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"The ancestors of the profession of surgeons are a group of people named Tony. Yes, that is Mr. Tony from the barber shop. The red, white and blue rotating lights at the door of the barber shop mean: white represents gauze, red represents arteries, and blue represents veins. 500 years ago, the barber shop was the temple of bloodletting therapy..." Yao Le narrated the story humorously, allowing the audience to travel through the "past and present" of surgical medicine in laughter again and again. "The first shot of the surgical revolution came from anatomy. A man named Vesalius wrote "On the Structure of the Human Body". The medieval church banned human dissection. How did Vesalius do it? He said: 'I just spent the time you drink coffee on tomb robbing!'..." Shanghai Health Talk Show is full of jokes! On the occasion of the 7th "Chinese Doctors' Day", Yao Le, a nationally renowned health science popularizer and deputy chief physician of the General Surgery Department of Tongren Hospital, brought the unprecedented "History of Surgery". The first personal health talk show in the country "History of Surgery" was exciting!

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What would surgery be like if humans lost anesthesia? Yao Le led the audience to an "immersive experience" of a surgical scene that looked like a slaughterhouse. "Back then, surgery was all about hand speed. If you were a little slower, the patient would be dead! The emergence of anesthesia is epoch-making for human civilization." In Yao Le's jokes and memes, "sterilized surgery was born, penicillin was discovered, antibiotics were invented, ABO blood types were figured out, and modern blood transfusion technology was perfected. From then on, we have a chance of success in surgical operations for severe infections and severe trauma."

At the same time, Yao Le also took the audience to review the continuous progress of modern Chinese surgery. "In 1947, my great master Qiu Fazu returned to China. He was an excellent surgeon with the 'Qiu-style magic knife', which could open the whole body from head to toe! He attached great importance to talent training and trained a group of surgical elites in New China, including my great master Qian Yunqing and my great uncle Wu Mengchao... The first case of replantation of a severed hand in the history of world medicine, New China is the first country in the world to successfully reattach a severed hand... Professor Zheng Minhua of Ruijin Hospital has promoted China's minimally invasive surgery from scratch, from benign to malignant tumors, and has reached the international leading level."

With the "surgicalization of internal medicine, minimally invasive surgery, molecular testing, and genetic diagnosis", the legend of Chinese surgery continues, and the development of modern surgery continues. In the future, it may be possible to implant gene chips, target tumor identification, microscopic gene repair, and conquer cancer and genetic diseases at the molecular level. What is the spirit of surgery? Yao Le said: "Two words: unyielding!" Indeed, from the "four great kings" of internal and external surgery in the Middle Ages - bloodletting, sweating, vomiting, and enema, to the "new four great kings" of modern surgery - anesthesia, disinfection, antibiotics, and blood transfusion technology, from the "operating scene" that used to be like a slaughterhouse to the remote operation of the Da Vinci robot today, surgical medicine has taken one step at a time. Every revolution is written with the "unyielding" spirit of surgery, and every breakthrough contains the humanistic care of "life first".

In order to further play the role of medical institutions and medical staff as the "main battlefield and main force" in health science popularization, the first national personal health talk show was organized under the guidance of the Municipal Health Commission, hosted by the Municipal Health Promotion Office, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Health Channel, and the Municipal Health Promotion Center, and co-organized by the Changning District Health Promotion Office. Wang Tong, the main planner of "The History of Surgery", deputy director of the Municipal Health Promotion Office, and director of the Health Promotion Department of the Municipal Health Commission, said,

Telling the history of medicine in a talk show style is an innovation in China and even the world. The History of Surgery is funny on the outside, but serious on the inside: it not only shows the ignorance and absurdity of surgery at its inception, the hardships and difficulties in its development, but also shows the indomitable spirit of exploration of mankind in the field of life! This is of great significance for the public to understand the difficulties and risks of medical development, and thus to respect medicine and doctors more. After laughing, they will cherish life and doctors more! This is also the consideration for launching this activity before the "Chinese Doctors' Day".

It is called "joke", but it is actually a "tribute" - a tribute to every pioneer and leader in the journey of surgical medicine, a tribute to every "unsung hero" in the history of surgical development, and a tribute to all medical workers! In the future, Shanghai will create more influential and high-quality new health science works, new models, and new brands with more innovative health science popularization forms, richer Shanghai cultural heritage, and warmer medical humanistic care.