Liu Zhanheng, "crutch Village Doctor" in Shenze

Liu Zhanheng (left)'s small clinic receives a lot of patients every day, and he treats each patient seriously.

"with him, we can rest assured!" "he has nothing to say about his medical skills!" …… This is a compliment from the villagers of Dabao Village, Shenze County, and the object of praise is Liu Zhanheng. Simple-minded, kind-hearted and skilled in medicine, throughout the year, regardless of wind, frost, snow and rain, as long as the patient makes a phone call, he will lean on crutches, pick up the medicine box and rush to the patient's side. Over the past 28 years of medical practice, he has helped countless villagers, and even patients from neighboring counties have come here. As a result, he has become a well-known "crutch village doctor".

Physically disabled and determined, clinging to dreams

Liu Zhanheng, 48, is from Dabao Village, Baizhuang Township, Shenze County. When he was 8 months old, he was unfortunately suffering from polio, and his family took him on a long way to seek medical treatment. Liu Zhanheng in his childhood had the deepest memory of traveling with his parents in various cities, from this hospital to that hospital, from this doctor to that doctor. For more than a decade, his family never gave up treatment for him, but he could not stand on his legs. Because he went around to see a doctor all the year round, the family had long been unable to make ends meet and was heavily in debt. However, what made Liu Zhanheng feel the most was not the injection and medication, or the physical pain treated once, but the disappointed eyes of the family and the sigh. When he was young, he planted a dream in his heart: "if only I could be a doctor, I wish I could cure the sick and save the patient."

The unfortunate experience brought him extraordinary perseverance and indomitable motivation to learn. After graduating from junior high school, in spite of the opposition of his family, he went to Zhengding Medical College alone and began his arduous course of study. Zhengding Medical College is not far from Shenze, but Liu Zhanheng seldom goes back. on the one hand, he is inconvenient and cash-strapped, and on the other hand, he has to seize all the time to study. For more than two years, Liu Zhanheng filled five books of study notes. Every morning, while others were still sleeping, he had already arrived in the classroom; when the lights were out in the evening, he moved the pony into the corridor to read by the dim light. Hungry, eat steamed bread to satisfy hunger, thirsty, drink cold water to get rid of. He didn't care about the mosquito bites in summer and the cold wind in winter, and stuck to his original dream: "I want to be a good doctor." Under the support of this belief, he completed the written medical examination, oral examination and thesis test with excellent results. after graduation, he refused the retention of his alma mater, but returned to his hometown to become a rural doctor and embarked on the road of medicine.

Fearless of wind and rain, go back to the village to practice medicine

After returning to his hometown, 20-year-old Liu Zhanheng opened his own small clinic to treat the villagers. When he was tortured by illness from an early age, he better understood the sufferings of patients and the suffering of being sick but looking down on them. When he sees a doctor, there is no difference between the rich and the poor, no difference between the young and the elderly, and every link is extremely serious. In the prescription, every injection and every medicine is carefully considered, and he will never use expensive medicine to solve the problem that can be solved with cheap medicine. If he can take medicine, he will never give the patient an injection or infusion. Usually take the blood pressure of the elderly, take the temperature of the child, all are voluntary service, that is, injections, infusion, he only collects the cost of materials, to see a doctor here, he always reduces the cost to a minimum.

At the turn of seasons and the high incidence of epidemics, he wrote a bulletin board in the billboard at the door to preach to the villagers the maintenance method of giving priority to prevention and control and supplemented by medical treatment. He wrote down on the blackboard at the first time the folk prescriptions for treatment, food treatments, bird flu, precautions for the prevention of hand, foot and mouth, and so on. For a long time, even the old people and children in the village know: five water is economical and effective to cure colds; three pieces of ginger a day can ward off cold and warm tonics; having two taels of vinegar at home is better than opening a drugstore.

He had a busy day during the day, and at night he had to sum up, record patient files, review his condition, and take notes. When he encountered a difficult disease, he looked up the data, looked through the medical records, and determined an accurate and effective treatment plan. Seeing the improvement of the patient in his treatment and care, Liu Zhanheng felt that he was one step closer to his original dream. Because of being serious and responsible to the patient, more and more people come to his clinic to see a doctor. With more patients, he found that his treatment level could not keep up, so he closed the door of the clinic and went to Shijiazhuang for further study at his own expense, which lasted for more than half a year. After coming back, the number of people coming to see a doctor increased rather than decreased, and his character and medical skills have also been affirmed and praised by more and more villagers.

Doctors are kind-hearted and sincere for their fellow villagers.

For Liu Zhanheng, who has poor legs and feet, every house call is a difficult test. For the convenience of the villagers in the emergency department at night, he sleeps with clothes all the year round. Sometimes he has to go to the emergency room two or three times a night. He always responds to everything he asks for. Even if the weather is bad, he grit his teeth, rain or shine.

I remember it was a late autumn, and it rained one day. In the evening, Liu Peizhen from the same village asked Liu Zhanheng to see his 80-year-old mother. Despite the dark and slippery road, Liu Zhanheng took a flashlight and carried a medicine box on his back. The dirt road in the village was overflowing, so it was difficult to lift a step. He slipped to Liu Peizhen's house step by step, and regardless of wiping the Rain Water and dirt on his body, he first went to see a doctor. After the old man had given fluid, he took time out and emptied the sand in his shoes. On another occasion, he went to Zaoying Village to make a house call. Because he walked too fast, he slipped and fell to the ground. In this fall, Liu Zhanheng's only leg that could support strength was broken. Under such circumstances, he still endured the pain and insisted on treating the patient in the hospital bed. Over the years, he doesn't remember how many times he fell, but he never delayed seeing the villagers. Some people said that he was stupid and that he had a hard time with himself. Liu Zhanheng just smiled silently.