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In the 1950s, Prof. Liu chose the thoracic surgery
               department as his profession when he returned to Wuhan.
               After witnessing anesthetic techniques’ backwardness, Prof.
               Liu decided to be an anesthetist and started from almost
               nothing. After that, Prof. Liu devoted himself to
               anesthesiology and fought for it all his life. In 1954, Prof.
               Liu came to Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai and studied
               from Prof. Jue Wu, one of China’s modern anesthesiology
               and clinical pharmacology. After returning from Shanghai,
               he pioneered the anesthesiology department in Wuhan Union
               Hospital without a single halt. Since 1955, Prof. Liu had
               been mainly engaged in anesthesia. He gradually grew into a
               professor and director of the Department of Anesthesiology
               from an ordinary anesthetist through unremitting efforts.            Professor Jun-jie Liu in the college
                    In clinical practice, Prof. Liu particularly stressed anesthesiologist’ sense of responsibility
               for the occupation. He believed that anesthesiologists should always consider patients and attach
               great importance to patient’ perioperative safety. “Never be content with what you have done”,
               this is what Prof. Liu had been talking about. And yet he made it. Prof. Liu had kept thinking
               about improving anesthesia quality and how to alleviate the pain for patients. In 1964, he
               advocated establishing the first post-anesthesia care unit in China, which aimed to lower
               postoperative complications and death rate. To reduce the postoperative pain for patients and
               enhance recovery after surgery, he was the first one in China to apply continuous epidural
               anesthesia for postoperative analgesia. He invented continuous brachial plexus nerve block,
               which was helpful for clinical operation. Up to now, many inventions of Prof. Liu are still widely
               used, such as continuous epidural anesthesia for postoperative analgesia, continuous brachial
               plexus nerve block, etc. Prof. Liu student, Prof. Shang-long Yao, who is now the Institute
               Director of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine of Union Hospital, evaluated his
               contribution like this: “Without Prof. Liu, there would be no today’s Department of
               Anesthesiology, Wuhan Union Hospital. He is one of the greatest anesthesiologist in modern
               China”.

                    Prof. Liu had an intense interest in reading books and was good at summing up. He believed
               that anesthesiologists must master fundamental medical theories and rich clinical medical
               knowledge and understand domestic and foreign scientific development to broaden their
               horizons. He advocated a clinical training of anesthesiologists integrating theory with practice. In
               1983, Prof. Liu was invited by People’s Medical Publishing House to edit “Modern
               Anesthesiology”. Thus, he mobilized and organized experts and scholars across the country to
               edit this book. Four years later, this book was finally published in October 1987. In 1990, this
               book was awarded the first prize of National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Books.
               After the first edition of “Modern Anesthesiology”, Prof. Liu actively edited the second edition
               when he was aged 70 years old. Presently, this book has been the most authoritative reference
               book of anesthesiology in China.


                    Prof. Liu always said, “Man must be content to all you own”. He did not care about
               reputation, status, and money. He only cared about the development of anesthesiology. In 1984,
               Prof. Liu was 62 years old, and he requested to retire from the top post for encouraging the

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