Heart-wrenching Hospital Dramas That Bring Tears To Your Eyes

2016/07/12

Chen Xiaoli

1. Teller: He Xiaoyan, Emergency Department of Jiangsu Province Hospital

One night 16 years ago, an elderly man arrived at the hospital with the help of a middle-aged man and a gray-haired lady. Grimacing in pain, the older man clutched his abdomen.

The younger man told the nurses on duty that the elderly man was his teacher, who had a history of abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Sadly, despite being rushed to the emergency room, the man’s aneurysm had ruptured.

The old man looked at his wife and said, "I want to call my children."

The old lady hesitated for a moment, and then took out a mobile phone from her bag.

The old man took a deep breath and began to dial. A hush fell over the room.

"My child, daddy will leave you soon," The old man looked forward as if his son was standing there, "Don't cry, you're a man...Teach your children well and take good care of your mother. Dad will hang up the phone."

At that time, I asked the doctor why not do surgery?

The doctor pulled me to the corner and said with a gloomy face that surgery would not save the older man.

The patient then called his daughter, saying: "my child, everyone will die just like every brook or river will finally flow to the sea..."

The old man hung up the phone, held the hand of his wife and said, "honey, I am in a lot of pain."

The old lady burst into tears. Clinging to her husband’s hand, she said, “I knew.”

"Please tell the doctor to stop the blood transfusion. Don't waste blood on me anymore," the old man also said “thank you” to his former student.

Tears trickled down the middle-aged man's cheek.

The old man turned again to his wife. The old lady didn't say a word but her lips trembled. The couple just held each other's hands until the old man quietly closed his eyes.

2. Teller: Chen Xixue, Dermatology and Venereal Diseases Department of Peking University First Hospital, in 2012

I filed my first death certificate about ten years ago.

A 14-year-old girl was diagnosed with severe systemic lupus erythematosus after being rushed to the emergency room one night. The next day at 8:20 am, the girl's father came to me and asked about the treatment fees. Considering the limited economic circumstances of the patient’s family, the director had used the most common and cheapest options to rescue the girl. I could remember the cost was about 1,000 yuan (US$150 at today’s exchange rates).

The man had a look at the bill and said slightly, "We don't need treatment any more. We can't afford it. I work in coal pit and I can't earn so much money. She has a little brother as well..."

I came back to the emergency room and saw the girl lying on the bed. However, she didn't know her fate had changed in just half an hour.

I disconnected the medicine equipment and helplessly watched that the curve on the ECG monitor became a straight line.

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