Tang Boqiang and Brother Situ, who had been living in a remote town before college, never dreamed that one day they would be able to visit the famous Chinese New Year's Eve flower market in a famous big city like the provincial capital, which was something they didn't even dare to think about before going to college.

Because of the high expectations for this famous flower market. The two of them struggled through the crowd, their eyes looking around to see what the fabled fairyland-like flower market looked like. When they walked along the flower street of Dongchuan Road, they felt that this flower market was just flower farmers selling the flowers they usually planted on Chinese New Year's Eve. Most of the people who come to visit Flower Street are residents of the provincial town, and they want to experience the atmosphere and heritage. For Tang Boqiang and them, the Spring Festival custom of the provincial people did not penetrate into the hearts of the poor children at all.

Sadly, the outside temperature wasn't warmer because of the crowd. On the contrary, the temperature was much lower than that of the electric stove around the dormitory, and they could both really feel that the temperature continued to drop, as evidenced by the frequency of their teeth colliding. At this moment, heating has become more important and urgent than anything else, Tang Boqiang and Brother Situ couldn't take care of it anymore, and the two of them rushed out of the crowd and ran to the dormitory. Back in the dormitory, plugged in the electric stove, the slightest warmth slowly warmed from the hot electric stove to their whole body.

Despite the sound of firecrackers outside, they didn't dare to venture out anymore because of the cold outside. They didn't want to go up early and lie under the covers for a Chinese New Year's Eve, so they simply sat by the electric stove and chatted.

Thinking that they would graduate in a few months, the students who were nicknamed "the youngest students by the head of the grade" when they came to the school five years ago will now go to the southeast and northwest of their motherland, and the topic of their graduation and the choice of majors and employment locations after graduation naturally talked about it.

According to the principle of graduation distribution that year, Brother Situ will definitely return to his hometown to work. In several chats with Brother Situ, he knew that his hometown would not be his place for a long time. Seeing the development momentum of Guangdong, which has led the wind of reform and opening up, he will definitely return to the provincial capital again. After getting along with Brother Situ for a few years, Tang Boqiang knew that he had a very high level of understanding and strong concentration, and he would succeed if he decided to learn anything. His elegant and beautiful words, which made Tang Boqiang envious, and his sketches that were easy to come to but vivid, were all the crystallization of his self-study.

Brother Situ knew Tang Boqiang's ambitions, and when he recalled the past of his internship together in Xinqiao, he couldn't help but start to persuade Tang Boqiang again: "Why don't you choose to be a surgeon?" I've always thought that you were born to be a surgeon, with slender and flexible fingers and quick reactions, and it would be a shame not to be a surgeon. It doesn't matter if you don't want to be a surgeon, but choose a specialty that none of us like. What's so much to do in neurology? What else can be done besides diagnosis? Isn't it just "three vegetarians plus diapers"! And if you choose neurology, it means that the location you choose to work in is greatly limited. As you know, this year, there will be no people in the neurology departments of all the affiliated hospitals of our medical school, so there are not many places to choose in front of you. For the sake of Tang Boqiang's future, Brother Situ repeatedly persuaded Tang Boqiang to engage in what he thought was the best profession and work in what he thought was ideal. Because at that time, only large hospitals had independent neurology departments, and for people like them, there were really very few places to choose.

In fact, after participating in the clinical internship, Tang Boqiang's heart once had a slight heart for surgery. Especially during the internship in the internal medicine department of Xinqiao People's Hospital, an incident happened on the first duty attended by Mr. Zhu, which almost made Tang Boqiang abandon the neurology department and go to surgery.

Here's how it happened. That night, a patient's condition suddenly worsened, and the nurse on duty and the head nurse who came later were unable to establish intravenous access, which meant that all drugs and liquids could not enter the patient's body, which was very unfavorable to the patient's rescue.

Teacher Zhu immediately made a decision and said, "Do a phlebotomy!" ”

Tang Boqiang didn't say a word after hearing this, picked up the consultation sheet from the medical record car and wrote it, and Mr. Zhu asked when he saw this: "Xiao Tang, what are you doing?" ”

"Write a consultation order and ask the surgeon to help us do a phlebotomy." Tang Boqiang replied.

"Okay, okay, when they come, we'll take care of it a long time ago, we'll do it ourselves." Teacher Zhu said easily but firmly.

As he spoke, the nurse on duty had already brought the phlebotomy bag and made preliminary preparations. Tang Boqiang hurriedly took a step back. When Mr. Zhu saw this, he said, "What are you retreating, you can do it!" ”

"Huh? Do I do? I haven't done it before, this position is too dangerous! Tang Boqiang said in surprise.

"What are you afraid of, I'm not letting you go under the knife in your groin. I'm asking you to do a saphenous vein totomy, which is safe and fast, you know where the saphenous vein is, right? Teacher Zhu asked while encouraging.

"Of course I do!" Thanks to a solid anatomical foundation, Tang Boqiang immediately said the location of the small saphenous vein in short words.

"Good, good! Go ahead, you do, I'll see. Teacher Zhu ordered in a tone that was too simple to be simple and unquestionable.

Tang Boqiang saw that there was no way out, so he had to bite the bullet and do it. While he was neatly preparing for preoperative disinfection, he quickly recalled the knowledge he had learned and seen about phlebotomy before, and his thoughts were quickly straightened out. Straightening out his thoughts, Tang Boqiang's movements became smooth and fast.

With the assistance of the nurse on duty and with the help of Mr. Zhu, Tang Boqiang disinfected the incision site, wore gloves, laid a towel, laid a towel, local anesthesia, incision, separated the small saphenous vein, distal ligation, proximal incision, placement of infusion tube, fixation, and skin suture...... Tang Boqiang completed all the actions in one go without saying a word. Seeing the liquid smoothly enter the patient's body, Tang Boqiang was filled with a sense of accomplishment in an instant, and Mr. Zhu also showed a satisfied smile on his face.

Later, when he returned to the school headquarters for internship, Tang Boqiang still has a good hand for surgery. In particular, Mr. Wang's appreciation and affirmation of him from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology did make him feel a little moved, but Tang Boqiang finally insisted on choosing neurology. The penchant for rigorous logical thinking that flowed in his blood still prevailed, and he knew what his heart wanted, and he could not go against his will, because once he chose a subject, it would be a lifelong career.

Although Tang Boqiang respected Brother Situ very much, Tang Boqiang repeatedly responded to Brother Situ's kindness with his stubbornness and persistence. "I've always liked neurology, the rigorous logical thinking and reasoning it requires in diagnosis, and the challenge of having so many unknown mysteries." Of course, Brother Situ knew Tang Boqiang's personality very well, and when he saw him so insistent, he didn't say anything anymore.

On Chinese New Year's Eve in 1984, two medical students who were about to graduate had a long conversation all night, indicating that the two people's life paths would take very different directions.

When the college entrance examination resumed, the country was in a state of ruin. In order to reform and develop, it is necessary to have sufficient qualified personnel. The country's policymakers are deeply aware of this, so the state has adopted a policy of "low security, wide coverage" for all university students, and the state has allocated special funds to subsidize college students in the very poor finance, so that every student who is admitted to university can study with peace of mind. The Ministry of Education has also developed a series of policies aimed at improving the quality of teaching and enabling students to become the talents that the country really needs.

Starting from the 77th grade, the Ministry of Health stipulates that students in the 13 key medical colleges under the ministry must take the graduation examination with a unified national proposition.

The results of the students who took the national examination in the 77th and 78th grades were not satisfactory, and the noun of Huaxia Medical College was only ranked in the middle and upper reaches of the 13 institutions. With the faculty and student level of Huaxia Medical College, the leaders of the college believe that there are no real results in the examination. Therefore, the leaders of the college put the hope of "turning over" on the students of the class of 79. In the later stages of the internship, the internship time of most non-key specialties has been greatly reduced or even cancelled. In May 1984, the clinical internship ended early, and all students were transferred to the state of revision.

With the return of all the students of the Class of '79, the school's already tense classrooms have become even more tense again. For the students of the class of '79, leaving early and returning late is the best choice. They spend most of their time in the classroom, reviewing all the basic and clinical knowledge they have learned over the past 4 years. They keep reading books, but also take a lot of time to study the school free of charge to the students of a variety of review materials, mock test questions, during this period is also frequently interspersed with the school from time to time mock exams, each mock exam is ranked and published in the dormitory bulletin board, this for all students, can not but say that it is a big stimulus, with this group of self-esteem very high "pride of the sky" temperament, who wants to be at the bottom every time?

In addition to announcing the rankings, the college also released a big move, the top ten results of the unified examination can stay in the affiliated hospital or stay in the medical school, and the top three can choose any department. This kind of big move stimulates students even more, and every student who feels promising is trying their best to review for the unified examination.

In the provincial capital after May, spring has long disappeared without a trace, and summer is quietly coming. In a crowded classroom, it is difficult to eliminate the pervasive "heat" with the rotation of only a few ceiling fans. As a result, many students will leave their seats after reading books in the classroom for a while, and go outside the classroom to rest and relax in the shade of a tree or a certain vent.

After nearly a year of internship in the same group, Tang Boqiang, Liao Yanhan and Yang Longyue have become a stable "iron triangle". During the intense revision stage in the classroom, they helped each other occupy the seats in the classroom, reviewed together, discussed various problems encountered together, and walked and chatted together on campus to relax the tense nerves when they were tired and sleepy. Of course, since entering the review stage, Brother Situ has also joined their team, and the advantage of reviewing together is to help each other, learn from each other, and learn from each other. In this way, in any mock exam organized by the school, in addition to Yang Longyue and Liao Yanhan continuing to "ride the dust", Tang Boqiang and Brother Situ's grades have also been greatly improved, and they have been able to remain within the top 60 of their grades. Don't underestimate the number of students within 60, the school will reward students within 60 in the mock exam every time. Although the prize is only a symbolic book or a set of "self-compiled textbooks" produced and sold by the school, it is also an affirmation of their hard work, and the thick mimeographed textbooks were kept by Tang Boqiang until more than 20 years after graduation before he was discarded at a certain move.