Chinanews.com, Shanghai, November 21st (Chen Jing and Li Miaoran) The reporter learned on the 21st that the developer of the early domestic colposcope, Professor Wu Jieyi, a centenarian expert at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, passed away due to illness. Donated to Fudan University Shanghai Medical College for medical teaching.
From studying medicine at the age of 18 to his death at the age of 100, Professor Wu Jieyi dedicated his life to the cause of obstetrics and gynecology, and made the decision to donate the body many years ago.
Professor Wu Jieyi once said: "I also came all the way from a medical student, and I know how important a corpse is to the growth of a medical student. I was trained by going to the hospital (Shanghai Medical College Affiliated to Fudan University), and I I want to give back to my alma mater as much as possible." Behind the donation is Professor Wu Jieyi's love and concern for the medical cause for nearly a century.
In 1946, after graduating from medical school, Wu Jieyi became a doctor at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital affiliated to Fudan University.
Photo courtesy of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University
In 1946, after graduating from medical school, Wu Jieyi became a doctor at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital affiliated to Fudan University.
In 1959, Wu Jieyi was transferred to Huashan Hospital (the First Affiliated Hospital of Shanghai First Medical College at that time) to prepare for the establishment of a clinical department of obstetrics and gynecology and served as the deputy director of administration.
At that time, since imaging was not popularized clinically, the doctor's palpation was particularly important for the identification of atypical pregnancy manifestations and tumors.
Once, there was a patient who was "diagnosed" with ovarian tumor on the surgical schedule and needed surgery the next day, but he did not routinely ask for a gynecological consultation.
Wu Jieyi felt unsafe, so he decided to examine the patient first.
The result of the examination was unexpected. At that time, the patient was actually 7 months pregnant, but was misdiagnosed as ovarian tumor.
Since then, Wu Jieyi has been thinking that being optimistic about one patient is not enough, how to help more patients.
At the end of the three-year preparatory period, Wu Jieyi participated in the teaching work of the hospital.
In the process of teaching students, she gradually discovered that with the expansion of the group of medical students, opportunities for practical operations, especially anatomy, are too scarce, and this is the key to training a qualified doctor.
The diagnosis of early cervical cancer was a big problem in the 1960s and 1970s.
At that time, there was no colposcopy in China, and the industry generally used smear staining and fluorescence spectroscopy to diagnose cervical cancer, but it was difficult to be accurate and intuitive.
How to make more early cervical cancers be detected in time, Wu Jieyi began to look for better diagnostic methods.
At that time, colposcopy technology was like a blank sheet of paper in China.
Without materials, Wu Jieyi looked for an opportunity to go abroad with an empty suitcase on his back, and carried the books and materials back to study.
She saw the scientific research results of foreign colposcopes in a document, so she referred to foreign research, drew the drawings by herself, searched for them, and contacted manufacturers to manufacture them.
In the end, she found an optical instrument factory in Zhenjiang, and after repeated experiments with the master workers, she finally successfully developed an early domestic colposcope.
Since then, the diagnosis rate of cervical cancer and precancerous lesions in China has been greatly improved.
After the results came out, Wu Jieyi went to factories and villages to carry out cervical disease screening, striving to benefit women as soon as possible with advanced technology.
She also continued to research and improve colposcope technology, and accelerated the development and production of domestic colposcopes.
Influenced by his family, Sun Yibo, the grandson of Professor Wu Jieyi, also embarked on the path of medicine.
Sun Yibo told the reporter: "The starting point of grandma's practice of medicine and research is to help more patients."
Many years ago, Wu Jieyi proposed his idea of "donating the body" to his family.
"You can't take anything with you when you leave. Grandma hopes that her body can play a role in the cause of medicine and give back to her alma mater. We all agree and are proud of grandma's decision. Not only did she give all her love to Others, after death, still choose to leave their love to the medical students and the medical cause of the motherland." Sun Yibo said.
After the death of Professor Wu Jieyi, her body was sent to her alma mater, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, for medical students to dissect, learn and practice.
In another way, she returned to her beloved alma mater.
Sun Yibo said: "Grandma is gone, I hope that the love she left in this world can be passed on, can heal a little bit of illness, comfort a little bit of soul, bring a little bit of hope, and dispel a little bit of darkness." (End)