Should I be Happy?

Should I be Happy?
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
It is a shame when people want to do something good for the human world; there always is someone there to destroy the hopefulness. I guess it is nature as a human being who wants to live better, wants to get promotion, and wants to be Important. And for this very purpose, to find any possible way to get what they want should not be criticized. That is why for being selfish in this point is becoming another part of human’s nature.
I wonder when people will eliminate the weakness of human nature. That way the world would be so much cleaner and happier.
At this moment, I am not happy. One and half years ago, I wrote a summarized article about The Ketogenic Diet Treatment in Pediatric Epilepsy in Chinese. The purpose of the article was to introduce the treatment to my colleagues in China.
I am a new Immigrant and work in the hospital In Eugene Oregon. The treatment caught my attention because one day at work during break, I was browsing around on the Intranet trying to learn more about American medical system. I was reading the pediatric policies and noted there is a protocol for Ketogenic diet. Working as a pediatrician In China for 18 years, I was believed not the ones who were behind the time of the knowledge. But I have never heard about such treatment. It got my curiosity. I decided to learn more about it.
Internet is my best resources of learning. I got online and read more about it. I liked it. It is a great altered way to treat epilepsy. I thought I was behind the time for this treatment because I left clinical site 3 years before I came to the US and now I am living in the US for 6 years and far away from pediatric practice. So I searched Chinese articles about the treatment and also talked to friend there about the treatment. Surprisingly, I only found few articles about the treatment in Chinese which came from Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The articles mainly reported information about the treatment in North America, Australia and England. No research done in China. And my MD friends in China know nothing about the treatment.
I decided to do some research and write a summarize of the treatment and send to Chinese medical journal to introduce the altered pediatric epilepsy treatment to my colleagues in China.
Writing a summarize article with all the references in English is not easy for a person like me using English as Second language. I spend over three months, read about 30 articles, research papers and a book of the treatment. Finally, I wrote an over 9000 words summarize both in Chinese and English. I sent the Chinese version to a medical journal in China and they said it is too long to use at the time. And I tend to forget about it since I was busy for work and school.
Last night, I was visiting a Chinese website and happily talking to the people there. I suddenly wanted to put my article there for people whoever was interested to read it. I only put an aberration there and thinking that I should check to see if anyone staled my work in China. So I check it online and unfortunately, I found a web posting just like what I wrote. The only different is the article was shorted and the author is someone I don’t know. My article really got stolen! That is a hospital website.
I was angry, up set and also confused. I don’t know what to do. I trust them too much to send them my article by printing, emailing, attachment and discs. I gave them anyway they wanted to. And than, there is an e-mail, telling me that they don’t have enough space for my article and then, there is one hospital practicing the treatment and there is someone published it online with their name…
At least there is some hospital trying this treatment, there is someone published the treatment online. I guess, the original point of writing this article is done. I probably should be happy with it. Should I?