On the morning of January 23, 2022, we were due to follow up on a foreign member of the International Organizing Committee with chest pain (hereinafter referred to as Mr. P). Yesterday, he visited the PUMCH Winter Olympic Ward and received a chest pain screening. When Mr. P, the first international staff member we received, arrived at the station, he told us that he was a long-time marathon runner and expressed some anxiety about the symptom of persistent chest pain. To my surprise, he first shared with us the pleasant experience in the PUMCH Winter Olympic Ward yesterday and kept saying that the doctors there were professional and heart-warming. As he lay down for an ECG, he kept talking for 20 minutes about that, and I proudly said, “That’s family for us, and I’ll definitely relay your gratitude to them.”

During the process, we talked about many things, from the Forbidden City to the old buildings of PUMCH and then to the Beijing Winter Olympics. From the way he talked we could tell that Mr. P was in a good shape today. That is how the medical service station has successfully received the first international patient.

Doctor Rui Xi was examining the ECG of the first patient that the station received

Written by and photo courtesy of Lin Chen, Department of General Surgery

Translator: Liu Haiyan

Editor: Wang Yao