At nine o'clock on Saturday morning, Lin Jie, Chen Shi, Tao Taqing, Yao Siyuan, and Song Licheng gathered in a microsurgery room at Binhai University Medical School for their first surgical simulation.
Though called a simulation, it was actually Lin Jie performing surgery while Chen Shi, Tao Taqing, and others observed and learned in the adjacent room through an electronic screen.
The subject of Lin Jie's surgical demonstration was a snow-white rabbit.
From a medical school's freshman to a qualified doctor, one can't count how many frogs, mice, rabbits, and other small animals have sacrificed their pitiful lives in this process.
First, Lin Jie cut open the anesthetized left foreleg of the white rabbit and detached a small piece of muscle.
What he needed to do next was to extract strands of muscle from the rabbit's other three legs, transplant them to its left foreleg, and simultaneously reconstruct the corresponding microvascular system and neural control system.
