Huang Chengru, the founder of Chinese Pediatric Urology, has passed away, and he has made pioneering explorations in many fields
Huang Chengru benevolent and benevolent for the child to visit the clinic after 90
Name: Huang Chengru
Gender: Female
All year round: 94 years old
Cause of death: death
Time of death: July 15, 2020
Identity before his death: Founder of my country's pediatric urology, famous pediatric medical educator
On July 15, the 94-year-old Huang Chengru passed away.
48 years ago, she established my country's first pediatric urology specialty.
In the minds of patients, this great expert is skilled in medicine and is always looking for the least costly treatment; in the eyes of students, she is a strict teacher, a lovely friend, and a pure-hearted senior.
Huang Chengru has always been in good health and quick thinking. He was in the hospital last year. In September last year, I planned to participate in the academic conference of pediatric urology, but before I set off, I contracted pneumonia, and the tumors in my body that had been silent for many years began to accelerate, and Huang Chengru was weakened day by day.
Huang Chengru refused to go to the hospital and worked as a doctor all her life. She knew her condition. Students Zhang Weiping and Sun Ning are both well-known experts in pediatric urology at Beijing Children's Hospital. They feel sorry for her and hope she can be hospitalized, but they are always rejected. On the last day, Huang Chengru had difficulty breathing and had severe heart failure. The two students again asked to go to the hospital.
The two said, "We have listened to you for a lifetime, can you just listen to us once?"
Huang Chengru thought for a while and said, "If you say that, then go."
At 17:30 that day, Huang Chengru passed away at the age of 94.
Until the last moment, Huang Chengru did not leave any last words.
"She has no regrets. Her biggest pursuit is to become a doctor and develop from scratch to the present. She has saved countless children and students all over the world. The most talked about is gratitude. The students grow up and the department develops well. She is very satisfied." Zhang Weiping said.
Pioneering Chinese Pediatric Urology
In 1950, Huang Chengru graduated from Peking University School of Medicine. Her ambition was to be a surgeon. Beijing lacked opportunities, so she ran to Dalian, where she met her future husband, Wu Wenbin, the chief physician of the Department of Urology at the First Affiliated Hospital of Peking University. In 1956, Huang Chengru returned to Beijing and worked in the Department of Surgery, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University.
Pediatric surgery developed after the Second World War. In the early days, general surgery was the main focus, mainly to save lives. The major specialty developed to a certain degree and began to be refined. Pediatric surgery in China started after the founding of New China. In the 1960s, pediatric surgery had the buds of professional subdivision, and pediatric urology gradually developed on the basis of adult urology and pediatric general surgery.
In 1972, 46-year-old Huang Chengru led the establishment of the Department of Urology, Beijing Children's Hospital, which opened the prelude to the development of the discipline of pediatric urology in my country.
In many fields of pediatric urology, Huang Chengru has made pioneering explorations and innovated the diagnosis, treatment, and surgical ideas and methods of many diseases in pediatric urology.
Medical exploration and experience accumulation are reflected in the output of academic papers. Huang Chengru has published more than 100 academic papers in medical journals at home and abroad. She has served as the editor-in-chief of the first "Pediatric Urology" and "Practical Pediatric Urology" in my country.
"Looking back at the early domestic core journals, the earliest batch of papers in pediatric urology were basically published by her. Many senior doctors in their 60s and 70s grew up watching her books." Zhang Weiping recalled In the 1990s, after graduating from a graduate school, I went to check relevant literature. The author of the first article on basically all diseases in this field was Huang Chengru.
Every year, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, doctors from all over the country come to Huang Chengru for further training, and then bring the most cutting-edge professional knowledge and technology back to the local area. Many of the generations of doctors she trained have become the mainstay, helping this discipline develop and grow.
In the field of pediatric urology in our country, Huang Cheng is a pioneer and a beacon of spirit. There is a young doctor in Jiangsu who recalled that he once met Huang Chengru at an academic conference and felt that he saw the "man in the book". I admire him deeply and want to be close. Panic.
Doctors who don't like "swords"
Huang Chengru has undergone some "unbelievable" difficult operations.
A little girl has a dysplasia of the bladder and cannot store or urinate normally since she was a child. Huang Chengru used a part of the child's intestines to expand the bladder and seal the outlet, punching an eye on the belly, so that the child can catheterize through this small eye. This method has saved many children with the same symptoms.
A young boy with fetal rhabdomyomatous Wilms tumor was only 14 months old when he was admitted to the hospital. Due to the lack of standard treatment in the early stage, his abdominal circumference reached 71 cm, as if a football was embedded. Under the pressure of the huge tumor, the child once stopped breathing and heartbeat. In this case, Huang Chengru is not sure of rescue, but the parents do not give up, she has to fight back, and after two operations, the tumor weighing more than 3 kilograms was removed. 16 years later, the little boy has grown into a big and small boy, and there is no recurrence after the postoperative review.
Huang Chengru's ambition is to go to the operating table and become a surgeon. But when going to the clinic, surgery is her last option.
After Huang Chengru's death, many former children and their parents left messages in the hospital's official account, cherishing her incorruptible practice style. Some parents recalled that they had taken their children to other well-known pediatric hospitals. The doctor's plan was to perform an operation; they came to Huang Chengru and said that he didn't need it, just pay attention to observation. When the child grows up, it really becomes better.
Huang Chengru once said that the child is not a "little adult", but a growing individual. During the treatment, the doctor must take into account the future changes of the child and cannot cause irreparable damage. If an organ of the patient is underdeveloped, it may not be necessary to undergo surgery. "If you exist, if you do not trouble me, I will ignore you; if you find trouble, I will deal with you; if you fight with me, I will fight with you. I will do whatever is good for the child, and save the time. Simplification is not complicated."
She often said: A good surgeon does not depend on what surgery you will do, but on your choice not to do surgery. This cautious style continues in the hospital departments. Every time a severely ill child is received, Zhang Weiping and his colleagues have to make strict judgments to determine whether to perform surgery.
Pursue medicine for a lifetime
Medicine is Huang Chengru's lifelong pursuit.
Huang Chengru is very good in foreign languages and always pays attention to the progress of pediatric urology in the world. At 56 years old, close to retirement, she feels that many places in China are not in line with the international standards, so she wants to go out and venture. She wrote a letter to Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, expressing her wish to study, and the other party accepted it. From August 1982 to August 1983, Huang Chengru visited Monash University and the Royal Children's Hospital alone and gained a lot of new ideas and clinical treatment methods.
The children who went to the Beijing Children's Hospital came from all over the country. Many of them were in various ways and their condition was difficult. Regardless of what kind of disease, Huang Chengru never recommends. She said that we are going to be the last wall to protect children's health. If we push, where else can they go? I also said that if medicine wants to improve, one can't stay in one place all the time. Doctors learn from patients.
In his 80s, Huang Chengru was still on the operating table, performing operations on patients himself. A year ago, she was still visiting the hospital and participating in rounds.
"She is a very innocent person. She loves to be a doctor. She feels that there is no end to studying medicine. She also likes to run to the hospital in her 90s. Seeing children has become her way of life." Zhang Weiping said.
In addition to medicine, Huang Chengru does not pursue anything else, and lives extremely frugally. The old house is in dilapidated condition, the walls are not painted, the floor is not paved, and the furniture is from before liberation. When someone went to the house, Huang Chengru told him to sit on the bed, fearing that the chair would collapse and hurt someone. When going out for a meeting, Zhang Weiping bought her a high-speed rail business seat, and Huang Chengru criticized him, "You just waste money, what can't you do if you sit in the back?"
From "Strict Mother" to "Loving Mother"
Huang Chengru is very good to patients, but he is very strict with apprentices.
The younger generations in the department love and fear Huang Chengru. It is a "nightmare" to follow her for rounds every Thursday. When he came to the patient, Huang Chengru began to ask questions. If he didn't answer or sloppy, regardless of whether it was a male or a female, a young doctor or a senior doctor, Huang Chengru opened his mouth and told him without mercy. So every Wednesday, Corey’s doctor is highly nervous, reading books overnight to "prep for exams."
After 80 years old, Huang Chengru became amiable. When Corey came to the new doctor, they treated her as a kind grandmother. Hearing the directors talk about the "terrible yellow head", I didn't believe it at all.
"She is like our mother, and we are her children. She is getting old slowly. When she sees the children grow up and can be alone, she is not easy to train others." Zhang Weiping said. Once, he accompanied Huang Chengru to a meeting abroad. A foreigner asked Huang Chengru if this was your son. Huang Chengru said yes. Sometimes when we talk about training people, Huang Chengru said, you have all taken the students, and I will save you some face.
Over the past few decades, this department developed by Huang Chengru has gradually grown up, from 11 beds to 20 beds, 40 beds, and 60 beds. It once became the largest pediatric urology department in China. There are more than 2,800 operations performed here each year, most of which are children from other provinces and cities, and most of them are difficult and severe diseases. The diagnosis and treatment capabilities have reached the domestic and international advanced levels.
As long as he treats the children, Zhang Weiping will think of her.
Huang Chengru's shadow seemed to be left everywhere in the huge department.
Beijing News reporter Dai Xuan