Dr. Doug has been working with Chinese surgeons in Beijing, China for several years. This was a tradition started by Elder Nelson when he was doing cardiac surgery. Dr. Doty continued the cardiac work and Doug started them on the peripheral vascular work in stroke prevention.
Doug has been training surgeons to do carotid endarterectomies which is a clean out of cholesterol plaques in the carotid artery bifurcation, the carotid artery of course brings blood to the brain. When that artery narrows or gets filled up with friable material, some of this can go up into the brain and cause a stroke. When diagnosed and treated surgically properly, it will prevent stroke. They have a significant stroke problem in China. The surgeons had complications with the surgery at the beginning but Doug has gone over there each year and showed them how to do the operation safely, made sure they had the proper instruments and proper diagnostic equipment.
The picture shows a group of these surgeons who came for a visit. To the right of Mom is Dr. Wang who came over to work in the cardiac research lab at the LDS Hospital and is now a US citizen. Behind Mom is Dr. Doug and on his left is Dr. Jang. He has done 700 carotid endarterectomies since they began the program. Doug goes over there and operated with him.
Dr. Jang was very kind to us during our visit to Beijing last year.
These are a great group of men and I liked them. All the Chinese I have met are very respectful of older people and their experience. They make sure the oldest gets the best seat and often the last morsel of food is passed to this person. We gathered at a Cambodian restaurant for this meeting.
One of the Chinese surgeons mentioned that he might like to send his daughter over to BYU for college and university. I told him that 15 of our 17 children graduated from the "Y" and it was a top notch school. Mike, who is a professor of Electrical Engineering there, organized a tour of the campus for this group. I hope he sends his daughter over here. Doug will go over there next month.
Well ongoing activity around here.
Next week is the Elk Hunt in Driggs, Idaho, with Rob who is coming down from Spokane. We were unsuccessful in our last attempt two years ago. Roy is flying in from Colorado as the offical Spotter and Filmer. We will drive up there in the pick up and stay at a ranch for three days. More about this when we get back.
Alles Gute, Dad
1 comment:
That's great work that Doug is doing. How was the food? Was it a restaurant in salt lake? We'll have to try it out.
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