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The work of a surgeon is the daily routine of knotting and removing sutures, as well as a chronicle of the tearing and healing of wounds, the separation and stitching of flesh and blood, the operation between doctors and patients, and the weaving of the doctor-patient relationship. We recall the famous metaphor that Lévi-Strauss used to illustrate structuralism: when the sewing machine and the umbrella meet on the operating table (from the surrealist poet Apollinaire). This metaphor is all about the virtual reality, the meeting and the transformation of the structure. The key to this metaphor is the concrete and figurative movements on the operating table, the splitting, weaving and dissolving between fingers and organs. And as this article shows, there are people, experience, pain, forbearance, and stretch behind these movements. Therefore, we can also think of Dr. Tao Yong, director of the ophthalmology department of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, who was severely injured and could not re-operate the scalpel. He came back on the front of scientific research and popular science, and “understood but did not forgive” the murderer/patient. Chronicle is never to understand, but to place and understand the entanglements and ruptures in the situation.
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This book is excerpted from the book “The Intern” published by Wanchuan Culture | Chinese Workers Publishing House in 2020, and has been authorized. The original title of the book “The Intern” is “The Secret Notes of an Intern”. The author, Abu, whose real name is Liu Junhao, was born in 1986 and graduated from Chang Gung University. He used to be an intern in Chang Gung, Linkou and National Taiwan University Hospital, and is now a psychiatrist. This article is not for commercial use. It is recommended that you buy this book and respect the copyright of the original book.
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This article is also the second part of our book summary column “Notes on Knotting the Rope”, trying to find the resonance, complicity, and even antagonism between the images of the knotted rope and the world. The previous article can be seen:
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Source / “The Intern” (Wanchuan Culture | Chinese Workers Publishing House, 2020)
Author / Abu Editor’s Note / Yu Kun
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