On the night of the Lantern Festival in 2024, a shocking incident occurred at the School of Medicine of Hunan Normal University, and the life of a 26-year-old female student in the third year of research was stopped forever. She chose to end her life in the bathroom of the Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, which makes us wonder: Why? Why would a young and promising life choose despair at such a hopeful moment?
She is a regular trainee. Regular trainees are a special identity in the mouth of medical students. They have just graduated and entered the hospital, and they are faced with heavy department rotation and menial work. They don't earn much, but they have to do the work of a few people, and they are under tremendous pressure. Some departments can learn things, and some departments just let you do miscellaneous chores.
After graduating from the bachelor's degree for five years, if you want to continue to develop in the medical industry, you have to face the choice of regular training. The three-year training period is under the basic salary, under the huge work pressure, and the workload is more than the normal workload. The instructor often chatters that interns and trainees are useless.
The last text left by this girl is full of helplessness and pain about life. She works extremely hard, working overtime every day, with no time to rest, and even if she takes leave, she has to go to work. She said, "The human body is not made of iron, who can withstand the real wheel turn." This sentence expresses her helpless state of mind, and it also makes people feel heartache for what happened to her.
The dynamics she left in the circle of friends are even more heartbreaking. She said, "I can't find anyone in the ward who is faster than me", which is a reflection of her dedication and sense of responsibility to her work. She said, "Save the child," which was clearly a call for help, but it may not have received an effective response. Her longing for life is intertwined with pain, and we deplore her loss.
Medical students go to the hospital to learn and grow. However, for trainees and interns, they not only have to learn medical knowledge, but also take on more responsibilities and pressures. Some people may encounter a grumpy doctor and experience both physical and psychological torture. This is not an isolated phenomenon, but a universal problem.
We hope that similar situations will be taken seriously and resolved to some extent. We should pay attention to the mental health of medical students, and pay attention to their working environment and treatment. We should provide more support and care for those medical staff who dedicate themselves so that every young life can thrive in the sun.
In this Lantern Festival, let us not only taste the food and release the Kong Ming lantern, but also pay attention to those who pay silently, and give them warmth and care. Let's work together to create a better tomorrow!