled to perform operations on five orthopaedic patients. But while doing so, appendicitis broke out and he endured severe pain, but nevertheless insisted on completing the final operation.
Wand was then himself diagnosed with acute appendicitis, requiring surgery. But he was not done yet. So he stayed up all night, checking his patients the next day to complete handover for his colleagues, whereupon he walked into the operating room full of confidence to receive that appendectomy.
It is understood that during the first operation that day, Wang felt a dull pain around his umbilicus, but it was not severe. He put it down to intestinal cramps due to cold. Anyway, his patient’s condition required immediate attention.
But the pain only increased. As a last resort, Wang Wei took two antispasmodics so that he may continue operating, while at the same time becoming suspicious he had developed acute appendicitis.
Despite all this, Wang completed three lumbar-spine, one radius and one tibial-fracture opertions that day, as the Yangtze Evening News reports.
Aware that the job was not yet done, that evening, Wang elected to treat himself with infusion, so that he might be able to control the condition. As a result, he developed a fever and chills throughout the night.
With everything successfully completed, Wang completed the handover to his colleagues and lay down on the operating table himself at 10:30 on 5 December.
Wang graduated from Nanjing Medical University in 2010 with a major in clinical medicine. He is a 7-year master’s degree student. In 2017, he studied in the Department of Orthopedics of Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University with the specialty of spine surgery.
A “do it, don’t talk it”, but warm-hearted kind of man, soon after his final graduation in 2018, Wang was among those who did not hesitate to join those headed to Xinjiang to provide medical assistance.
We all know how hard it is to concentrate when in pain. And a surgeon needs more focused concentration that almost anyone. Unanimously praised, Wang’s actions of late also illustrate well why he won the title of “Outstanding Young Doctor” in Zhenjiang in 2019.
