In the more than seven years I have been a journalist, I have visited the countryside in remote areas many times, and coincidentally, most of them are in the cold winter. Walking in these villages, almost all the people I see are elderly. After a lifetime of working in the fields, the sun tanned their ** dark and rough, and wrinkles climbed up their faces. In the cold winter, they wore not the down jackets that are commonplace in the city, but cotton clothes, which wrapped people in bloated layer after layer.
In such a group of old people, the village doctor who has just come out of the campus is somewhat "abrupt". These young people in their 20s, they have an innocent face, full of collagen, and their expressions are somewhat shy and introverted, which is in stark contrast to the old people in the village.
This stark contrast also represents the distance between them and the villagers. How to eliminate this distance is the first problem on their way to medicine. Some college students did not make it through to the village doctors. In fact, this is human nature, and it is understandable that young people yearn for a lively big city.
However, the health of those who are dark, wrinkled, and bloatedly dressed needs to be protected by village doctors. They are far away from the big hospitals in the city, and they like to eat very salty pickles in order to eat, and they collectively call respiratory diseases such as influenza A and influenza B "colds", and they can ......endure it if they are not feeling well, and they can endure it
In order to increase the attractiveness of village doctors to young people, the state has provided a lot of policy preferences: increasing income, providing staffing, etc. During this interview, some local officials said that they are still considering how to solve the problem of these college students' children going to school after they get married.
These policies of the state have reached the hearts of young village doctors. In some places, the admission score for rural order-oriented medical students is increasing year by year, because the number of candidates applying for the examination is increasing.
Those college student village doctors who were not "dissuaded" by the first problem seem to have some commonalities. Under the shy and introverted expression, there is firmness and calmness. This firmness and composure are subtle, hidden in their conversations with the villagers, and in the order they have established when they are surrounded by gossip and inquiry.
Compared with big cities, the countryside is lonely, without the bustle of big shopping malls and the hustle and bustle of snack streets; Compared with the big cities, the countryside is warm, and if the young village doctor works overtime at noon and has no time to eat, there will always be a villager with a bowl of steaming rice to bring them over. I think it may be the loneliness and enthusiasm of the countryside that have cultivated the firmness and calmness of these young village doctors.
Liu Changrong **China Youth Daily.
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