Across oceans, a doctor finds the meaning of responsibility

When Moldovan sailor Stanislav Lungu arrived at Shanghai's Changhai Hospital, he was facing a medical emergency in a country far from home. Yet as doctors explained the treatment plan, his anxiety began to ease.

"I trusted them because they said I wasn't the first patient they'd treated this way. They had performed this procedure many times before," he said.

The encounter lasted only a few moments, but it captured something that vascular surgeon Xiao Yu has come to understand over years of medical practice: trust can transcend language. For Xiao, an attending physician at Changhai Hospital and a Communist Party of China (CPC) member for nearly two decades, that sense of responsibility recently took her far beyond the operating room.

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