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考研英语阅读篇章：以色列外科医生的中国情结
An Israeli surgeon's dexterity treating the largest and most serious wounds
has brought him to Sichuan province again and again, he tells Liu Zhihua.
Moris Topaz finally had a good sleep on the flight from New York to China
recently. The 63-year-old usually sleeps only three hours a day but that's
enough, he says, to give him plenty of energy for his work.
Topaz heads the plastic surgery unit of the prestigious Hillel Yaffe
Medical Center in Hadera, Israel. He also serves as the secretary-general of the
International Committee for Quality Assurance and Medical Technologies and
Devices in Plastic Surgery.
On this, his most recent trip to China, he was part of a delegation led by
Ronni Gamzu, director-general of Israel's Ministry of Health, which aimed to
strengthen the cooperation of health communities in the two countries.
While "cooperation" may sound vague to outsiders, Sichuan resident Gong
Fangxue has a very clear idea what that word means to ordinary people.
If not for TopCloser, a groundbreaking method for closing large wounds that
Topaz applied in her operation, Gong probably would have died from a huge
malignant tumor.
"It was a unique case over a very big tumor. Usually with these kinds of
tumors, we have to do complicated surgeries with skin grafts or flaps," Topaz
says.
"This time, we actually stretched the skin in a way we hadn't done
before."
Gong, 40, found a suddenly fast-growing bump on her right shoulder in 2009.
The resident of Deyang was diagnosed with a malignant spindle cell tumor.
Although it didn't spread to other parts of the body, the cancerous bump
grew very fast.
Over the next two years, Gong underwent several removal surgeries, but the
condition always recurred shortly after the treatments, and the tumor grew
bigger and bigger.
Late last year, Gong came to the People's Hospital of Deyang City, after
many other hospitals, including big ones in Beijing, refused to treat her. By
that time, the tumor had become half as big as Gong's head, making her head lean
toward the left. It had become difficult for her to move her neck. Worse, the
tumor stretched the skin so far that at any time, the blood vessels could be
broken, potentially leading to massive, even lethal bleeding.
Removing the tumor was urgent but tissues around the tumor were adhering
with the tumor itself so it would be hard to avoid major bleeding, and nerve
damage could cause death or paralyze her.
An operation wound so large would take a long time to heal with traditional
wound-closure methods, such as skin flaps, but Gong needed quick healing so she
could have radiotherapy as soon as possible and prevent a relapse.
"It was very risky to treat her, but we had to," says the hospital's
president, Fan Tianyong.
"It is a hospital's duty to save lives even if the hope is very dim."
Luckily, the hospital had established a relationship with Topaz, who has
superb experience and skills to treat such complicated conditions, Fan adds.
"The minute I saw pictures of the patient, I felt I must go to the hospital
for her," Topaz says.
On Dec 13, 2013, Topaz operated on Gong with physicians from the
hospital.
In a four-hour operation, they removed the tumor tissues carefully, and
used the TopClosure system to connect the two edges of existing skin with a
special plastic thread, eliminating the need for skin-implant
reconstruction.
The second day after the operation, Gong felt her pain easing. Within two
weeks, the wound healed, and she was able to have radiotherapy. Now regular
checkups indicate she is recovering from the cancer.
It was the first time in the world that such a large wound was healed
without skin flaps and implants, according to Li Yongzhong, director of the
hospital's burns and pl astic surgery department.
But that's just a sample of what Topaz has done to enhance medical
cooperation between China and Israel.
In 2008, when news came that an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan, Topaz
volunteered to the province's foreign experts' affairs bureau to help save
critically injured victims.
He soon arrived in Deyang, one of the most severely hit areas, donating
medical devices and medicines that cost 100,000 yuan ($16,000) and treating
patients.
He also trained local medical professionals with advanced wound-treating
methods, which helped patients with large wounds heal faster, with less
infection, suffering and aftereffects.
Since then, Topaz has visited Sichuan regularly, to train local medical
personnel with new plastic-surgery technologies and techniques.
In 2011, Li's hospital established close ties with Topaz's. In 2012, with
help from Topaz, Li and a colleague were invited to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
to study with medical experts there.
Benefiting from Topaz's help, the hospital has exponentially extended its
burns and plastic surgery department's ability and capacity: The department now
has 17 doctors and nurses, up from the original two doctors.
"Professor Topaz has visited Deyang dozens of times to teach and help our
doctors here in the past few years," Li says.
"He is very nice and a good friend to Chinese people."
Q&A
1. What's your personal China story?
It's very special experience, because I came to China nine years ago. I had
heard about China in stories but not in reality. It is very impressive to see
the way China is developing in a very fast way.
2. What drew you to China?
In my profession, I come where I can do surgeries, I do good (to people).
It helps me know the people. I have many friends in many places in China. You
meet one surgeon in one surgery, and then you know him for life.
3. What's your life's dream?
I don't sleep much,
so I don't have much time to dream! I try to do things. I'm trying to do as
much as possible.
4. What's your take on the Chinese Dream? How is it related to your
dream?
I think the Chinese Dream should be having China improve with better
medicine, better education and better life. China is one of the most peaceful
countries in the world. You should keep it good, that is important.
5. How will you think the Chinese Dream plays out in China? What does if
means for international community and Chinese people?
China is very strong and is taking more and more part in the international
arena. You had the most fantastic Olympic Games and are advancing in many
fields.
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发表于 2017-8-6 15:50:08