Shaoliang Wang, MD (王韶亮)
Director, Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center · Vice Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Doctor of Medicine
Center Director · surgical accountability · perioperative safety
Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and the medical reviewer for this site. He previously served as deputy chief of plastic and aesthetic surgery at Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, and brings more than two decades of tertiary-hospital surgical experience to his practice.
As Center Director he is accountable for how surgery and anaesthesia are planned together in this centre: which patients need further assessment before an operation, how the plan is changed when the assessment finds something, and when the right decision is not to proceed at all. He uses he and him pronouns. Twenty years of tertiary-hospital surgery inform every opinion he gives, including the ones that decline to operate.
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Two decisions, deliberately kept separate
The surgeon decides whether an operation is worthwhile and can be done. The anaesthetist decides whether it is safe to put this patient through anaesthesia today. Keeping those decisions separate is a protection rather than a delay, and it is the reason a postponement can happen even when the operation itself is straightforward.
