Surgery Godfather

Chapter 1208: The Boomerang of Worry


After the joint discussion between the two hospitals, the final conclusion on the matter was that the chief surgeon lacked responsibility and respect for life, there was no standardized management system in the hospital, and many systems were completely nominal, merely a formality. The entire hospital management was very rough, not at all modernized.

This was a wake-up call for all medical staff and a lesson for the hospital. There is still a long way to go in training doctors and managing the hospital.

After the meeting ended, everyone returned to their departments, and on the way, people were discussing this matter.

In the institute's doctor's office, the young doctors were having a heated discussion.

Li Guodong and Zhao Wenbo were the main debaters, two arch-rivals who started another big debate. Previously, they always argued fiercely over the topic of Chinese medicine, but now the debate themes have expanded to include anything. From today's case discussion, their debates began to diverge.

These young doctors were also divided into two factions centered around them, one could be called the emotional faction, and the other the rational faction, and the two factions often clashed.

"Our doctors get low treatment, are subjected to agitation every day, and are not understood by patients. Look at doctors in Europe and America, highly respected, and their income and benefits are ridiculously high," Zhao Wenbo said indignantly.

Li Guodong disagreed with his view: "I think the treatment for doctors in the country is already good, it's at the middle to upper level in every city. You can't compare it to foreign doctors, the national circumstances are different. If you compare like this, I dare say, according to the training standards of foreign doctors, ninety percent of doctors in our country couldn't even become doctors."

Upon hearing Li Guodong say this, Zhao Wenbo's anger flared up: "That's worshipping foreign things, our doctors are much better than theirs, especially in clinical skills. We encounter more cases and have richer clinical experience, our surgeries are more practiced than theirs. We have over a billion people doing countless surgeries in a day, how many do they perform in a day? And you claim that according to their standards, ninety percent of our doctors wouldn't qualify?"

Zhao Wenbo often liked to berate Li Guodong, frequently accusing him of worshipping foreign things, making Li Guodong very annoyed. Praising others is worshipping foreign things, what logic is that?

"What worshipping foreign things? I'm stating facts. According to European and American standards, over ninety percent of our doctors would never get to study medicine. We have a universal healthcare system, and the entry scores for the medical profession are relatively low. Aside from a few top medical schools, many medical schools have very low scores. The West has an elite training system with very high standards for medical entry; isn't this a fact? Do you understand? With so many people, according to the elite training system, the number of doctors wouldn't be enough, and ordinary people simply couldn't afford healthcare. This is not worshipping foreign things; this is being realistic," Li Guodong detested Zhao Wenbo, especially when he was labeled.

"You say doctors have low treatment, I think it's already quite good, how much more do you want? You always want foreign treatment and don't want to align your level with theirs," Li Guodong added. He spoke calmly and logically, always clear in reasoning.

"What do you mean? You just said our doctors' skills are lacking. Let's not talk about anything else, the number of cases cut by our surgeons daily equals a week's worth of theirs, whose experience is richer?" Zhao Wenbo brought this up again.

"I'm not saying our doctors aren't skilled, in terms of clinical experience, we indeed have more. But clinical experience is just one aspect. No matter how much experience you have, even if you perform a hundred surgeries a day, so what? If those hundred surgeries are using outdated methods, and they use advanced new methods even if it's just one surgery a day, how many of the drugs we use are our own? Look at your prescriptions on the computer, those drugs are either imported or imitating others, look at our surgeries, most of the techniques come from others' original inventions. Our innovations are just improvements on the original, now look at medical equipment, is there any original? They're all imitations, you tell me who's ahead," Li Guodong began his long speech.

"Furthermore, you say our doctors are more experienced, I personally believe that too, but this is just a belief. Is there scientific statistical data? Experience includes effective and ineffective experiences, and some wrong experiences. There's a lot of experience, but how much of it is effective? To give an example, an old doctor treats stomach ulcers and performs over a dozen surgeries a day, but he doesn't know that this method is outdated and obsolete. Currently, most stomach ulcers can be treated with medication alone. I'm just using this case as a metaphor."

Li Guodong finished speaking and looked at Zhao Wenbo, feeling that his brain had surely malfunctioned.

Zhao Wenbo heard this and couldn't take it: "We have had a shorter period..."

"Didn't you just say we comprehensively surpass them? I'm telling you now who's ahead, and now you're talking about a shorter period. Can you be more logical? We're comparing who's ahead now, not history. To compare who's advanced is to directly look at the results," Li Guodong didn't want to argue with him anymore.

But obviously, Zhao Wenbo didn't want to let go: "We had surgery thousands of years ago, look at Hua Tuo who could use powder for anesthesia to operate on patients, even legends about performing intracranial surgery. How many years does Western surgical medicine have? Western medicine is only two hundred years old, how can they compare to us?"

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