Understanding Minimally Invasive Surgery

  How to count one, how to do one, this is what I have been thinking about, and is also a common concern. Over the past twenty years of medical practice, I have seen many, many patients, from the 100-year-old to the infant; and of course, my family and I. The painful reactions they show in the face of various treatments, such as discomfort with medication, avoidance of puncture, fear of surgery, vomiting from chemotherapy, and that kind of helpless expression, stabbed my heart all the time.  When will I have a way to let patients get well without medication, without injections, without surgery, without pain, and with a little rest? Oh, it dawned on me: how to count a still-doctor? A doctor who doesn’t take medicine is the best doctor. No medicine, no money, no pain, no disputes, how good it would be! Isn’t this my pursuit? Of course, this is also the pursuit of everyone, and is the ultimate pursuit of medicine.  Medicine is science, due to the limitations of medicine. In my helplessness, I have sent away many patients, including my own parents and relatives. Although being a doctor without medication is, at the moment, still an ideal, or a dream. But exploring a way to obtain the maximum efficacy with the least pain and trauma is the theme of today’s medical world, and the subject of every doctor.  This has given rise to stepped therapy, minimally invasive therapy and precision surgery (i.e. minimally invasive surgery). So, in terms of treatment alone, nowadays, for the patient, the doctor who uses stepped treatment, is; for the right patient, the doctor who uses minimally invasive treatment, is.  Why do you say, for the right patient, use minimally invasive treatment. Minimally invasive surgery, has made a great contribution in the treatment of diseases. Less invasive, less painful, faster recovery; patients like it and are willing to accept it. Especially in recent years, minimally invasive surgery has made another qualitative leap and is known to almost everyone. However, it is not the same as saying that minimally invasive surgery is a panacea; it is also a discipline of continuous improvement. Just like medicine, it is also in constant progress.  Not all diseases are suitable for minimally invasive treatment. Although minimally invasive has spread to all clinical disciplines, it still has its limitations and has not yet reached all diseases.  It is clearer how minimally invasive surgery can bring the most benefit to patients, how to count one and how to do one. The doctor who can do minimally invasive, counts, and the doctor who can master minimally invasive, is.  , not easy to be. Being a good minimally invasive surgeon, especially a minimally invasive surgeon in the spine specialty, requires a solid knowledge of anatomy, skilled surgical experience, a long learning curve and dedication. Minimally invasive surgery in the spine is particularly demanding in terms of equipment and personnel, not only in terms of good imaging equipment, but also in terms of prolonged exposure of the surgeon to X-rays. Prolonged x-ray killing, like small doses of nuclear radiation, can lead to radiation sickness, sometimes fatal. That’s why minimally invasive surgeons have to have a spirit of sacrifice.  Minimally invasive surgery is about leaving the benefits to the patient and the pain to yourself (the surgeon). No matter how much pain there is, as long as the pain is relieved for the patient, such a doctor is.