Chapter 263: 【263】Teacher Tan is truly awesome Chapter 263: 【263】Teacher Tan is truly awesome Once the students had left, Tan Kelin said to his own team below, “Next week, those two who are on emergency duty and attending conferences outside will be back, except for Zhang Haofan who will continue his mandatory training within the hospital.”
Originally, their two teams couldn’t possibly be so small. Hearing that the doctors from his group were coming back, Sun Yubo was so happy he could die, no longer needing to bustle about on his own as a resident.
Even so, Sun Yubo tried to negotiate with his superiors, “Will Xie Wanying be under my management in the future?”
“Keep dreaming,” Tan Kelin spat out with a haughty tone, completely shattering his beautiful dream.
It was foreseeable that the extremely capable Xie Wanying—someone with the ability to do the work of many—wouldn’t be under his management, but then who would she be under? Sun Yubo continued to look on enviously.
Liu Chengran, smiling, slapped his junior brother on the head: Really, stop dreaming.
After receiving notice from her teacher that she would be in charge of beds number 3 and 7, Xie Wanying immediately went to look for the patients’ medical records, helping the teacher to write prescriptions and histories, all part of what a bed-managing intern should do. That morning, she and the other three doctoral students didn’t go to the operating room. It was just a minor operation; she heard that Tan Kelin had taken a look before hurrying off to other matters.
In the afternoon, the patient in bed number 7 was scheduled to have laparoscopic surgery, and Xie Wanying personally escorted the patient to the operating room.
Laparoscopic surgery, with its advantages of smaller incisions and faster postoperative recovery, has garnered widespread patient acceptance. The technique is being increasingly implemented clinically, but it places a significant demand on a surgeon’s skill.
Doctors who excel at traditional surgery may not necessarily be good at laparoscopic procedures, as there are differences in technique between laparoscopic and open surgery. It was said that Teacher Tan was extremely skilled in laparoscopy.
The three doctoral students couldn’t provide any specific examples when they talked about it, indicating it was more likely hearsay and they hadn’t actually seen it clearly for themselves.
When Xie Wanying entered the operating room, she too heard the talk.
“You’re looking for Dr. Tan on behalf of Director Lu, right?”
“I heard Director Lu’s relative insists on having laparoscopic surgery. Problem is, Director Lu isn’t particularly adept at performing laparoscopy.”
“How could Director Lu not be adept at laparoscopy? He’s the head of colorectal surgery. He could just have a doctor from his own department do it.”
“Seems like there’s a particular spot that’s tricky to handle, the colorectal surgeons can’t manage it. It was initially decided that an open surgery was the only option.”
Colorectal Surgery also specializes in rectal diseases, putting them in a competitive relationship with General Surgery Departments One and Two. If it wasn’t for the director personally asking for help due to a relative, they definitely would not have bothered.
Leaders from other departments within the same hospital generally give each other face. Moreover, Director Lu must certainly have communicated with Director Shen of General Surgery Department Two beforehand.
As for why they specifically sought out Tan Kelin—
This goes back a long way in China, when patients used to be able to specify which doctor in the hospital would perform their surgery, provided they were willing to pay an additional fee. The consequences were as you can imagine—there was no succession planning for young doctors. This wouldn’t do, as doctors’ skills need opportunities to be honed.
So, following reforms, it was changed. Now after patients are admitted to the hospital, a senior doctor is responsible for supervising the surgery, and who the chief surgeon is doesn’t matter anymore, since the presence of a senior doctor ensures nothing goes wrong. As for parts of the surgery that are difficult, regardless of whether or not the senior doctor can handle them, any surgeon in the hospital capable of doing so must be called upon to assist.
It was evident that Teacher Tan was one of those doctors often called upon for help, his skills needless to say were truly impressive. Where others failed, he succeeded.
After listening to the conversation of those around her, Xie Wanying immediately understood: To be a surgeon of such caliber, like Teacher Tan, that’s what really means to be truly outstanding.
After the administration of anesthesia to the patient in bed number 7, preparation for the surgery began.