Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s

Chapter 269: Stealing the Master’s Skills

Chapter 269: Stealing the Master’s Skills

The thing that doesn’t feel heavy becomes easy to operate only when it’s in hand.

Once it’s not exhausting to hold objects, it becomes necessary to think about what the main purpose of holding them is.

The Mirror Assistant is an important supportive force for the Chief Surgeon.

What does the Mirror Assistant assist with? Teacher Tan mentioned lighting, which she could understand as the surgical field. As long as it’s the surgical field, it can be likened to the traditional surgery’s use of retractors, which served to expose the area of the operation for the Chief Surgeon to see clearly for cutting.

The difference is that retractors open up a visible area within the human body, which can be directly enlarged. However, the area exposed by laparoscopy is only a small ellipse, which means that the assistant has to compensate by mentally reconstructing the entire surgical field for the Chief Surgeon.

With retractors, wherever they pull, that’s where the Chief Surgeon works. With laparoscopy, it should be wherever it’s lit, that’s where the Chief Surgeon works.

As she thought this through, Xie Wanying’s ideas became increasingly clear. With a clear mind, her hands were even more adept, knowing how to move.

The Chief Surgeon and the First Assistant were preparing other incisions for inserting the trocar sleeves.

Sun Yubo slightly loosened his grip and found that she had the scope steady in position. He complimented, “Not bad, you’ve got strength.”

Girls always seem to lose strength easily; in reality, it’s because they lack enough strength to hold things steady. To operate on a horizontal plane, continuous force needs to be applied.

“It’s similar to using a retractor.” Xie Wanying shared her answer with the teacher for feedback.

Sun Yubo blinked, his clever student seemed to have grasped the key point, so he questioned her further, “Do you know what to use as a reference inside the abdomen?”

For a rookie working with a laparoscope, the first issue is inevitably the loss of directional sense. When viewing anything, one needs a point of reference, otherwise, it’s like looking out over the vast open sea.

“The uterus,” Xie Wanying answered immediately.

There was no need to consult a medical textbook; hadn’t Teacher Tan’s first movement been to illuminate the top of the uterus?

If the uterus, being such a large organ, is not used as a reference point, then the surgeon is either brainless or blind.

Huh? Sun Yubo laughed inwardly: Sister is quick to learn and apply new information.

Hearing her answer, Tan Kelin glanced at her quietly from the corner of his eye: Learning by stealth~

“Only the uterus?”

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Teacher Xiao Sun had raised the difficulty of the question.

Xie Wanying thought once more about Teacher Tan’s procedure and answered, “Whether moving forward, backward, left, right, or rotating, there needs to be a horizontal line as the target reference. The uterus is too large to meet this criterion; here we need some anatomical planes to guide the operation. Clearly, the sacral ligaments on both sides are one reference line. The anterior abdominal wall is the reference plane.”

A magical silence fell over the operating room. The group of interns who were standing behind listened to her words as if receiving enlightenment. They realized that they had stood there half a day and had learned less than what she had summarized in one sentence.

“You’ve learned this much from Teacher Tan—” Sun Yubo said in a very soft voice, surprised, because it was obvious that her answer was a further application of what she had just learned on the spot.

Tan Kelin’s hands paused, and his silent gaze seemed to consider: If a student could learn his techniques to this extent, would she strip his skills entirely next time?

In response, Xie Wanying calmly returned the teacher’s gaze: Wasn’t she here to learn? Wasn’t her skill a glory to her teacher?

The mood of the teachers present was unknown, but Director Yang in the back burst into laughter, “Quack, quack, quack~”

Had he known that a leader was inspecting, Sun Yubo would’ve raised an eyebrow. When a boss enters the room, those studying always make a bit of a ruckus.