Chapter 36: Surgery and Ideas
When the time was close to eight o'clock, the surgical building gradually became lively.
Slowly getting ready in his office, Professor Bergman smiled at John, who had been standing next to him, and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to meet the other surgeons." ”
Under Bergman's introduction, John met with six other surgeons at Charlotte Hospital in two separate offices.
The other five were not very familiar with John's name, but only one man named Thomas Hunt caught John's attention, because he heard it clearly when Professor Bergman introduced him, this Mr. Hunt was also an American, who had come to the University of Berlin eight years ago to study abroad, and it took him five years to get a doctorate in surgery, and then he was retained by Bergman. After meeting the six physicians, John met with four other medical students who had studied with Bergman: three Germans and one Pole.
Finally brought John back to his office, and after the two sat down, Bergman suddenly put away the smile on his face, and looked at John with a solemn gaze.
John was suddenly a little stunned, and hurriedly asked, "Professor, is there anything wrong?" ”
"No problem, just a little worried."
After a few silent glances at John, Professor Bergman sighed softly and said.
"Worried? Worried about me? ”
After hearing this, John was puzzled, he felt that he had been acting very well since he came to Charlotte Hospital, what was there to worry about?
Under John's puzzled gaze, Bergman frowned slightly and said: "John, you are a very smart young man, and I am very surprised and appreciative that you have completed all the subjects in just one year after coming to the University of Berlin!" Suffice it to say that your knowledge is up to the standard of a surgeon, except that you have no actual surgical experience! ”
"Thank you for the compliment!"
After listening to Bergman, John thanked him politely, but the doubts in his heart did not diminish in the slightest.
After a momentary pause, Professor Bergman took a deep breath and continued, "But that's why I'm even more worried about you!" Because although you have chosen surgery, you have never shown enough respect for it, which makes me very worried......"
"Respect for foreign science?!"
Upon hearing this word, John's eyes instantly widened.
What does that mean?
John frowned tightly, and immediately began to think back to the afterlife of meeting Bergman today. But the more he thought about it, the more he wondered, because he really couldn't think of any place to show his disrespect for surgery!
I was a surgeon in my last life, and I chose surgery in this life, isn't this respectful?
Seeing that John didn't seem to understand what he meant, Professor Bergman sighed secretly in his heart, shook his head, and said, "Okay John, wait a minute, I have a few minor surgeries to do soon, and you can watch with the other students...... None of these procedures are complicated, and once you are familiar with them, you can try them yourself. ”
"Yes, Professor."
Although he was still pondering what Professor Bergman had just said, John nodded at this time and followed Professor Bergman to an operating room with full doubts.
As scheduled, Professor Bergman has three surgeries to do this morning.
Don't doubt that a surgeon can perform three surgeries in one morning, because in this era, surgery is far less complicated than in later generations, most of them are bloodletting, abscess insection and other surgeries, others are more fractures, amputations and other surgeries, and some other seriously ill patients are like grasping the last straw in despair if they are sent to surgery. Due to anesthesia, bleeding and many other constraints, cavities in the human body are still a taboo for most surgeons. Even a top surgeon like Bergman didn't dare to step into the thunder pool.
In addition to John, the other four students also came to the operating room at this time, but they were already able to help at this time, and they were busy as soon as they entered.
John stayed quietly and patiently observed.
Perhaps because considering John's first visit to the operating room today, Bergman did not schedule too complicated operations, only two incisional abscesses and one phlebotomy. The first operation was a phlebotomy, and the disease treated was high blood pressure, which John was indeed a little surprised to hear at first, but soon regained his composure. He now knows a lot about the various strange treatment methods of more than 100 years ago, and knows that when there is no effective medicine, bloodletting is one of the main means of treating high blood pressure.
Under the busyness of the students, Bergman basically stood by and did not do it himself. However, he took advantage of this opportunity to start a small stove for the new students: "John, I heard that you met Liszt when you were in London? ”
"Yes, sir, we talked for a few minutes."
While observing the movements of the other students, John replied casually.
Bergman nodded and smiled: "A few years ago, I sent people to Edinburgh and London to learn disinfection and embalming technology from Liszt, and after several years of application, obvious results have been achieved, so as soon as I heard your description of disinfection that day, I knew that you knew quite well in this regard......"
"Huh?"
After watching the four students busy sterilizing surgical instruments and other items with stone carbonic acid, and hearing Bergman's words, John couldn't help but feel a move in his heart!
In the process of developing surgical sterilization techniques, Bergman is a person who must not be bypassed.
Steam sterilization may have been the greatest achievement of Bergman's life, and it is what made him famous in the history of medicine, but in addition to steam sterilization, Bergman actually made fruitful improvements in cloth sheets, excipients and surgical instruments, which John once understood. Therefore, after hearing Bergman's words just now, he suddenly thought that since he has now become a student of the teacher, and he has shown his talent in the fields of bacteria and disinfection, why can't he pull Bergman to improve the disinfection technology completely?
While John was contemplating, the four students had already begun to operate with Bergman's nod.
The patient is a middle-aged man in his forties, although he is not tall, at most more than 1.6 meters, but his weight has exceeded 120 kilograms, and the whole person is very "round", so it is understandable that he has high blood pressure.
Schneider, one of Bergman's students, picked up a bright scalpel and made a small cut in the patient's arm!
"Tsk!"
Seeing this scene, John couldn't help but tapped his mouth.
The blood flowed slowly, not too slowly, so another student picked up a heated glass bottle next to it, and put the mouth of the bottle on it. Slowly, after the glass jar had cooled, John could clearly see that his aunt's red blood was sucked out of the incut by compressed air......
"It's a simple operation."
John shook his head with a wry smile after watching the whole process, he really didn't know what kind of expression he should make for learning such an operation.
It's just that when John was secretly sighing, he didn't notice that the teacher next to him, Professor Bergman, was distracted and paying attention to his watch at this time, and he couldn't help frowning after seeing the change in his expression at this time! Today when he took John to visit the surgery department and introduce other colleagues, this kid was not at all different from other students, he didn't have any nervousness after coming, and there was no excitement or expectation when he talked about the work that everyone worked hard for, which made Bergman a little disappointed.
It's one thing to have talent, it's another thing not to have the passion to study and research!
By accident, a small misunderstanding arose between John and his teacher, Bergman, and the first meeting between the two men in surgery today was not particularly successful. But John didn't care too much about these things after all, he had been silently thinking about the idea of suddenly getting up just now.
All three surgeries were over an hour later.
Just when Bergman summarized the situation of the three surgeries and announced that everyone could go to rest, John finally made a plan, followed Bergman back to his office, and said very seriously: "Professor, I have some new views on the current disinfection technology of surgery, so I want to conduct systematic research and implementation here with us, I don't know if you think it is feasible?" ”
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