Continued from I love Boards (1) …….      从“我爱理事会（第一部）”继续讲…… Boards remind me of the charming but hugely effective exercise known as “medical ward rounds,” when the young resident doctor is questioned and challenged, during presentations to his professor(s), and a team of say 10 colleagues and nurses. While he might display his “brilliance,” as he “presents” his patient’s problem and potential…

You might not know that I have “three unusual loves.” 1) I love to meet with younger people over coffee chats. 2) When I was an active pediatric professor, I loved the charm of “ward rounds,” advising young doctors about their patients. And 3) I love “advisory boards.” How do these three, seemingly different, “loves” tie together? Americans overuse the…

We continue the dramatic story of Adam （Wu Zixiang 武子祥）from Yunnan, and how he transcended his childhood paralysis. 我们继续讲来自云南的武子祥和他的戏剧性故事：他如何超越了儿童时期患的瘫痪。  Lonely, difficult days. When Adam was growing up, there were many lonely days. He couldn't travel easily, so he depended mostly on friends coming to visit. He wished for a close friend he could freely talk with. Everyone needs a close…

Over the years, many people I first met in the American academic world assumed I was from California, since Asian Americans seemed to predominate from that part of the country. So they are surprised when I say "I’m from Cincinnati.” 多年来，我在美国学术界第一次遇到的人，有许多都认为我是来自加利福尼亚，因为亚裔美国人似乎主要是来自该国的那个地区。所以当我说 “我来自辛辛那提"，他们就很惊讶。 After my arrival in the US, I worked as a pediatric resident in Chicago at the Michael Reese…

When I arrived in the morning at the hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I did a very ’Asian” thing. I took my fine camera and went out to take pictures in the middle of the day. The weather was drizzly, so I decided to cross the street by going into the subway under the road. Evidently, I had been spotted…

One day, a few days after I started my internship at the Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, I was doing morning rounds on my ward. In those days, it was common to have 20 beds or so per ward, and overflow patients had to sleep on cots. Some cots were even in open air balconies adjoining the ward rooms.…

I’m a neonatologist, a doctor who specializes in newborn infants. When I see a newborn baby, my instinctive reflex is always “this is a miracle”，even though I’ve seen thousands of newborn babies. This response is common for many delivery room workers. Everyone is so excited to see a new baby, to hear the first cry, and exclaim “is it a…

I went to school in Hong Kong. In order to get into the only medical school in Hong Kong, we had to pass a tough series of exams which included a hands-on biology “Practical Exam . In this test I had to dissect the salivary glands of a cockroach, and put it on a glass slide for evaluation. Fortunately, cockroaches…

Fried bees is a particular food specialty of many mountain towns in Yunnan. To be precise, actually, it is deep fried, baby bee or embryonic larva. To make it more vivid, one can see the originals squirming in their flat pancake-like beehives on the streets, during fall harvest season. These wild bees are collected by farmers from the mountains, and…

From the very beginning of our work in the small town of LQ, we met Diana, who at that time we called Lucy. Lucy Diana was a daughter of a nurse in the hospital that we had befriended. The nurse brought Lucy Diana to lunch one day, and I had a chance to chat with her. I found her to…