饶毅今天在复旦毕业致辞：50年前“与困难共舞”的研究生

演讲 | 饶毅

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首先我要感谢复旦大学的包容：允许我因为上海第一医学院并入复旦而成为校友。

其实，即使上医，我也没毕业。无论复旦还是上医，称为母校，对我不最合适。更合适的称呼是：父校——我父亲的母校。

►饶毅父亲的毕业证书封面及照片页

五十四年前，我父亲考入上海第一医学院，与大家一样在此完成了研究生学业。今天我与大家分享我父亲的故事，因为他与在座同学贴近，父亲是在这里开始知道什么是医学科学、如何进行科学研究。感恩复旦暨上医为我们两代提供了高等专业教育和训练机遇。

在毕业季，

你们中间无忧无虑者，须知：困难在人生中本是常态；

你们中间忧心忡忡者，须知：坚毅在进化中嵌入基因。

1968年离开上海的父亲，无法像今天的你们一样怀揣梦想、期待充满阳光的未来，因为浩（qi）荡（pa）的历史带给他的是事业“塌方”：父亲回到江西很快被从南昌送到县医院，而县医院也不容“资产阶级知识分子”、认为父亲受教育过多而应该去农村劳动。离开人才济济、良医众多、设备优良的上医不到一年，父亲的工作地点变成了偏远农村的卫生室，那里医生只有父亲一人。

你们可能不会有“断崖式”转折，至少我希望复旦毕业生都不会。但你们也会有不得不与困难共舞的时候，我期待你们：

在逆境中舞出情怀，

在顺境中舞出精彩。

当年，父亲除了似乎一辈子要生活在农村的前景所带来的精神压力之外，还面临其他问题：人们生病没有昼夜，父亲是全天候的医生；农民不可能分科，父亲只能从一位呼吸内科高度训练的专科医生，几乎被磨炼成“全科”医生；出诊远近村落、跋山涉水都靠双脚；一家四口的居住面积不到十平……

父亲曾半夜长途步行赶到农民家里为难产的孕妇接生；挽救故意或误服农药的村民；口对口呼吸救助溺水儿童……不可能都靠现代医药，也试过草药。广阔的农村，成为父亲的临床实践基地；缺医少药的农民触发父亲培养当地青年成为赤脚医生。

在条件很差的上世纪七十年代，他回到南昌不久就努力从事医学研究。八十年代，他从美国引进现代医学研究方法。九十年代他更好地理解了优美的DNA双螺旋和重组DNA技术带来的生物医学革命，将临床医学与分子生物学相结合，探索疾病诊断和治疗，推进分子医学。

虽然五十年前不同于现在， 但今天的世界也疯癫，今天的中国并非天堂。在与大家分享了五十年前毕业的研究生如何与困难共舞后，我衷心祝愿你们：

人生穷乏处，达观自爱，追求崇高，不在乎得失，只要境界脱俗；

人生得意时，忧乐天下，正道直行，不在乎伟大，只要乐在其中。

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英文版演讲稿

Dances with Difficulties

Speech at the 2016 Commencement of Fudan University 

Yi Rao

I am grateful to the inclusiveness of Fudan University in considering me as an alumnus merged from Shanghai First Medical College. 

In fact, I have not even graduated from Shangyi. For me, it is not the most appropriate to call Fudan or Shangyi Muxiao (mother school). It is Fuxiao (father school)—my father’s school. 

54 years ago, my father entered Shangyi, and, like all of you, graduated from here. Today I would like to share with you what I have learned from him, because he is similar to you and he started to know what is medical sciences and how to perform academic research. My father and I would also like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude for the advanced education and professional training Fudan/Shangyi has provided to two generations of our family. 

When he left here in 1968, it was impossible for him to imagine a future full of sunshine, because catastrophic historical events had swept him as well as more than a billion other Chinese. To put it mildly, his career collapsed. Once he was in Jiangxi, he was quickly sent from Nanchang to a hospital in a small town, which also deemed him to be over-educated as a “bourgeois intellectual” who had to be educated through labor in the countryside. He was soon sent to a small village, transiting within less than a year from the Shangyi with many excellent doctors and nurses and medical equipment to a single room clinic, with the only doctor being him and himself.

In addition to the psychological shadow brought by the prospect of living a rural life for ever, my father faced other problems: people got sick day or night, he could only be an all time doctor; peasants did not distinguish between medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics or gynecology, he was transformed from a highly trained doctor specialized in respiratory diseases to an all around doctor；with neither cars nor bicycles, he visited patients by foot, to villages close or afar, crossing ditches or creeks or mountains; our family of 4 lived within less than ten square meters…

He walked at midnight to help a pregnant peasant deliver a baby safely when it was dangerous. He brought back to life those who knowingly or unknowingly took pesticides. He did mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of drowned children. Not all his work was assisted by modern medicine, he had tried local herbs.

Along with his own practice, my father educated young locals to be “bare-foot” doctors, maximally lengthening the period of improved medical conditions in the rural areas.

In the 1970s when conditions were poor, he tried hard to carry out medical research after returning to Nanchang. When more opportunities arose in the 1980s, he introduced modern research approaches from the US. In the 1990s, he appreciated the beauty of the double helix of DNA and understood the biomedical revolution ushered in by the recombinant DNA technology. He even combined molecular biology and clinical medicine, established an institute of molecular medicine, and explored new ways for diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

Your era is different from that of 50 years ago, but the world today can be insane, and China is not definitely the heaven. Your life will also run into problems and difficulties, but hopefully not of the cliff-jumping type. How to dance with difficulties will also be of concern to each of you. 

I sincerely wish that you can

dance with grace when the sun turns away,

dance with compassion when it shines your way. 

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