Surgeon: It's new year, have you sealed the knife?

Sealing the knife is to nourish the spirit.

Approaching the Chinese New Year's Eve, the taste of the year is getting stronger and stronger, and the fragrance of dumplings and the smell of the holiday are getting closer and closer.

It's New Year's Day, surgeon, are you still that busy? This year, when will the knife be sealed?

Sealing the knife, for the good man of the green forest, is the sword sheathed, retired to the mountain forest; the surgeon is a treasure knife hidden edge, nourishing and replenishing.

At the beginning of the year, it is busy and hard, day and night. Endless patients, endless surgeries, surgeons, tired, it's time to rest!

Unlike other industries, although there are also public holidays and holidays, it does not mean that you can rest. Because patients do not choose a time when they are sick, they will not pick a season, it can happen anytime and anywhere; as a health guard, the medical staff is only five plus two, white and black, and there is no day and night all-weather preparation.

Even if there is no emergency department, the patients admitted in the early stage need to be managed and treated; the patients who have undergone surgery in the early stage need to be cared for, need to be observed, and are not allowed to relax the nerves and rest freely. On weekdays, I have to check my room early and late, and I have to see patients on weekends; after duty, I have to go to work the next day as usual for surgery, and I still can't finish my work on annual leave.

The surgeon is like a perpetual motion machine, once launched, it must grunt endlessly turn, not do not want to stop, is the inertial action can not stop, the external force drives not to stop; just like a process on the assembly line, the body is involuntarily pushed forward, can not stop, a stop is stuck, only clenched teeth to force themselves to persist. (After reading the surgeon's weekly schedule, I understand that those who can carry it are not ordinary people)

The patient came and wanted to operate; if the operation was not carried out as soon as possible, the patient was in a hurry, and the family members followed the ass all day long. The operation was performed, the patient was discharged, the bed was vacated, and new patients had to be accommodated. If new patients are not arranged to be admitted to the hospital, the bed utilization rate will not be up to standard, the management department will not pass the assessment, and the bonuses and performance of departments and individuals will be affected. After arranging new patients, you will not have time to rest, and you must continue to work overtime, overtime, and overtime, because the next patient is bound to be like the previous patient, constantly urging you to grasp the examination and hurry up the operation.

The surgeon thus consciously or unconsciously, willingly or unwillingly, took the initiative to bury his head in his work, day after day, night after night; like an old cow pulling a mill, whipped by an invisible whip, humming and humming, the cycle began again and again, unconsciously, another year.

The Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival, is the end of the old year, but also the beginning of the new year; it is a golden holiday for recuperation, and it is also an important time to visit relatives and friends.

The children who went out to study returned, the parents who worked outside the house returned; big lanterns were hung outside the house, and red couplets were pasted behind the doors; every house was illuminated, and everyone's face was full of joy.

A little headache brain fever will not rush to the hospital, some abdominal pain and bloating thinking about carrying may pass. The outpatient hall of the hospital gradually cooled down, and the beds in the inpatient department slowly vacated.

Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, although there are 52 public holidays and seven statutory holidays, only during the Spring Festival, the number of patients in the hospital will really decrease, the medical staff can breathe well, and the surgeons will have the opportunity to take a decent holiday.

Near the Spring Festival, some doctors will gradually arrange for patients to be discharged from the hospital in a planned manner, and some doctors will consciously reduce the admission of patients to the hospital. Surgeons will also deliberately only do simple surgeries, routine surgeries, and low-risk surgeries; large operations, difficult operations, and complex surgeries should not be done as much as possible, as little as possible, and as far as possible after the holiday.

Because, surgical patients are different from other patients, surgery is only one of the links of treatment, after surgery also needs a considerable period of close care, meticulous care, especially the perioperative period of the condition is changing rapidly, may take a sharp turn, requiring doctors and nurses to continue to fine management and close observation.

During the big holiday, most departments of the hospital are generally only equipped with doctors and nurses on duty, the overall strength of medical treatment is insufficient, and the ability of inter-department consultation and coordination has also decreased significantly.

As a doctor, no one wants to be suddenly disturbed by the phone when drinking with relatives and friends, rushing to the department to rescue patients, and sometimes needing to call Xituo to ask for consultation with experts in the relevant departments.

As a patient, no one wants to, when the head is swollen and uncomfortable, look for doctors and nurses but find that they are giving other patients injections, infusions, stitches, and changes of drugs, and when the condition changes need to ask other experts for consultation and assistance, they find that the experts are in consultation with other departments.

Surgeons seal the knife before the Spring Festival holiday, not only out of their own need for rest, but also for the safety of patients.

But there will also be some temperamental patients, dragging on the disease for a year or two, suddenly panicked, anxious to beg the surgeon to hurry up the operation, and even threaten the surgeon with hidden words, "Drag to the post-holiday surgery, will the condition be delayed, will the tumor metastasize?" ”

There will also be some patients, the condition suddenly aggravated, do not do surgery, may deteriorate or even lose the opportunity for treatment, the surgeon is not available, even if there are a hundred reluctance in the heart, even if there are a thousand worries in the heart, only pick up the scalpel and shoot decisively.

Gastrointestinal surgery is such a department, every New Year's Holiday, the amount of surgery in other departments is declining, only our department is still a busy scene, other departments have transferred more patients, and the emergency department has received more patients. Especially patients with intestinal obstruction, as if they had seen this opportunity to concentrate on the attack, one by one rushed to our department. [(When love becomes a burden, will you break away?] (Gynecologic tumor patients in the eyes of gastrointestinal surgeons)]

During the holidays, the anesthesiologist on duty and the nurse in the operating room are most afraid of hearing the telephone ringing, and when the telephone rings, it is either to notify the emergency intubation or to notify the emergency surgery. Especially at night, the sound of the jingle bell ringing, how can a midnight horror be described?

There are a few doctors in our department who are particularly "rich" and have made a loud name in the operating room, because whenever he is on duty, he can encounter emergency surgery. When the anesthesiologist and surgical nurse on duty heard that he was on duty, their hearts were frightened, and when they slept, their hearts were half hanging and they did not dare to put it down; when they answered the phone, they saw that it was the number of our department, and the tip of their hearts was trembling, and they first cooled themselves half way.

I remember that in recent years, during the Spring Festival, the consultation and surgery in our department during the festival have not stopped much, and the anesthesiologists and surgical nurses have seen us a lot of dislike.

I hope that this year's Spring Festival can have a calm and peaceful New Year, the brother department will come to harass us less, and we will not harass the beautiful women in the operating room.

Although I know that the plan is not as fast as the change, sealing the knife is mostly wishful thinking, or I hope that the arrangement made earlier can have a little effect, try to move the knife as little as possible, and use the knife less. After all, after a busy year, people are tired and need to rest and recharge; the knife is also blunt and needs to be polished and polished.

Pray, god pity!

Source: Gentle Medical Knife

Editor-in-charge: Zheng Huaju

Proofreader: Zang Hengjia

Plate making: Xue Jiao