The four characters in The Root of Apricot Grove that you see before you are neither some profound medical classic nor a trendy motto. This is a "medical record" that I, a hospital director nearing retirement, most want to leave behind for those who come after me before I leave Mingde Hospital. It records not the suffering of a particular patient, but the "disease of our times" shared by this hospital------and by all the souls who breathe, struggle, and shine within it------a disease we suffer from together and heal together.
