Surgery Godfather

Chapter 210: Chapter 0198: Rubbing Hands in Glee

Xiao Su is also quite busy as she needs to train the operating room instrument nurses.

The two hastily ate dinner in the cafeteria. Tang Fei greeted them with a boxed meal in hand, and even during dinner, Song Zimo didn’t let up.

After dinner, Xiao Su returned to the dormitory and Yang Ping went home from work. He repeatedly watched the videos Director Han had given him. These videos were obtained by Director Han through personal connections and included cases from affiliated hospitals of Tokyo University, and several major trauma centers in Germany, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Japanese people are good at learning. They always absorb the most advanced things in the world and optimize the details to the extreme. Americans quickly innovate some concepts and are good at learning from others, so they always lead medical thinking. Europeans have a profound background in Western medicine, especially Germany, the birthplace of Western medicine. Whether it’s medical skills, medicines, or instruments, they are all strong, and there are no shortcomings.

Yang Ping watched the videos over and over again. When he was tired, he would take a shower and rest. Probably because he had consumed both physical and mental energy, he felt a bit hungry. He cooked and ate a few steaks that Xiao Su had prepared for him at home and brought to his place. Yang Ping kept them in the fridge and would occasionally have them as a late-night snack.

After filling his stomach, brushing his teeth, and going to bed, he entered the system space before sleep. The system’s super training program, which was on anatomical training, and there were thousands of experiment bodies. Yang Ping performed a hundred dissections in one go.

Upon exiting the space and closing his eyes, an image of a transparent human body appeared in his mind, incredibly clear. It was a 3D digital human body, as if it had been deeply implanted into his brain.

The image in his brain was the result of his hard work on anatomical training. Now the static image is very stable, and he can access it at any time.

However, the dynamic image is still in the initial construction phase. When conducting dynamic simulations, he needs to concentrate, and it’s quite strenuous, unlike the easy use of static images.

For Yang Ping, this digital human body that he has built with great difficulty is extremely precious. It’s an image that exists in the brain solely based on memory, independent of the system.

The official training of the department’s doctors began on the third day, from 6 pm to 10 pm, four hours a day, two hours of theory, two hours of operation, four classes, with a ten-minute break in between each class.

Because both trauma orthopedics and general orthopedics’ training rooms were too small to meet training needs, the hospital opened a whole floor in the administrative building to serve as a training venue. All the equipment from the orthopedics training rooms was moved to the new site for centralized use.

In the first few days, everyone felt a great deal of pressure. Some people were filled with negative emotions, but over time, everyone started to enjoy the atmosphere, feeling that they were making rapid progress every day.

Considering that they were benchmarking themselves against the top level in the world, everyone was full of enthusiasm, ready to contribute their strength at the academic conference, especially the young doctors, each of whom took it very seriously. They were all in.

Yang Ping’s training also emphasizes on the foundation, focusing on basic theories, knowledge and operations, such as anatomical knowledge, surgical approaches, classic surgery methods, expecting each person to recite them without any mistakes. Then he also includes some advanced trauma surgery knowledge and systematically explains it to everyone, making it thorough and easy to understand.

For this training, Yang Ping put in a lot of work during his spare time. With the help of Song Zimo, Little Five, and Zhang Lin, he created a lot of coursework. As long as the doctors can master the knowledge in his course material, they should be able to pass the exams.

Director Ouyang made great efforts. Although he was old, he attended the classes diligently. He also asked questions during breaks. After working in the clinic for so many years, he had forgotten most of the basic knowledge.

Director Bai followed Director Ouyang and he attended every class as well. However, he always had a mental block. At his age, having already risen to the position of a mentor, he felt lost being trained with these young doctors.

Despite his discontent, Director Bai did not dare to complain. Every time he thought about venting, he was stopped by Director Ouyang: “Talk less, learn more!”.

Director Ding had already missed class three times intermittently. If he continues missing classes, accumulating six absences, he would be automatically deemed as unqualified. Director Ouyang was quite worried about him. If he kept up like this, he feared that he would be taken as an example and punished.

However, Director Ding acted this way due to his habitual thinking. He was used to being relaxed, thinking that training was something for young people. He was very busy and always had to dash about the lower-level hospitals performing surgeries. He didn’t have time for these things.

Saying that he would be downgraded was just a threat to the young people, a means of management. As a veteran of Sanbo and having accumulated a bit of connection in the Health Department, he didn’t believe that Old Xia or Old Han would do anything to him. Even after Director Ouyang tried to persuade him several times, he didn’t take it seriously. Director Han was walking back and forth in the training room with his hands behind his back. He stopped next to Director Ouyang and glanced at the classroom: “Ouyang, have you seen Old Ding?”

Director Ouyang also looked around the training room, pretending not to know: “I didn’t pay much attention, he should be here. Maybe he went out to use the restroom or to smoke.”

With a solemn look on his face, Director Han said, “Oh, when you have the time, give him a call. He’s already accumulated three absences. If he does it three more times—”

Director Han didn’t finish his sentence, but it was clear what he was implying. Six absences means being unqualified, being downgraded, losing the identity of a group leader, and being demoted from a deputy chief physician to an attending physician.

Director Ouyang was clear about one thing, Director Han wasn’t joking this time. If Old Ding didn’t take it seriously, he might actually be used as an example for disciplinary action.

Once Director Han was out of sight, Director Ouyang sneakily went to the restroom and called Old Ding immediately:

“Old Ding!”

“What’s up?”

“Director Han–.”

“Let’s talk later, I am driving at the moment!”

Before he could finish speaking, the other side was busy and hung up the phone.

“That Old Ding!” Director Ouyang was a bit angry, Director Bai also came out and asked about the situation.

Director Ouyang angrily said: “Director Han is reminding him, Old Han has already taken care of us old comrades sufficiently. Look, among us old comrades, Director Han has arranged for Xiao Tian to coach us specially, and he’s been very polite. Old Ding has already been given enough face, if he continues to behave in this way, I won’t interfere anymore.”

“Ouyang, that won’t work, you can’t ignore him, let’s not let the old guys really kick up a fuss.” Director Bai likes to grumble, he’s stubborn, but he’s a bit of a coward.

Director Ouyang had no choice: “Let’s go back to class first, we will persuade him together when we see him tomorrow.”

In the training room, on the screen, Zhang Lin played videos from Tokyo University Hospital and videos of Fujiwara Masao over and over again. Zhang Lin also brought up a photo of Takahashi Fumiya for everyone to see.

This guy looks quite lewd, very much like the main character in a romance film from Japan, and it’s a bit annoying to look at. Zhang Lin has a knack for public relations, it’s really a waste not to be a doctor, he was full of passion and emotion:

“This guy, just this guy, who is hailed as a surgical genius, once famously said: ‘The death rate from trauma can be infinitely reduced!’. It’s also this guy who has expressed his disappointment with our country’s doctors, accusing us of wasting a huge amount of case resources, lacking in initiative, and repetitively doing rough, low-quality work every day—”

Damn it, everyone couldn’t wait to rush forward, smash the screen, and give it a few kicks, it was infuriating!

Zhang Lin saw everyone’s attitude, changed his tone: “Angry? Want to smash the screen? Then pay more attention in class, master the knowledge firmly, practice operations proficiently, and at the academic conference, communicate with them using your abilities; what’s the use of smashing the screen!”

This lewd man is one of Fujiwara’s most proud students. Many surgeons from many countries in the world have gone to him for further study. He has made a great contribution in the field of trauma surgery. Whether it’s Europe or North America, major trauma surgery conferences will invite him to be a guest lecturer.

After Zhang Lin’s brief promotion this time, everyone was as if injected with chicken blood, no longer tired, full of spirit, and brought the vigor of wanting to smash the screen to their studies.

The break was over and it was time for operation training. The operation training was also the most basic, such as washing hands and dressing, disinfecting and draping, positioning the body, and cooperating during surgery.

Everyone was familiar with these things but had never taken them as seriously as they do now. Washing hands, dressing, and disinfecting were counted by seconds, under every single step.

Similarly, how many people are needed for patient positioning, how to coordinate, it used to be very casual, but now it’s become standardized.

In developed countries, there are specialized positionists in the operating room. What do these positionists do? They are a profession like instrument nurses, not temporary positions. Their daily work is to position surgeries for patients and study this every day.

The number of people needed for positioning, where to stand, the posture of the hands, how to coordinate, are all strictly defined operating procedures. It’s not handled randomly, where the patient is moved to the operating bed, and then several people coordinate casually to place the body.

The requirements for positioning are also very strict, meeting the requirements for surgical operations while ensuring patient safety. If the patient is awake, a certain degree of comfort for the patient must also be ensured. The completion of the entire process, including the time required, must be accurate to the second.

A head nurse of an operating room in Peking Union Medical College Hospital actually invited a positionist from Germany to come and train everyone in body positioning. In the end, they even published a book— “Safe Surgical Positioning Atlas”. This might be the only specialized book on surgical positioning in the country.

If a certain degree of precision is achieved, every link becomes a learning point. What we usually overlook and think nothing of, someone has already elevated it into a field of knowledge, and that’s where the gap appears.

Unconsciously, it was already ten o’clock at night, and the intense four-hour training was over.

The infectiousness of the atmosphere was useful, many young doctors were reluctant to leave and wanted to continue to practice.

Yang Ping patiently explained to everyone: “Only those who know how to rest can work, we can’t just exert brute force, everything has to follow scientific laws.”

With that, everyone gradually dispersed.

After everyone left, Song Zimo took out a roll of drawings from his backpack, spread it on the square table in the middle of the training room, and used a few joint models to press on the four corners of the drawing.

This was a hand-drawn anatomical atlas.