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Chapter 986: 【986】Pass on Experience

Chapter 986: 【986】Pass on Experience

"Section Chief Yang." Director Tang, recalling what Tan Kelin had just said, asked the hospital leadership, "Dr. Tan mentioned that you are very familiar with the procedures."

"When it comes to workflow," Section Chief Yang said, "our Medical Education and Equipment Departments will provide technical support to you. For example, arranging how the camera lenses are brought into the operating room, and how the camera crew is organized, these matters are our responsibility. Rest assured. As for specific surgical projects, who performs the surgery and who speaks at the conference, those matters are within your department’s purview. These are the critical issues. Dr. Tan and others in his team are much more informed about this than I am."

In the end, leaders don’t take responsibility, they just shift it.

A bitter smile spread across the faces of the doctors in attendance, knowing this was to be expected.

Tan Kelin, seated, initially kept silent.

Shi Xu had come with him to be his voice. Everyone knew how Tan Kelin spoke, occasionally uttering a few sharp words, which were not quite appropriate for public settings, especially for inconsequential inter-departmental communications like this.

When He Guangyou and others saw that Shi Xu was speaking, they understood who Tan Kelin was really there for, and it definitely wasn’t to support their Hepatobiliary Surgery department.

Never mind, Shi Xu saying it made no difference. Everyone was clear that Shi Xu was Tan Kelin’s right-hand man.

"Please, Doctor Shi, enlighten us," said someone from the Hepatobiliary Surgery department, adopting a humble stance as they were asking for a favor.

Seeing that the people from Hepatobiliary Surgery did not mind, Shi Xu said: "Our General Surgery Department Two doesn’t have much experience, having only been involved once the year before last. The process was arduous, and it couldn’t be said that the lecture was greatly successful; it was merely minimally successful. The most successful example at our hospital has to be the Cardiology Department. They performed surgical demonstrations at last year’s Cardiovascular Disease Academic Conference, and their session was packed."

People from the Hepatobiliary Surgery department seemed to recall this news, frowning as they remembered.

"Their success in Cardiology, could it be related to any specific characteristics of their surgeries in particular?" questioned Director Tang.

Leaders are leaders, experts are experts, their words quickly pinpoint the crux of the matter.

"The surgical demonstrations by Cardiology involved interventional procedures. The most mainstream intervention currently is placing cardiac stents. Regarding stents, the duration of the procedure is relatively short. Consequently, they organized five surgeries at last year’s conference, streaming them live in rotation and attracting many viewers. In contrast, the outcome was rather poor for the surgical demonstrations by the neighboring Cardiac Surgery department."

"Not from our hospital, right?"

"No."

"How poor exactly?" the people from Hepatobiliary Surgery, also being surgeons, became somewhat anxious upon hearing this.

"The other hospital had only planned one surgery for live streaming during the conference. The attendees were all professionals. Besides the key steps, the remaining workflow was lengthy and dull. The speaker couldn’t engage the observers with other interesting content to keep them there. Besides, since a live surgery demonstration was planned, the audience was only interested in the surgery, not in whatever else the speaker might discuss. It was reported that ultimately not a single audience member remained, and the speaker left as well."

Academic conferences, of course, are mostly attended by professionals. Being a doctor is a lifelong learning profession. Often, beyond their routine duties, they need to study, and learning from the most advanced peers is a very effective method.

The doctors attending the conference either had their departments cover the expenses for learning, or they had to pay out of their own pockets.