Chapter 672: Hepatobiliary Surgery Characteristics Chapter 672: Hepatobiliary Surgery Characteristics The common people think that a good doctor is one who prescribes medication or performs surgery to cure your illness, without realizing how much effort the doctor has put forth behind the scenes. Modern medicine is no longer an individual fight for doctors; it requires teamwork. The doctor is the organizer, and if even a small part of the process is not handled well, problems will arise.
Hearing Senior Tao take responsibility and place it upon his own shoulders caused the entire nursing team to breathe a sigh of relief. The head nurse’s eyes reflected her gratitude.
When problems occur, the solution is not simply to shift blame but to shoulder responsibility, which is how to gain greater support from colleagues in the future. No wonder the nurses look at Senior Tao with such warmth.
Even Director Tang, who had been angry, was no longer mad, and his eyes were filled with admiration for Tao Zhijie.
This incident also shows that while managing patients is very important in General Surgery Department Two, it is not as critical as in Hepatobiliary Surgery, where even a minor issue cannot be tolerated. Director Tang was definitely not furious simply because the patient was Old Zhao’s grandson.
A careful comparison reveals that the most prominent feature of General Surgery Department Two is speed, whereas the hallmark of Hepatobiliary Surgery is precision. Just how meticulous? Look at the doctors’ desks, which are always spotless. Xie Wanying originally thought the desk had just been cleaned by the janitor, but after spending more time here, realized that was not the case.
It takes a medical student’s enlightenment to understand this phenomenon.
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery is almost akin to an infectious disease department, focusing on liver diseases. With the high prevalence of liver diseases in the country, which can justifiably be called a “liver disease powerhouse,” cancer may not be contagious, but liver cancer is different. Many liver cancer patients develop the disease from a progression of hepatitis to cirrhosis and finally to liver cancer.
Not just hepatitis B, but hepatitis A and C are also infectious diseases. The infamous hepatitis A once wreaked havoc in Shanghai and East Shanghai. And these days, the common people, upon hearing “hepatitis B,” react with almost as much fear as they would to a cancer diagnosis, terrified to the core. There was a famous TV drama that portrayed the fear of sharing a meal with a hepatitis B patient, talking about not discriminating against them while simultaneously reflecting reality.
The public may be scared, but does that mean doctors can afford to be fearless? Incorrect. Doctors are not immortal; with a body structure just like any ordinary person, how could they not be scared? It’s just that doctors, due to their professional duties, cannot reject patients; they can only take the necessary occupational precautions.
For instance, in the ward, Hepatobiliary Surgery has two more sinks than other departments. The frequency of disinfection in the ward is also voluntarily higher in Hepatobiliary Surgery than in other departments. Nurses in other departments might handle blood draws and injections without wearing gloves, but in Hepatobiliary Surgery, it is a strict rule to wear them.
After the shift handover meeting was over, Tao Zhijie led the staff out of the doctors’ office and asked the two newcomers cautiously, “Have you been vaccinated for hepatitis B?”
“Have you checked for antibodies?”
Receiving consistent answers from the two, Tao Zhijie was reassured.
He Guangyou took the opportunity to spell out the department’s rules to the newbies, “Teacher Tao has a saying to offer you two. Working here is like being a mine clearance soldier; mines are buried everywhere, and one has to be extremely cautious. Otherwise, if you get blown up, no one can save you, including your comrades-in-arms.”
Understood. Xie Wanying and Song Xueling’s faces took on a solemn expression.
“Do you know what the best mine clearance soldiers are like? Don’t wait for your brain to think; you must form a bodily habit of avoiding mines. So initially, you have to develop good habits.”
Good habits include professional handwashing before and after procedures, putting on and taking off sterile gloves professionally, and under no circumstances should you consider these preventive measures a nuisance.