Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s-Chapter 1931: The Bosses Have Different Personalities

"Why be so polite?" Zhang Tinghai’s cold and indifferent expression remained focused solely on the anesthesia machine. Occasionally, his gaze would lift, only to land on Student Xie.

Reflecting on it, ever since Student Xie went to Beidou Third Hospital for her internal medicine internship, she had been away from Guoxie’s operating room for quite a while. It makes one feel a bit nostalgic, Zhang Tinghai thought.

"Come, come." Chang Jiawei beckoned the two assistants to position themselves properly, preparing to commence the surgery. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Xie Wanying stood beside Doctor Liu, the First Assistant, serving as the Second Assistant.

Before starting, Chang Jiawei looked up at the clock on the wall, asking her in a casual tone, "Yingying, are you nervous?"

Nervous, not really. She might have felt a bit of it when she got up in the morning, but upon entering the operating room, perhaps it was the cold atmosphere here that doused her nerves. Anyway, her feeling of nervousness vanished.

"You’re not nervous?" Chang Jiawei, seeing her not responding, asked her again.

Xie Wanying could sense that Senior Chang seemed to be looking for a topic to chat with her about, and a thought flashed through her mind: Could it be that the senior is a chatterbox in the operating room?

Not all surgeons have the same personality. Everyone is unique, and surgeons are no exception.

In practical work, a considerable number of surgeons enjoy chatting during surgery. It just happened that the bosses she previously followed were of the serious and rigorous type, like Teacher Tan, Senior Tao, and Teacher Du, who preferred silence, believing it was golden, and didn’t engage in casual talk like Senior Chang did.

Being a chatterbox has its advantages. For some surgeons, talking can appropriately alleviate the tension during surgery, avoiding excessive nervousness that could lead to mistakes. Some patients don’t understand this, thinking that seeing medical staff chatting and laughing in the operating room indicates negligence and disregard for their lives. In reality, the doctors’ nerves were already so taut that they had to say a few words to relax and steady themselves to do the work.

All doctors feel nervous before surgery; no doctor dares to treat a patient’s life lightly. If they did, the patients’ families might disregard the doctors’ lives, which is something the doctors are very aware of, without needing the patients and their families to worry about it.

If this isn’t understood, one can refer to an exam room. The absolute silence in an exam room can make some examinees feel like they are in a dangerous situation, sweating profusely, with adrenaline pumping. Similarly, an overly quiet atmosphere in an operating room can lead to a similar sense of pressure for some doctors, causing excessive nervousness and shaky hands. This is a major taboo in surgery. Therefore, clinically you’ll find some medical staff making jokes with their surgical colleagues when they themselves become patients, aiming to ease their colleagues’ nerves to avoid failure.

If a surgeon isn’t a chatterbox, how do they alleviate surgical tension? That brings us to the issue of focus.

Some people don’t talk when they are highly focused, akin to holding their breath while swimming without any spare energy to speak. Some people, once focused, don’t realize what they are saying, talking without knowing it themselves.

The former rely on high levels of concentration to suppress nervousness, similar to how some top students always find a focal point to concentrate on in the exam room, making themselves forget they are in an exam, thus eliminating overly nervous emotions. The latter is directly dysfunctional.

She belongs to the former category, but Senior Cao often criticizes that it’s not good enough. Senior Cao advocates that surgery should combine relaxation and tension.