Surgery (外科手术) and hospital stays are scary things to face for a child. At the Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, there’s a creative doctor called Dr. Robert Parry doing his part to ease young minds. Not only is he a doctor, but he’s also an artist.

Dr. Robert Parry has been working at the hospital since 2011 and has performed over 10,000 surgeries. Each time, he takes the opportunity to decorate a child’s wound dressing by drawing something special for them on it. It takes him just five minutes, but for the children, it makes all the difference.

“It’s been a pretty special thing for everyone,” Dr. Parry explained. “It’s fun for me to do that. The parents and the children really enjoy it.”

Samantha Manning got to experience Dr. Parry’s work. He got operated on her 11-month daughter, Rose in 2017. “We had no idea ahead of time that this was Dr. Parry’s special skill,” she recalled.

“We were really moved by it,” she continued. “The rose garden showed how much they cared and they really lifted our spirits.”

As for what inspired Dr. Parry to provide the personal touch, he said that another doctor’s similar practice gave him the idea. Dr. Perry Stafford would cut dressing material into fun shapes for patients at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland during Dr. Parry’s residency (实习期).

Dr. Parry has also mastered the art of drawing on the dressings without infection (感染). “I use Telfa dressings (not an ideal material for art) and cut out the outline of the image by hand,” he explains. “Then I color it by using color pens. It does not go directly on the wound—it’s protected by a plastic dressing.”

“During a time of stress for families, it is nice to be able to help them smile and laugh,” Dr. Parry said. “This is something positive that I can do for them, which is what I like most about it.”

Province pays tribute (致敬) to a man, 24, who died trying to rescue a suicidal (自杀的) woman. Chen Jianjun, a 24-year-old firefighter from Anhui province, was granted the Anhui May 4th medal after his death—the highest honor for outstanding young people in the province on Saturday, a day after he died while trying to rescue a woman who was threatening to jump off a building.

On Friday morning, the public security bureau in Mengcheng county, Bozhou, received a call about a woman who was attempting to commit suicide.

During the rescue effort, Chen and the woman fell from the roof of a four-story shopping mall. Both of them died after emergency treatment failed, according to a statement released by Mengcheng police.

“The woman was emotional and ignored the persuasion of police and firefighters. She suddenly jumped off the building, and a firefighter moved forward to rescue her. They both fell in the process,” it said. A video clip (片段) circulated online showed a woman in black walking on the roof while Chen, dressed in an orange uniform, was trying to approach her from behind. As the woman suddenly stepped forward, he rushed to grab her, but they suddenly fell off the roof together. Chen held on to the woman as they fell.

On Sunday, an eyewitness told Jimu News—a news portal of Chutian Metropolis Daily, a newspaper based in Hubei province—that an air cushion (垫子) was laid on the ground, and firefighters kept moving it to match the movements of the woman on the roof, but she kept changing her position too quickly for them to keep up with her.

Chen was from Huainan, Anhui. A firefighter since 2014, he helped fight more than 1,300 fires and saved about 100 people, China Fire and Rescue said on its WeChat social media account.

People hailed the young firefighter as a hero and expressed their respect on social media platforms. On Saturday night, dozens of Mengcheng residents gathered at the site of the tragedy (不幸) to pay tribute to Chen, lighting candles to honor his sacrifice.

The video showed Chen was attached to a safety rope while falling, but it is not clear why it failed to hold him and the woman.