1923, he went to Scotland to take the surgeon membership exam and met 22-year-old Frances Penny, who was born in a rich family. It was love at first sight, falling in love. The following year, they got married and settled in Detroit, USA.
Unfortunately, Bethune suffered from advanced tuberculosis at 1926. He didn't want to infect his 25-year-old wife, so he went to Trudeau Sanatorium in new york alone for treatment, and let her return to Edinburgh and insist on divorce. A year later, the court ruled that the divorce took effect. At that time, Bethune was already an accomplished thoracic surgeon. He made an avant-garde "artificial pneumothorax therapy" and survived. Everything has a bright side, and he has become a famous doctor for treating terminal diseases.
After his recovery, Bethune wrote a letter to Francis, and they remarried in Montreal on 1928. Since then, his career has flourished and he was elected as a director of the American Society of Thoracic Surgery.
During his medical practice in Canada and the United States, Bethune found that because of the extreme poverty in rich countries, workers and poor people were still miserable. He started free medical care and tried to help the poor with his own strength, reading books on Marx and socialism. On 1933, he divorced his beloved wife again, because he was too focused on his work and got involved in politics, and also because of his personality. But the two still keep in touch.
From 65438 to 0935, Bethune attended the international conference on physiology held in Moscow. On the ship to Europe and the Soviet Union, Bethune was favored by the god of love: he fell in love with an artist. This is a talented painter. She is Canadian, of noble birth, distinguished family background and elegant temperament. Unfortunately, Marianne Scott, who fascinated Bethune, was a married woman. Husband is a famous law school professor, a little poet, a social activist, and has a warm and comfortable life. Although she also fell in love with Bethune, she didn't make up her mind to fall in love.
After arriving in London, Marianne visited relatives and friends and lost touch with the enthusiastic Bethune. Bethune, burned by the fire of love, looked around like a teenager, so that he released Looking for You ... After returning to Canada, Bethune still followed him.
Bethune was an artist full of passion. He loved art since he was a child and painted oil paintings, sketches and watercolors without a teacher. Bethune also liked photography, making movies, writing poems and radio dramas. When they are with Marianne, they have the same interests and endless topics.
Besides painting, Bethune also wrote poems. Because there is love in my heart, Bethune's inspiration is overwhelming. He wrote many love poems for Marianne.
Bethune liked Marianne, who was lively and full of artistic sense, and quietly called her "Pony". Most of the poems written to her are also named after "Pony".
The relationship with "Pony" finally came to an abrupt end. It was the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War that ended this fatal love. 1June, 936, Bethune personally led the Canadian medical team to Spain to participate in the anti-fascist war.
On the eve of going to Spain, he wrote a poem "Blood Moon" to bid farewell to his beloved "pony", sacrificing his little love and keeping his great love. Finally, he moved from the Spanish battlefield to China, joined War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and merged into eternity.
1938 65438+1On October 8th, Bethune led a Canadian-American medical team to China with medicines and surgical equipment. Bethune wrote a farewell letter to his ex-wife Francis before boarding the ship.
One year later, on June165438+1October 12, Bethune died of septicemia in Huangshikou Village, Tang County, Hebei Province. One day before his death, he wrote in his suicide note: "I asked the International Committee for Aid to China to allocate a sum of money to my divorced wife, which can be paid in installments ... explain to her that I am sorry and tell her that I was very happy."