Edited and translated by Wang Lili, People's Daily Online.
"We take saving lives as the overriding priority, which means that we must race against time," said Chen Xiangyu, an emergency medicine specialist of Southwest Hospital in southwest China’s Chongqing. Unlike others jobs, emergency medicine specialist must race against time in work.
Facing such high intensity and high pressure of work, the staffs are pretty calm. They said, "Hard work and stress actually is the trivial things. What could be more important than to save a life?"
The photo story is about doctors and nurses who race against death.
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