The doctors from Donghuang Regional Hospital watched the surgery step by step and talked to each other in hushed voices.
To them, the foreign medical team was very different.
First of all, the way they performed the surgery and the way they cooperated with each other were different.
Lloyd only needed two assistants for major hepatectomy surgeries. Zhao Dong, the associate chief physician of Dongcheng District Hospital, took up one of the positions, and the doctor he brought with him simply stood at the side as a background wall. He did not even need to help.
Even though the surgery was in the middle and they were obviously short of manpower, the assistant who had nothing to do was still doing nothing.
The doctors from Dongcheng District Hospital could not help but discuss in hushed voices.
Nowadays, there were many opportunities for doctors to communicate with each other, especially in China. Hiring freelance surgeons and sending freelance surgeons had become a daily routine in hospital departments.
With the standard of Donghuang Regional Hospital, they still had to hire many doctors from Beijing to perform freelance surgeries every year. Sometimes, they had to hire freelance surgeons even if they did not want to. Sometimes, freelance surgeons would just bring their patients over for surgery.
In short, it was not an exaggeration to say that doctors who had been in this profession for more than ten to twenty years were very knowledgeable. However, doctors in China were not used to the labor-saving model of foreign surgeries.
Of course, "labor-saving" was a nicer way to put it, but it was also not wrong to describe it as "too poor to hire people". In a situation where each attending physician charged hundreds or even thousands of USD, ordinary patients and insurance companies would not ask for more doctors to perform surgeries.
On the other hand, they really did not have that many doctors.
Even a great doctor like Lloyd did not have long-term subordinates under him. The team he brought this time could only be said to be team members who worked with him for a long time. For the sake of the American dollars, the assistants did their jobs seriously, and the onlookers just watched the show. They did not even get close to the operating table, and they said that they wanted to reduce pollution.
Only when the first assistant, Zhao Dong, did not know how to use the instruments would the onlookers stand up and give a simple explanation.
Zhao Dong naturally knew how to use the common instruments, but many of the instruments he did not use were not used in China. For example, the very complicated retractor that was only used in liver surgeries …
The retractor did not need to be pulled by the assistant. It could be pulled by itself after adjusting the screws. For doctors in China, it was a meaningless instrument.
Even so, Zhao Dong felt like he had learned a lot.
Lloyd's technique was quite different from the surgeons in the country. For example, the scissors that he liked to use was something that Zhao Dong rarely saw from the doctors in the country. If it were a great doctor, he might even reprimand Lloyd for using the wrong scissors.
However, Lloyd's hands were flying, and his technique level was so high that no one else could compare to him. If this was a ring, Lloyd would be able to knock down most people in the first round.
At this time, the person's work style and habits were no longer in the discussion of whether it was good or bad. Instead, they should be discussing "why is this technology so awesome?"
Pharmaceutical companies were willing to spend a lot of money to hire doctors to perform demonstrative surgeries, write research papers and reviews, or just put their names on the wall because of this "celebrity effect".
No matter in China or any other country, Lloyd was definitely a celebrity doctor.
There was no need for any special explanation. The fact that the broadcasting system of Yunli Medical Company had a total of 112 broadcasts was enough to explain the problem.
Since Yunli Medical Company had only started developing this set of high-definition video recording system at the beginning of the year, even though it had easily made it the largest in the country, the total installed capacity was not large.
The IT department of Yunli Medical Company was already very surprised by the number of livestreams.
After all, this was BtoB's commercial system. Behind every broadcast, there could be dozens or even more professionals involved.
For a single hepatectomy, 112 broadcasts was equivalent to 112 clinical, research, or teaching units from the General Surgery Department (Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery) watching it. No matter how one looked at it, it was a very large scale.
"We should ask hospitals to organize more events like this. The effect of inviting foreign specialists is obviously better than inviting domestic specialists, and it's also a gimmick."
"After all, domestic specialists are in the country, and they can meet whenever they want. There's no hurry to watch if there's something else. It's not easy for foreign specialists to come, so it's normal for everyone to watch … "
"We have to publicize this. The number of installations will definitely increase."
The IT department of Yunli Medical Company quickly started brainstorming. After listening to the words of a few department leaders, a large number of sentences quickly appeared in the group chat.
"Got it. Execute it immediately. "
"Got it. Execute it immediately. "
"Got it. Execute it immediately. "
…..
Lloyd was quite happy when he heard that there were many people watching his surgery.
However, that was all he was happy about. He still performed the surgery methodically. He did not show off his skills, nor did he increase his speed.
Compared to the doctors in the country, Lloyd's surgery speed was not fast, and his skills were not considered advanced. However, the effect of the surgery was not determined by a single dimension.
From the moment the first incision was made, the doctors performed different surgeries.
Just like how there would be different ways to solve the same problem, clinicians also had different ways to solve surgeries.
Lloyd chose a large incision from the beginning. Compared to doctors who preferred small incisions, the difficulty of the first step of his solution was lower.
Then, he chose different ways of exposure, different anatomical planes, and different resection plans …
Lloyd always chose the less difficult plan.
Therefore, he didn't need to be very skillful. Correspondingly, he needed to have a good sense of judgment.
"Plain and simple is the real deal." Xu Jinyi suddenly sighed and started a topic in the operating theater.
"It doesn't seem like much, but if you think about it carefully, we might not even do this when we perform surgery."
"That's because they're from Anderson Cancer Center. The patients don't actually care about the difficulty of your surgery. They only care about the results."
"We can't change the patients in our country. The patients in our country only care about the size of the incision. If the incision is small, they'll say that you did well. If the incision is big, they'll think that there's something wrong with the surgery … "
Xu Jinyi coughed a few times. "Look at the good parts. We're here to learn from them, not to find fault with our own people. "
"You're right. After the surgery, when we're discussing it in the meeting, we must find out a strong point of their team, and then talk about how we can learn from them." Another assistant lecturer raised his voice a little, and the young doctors did not dare to speak.
Then, everyone obediently turned around to watch the surgery, and they did not dare to speak anymore.
At this moment, Lloyd's surgery was also coming to an end.
"Can we switch to the broadcast of the surgery just now?" Lloyd completed the main steps of hepatectomy. He sprinkled hemostatic powder on the section with slight cirrhosis, and then carefully checked the drainage tube. His tone was extremely relaxed.
Xu Jinyi smiled. "Doctor Lloyd, you really know how to joke."
"I'm serious. I want to watch Doctor Ling perform surgery." Lloyd's tone became serious. It was not easy to become the top doctor in the world, and it was even more difficult to keep the position of the top doctor in the world. Lloyd was very happy to earn tens of thousands of USD, but he would still think of ways to save his time and increase his learning efficiency.
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