How is surgery similar to fine art?

  In clinical work, I found that my own years of art study training had a great influence on surgery. Most people think that art is just a way and means to pursue beauty and express it, and that without art, the world would become a simple and boring place. This is only the surface of art, in fact, the penetrating power of art is quite powerful, it can affect all aspects, including surgery, of course.  Art activities can develop keen observation, flexible hands-on skills and initial aesthetic skills. Especially in the process of sketching learning, sketching learning can be through the observation of geometry and painting, can develop a sense of three-dimensional and spatial imagination, this sense of three-dimensional and spatial sense of pre-operative judgment and intraoperative operation is extremely important, pre-operative through the reading of CT imaging film in the brain to form a 3-dimensional image can be clear lesion location, anatomical relationship, the surrounding neighborhood, so that pre-operative The study of sketching focuses on the observation and comparison methods, from which the eyesight and comparison ability are exercised, while cultivating carefulness and patience. The principle of surgery is to remove the maximum lesion and retain the maximum normal tissue, both to remove the lesion and to ensure the safety of the surrounding normal organs, but the lesion and the important organs, blood vessels and other tissues are often closely related, so a good surgeon must not only have a good mind before surgery, but also have a good eye, good hands-on ability, as well as carefulness and patience; the fundamental method of sketching is from The fundamental method of sketching is to start from the whole to the partial depth and then to the whole. There are similarities and differences between the whole and the local, macro and micro, coordination and arrangement. For a surgeon, surgery is only a means of treatment, surgery alone is far from enough, must be combined with a detailed medical history, examination data overall grasp of judgment, and then find the focus of in-depth research, a thorough solution to relieve the patient’s suffering, in the treatment process can never be limited to the disease itself, while ignoring the patient’s feelings, any treatment can not be limited to the cure for the sake of the cure, more importantly, to It is more important to make patients’ quality of life more meaningful.  Surgery is not simply a technique, it is in a sense an art. We must understand surgery as a creation, which is related to one’s experience, experience, drive, imagination, knowledge, way of thinking, psychological quality, resilience, and even to its emotions, interest, temperament, character, ideals and pursuits. Surgery is good to do, surgery with art is not easy.