Professor Hu Wanjun gestured for her assistant to play the PPT slides on the screen, displaying a clear view of the patient's CT scan images.
"This should still be considered early-stage lung cancer, completely meeting the criteria for surgery."
"I think the patient is quite old; traditional open chest surgery should be avoided if possible."
"Thoracoscopic surgery is a good choice!"
The crowd was buzzing with discussion.
Many doctors present were actually from internal medicine and not skilled in surgery.
It was only in recent years, with the rapid development of endoscopic surgery and market pressure, that internal medicine had to develop interventional and endoscopic surgeries to survive.
This gave internal medicine doctors a bit of a say in surgical matters.
Professionally speaking, cardiothoracic surgeons are definitely more specialized.
