title: [The Journey of a Surgeon Begins with a Camera-Holder].
abstract: The techniques of thoracic surgery has undergone evolutionary changes, and currently video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has already been or is going to be the predominant procedure of various thoracic surgeries. The safe and artistic VATS with high quality is closely associated with the cooperation of camera-holder and the surgeon. If an excellent thoracotomy is the result of perfect integral cooperation of the brain, eyes, hands and the body of the surgeon, the camera-holder in VATS procedure, then, is responsible for the eyes of both the surgeons and himself. This is more meticulous and difficult than that for a single person's brain, eyes, hands and body. Meanwhile, an excellent camera-holder will undoubtedly become an excellent surgeon in the foreseeable future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing ChaoYang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100043, China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D066231:Surgeons; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*