My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 915: Chapter 363: This Is Talent—A Single Bloom Does Not Make Spring (Part 3)

The best way is to accumulate practical experience and grow quickly by performing surgeries in the operating room.

Mediastinal tumors are classified into the upper, middle, and lower mediastinum.

This tumor is located in the upper mediastinum.

It is very likely caused by the metastasis and spread of lung cancer. Typically, cancer cells spread most commonly through lymphatic spread, blood spread, and infiltration into adjacent organs.

Blood spread is not as terrifying as imagined; not all blood spread will necessarily lead to systemic spread.

A cancer cell entering the bloodstream already needs to overcome multiple barriers in the body.

Even if it enters the blood, it may be expelled from the body through the glomerulus or sweat glands. It may also be detected and killed by the body’s immune cells.

Even if it spreads through the bloodstream and ultimately metastasizes to other organs, it would still need to withstand multiple immune mechanisms of the body to take root.

If it manages to evade all that, only then can it take root, replicate rapidly, and eventually develop into a malignant tumor.

It must be said that any tumor generated from cancer cells is definitely malignant and can never be benign. Regardless of whether the borders are clear or if there is blood flow signal, these routine methods for identifying tumor nature are useless.

Only a biopsy or pathological examination after cutting out the tumor can determine its nature.

Some patients hold a fluke mentality and think they are safe after examinations show clear borders and insignificant blood signals. This is actually very dangerous.

Particularly when consulting, encountering inexperienced young doctors, who due to a lack of practical experience and considering surgical guidelines, easily and hastily advise patients to keep observing.

This can lead to missing the best time for surgery.

This mediastinal tumor patient’s tumor has a diameter of 4.6 cm, and Zhou Can, after surgical evaluation, believes it is suitable for minimally invasive surgery.

Generally, if a tumor’s diameter is less than 5 cm, minimally invasive removal can be considered.

Of course, this also depends on the surgeon’s skill level.

In a top provincial tertiary hospital like Tu Ya’s, there are basically no technical barriers. But in Zhou Can’s hometown, Xin Hai City People’s Hospital, that might not be the case.

This is also why patients prefer to go to large hospitals for surgery, even for some Level 1 and Level 2 surgeries they prefer large hospitals.

They would rather wait for a long time and travel far to have surgery in a renowned large hospital.

It’s not that patients are fussy, but everyone cares about their life. Having surgery in small hospitals often means being used as a guinea pig for doctors to practice. If done well, everyone’s happy.

If not and the patient dies, that’s that.

But being half-dead, that truly is a fate worse than death.

Zhou Can has been progressing rapidly, consistently maintaining his swift and decisive surgical style. In less than forty minutes, he successfully removed the tumor. Whether separating the tumor or stopping the bleeding, he was as swift as the wind.

Compared to the slow surgical style of other doctors in Cardiothoracic Surgery, he is undoubtedly an outlier.

If Director Xue and others could often watch Zhou Can perform surgeries, they might change their surgical style, pursuing speed while maintaining stability.

At least, after watching Zhou Can complete two surgeries in a row, their desire for speed has significantly increased.

In this regard, Director Hu’s downfall is not entirely a bad thing.

Previously, Director Hu Kan was a god in the minds of all doctors in Cardiothoracic Surgery, a kind of faith.

Everyone took him as a model and learned from him in every aspect.

As a result, almost all surgical doctors in Cardiothoracic Surgery developed a habit of prioritizing stability over speed during surgeries.

This is actually very detrimental to the development of the entire department.

One flower does not make a spring; a hundred flowers in bloom bring spring to the garden.

Only with a hundred flowers blooming, each with its own characteristics, can a department’s development be vigorous and lively.

Because some surgical doctors may not be suited to Director Hu’s slow surgical rhythm, but rather to other compatible styles.

Zhou Can achieved both speed and stability, which is equivalent to opening a new window for them.

Allowing them to see a different world.

Thus, daring them to boldly break free from restrictions and make new attempts in the future.