More popular science and less tragedy. Listen to the ＂voices＂ of clinicians who love popular science.

　　"People’s health is an important symbol of national prosperity and national prosperity." "Healthy China Action (2019-2030)" calls for: "Mobilize more social forces to participate in the popularization of health knowledge. Encourage health industry associations and associations to organize experts to carry out various forms of public-oriented health science popularization activities and institution-oriented training. "

　　Among doctors, a group of experts who are keen on the popularization and dissemination of health knowledge have emerged in recent years. They have either written books or made good use of new online media, and worked silently in their respective fields, making great contributions to improving the health literacy of the whole people.

　　On the occasion of the third China Physician’s Day, let’s approach the "big coffee" of medical science popularization and listen to their mental journey of engaging in health science popularization.

　　"With so many people in such a big country, the power of popular science is still too small."

　　Miao Zhongrong: Director of the Neurointervention Center of Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, member of the national health science expert database, has written a series of popular science works, such as "Doctor Panda and Second Brother Comic Medicine", founded WeChat official account, a popular science comic book, and co-authored "The Truth of Disease: Diary of Doctor Panda’s Popular Science".

　　"As a clinical frontline doctor, many patients contacted missed the best treatment opportunity because they came too late. Many diseases could have been prevented, but they were tragic because of ignorance." Miao Zhongrong said, "I realized that if we don’t improve the medical health literacy of ordinary people, we will always have incurable patients and there will be too many tragedies."

　　"More popular science, less a tragedy. Most stroke can be prevented, but the popularization rate of related knowledge is very low. If we vigorously promote the dissemination of health knowledge, the incidence of stroke will be greatly reduced. Through early detection and early treatment, many people can avoid disability and reduce the risk of poverty due to illness. " Yan Zhongrong said.

　　With this in mind, Miao Zhongrong and He Yizhou, a hepatobiliary surgeon at Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital, created the first original comic book of popular medical science story "Doctor Panda and Two Brothers Comic Medicine" in China, and created the comic medical science micro-channel WeChat official account, which used humorous strokes and vivid comic images to convey the knowledge of popular medical science to the public in a simple way. Miao Zhongrong’s Comic Stroke and Doctor Panda and Two Brothers Comic Medicine 1-6 won the National Excellent Popular Science Works Award of the Ministry of Science and Technology respectively.

　　"Being engaged in health science can be described as bittersweet. It is gratifying that there are too many rewards for hard work. I often meet people I know or don’t know and tell me that I have benefited a lot from reading science, or send science content to the family WeChat group. Some patients take the initiative to go to the clinic for treatment because of reading science propaganda. However, with such a large population in such a big country, the power of popular science is still too small, and it feels a bit like a tree. " Yan Zhongrong said.

　　"Because of my mother, I sincerely hope that women will not become patients."

　　Tan Xianjie: distinguished professor, the chief physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, is a "Concord scholar". He has been engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of gynecological benign and malignant tumors for many years. In recent years, he is enthusiastic about medical science, with the aim of making more women pay attention to health and avoid diseases. He has written books such as "Uterine Affairs" and "Concord Famous Doctors Talk about Gynecological Tumors", with 1.34 million fans in Weibo.

　　Whether she is a doctor or engaged in popular science, her mother has a profound influence on Tan Xianjie. At the age of 12, his mother died of illness, and Tan Xianjie cried until he had no strength. "I want to be a doctor!" At that time, his dream was to be a doctor who could cure any disease. This Tujia "cowherd" who came out of the Three Gorges reservoir area finally became a gynecologist in Peking Union Medical College Hospital after hardships.

　　Thirty years after his mother’s death, Tan Xianjie made a retrospective analysis of his mother’s condition during his study in the United States, and finally thought it was endometrial cancer, a gynecological tumor that could be cured in the early stage and fatal in the late stage.

　　"If the family had known some medical knowledge at that time, the mother’s illness might have been discovered and treated in time, and she might have survived." Looking back, Tan Xianjie was deeply sorry and saddened. It is this special experience and sentiment that prompted Tan Xianjie to devote himself to women’s health science after returning to China.

　　In addition to popularizing medical knowledge to women suffering from illness, Tan Xianjie hoped that women would pay attention to health when they were not sick. Referring to ancient novels, he wrote a set of popular science stories about the uterus.

　　"When I went to a primary hospital for a teaching tour, there was always a local doctor who said that he had seen Uterine Affairs. At first, I thought it was just a face-saving remark, but I didn’t expect the other party to recite the content to me in large chunks. They said that after reading "Uterine Affairs", it is much more convenient to explain the illness to patients and their families. Almost all the books can find popular answers, which makes me feel very gratified. " Tan Xianjie said that this is also a broad science popularization.

　　"Frankly speaking, as a clinical frontline doctor, science popularization work is somewhat’ doing nothing’, which takes time and energy, but I am willing! Because of my mother, I sincerely hope that women will not become patients. The female patient in every bed is behind a family, and maybe there is a small child like me behind him. " Tan Xianjie said that he also hopes to give more support to popular science work from scientific research declaration to assessment and encouragement.

　　"After all the bitterness and sweetness, it is still the sweetest."

　　Jia Dacheng: Senior first aid expert of Beijing Emergency Center, consultant of Health Communication Working Committee of Chinese Medical Doctor Association. After retiring in 2009, Jia Dacheng worked harder to popularize first-aid science, with 2.9 million fans on Sina Weibo, and was praised by the media and netizens as "the first person to popularize first-aid science in China".

　　Jia Dacheng has been engaged in first aid science for more than 30 years. In 1983, Jia Dacheng was transferred to Beijing Emergency Center (formerly Beijing Emergency Station) to work. Every day, he saw all kinds of emergencies deteriorate rapidly and even endanger his life because he couldn’t wait for the ambulance, especially the patients who died suddenly and because of accidental injuries. Some of the patients who might have had a chance to get rid of death died forever, which always made him feel heavy and deeply moved.

　　"I want you to tell our frontline workers what we can do before the ambulance arrives." In 1986, at the invitation of a factory, Jia Dacheng started the work of first aid science popularization.

　　For more than 30 years, he has held lectures and trainings for about 5,000 units and nearly one million people all over the country, and trained thousands of first-aid teachers for the Red Cross.

　　"On Sina Weibo, many netizens told me that I saved my family after watching my Weibo." Jia Dacheng said that in more than 30 years of first aid training, a criminal policeman had just finished learning first aid with him for two days, and saved an old lady with cardiac arrest when performing a task; An electrician saved the electrocuted workers with the cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills he learned from him; There is also a mother who attended the first aid training camp and used the method he taught to discharge foreign bodies for children with airway obstruction and purple face, thus avoiding danger.

　　"These examples are really happier than saving people myself, and they are also one of the driving forces that inspire me to always adhere to the science of first aid." Jia Dacheng said that during his more than 30 years of engaging in health science popularization, he also met with people who didn’t understand, ate "closed doors" and even suffered online questioning and abuse, but "tasted all the ups and downs, but it was still the sweetest".

　　"The more you do popular science, the more you feel a sense of mission and significance."

　　Zhi Xiuyi: Director of Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Capital Medical University, chief expert of thoracic surgery in xuanwu hospital, vice president of chinese association on tobacco control and chairman of lung cancer prevention and treatment branch, chairman of science popularization committee of China Anti-cancer Association, and director of tobacco control and lung cancer prevention and treatment department of China Cancer Foundation. He has devoted himself to tobacco control publicity and lung cancer prevention and treatment for many years, and has nearly 30 years of experience in lung cancer prevention and treatment.

　　Patients with lung cancer who have just been diagnosed are inevitably very scared when they hear the words "cancer" and "the first killer", and even listen to "rumors" and go astray. About 30 years ago, Zhi Xiuyi, who was still an attending physician, gave a health class and a public science lecture to hospitalized lung cancer patients in the hospital.

　　After a period of time, he found that the audience was still very limited, and it was difficult to cover the vast number of health groups, especially those at high risk of lung cancer. So he began to publicize new technologies for prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer through various traditional media platforms such as radio, television and newspapers, so as to enhance the accessibility and influence of health science.

　　"I have embarked on the road of popularizing health knowledge since the 1990 s. The more popular science I do, the more sense of mission and significance I feel." Zhi Xiuyi said that as a representative of the Beijing Municipal People’s Congress and a special government inspector, he has the responsibility to help the society expose lies, crush rumors and help the public improve their scientific and health literacy, so as to better prevent diseases and realize early diagnosis and treatment.

　　Zhi Xiuyi summarized that the key to lung cancer prevention is to stay away from "three haze and five qi". "Three Hazes" refer to outdoor smog, indoor haze and inner haze, and "Five Gases" refer to outdoor air pollution, indoor air pollution including second-hand smoke and third-hand smoke, kitchen fume with China characteristics, harmful gases produced by house decoration materials and "psychological pollution" caused by long-term sulking. This concise and easy-to-understand language makes the concept of cancer prevention more deeply rooted in people’s hearts.

　　As a "big coffee" for anti-cancer science popularization, Zhi Xiuyi not only insisted on science popularization for many years, but also led young doctors in the department to join the anti-cancer science popularization team.

　　"It is not enough to rely on individuals, but also on the strength of everyone." Zhi Xiuyi said that during the COVID-19 epidemic, China Anti-Cancer Association, together with China Tobacco Control Association, Chinese Medical Doctor Association, China Cancer Foundation and other organizations, actively carried out online popular science education, webcasting and expert interviews. At present, the number of live interviews has exceeded 100, with an audience of 500 million.

　　At the same time, Zhixiuyi is still actively exploring how to make health science "cross-border" reach more audiences. He said that he hoped that doctors would join hands with public figures such as literary and art circles and sports circles when doing popular science, for example, passing on the knowledge of tobacco control and cancer prevention through literary and artistic modes that the public loved, such as sketches and local operas. I hope that the health science popularization industry can form a larger scale in the future and strive for more excellent works.

　　"I accidentally found that the internet is full of pseudoscience, and I really can’t stand it."

　　Zhang Xiaodong: Director and chief physician of VIP ward of digestive tract tumor in Peking University Cancer Hospital. His research interests are chemotherapy of digestive tract tumor, early diagnosis and treatment of cancer screening. Weibo Great V "Doctor Dong" has been insisting on cancer-related health science for 9 years, promoting early cancer screening and transmitting harmonious positive energy between doctors and patients, with nearly 600,000 fans in Weibo.

　　In Weibo, the "Doctor of the East", you can often see the refutation of rumors and "pseudoscience". "Nine years ago, I accidentally discovered that the Internet was full of pseudoscience, and I couldn’t stand it anymore. Since then, it has been out of control on the road of popular science." Zhang Xiaodong said that over the years, she has spared no effort to popularize science with many colleagues. More and more netizens have begun to understand doctors and various diseases, and have begun to establish correct concepts such as "early cancer screening", which makes her feel that science popularization has not been wasted.

　　Zhang Xiaodong said that the public’s understanding of health has made great progress compared with a few years ago, especially young people are more receptive to scientific concepts. However, the popularization of health knowledge in China has just started, and there is still much room for improvement, such as putting an end to eating and drinking, smoking and drinking, national fitness, and paying attention to early cancer screening.

　　"There are patients with esophageal cancer who have not relapsed for more than a year after surgery, but they are malnourished and dying because they drink remedies and don’t eat every day." Zhang Xiaodong said that once someone in the family suffers from cancer, many people will lose basic food, clothing, housing and transportation, which is also the place where swindlers cheat the most. Many of them are psychological problems, and there are many patients who are tortured to death by ignorance in clinic.

　　"Some self-media and some TV stations are still spreading pseudoscience to mislead the people for economic benefits, hoping to intensify the crackdown at the national level and create a good environment. It is difficult for individual doctors to reverse the unhealthy concept of the whole society." Zhang Xiaodong said.

　　"National health should start with dolls"

　　Gao Yajun: Chief physician of Breast Disease Prevention and Control Center of Haidian Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Beijing, internationally certified lactation consultant, expert member of Breast Professional Committee of China Maternal and Child Health Association, engaged in health science for 12 years, and is editing the popular science book "Easy Breastfeeding".

　　The origin of the elegant army engaged in popular science is inseparable from its own experience.

　　"I am a breast surgeon who has had surgery for more than 20 years. Although often referred to as a breast specialist, I encountered many feeding difficulties when my baby was born 16 years ago. " Gao Yajun said that because the child was "deprived of milk" when he was three months old, he had to be fed with formula milk. Now his son’s gastrointestinal dysfunction has something to do with not being exclusively breastfed.

　　Elegant army thought: "As a’ doctor mother’, I have failed to breastfeed myself. How can I guide the breastfeeding mothers who come to see a doctor every day?" So she began to burn the midnight oil, looked up the information in the field of breastfeeding abroad, and found that her eyes lit up and opened a door, and she embarked on the road of healthy science popularization. In order to solve the difficult problems often encountered in the work, the elegant army purchased a large number of original foreign language books at its own expense and obtained the internationally certified lactation consultant.

　　"The health of the whole people should start with dolls." Elegance Army has published dozens of popular science articles on breast feeding, breast health care and disease prevention and treatment on the network platform. Through popular science propaganda and online and offline diagnosis and treatment, it has helped countless nursing mothers for more than ten years, among which there are many doctors and nurses from the top three hospitals who come here, because most of the breast departments in their hospitals mainly treat breast cancer, and breast feeding is short-board.

　　"After the introduction of the Healthy China Action, it has become more and more convenient for us to engage in health science popularization, and more and more attention has been paid by the society. The hospital has also set up relevant departments to engage in health science popularization, and often let us go to the community or pregnant women’s schools to preach." Gao Yajun said that at present, there is still a lack of medical experts who are really good at science popularization. We should train a group of medical science popularization experts among young doctors. We can also consider incorporating science popularization into the assessment of grassroots doctors and strengthening community science popularization. Reporter Li Bin and Lin Miaomiao