Plastic surgery is often regarded by the public as a tool to "beautify", but in fact, the daily work of plastic surgeons is also the responsibility of saving lives and healing injuries, from treating patients with severe burns who are dying to treating patients whose appearance is different from ordinary people.
Zhong Hanping, a consultant surgeon who has been in the business for 33 years, described "the doctor must also heal his heart." During his plastic surgery period, he saw many patients who lost their confidence due to their appearance or were regarded as "abnormal" by their parents, so he would try to spend time To comfort the heart of the patient, and to persuade parents to support their children more and not to put too much pressure on them.
Zhong Hanping is one of the outstanding staff of this year's Hospital Authority. He used to serve as the Deputy Hospital Executive Director and Surgery Consultant of Donghua Hospital. Since 1989, he was invited to join Donghua Hospital to promote "day surgery". After joining Donghua, he found that many patients were suffering from bed sores. Immediately use the donation to purchase a decompression mattress to reduce the burden on the patient.
Doctors also need to spend more than half an hour to help burn patients get out of the haze
Chung Hanping, currently a consultant surgeon at Tung Wah Hospital, is mainly responsible for plastic surgery and treatment in the hospital. As a plastic surgeon, in addition to performing operations on patients, he must also be careful about postoperative care, including not neglecting to take care of the patient’s emotions, and avoid appearing complication.
He claimed that there was a 30-year-old female patient who suffered severe burns to her face from a fire. Even though her body was getting better after the operation, she still had "wet eyes" at the follow-up visit one day. Later, she learned that the patient had lost her job due to the burn. And abandoned by her husband.
"Doctors are not social workers, they can only help patients from a medical point of view." However, Zhong Hanping believes that as long as doctors are willing to spend more than half an hour listening to patients' thoughts, they may be able to overcome their psychological trauma.嚟", try to understand and make them understand their importance.
Surgical non-changeable tools, doctors first consider actual needs
Zhong Hanping said that the reason why patients want to undergo surgery is different from the "actual needs" that doctors emphasize. Some patients regard plastic surgery as a "beauty tool." I once met a woman who was often teased for having too big breasts, so she wanted to do it. Breast reduction surgery. This patient wanted to undergo the surgery to remove the psychological barrier, but he decided to perform the surgery because he noticed that the female patient’s chest was too heavy, which could easily cause various cervical spondylosis.
Zhong Hanping said that the reason why patients want to undergo surgery is different from the "actual needs" that doctors focus on. Patients should not regard plastic surgery as a "beauty tool."
(Photo by Li Qianting)
There were parents who brought children with microtia to seek medical treatment for surgery, but Zhong Hanping believed that small ears had no effect on the children's lives, but the parents label the children as "abnormal."
He pointed out that as a parent, you should not be too nervous about children, which will cause unnecessary pressure to them. He also advises the public not to perform unnecessary operations, because plastic surgery is like "embroidery", and the recovery after surgery depends on the individual's skin condition. , The patient must have a certain degree of psychological preparation before surgery.
Purchasing a pressure-reducing mattress to improve the patient's bed sore discomfort
Looking back on the past, Chung Hanping was just invited to join Tung Wah Hospital to implement "Day Surgery", laying the foundation for Tung Wah Hospital to develop into the most important day surgery center in the western district of Hong Kong Island. The surgery that originally required three days of rest in the hospital was reduced to one day, effectively saving time. More hospital beds.
Dr. Chung holds regular day surgery service meetings to improve service quality.
(Provided by interviewee)
Zhong Hanping remembers that in the past, he found that many elderly patients were suffering from bedsores. Bed sores were caused by some patients who had become an open wound due to long-term bed rest or sitting in a wheelchair. On average, 20 of the hundreds of patients had bedsores. There was a bed sore problem, but the hospital’s resources were limited that year, so he used donations to buy pressure-reducing mattresses for patients to reduce the chance of high-risk people suffering from bed sores.
Since 2004, he has provided wound care courses for doctors, nurses and nurses in various departments of the hospital, and strengthened the knowledge of the prevention and treatment of bedsores, which has reduced the rate of patients suffering from bedsores, and the number of patients has dropped from more than 20 to 2 to 3 people.
During the inspection, Dr. Chung found that many elderly patients were suffering from bed sores, so he used donations to purchase pressure-reducing mattresses for the patients to reduce the chance of high-risk people suffering from bed sores (Photo by Li Qianting)
While working in Tung Wah, Zhong Hanping gradually added a variety of new instruments. He understood that different departments wanted to obtain more resources from the Hospital Authority. However, "you got ten pots, but there were 20 pots." He could only do his best to fight for plastic surgery. .
The recent wave of emigration has caused a large loss of local doctors. He said that he plans to retire in January next year. He believes that plastic surgery will be "the Yangtze River will be pushed forward." Doctor.
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