Great doctors start with pediatrics

Circumcision?

Laurent was lost in thought in the bathroom.

He had thought he could impress the emergency department with his suturing skills, but he never expected things to turn out differently.

However, the simple interrupted suturing technique in my mind can indeed be applied to suturing in circumcision surgery.

"No wonder there were so many parents and little boys outside."

Laurent had no such experience, so he didn't think of it at first.

But now, looking back at the parents and the little boy in the waiting room, Laurent suddenly realized.

Thinking about it this way, the person who hung that "Ichigo Ichie" (one time, one meeting) painting in the lounge was truly a remarkable person.

Laurent pulled up his trousers, preparing to leave the cubicle.

"Ugh, so annoying! Why did a senior suddenly appear out of nowhere? He'll definitely have to participate in the surgery."

The voice was irritable, but Laurent could tell it was the skinny student who had been next to Teacher Zhang Lianren earlier.

The skinny student continued to complain: "We two worked hard for a year and finally got the chance to participate in the surgery, but someone else is taking the credit. Just because he's the senior, the teacher will definitely leave him a few stitches."

After a moment's thought, Laurent understood why the thin student was complaining.

Medicine, although it sounds like a specialized discipline that requires ample theoretical support, is more like a technical profession for doctors.

After completing the theoretical learning, the most important thing is to gain experience.

Especially for surgeons, the number of surgeries they have participated in, the number of consultations they have attended, and the number of difficult and complicated cases they have encountered—these accumulated experiences constitute an evaluation of a doctor's competence.

Even at the level of chief physician, some people still try every means to monopolize surgeries in the department so that they can publish in journals.

Although people generally believe that there is a huge disparity between the number of patients and doctors, resulting in a situation where there are too many patients and not enough doctors.

However, for ordinary resident physicians and medical students, participating in surgery or even personally performing it remains a very difficult task.

For many doctors, residency training will be the period when they encounter the most cases and are at the forefront of theoretical and technical knowledge.

Although he was only involved in what seemed like a routine circumcision surgery, his sudden appearance, if you put yourself in his shoes, would indeed cause dissatisfaction among the students outside.

"Alright, alright, Professor Zhang said he'll only be observing for a few days. Won't we have another chance to participate in surgery in a few days?"

"If you need stitches, go to the emergency room; there's always a chance to get them stitched up."

The chubby student outside the door comforted him, "Besides, he's just here to crash the surgery. Teacher Zhang will definitely give him a hard time. We can just watch the show then."

"Surfing a surgery, tsk."

"Do you think it's easy for us to sew bananas together every day? I'm so sick of banana pies and banana salads."

The skinny student was still unhappy, but as the sound of running water stopped, he shivered and followed the fat student outside.

Laurent was certainly not an eavesdropper; he was just a little concerned about privacy, which is why he overheard the students' conversation.

After confirming that the two students had washed their hands and left.

Laurent slowly pushed open the cubicle door.

"Trying to intimidate me? If you mess with me, you're really in for a world of trouble..."

"We've messed with an easy target."

……

Although Laurent doesn't have much medical knowledge besides the suturing skills he received as a system reward.

However, he followed the teaching videos he had been watching over the past few days.

After changing shoes, washing hands, disinfecting, and changing clothes, Laurent successfully entered the operating room, following behind Zhang Lianren and his two tall, thin classmates.

The nurses have already prepared the equipment.

The chubby little boy lay on the operating table like a roast suckling pig.

Laurent glanced over and saw green light.

A healthy little piglet.

However, this little piglet had no idea what kind of hell it was about to face.

"disinfect."

The tedious tasks do not require the surgeon to handle them.

Laurent was about to step forward to disinfect using the knowledge he had acquired from suturing techniques when he heard Zhang Lianren's words. The skinny student squeezed in and glanced at Laurent.

Zhang Lianren also spoke up: "Student Luo has never performed surgery with me before, so let's leave these procedures to them."

"But are you sure you can do the sutures?"

"Although people now prefer to use a stapler when performing circumcision, such surgery is too rough for children and requires a longer recovery time. Therefore, although traditional surgery is no longer popular..."

Many parents still opt for traditional excision surgery.

"Simple, quick to recover, and controllable."

Zhang Lianren's explanations were like tutoring for Laurent.

"Our operating room mainly accepts boys who have started puberty around ten years old, so we do more traditional surgeries."

"But as doctors, we should not be complacent just because the surgery seems easy."

"Although simple interrupted sutures are also commonly used in circumcision suturing, children's skin is thinner and more sensitive. If you are not confident, just follow along and learn."

After speaking, Zhang Lianren looked at Laurent with a warning in his eyes.

Is this a show of force?

Laurent was fearless; after all, he was a medical student with special skills.

"sure."

"That's good, all set..."

Zhang Lianren walked to the bedside and asked the child, "Did you bring your phone?"

"No," the little boy replied timidly in the unfamiliar environment.

Zhang Lianren took two steps back, away from the bedside: "Then use my phone, Xiao Guo, get my phone out."

The chubby boy stepped forward, rummaged around Zhang Lianren's inner thigh, pulled out the toy the little boy had been dreaming of, and asked, "Little friend, what games do you like to play? Honor of Kings or Delta Force?"

"Delta Force!" The little boy's eyes lit up, and he added dismissively, "Only kids play King of Glory."

Laurent read the light in the boy's eyes.

The little boy must be thinking, "So this is what it feels like to have surgery."

pity.

The chubby student shook his head: "There's no Delta Force. You should just watch anime. Do you watch Kamen Rider?"

The little boy quickly objected: "No, I want to watch Ultraman."

"Tasteless." The chubby student curled his lip, but still pulled up the animation for the little boy and went to disinfect it.

Zhang Lianren explained, "Pediatrics is like this. For example, in pediatric dentistry, they might show cartoons to children on the ceiling. Our surgery is much simpler."

The surgery, which takes twenty or thirty minutes, is just enough time for the child to play a game or watch an episode of a cartoon.

"However, last time, one of the kids got into a fight with his teammates during surgery, which resulted in their shared account being banned, so we don't let them play much anymore."

"Alright, Xiao Wang, 1% lidocaine."

Upon hearing the instructions, the thin student also took on the role of an assistant.

Although Zhang Lianren was explaining things to Laurent on the surface, Laurent was hardly involved in the surgical procedure. Even the task of "holding him in place" was completed by the other two students.

In Zhang Lianren's view, Laurent not only parachuted in to take advantage of the surgery, but was also a doctoral student from another university studying under Director Zuo.

A deputy director is still a director. Doctors who can become deputy directors lead a team, and every year there are always a lot of students who come to them wanting to pursue a doctorate.

Perhaps Director Zuo sent him here because he didn't know his character and wanted to test him.

He could do both sides a favor.

Laurent stood to the side like an outcast.

Watching the little boy's sparrow being stretched open and then removed.

"It's bloody!"