The "Young Life" of 99-year-old Ophthalmologist

Xinhua News Agency, Zhengzhou, July 20th: The "Young Life" of a 99-year-old ophthalmologist.

He is the founder of intraocular foreign body research in China and the academic leader of ocular trauma, helping countless patients to see the light again. Now, in recent years, he is strong. Although only his right ear can hear the sound, he will listen carefully as long as someone asks questions. If someone asks him what is the happiest thing? Zhang Xiaofang, 99, answered without hesitation: Work.

I will stick to my post in the near future.

In recent months, Zhang Lao has been studying the book Zhang Xiaofang Ophthalmology with great concentration. He said, "I go to bed before 2 o'clock every day now. Some people say you can't do this. If you sleep less, it means chronic suicide. You have to live for at least two years. I said it doesn't matter how many years I live less. I lived for 99 years. Do you still care about these two years? As long as I compile this book and hand over a qualified manuscript, it doesn't matter how many years I live less. "

Open-minded and cheerful attitude towards life is Zhang Xiaofang's seriousness and responsibility for his studies and career.

From 65438 to 0978, Zhang Xiaofang and others founded the magazine "Chinese Occupational Eye Diseases of Eye Trauma" from scratch. After more than 40 years of development, the magazine has become a national core periodical. As he grew older, his main focus was also on magazine editing. When he comes home from work, he always carries a white cloth bag with papers in it. He corrects the papers at night, often until 2 am.

It takes an hour or two to revise a manuscript, and six or seven hours to revise an article. Zhang Xiaofang has been very patient in supporting the new force of ophthalmology. "Some articles, the number of words I wrote on them is similar to that written by the author." Zhang Xiaofang laughed.

If you can't go to the front, study medicine and serve your country.

1920, Zhang Xiaofang was born in a medical family. At the age of six or seven, the idea of becoming a doctor has sprouted in Zhang Xiaofang's mind.

"If it is not a good relationship, it is a good doctor. I can't go to the front to fight, so study medicine and serve my country. " Zhang Xiaofang said that his father is a doctor and he has been educating him to study and serve the motherland. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression started, Zhang Xiaofang, who was studying in high school, firmly chose medicine as his lifelong career.

At school, an ophthalmologist showed me a cataract surgery, which opened the door to magical ophthalmology and made him determined to become an ophthalmologist.

1945 After graduating from medical school, Zhang Xiaofang came to work in the Affiliated Hospital of Henan University (now the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University). "At that time, I was assigned to surgery. Later, the hospital wanted to open ophthalmology, so I volunteered to go to ophthalmology. "

At the beginning of the founding of New China, various undertakings flourished, especially the industry developed rapidly. Due to environmental restrictions and improper operation, many patients are blind due to eye trauma. "At that time, the foundation of ophthalmic surgery in China was weak, and the needs of the motherland and the people were the direction of our efforts." Zhang Xiaofang said.

From 65438 to 0955, Zhang Xiaofang began to solve the worldwide problem of intraocular foreign bodies, and he systematically studied the location and removal of intraocular foreign bodies day and night. If there is no suitable surgical instrument, we will design it ourselves. If there are no surgical cases to learn from, we will explore them bit by bit.

Through unremitting efforts, Zhang Xiaofang improved and innovated more than 30 kinds of special instruments and surgical methods for intraocular foreign bodies, but he did not apply for patents for these inventions. "No, experience comes from patients. What we have to do is to promote the method. " Later, Zhang Xiaofang's Localization and Removal of Intraocular Foreign Bodies was published, which became the first monograph on intraocular foreign bodies in the world at that time. These theories have been widely used in clinic, saving a large number of patients from blindness.

Because of Zhang Xiaofang's outstanding achievements in ophthalmology, he is often invited to give lectures abroad. Some universities offered him various preferential conditions to stay abroad, but he politely refused.

"I'm not going anywhere. I have no achievements. My experience comes from a patient in China. I want to repay the place where I was born and raised. " Zhang Xiaofang said.

"Young Life" of 99-year-old People

In this way, Zhang Xiaofang has been an active participant and promoter of the cause of benefiting the people all his life.

When New China was founded, the sanitary conditions were poor and the prevalence of trachoma remained high. Zhang Xiaofang led a group of ophthalmologists to the countryside to engage in trachoma prevention and treatment, sleeping in the wind, and demonstrating the prevention and treatment of trachoma in China.

After the reform and opening up, chronic diseases have gradually become prominent, and cataract has become the primary cause of blindness. Traditional surgery is not easy to popularize at the grassroots level. Zhang Xiaofang introduced foreign small incision cataract surgery and simplified it, which is still in use today. ...

Zhang Xiaofang is a "living fossil" in the development history of ophthalmology in Henan. In the eyes of many young people in the hospital, he is a "lovely" new youth-

As a teenager, he was a member of the famous patriotic musician Xian Xinghai "Yellow River Singing Team", the president of the school drama club and the captain of the basketball team. At the age of 99, he is still correcting English cases for graduate students and revising ophthalmic papers from all over the country. ...

He insists on communicating with students in English, because he thinks that the international communication of medicine is very important and cannot be confined to China. Medical English is an ophthalmology major, which needs continuous learning.

"The English used in magazines cannot be wrong. Try to avoid Chinglish. " This is what Professor Zhang Xiaofang often talks about. With the increasingly close international communication, domestic professional journals now need to attach English abstracts. 20 17, Chinese medical association 137 professional magazine rated English level, and Zhang Xiaofang's "China's eye injury occupational ophthalmopathy" got full marks in English.

As one of the founders of ophthalmology in China, Zhang Xiaofang has trained a large number of clinical ophthalmology talents for more than 70 years and witnessed the development of ophthalmology in China. Someone praised him for being highly respected, and he laughed and said, "What is highly respected is nothing more than being old and wasting more food ..."

When it comes to work, his face is full of happiness. "It is a very happy thing to live, work and have something to do."