Affected by the epidemic during this period, there are more discussions about the profession of doctors than ever before. Today is International Doctor’s Day. as everyday” groups.
I once watched a Netflix documentary “The Surgeon’s Cut”, the Chinese translation is “How a Surgeon Is Made”, this documentary tells the stories of four top doctors : At work and in life, what makes them who they are today.
“The best way to fight a monster is to be stronger thanit”
The only female doctor in the documentary is Dr. Nancy Ascher, who, like the others, has many “great” titles— ——The first female physician to complete a liver transplant in history, one of the most capable surgeons in the United States, and a global spokesperson for the ethics of organ transplant surgery.
What can always be around her is the attribute before “female doctor”.
During Dr. Nancy’s youth, women faced more skepticism and prejudice than professional competence to become a “surgeon”, the same class of 220 There are only 20 medical students, and only 2 women who choose to join the surgery, plus Dr. Nancy herself.
Women who wanted to be surgeons in those days, even interviewing with a psychiatrist before going to medical school, might be asked:
Prejudice, questioning, repression… In those turbulent times, women could not even get equal rights to work, education, abortion, let alone become a “transplant surgeon” Doctor”.
At that time, the success rate of transplant operations was only 20%. If the operation scene was comparable to a horror movie scene, how many people would be willing to fight for it for the rest of their lives?
Dr. Nancy is one of them. In such an environment, she was admitted to medical school and became a lifelong researcher of organ transplantation and surgery. The generation that translates surgery into clinical medicine.
Do you know what it’s like to be operating on someone else in the operating room when the amniotic fluid breaks during the operation?
Dr. Nancy knew, not only that, her son and daughter were all born on the day of her surgery, especially when her daughter was born. Because there were no obvious symptoms of labor, she was doing During the operation, the amniotic fluid broke, and it was not until she found that the ground was full of water that she was told by her colleagues that it was herself who caused the “disorder in the whole place”.
If it takes a certain talent to become a surgeon, it must be her willingness to “keep the passion” for the job, to stick with it for 1, 5, 10, 20 years without getting bored , I am willing to stand on the operating table for 4, 6, 8 hours day after day, and I am willing to bring the power of fighting against this monster of disease to others.
In 20 years, we have never turned a patient away for money
The final episode of the documentary, about Dr. Devi Shetty, the “cardiac surgeon”.
At the beginning of the film, Dr. Davey refers to surgery as an art. He believes that all surgeons are artists, and the process of treating a heart is like finishing A work of art, if the finished product is perfect, the operation must also be successful.
But even being one of the most experienced physicians in the world to perform thrombus removal does not guarantee that everyone will have the opportunity to undergo the procedure. Outside the operating room, there are other difficulties that lie ahead.
“Money”.
This is an inescapable predicament in all diseases, especially in remote and impoverished areas.
Dr. David, one of the world’s leading cardiac surgeons, needs him more in remote and backward places than in patients who receive timely treatment. Born into a poor man who didn’t even know that heart disease could be treated surgically.
They don’t have a choice, they don’t even know they need to make a choice. In India 30 years ago, some people did not even believe that a child would be born with heart disease, and surgery was naturally out of the question.
In addition to dealing with “money,” accurate screening to find patients in need of surgery among the thousands of people who suspect their children may have heart disease is also needed.
So he commutes between the suburbs and the city to open the NH Heart Center in Bangalore, build his own team, operate at least 14 hours a day, perform at least 30 surgeries, 24/7, While increasing the scale of surgery, reduce the cost of treatment allocated to each patient.
His wish is “to make life-saving surgery accessible to all”, and he hopes to use his “little power” to prove that medical care is not all expensive and affordable medical care It can also be a business model. When facing the camera, I can say without hesitation: “In 20 years, we have never rejected any patient because of money.”
In India, people who can change their destiny are often regarded as gods, and Professor David has become a god-like existence in the lives of these people because he has saved countless lives. .
But for him, medicine is a sacred temple, where his life’s career, dreams, and aspirations have been completed and reached their peak. The happiest thing for him now is to be able to When a patient needs life-or-death heart surgery and has no money, he has the right to tell him, “Just do it.”
“In my country, India, 2 million patients need heart surgery every year, and today all Indian heart surgeons combined can only perform 150,000 operations a year, and nearly 1.9 million more What about the patient?”
Only by himself, and by virtue of the hospital he opened, he could not afford such a huge volume of operations, but this is the challenge that this generation of doctors is facing. His mother was once treated by a The person called “Doctor” saves his life, and he will use the rest of his life, even the reincarnation of a hundred lifetimes, to be a good surgeon.
Quality of life is more important than length of life
The documentary also features a blood cancer-stricken Professor Kypros Nicolaides, who has a better foundation than anyone else. Professor Kipoulos’ father, who is also a doctor, has been visiting the village with his father every week since he was a child, staying there and serving the villagers.
From getting along with his father, he learned to “give trust, share fear, be honest and not deceive, and trust each other”, and regard medicine as a career that he is willing to give his life to.
Even after he was diagnosed with hemorrhagic cancer, after undergoing chemotherapy and actively cooperating with the treatment, he still served the patients who came here with his only life.
For the medical staff who serve on the front line all the year round, dedication is a norm. The role of “surgeon” has not only become their work, but also a way of life. Treat diseases as enemies that must be defeated, and do your best not to let them affect this most beautiful organ of the human body.
For them, livingThe quality of life is far more important than the length of life. Compared with the fear of death, it is more important to do everything right now and do everything possible for every patient who is willing to believe in him.
As Dr. Tao Yong once said on his Weibo: “In the medical industry I am in, especially the clinical front line, dedication is not a compliment, but a daily routine.”
Today is International Physician’s Day
Mayes wishes health care workers who “make dedication their everyday”
Happy holidays! You have worked hard!
Writing | Canghai
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