Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 296 They won’t be in the emergency department! (Subscribe)

"Yanqing, sit down."

"I just arrived and there is no tea for you." Professor Lin Changhong said with a smile.

This office was just cleaned out and specially prepared for Professor Lin Changhong.

It would be unreasonable for such a prominent person to come to Xiangya Hospital without a separate office, so an office was temporarily vacated and new desks were provided.

I just finished cleaning yesterday and the place is still empty.

Zhou Yanqing took the initiative to pour a cup of hot water for Professor Lin Changhong and said with a smile: "Professor Lin, we young people usually like to drink coffee and don't stock up on tea."

"Please wait for me, I'll go get some from Professor Yang." Zhou Yanqing put down the cup and prepared to go out.

"No, no!" Lin Changhong waved his hand.

"Please close the door."

Zhou Yanqing pushed the door shut again and said with a smile, "Director Lin, please come to me first. Professor Yang might have some objections."

Lin Changhong replied with a smile: "Who made you a troublemaker?"

Zhou Yanqing's face froze when he heard that. He stepped forward and followed Professor Lin Changhong's hand to sit on the chair opposite.

"Doctor Zhou, would you rather do a specialized surgery instead of what you think is a simple surgery?" Lin Changhong should have analyzed the people in the department in advance.

Zhou Yanqing pursed his lips, thinking about how to respond.

Lin Changhong understood what he meant and said, "Doctor Zhou, I have worked in the trauma center for more than ten years. I know better than you whether the types of diseases in hand surgery are more elective or emergency."

"For hand surgery diseases, if they can be treated well in the first stage, there is no need for elective surgery! ~"

Zhou Yanqing's pupils shrank instantly and he looked up at Lin Changhong.

He is attacking the heart!

But the logic is strong.

Zhou Yanqing instinctively became defensive.

Lin Changhong continued: "As far as I know, the more significant breakthroughs in hand surgery all came from emergency surgery, not elective surgery."

"As for the basic research of hand surgery?"

"For now, it's almost like a rootless duckweed. At most, it can do some basic cell experiments on bone tumors. Am I right?"

Lin Changhong came with great force and was well prepared, so Zhou Yanqing was immediately unable to resist.

Lin Changhong looked at Zhou Yanqing without saying anything, and then continued: "Common emergency surgeries in hand surgery are replantation of severed fingers, nerve damage, tendon damage, and blood vessel damage."

“These are all cases that require emergency surgery.”

"But, Dr. Zhou, you don't know, right? These surgeries abroad are not performed by hand surgeons, but by doctors in the emergency department."

"The operations performed by hand surgery specialists are all sequelae of treatment by emergency doctors with poor skills, or some chronic diseases, such as functional disorders."

"Do you think it's possible that prevention is better than cure?"

"A trauma center is not just a trauma rescue station, but should be an emergency trauma treatment center that integrates rescue, surgery, prognosis, and prevention."

"To put it even more exaggeratedly, if the trauma center is well run, the only elective diseases in your hand surgery department will be chronic inflammation."

After hearing this, Zhou Yanqing finally discovered the "tricky error" in Lin Changhong's logic!
Lin Changhong is trying to alienate him.

At first he thought what Professor Lin Changhong said made sense, but the more he listened the less he felt that was true.

Lin Changhong had only done some work in hand surgery and was not a very professional hand surgeon.

That's why he felt that as long as emergency surgery was performed, there would be no elective patients in the hand surgery department.

After figuring this out in his mind, Zhou Yanqing said, "Professor Lin has a broader vision and thinks about issues more comprehensively. I'm just a small doctor, so I can't have such a broad vision." Lin Changhong frowned when he saw Zhou Yanqing laughing.

"Doctor Zhou, if you have anything to say, just say it!" Lin Changhong asked.

Zhou Yanqing said: "According to Professor Lin, as long as the emergency treatment is done well, there will be no skin defects, so our hand surgery department is short of a number of diseases."

“If prevention was done well and there were no limb amputations, most of our hand surgery departments would have collapsed.”

"If physical examinations and prevention are done well, there will be no advanced tumors, and we don't need to study advanced tumors."

"Professor Lin, these are all perfect expectations. The problem with reality is that it is imperfect!~"

Zhou Yanqing continued, "From your perspective, Professor Lin, you would think that the trauma center is the most meaningful."

"But you haven't seen the prognosis of our hand surgery patients. You haven't seen the follow-up visits of amputees."

"You also don't see the post-operative living conditions and social roles of patients who are unable to have their fingers replanted."

"Have you ever been to the Disabled Persons' Federation?" Zhou Yanqing asked back.

“To be absolutely clear, the majority of patients at the Disabled Persons’ Federation have failed limb salvage surgeries.”

"They are still alive, but their lives are not perfect. Even with strong will, they can use their hands to replace the functions of their feet, or use their feet to replace the functions of their hands."

“But they are still in pain.”

"Patients with neurological injuries cannot go to the emergency department. They are advised to go to the outpatient clinic at the surgical office or the reception desk. You don't see such patients!"

Zhou Yanqing didn't know what means Lin Changhong used, he just gave him a taste of his own medicine.

Lin Changhong really doesn't have time to do these things.

"What about the families of the patients who died in the emergency department?" Lin Changhong asked.

Zhou Yanqing quickly replied: "There is no filial son for a long-term sick bed! ~"

It seems irrelevant.

In fact, it gave the most powerful answer.

If there is a paralyzed patient at home, you and your family will suffer, and the quality of life may not be as good as after death. Anyone who has experienced it will understand.

"You have a deep understanding of surgical surgery?" Lin Changhong's tone retreated a step.

Zhou Yanqing shook his head again: "Professor Lin, I don't have a deep understanding of hand surgery, but I have been exposed to it in depth."

"Similarly, my exposure to emergency trauma centers is minimal, so I can't empathize with you."

"But what I want to say is that since there is a specialty called hand surgery in clinical practice, there are patients and ordinary people who need it."

“There is no distinction between high and low.”

"It's not like saving lives means you're superior if you work in the emergency department, or that you don't have feelings if you work in a specialist department."

"I now know that Professor Lin can give me a better platform, but I still insist on my own choice."

"This has nothing to do with personal growth!" Zhou Yanqing said frankly.

Lin Changhong was silent for a long time, then nodded and said: "Doctor Zhou, you will be a good doctor, and you will definitely become a good doctor!"

"Thank you Professor Lin for your high hopes." Zhou Yanqing said here and didn't continue.

Then Lin Changhong asked Zhou Yanqing to teach Yang Lingchong, and Zhou Yanqing nodded in agreement.

Zhou Yanqing knew that the moment he turned around, an opportunity left him, but another opportunity also attached to him...

There is never a right or wrong choice, only whether it is suitable or not.

(End of this chapter)