Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 12 This is all right! (Please save and read)
"Master, what I said is true, right?" After Fan Ziwei rushed to the operating room, he watched the operation from a distance beside the operating table. At the same time, he looked at his senior brother Zhou Yanqing who was suturing the skin flap on the operating table. His eyes were full of longing.

Surgeons always want to be on stage and like to use the skills in their hands to solve problems for patients.

If it is in other departments, or even other subspecialties of orthopedics, the suture technician only needs to sew the plasticine and then sew the skin.

But hand surgery is the department that pays the most attention to suturing techniques, and Fan Zi can only envy them at this time.

Gong Yi glanced at Fan Ziwei and said in a conscientious tone: "You said your senior brother's story was true, then when did your statement about you going on stage to sew your skin become true?"

Fan Ziwei's eyelids twitched rapidly several times, and he lowered his head slightly, saying in a whisper, "It will take some time."

Listening to Gong Yi "oppressing" Fan Ziwei like this, Tao Yubin couldn't bear it any more: "Director Gong, Ziwei is already pretty good. He was able to sew the plasticine at the beginning of this year. It takes a while to practice sewing orange peels."

"In the words of Dr. Zhu Qin of Xiangya Hospital, the suture handle of our hand surgery specialist is a bit too long, so it takes a little longer..."

When surgeons are bored on the operating table, when the patient's condition is stable, or when they are a little tired, they always like to have some fun talking and relax.

Fan Ziwei nodded fiercely: "Hmmmm..."

"Keep working hard and learn more from your senior brother Zhou." Gong Yi didn't actually think that Fan Ziwei's progress was too slow. It was mainly because Zhou Yanqing's progress was too fast. Compared with Zhou Yanqing, Fan Ziwei, the newbie, seemed particularly slow.

Li Zhong finally found a point of existence and said, "Director Gong, we all started as chicks, so take it slow. How precious are chicks nowadays?"

“In the training room, every time you break a layer, you are further away from it. You are like Yan Qing, even though his basic skills of incision and suturing are becoming more and more proficient, but his knotting technique is still a novice... Eh!~” Li Zhong grinned, and the words got stuck in his throat and couldn’t come out.

Li Zhong was facing Gong Yi when he spoke, and after he changed the topic to Zhou Yanqing, he looked towards the operating table.

But what he didn't expect was that before he noticed, Zhou Yanqing had actually finished suturing the skin flap.

But in fact, when Li Zhong just left the surgical field, Zhou Yanqing should have had about seven or eight stitches. How much time did he have to talk with Director Gong Yi and others?
Senior attending Tian Zeguang had been helping Zhou Yanqing cut the threads. After he sat down, his fat belly pressed against the operating table. He smiled and said, "Li Zhong, look at you. You always say that the children are young and you force them to do something."

"That's good. He has made a breakthrough."

The basic skills of surgeons in addition to suturing are knotting, which is also a slow and laborious process. In order to practice knotting, many surgeons will use various threads to make a door curtain at home or in the training room...

No one responded to Tian Zeguang's dirty jokes anymore, and instead focused on Zhou Yanqing's knotting operation.

It can be seen that at this moment, Zhou Yanqing's speed in completing instrumental knotting with the needle holder is indeed much faster than before. Just in terms of the frequency of knotting, it is no problem for him to tie calm and high-quality knots hundreds of times per minute.

In this way, Zhou Yanqing's subsequent accelerated suture can be explained.

Of course, everyone just laughed after watching it for a while. Knot tying is not the most core skill in hand surgery. The most important thing is the level of suturing.

After Zhou Yanqing finished sewing the last stitch, he slowly put down the needle holder in his right hand, and then glanced at the effect history of the [Thousand Hammers] medal.

[Complete 1000 knot tying techniques, the medal (Hammer and Temper) effect is activated, knot tying experience points +1.]

[Knot Tying (Proficient 0/3) upgraded to Knot Tying (Proficient 1/3)]

Knot tying is not a core skill for hand surgery, because hand surgery requires a lot of suture practice, and each suture is accompanied by at least two knots. Therefore, hand surgeons never have to waste time deliberately practicing knot tying. Before, Zhou Yanqing's knot tying level was also achieved through long-term suture practice, surpassing the entry level and reaching proficiency, but without deliberate learning, his progress was naturally much slower than his proficiency in suture.

Each suture requires at least two knots. I sutured seven skin flaps myself, and each flap required at least seventy or eighty stitches. A larger flap might require more than a hundred stitches.

As a result, Zhou Yanqing, who had never counted how many stitches he had done and only paid attention to the number of skin flaps he had sutured, was also unprepared for the improvement of knot-tying technique.

"Master, please check it again!" It was not the first time that Zhou Yanqing completed the skin flap suture, but he still humbly asked for advice.

The assessment of surgical quality must be done with extreme caution, and no amount of meticulousness or caution is too much.

As the chief physician, Gong Yi did not leave the stage after completing the main operation in order to conduct the highest level of review of the quality of the operation.

Gong Yi carefully used a pair of microtweezers to turn over the edge of the sutured skin, and carefully observed whether there were any skin bumps and whether the suture stitches were of varying depths, which would lead to inconsistent scars later on.

Some surgeons succeed in deep tofu suture for the first time and reach the standard of flap suture, but due to fluctuations in operating performance, occasionally one or two stitches may fail to meet the suture quality standards.

Apparently, Gong Yi didn't find anything similar after searching around, so he nodded and said, "Not bad. In fact, the higher the skill, the easier it is to do simple operations."

"It was the most frustrating when we barely reached the mark and were bobbing up and down on the water. Xiao Zhou was able to complete the shallow suture of the tofu, which saved our superiors a lot of energy."

After Gong Yi said this, the circulating nurse in the operating room smiled and said, "Director Gong, since your student is so outstanding, why don't you keep him in the hospital? Many girls in our operating room are looking forward to your group's doctor Xiao Zhou staying in the hospital, right?"

"Right, Xiaoqing!" The circulating nurse pouted directly at He Xiaoqing, the instrument nurse who came on stage.

The instrument nurse has been in the operating room for a long time, and has a long history of dirty jokes and various joke battlefields. She can make a joke: "Everyone knows that Director Gong's group is the peak of orthopedics in terms of appearance."

After saying that, he took a special look at Fan Ziwei's cold white skin, his eyes glowing with jealousy. Then he turned to look at Zhou Yanqing.

Compared to the delicate and cold white skin that looks a bit like the frail Korean style, He Xiaoqing thinks Zhou Yanqing's yellow skin and angular face are better looking.

Gong Yi, who had already confirmed that the operation was over, turned around and said, "You are implying that our team has no skills and relies on our looks to make a living, right?"

"Come on, Director He, please come to the stage..." He said and made a gesture of invitation.

He Xiaoqing quickly took two steps back and said seriously, "Director Gong, you must have made a living by your absolute strength!"

Gong Yi was stunned when he heard this. His defense was broken at that moment, and he paused: "Fuck... what you said... is really high output."

"Haha..." The circulating nurse laughed a few times: "Director Gong, you are really hard to please. It's not okay to say that you are good-looking, and it's not okay to say that you make a living purely by your ability."

"It's becoming increasingly difficult to be a specialist nurse in the operating room. I'm planning to ask the head nurse to resign..."

The atmosphere in the operating room was broken.

(End of this chapter)