Female doctor with broken leg still participates in 5-hour surgery
Although her orthopedic surgery colleagues told her to rest, the female doctor still examined and operated on patients every day.
With one leg in a cast, Dr. Song Xiaojie, head of the obstetrics and gynecology department at the Wuhan Women's and Children's Health Center in Hubei province, still performed a crucial surgery on a cancer patient. Dr. Song broke the middle finger of her right foot on April 4 after accidentally kicking it into a metal frame in her office. Her colleagues put a cast on her and advised her to rest, but she refused because she had scheduled surgery for a cervical cancer patient the next day.
"Although my leg is injured, my patient cannot wait any longer,"Chutian Urban Dailyquoted by Dr. Song. The surgery lasted 5 hours and Song's patient, Ms. Li (59 years old,) was in tears after seeing the cast on her surgeon's foot. Since breaking her leg, Song has performed more than 30 surgeries and examined 110 patients daily. Her department is short of staff, so she decided to continue working. "I can't rest. Every patient needs to be examined and most of them are seriously ill," Song told reporters.Pear Videoafter just finishing the morning examination for 61 patients.
The female doctor shared: "My mother used to say, as long as you treat every patient like a family member, you will become a good doctor. I love examining and performing surgeries. I want to do more because I feel like I am making my life valuable by saving people." After Dr. Song's story was shared, millions of Chinese people expressed their admiration and praised Song as a hero. | ||||
