王克荣：一名“白衣天使”的选择

王克荣，1963年出生，北京地坛医院红丝带之家护士长，全国先进工作者，第五届“贝利·马丁奖”获得者，第44届南丁格尔奖章获得者，被誉为“艾滋病患者的知心大姐”，至今从事艾滋病患者救助工作已有17年。

CHINESE NURSE COMFORTS AIDS PATIENTS AS THEY RECEIVE TREATMENTS

It has been 30 years, but Wang Kerong clearly remembers the fears expressed by many of the reed- school students as they were about to graduate. Around that time, officials from Beijing Ditan Hospital, the largest hospital for infectious diseases in China＇s capital, visited Beijing Nurses＇ School to recruit graduates. In 1984, Wang, who had studied nursing, was about to graduate. ＂Back then, most of my schoolmates were reluctant to accept, as they thought they might get infected with diseases while they worked in the hospital,＂ Wang recalls. ＂However, my class adviser, encouraged me, then-secretary of the class＇s League （Communist Youth League） branch, to set an example for my schoolmates, l accepted a nurse＇s position in the hospital＇s department of liver diseases.＂