(Minghui.org)
Dr. Ren, my co-worker, is a veteran medical specialist in her 70s. She has experienced some health issues this year, particularly pain in her legs. She struggled going up the stairs and had to hold onto the handrail for support.
What was more embarrassing for her was the disappearance of her fingerprints, that is, her fingerprint patterns could not be captured by a scanner at work. We are required to scan our fingerprints to register our presence and time of arrival when we start work in the morning. One day, Dr. Ren just could not register herself. She frantically tried all ten fingers without success while everyone filed past her. In distress, she went to the manager who arranged for her to record her arrival and departure times in a notebook. That alleviated her embarrassment somewhat.
One day after work, Dr. Ren asked me whether I was a practicing Buddhist or Daoist. She told me she had noticed the enormous changes in me and that I not only looked younger but always appeared happy, unlike the old arrogant person I used to be.
I told her I practiced Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, and explained that it is a Buddhist cultivation discipline that teaches its adherents to be kind and benevolent. I also let her know that the self-immolation incident at Tiananmen Square was fake and that the practice has been taken up by people in more than a hundred countries around the world. I suggested that sincerely reciting “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” would help her with any health issues. She responded with enthusiasm, saying that this was something she could easily do. I also explained to her the importance of renouncing her membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Young Pioneers, and the Youth League. She readily agreed.
A few days later, she tapped me on the shoulder: “The method you told me about really works! These last few days, I have been reciting the ‘magical phrases’ no matter what I was doing – cooking, washing, or walking. Look, my legs are much better now.” She did actually move a lot faster going up the stairs and did not even have to hold onto the handrail.
We got a new office manager, who insisted that Dr. Ren scan her fingerprints. What happened next was almost unbelievable. She scanned all her fingers and the machine successfully picked up all her fingerprints without difficulty. When she told me about it, I was very pleased for her. She said, “Dafa is really amazing! I have also been thinking about how light my body is as I walk. I feel younger! I will definitely continue to recite those ‘magical phrases.’ I must also tell my family about Falun Dafa.”
She has two granddaughters, one in sixth grade and the other in junior high. When she recommended the Falun Dafa truth clarification periodicals to them, the older one refused to take any because she seemed to have been brainwashed by the Party propaganda. Her younger granddaughter, however, always took time to read them.
At exam time, Dr. Ren urged them to recite, “Falun Dafa is good.” Since the younger one was aware of the truth, she frequently repeated it to herself while sitting her exams, while the older one refused to do it. When the exam results came out, her older granddaughter did not do that well, but the younger one exceeded all expectations. She was accepted by a top-level local high school and even assigned to their accelerated learning class. Everyone who knew her was amazed and now truly believes that “Falun Dafa is good.”
In China today, it's difficult to be an ethical doctor. There is a very effective Chinese herbal medicine prescription for inflammation on our hospital computer system. Because it only costs just over ten yuan, it puts most doctors off from prescribing it. The hospital then added another, expensive herb to the mix, raising the cost to 40 yuan. The change also affected the efficacy of the original prescription.
I raised this issue with our hospital pharmacist. She said I could continue to prescribe the herbal mix and she would leave out the recently added herb when she filled the prescription, but the cost would still be 40 yuan. That way, everyone would be happy. I told her that would have been fine had I not started practicing Falun Dafa, but I could not now be untruthful since we practice Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She did not know what to say to that.
Since then, whenever I use that prescription, I always delete the additional herb, changing it back to the original herbal mix that only costs about ten yuan. At first, the pharmacists were not too pleased (because it affects their bonus) but after a while they saw that I was insistent on it so they eventually got used to it.
As a Falun Dafa practitioner, I do genuinely care for my patients and try my best to find the best treatment for them. They often offer me money on the side or gifts, which I always refuse to accept, so some of them would secretly put money into my cell phone account. I usually return the amount in a roundabout sort of way. I find out what the patient's next check-up will be for and pay up-front, save the receipt, and give it to the patient when he or she comes in. They are all very touched and say that doctors like me are very hard to find these days. I tell them that any Falun Dafa practitioner would do the same because our master teaches us to do that.
There have also been times when I did not do well when it came to accepting gifts. For instance, some patients gave me homegrown products, such as honey, black beans, and the like. They would insist that I accept them because they were all “homegrown and natural” and “didn't cost them anything.” I got tempted and at times accepted the gifts. I felt really bad afterward when I remembered what Master said about “no loss, no gain.” To make amends, I would give them in return things like milk or goods of similar value and insist that they take them and would not take no for an answer.
Before I became a Falun Dafa practitioner, a patient whom I had served very well gave me a gift of 2,000 yuan. I thought about this gift later and realized I would have lost a lot of “de” (or virtue) in exchange for the gift. I tried calling the patient, asking her to come and see me, but she never did. I returned the money by putting it into her cell phone account.
I remember one patient told me about an ironic comment her husband made. He said, “In this day and age, you would be hard pressed to find such a 'different kind' of doctor that would not accept gifts from patients. And even harder to find are these 'silly' patients who would accept gifts from their doctors.”