"Artificial reflex arc", who can explain it?
“这么好的手术，为什么就推广不开呢？”
“如果他认为好，时间会证明一切，我们要尊重事实。”
本刊记者/蔡如鹏
"Such a good procedure, why can't it be accepted?"
"If he believe it works, let time prove it. We must respect facts."
Reporter/Cai Rupeng
神源医院开展的手术，是建立在武汉协和医院教授肖传国提出的“人工体神经-内脏神经反射弧”的理论基础上的。这一理论又根据其创建者肖传国的名字，被称为“肖氏反射弧”。神源医院院长高晓群，以及手术主要的操作者杜茂信、何朝宏也都称自己是这一理论的“实施者和推广者”。
The surgical procedure developed by Shenyuan Hospital, is based on the theory of "artificial somatic nerve - splanchnic nerve reflex arc" proposed by Professor Xiao of Wuhan Xiehe Hospital. This theory was also named "Xiao's reflex arc" after its inventor. The head of Shenyuan Hospital Gao Xiaoqun, and the people in charge of carrying out the surgeries, Du Maoxin and He Chaohong, all called themselves the "implementers and popularizers" of this theory.
今年54岁的肖传国，1975年毕业于湖北医学院(现武汉大学医学院)，后考入同济医科大学(现华中科技大学同济医学院)，并于1981年获医学硕士学位。肖传国上世纪80年代末出国，先后在英国伦敦大学、美国东弗吉尼亚医学院、美国纽约州立大学工作。1997年回国，任华中科技大学同济医学院附属协和医院泌尿外科主任至今。
Xiao is 54 years old today. He graduated from Hubei Medical College (now Wuhan University Medical School) in 1975. After graduation he was admitted to Tongji Medical University (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology Tongji Medical School) and obtained MD in 1981. Xiao left the country at the end of the 80's, and worked in London University in England, East Virginia Medical School in the US, and New York University in the US. Since his return in 1997, he has been the head of urology department of Xiehe Hospital which is attached to the Tongji Medical School of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
在肖传国的办公室，记者看到墙上挂满了获奖证书。这些奖项包括何梁何利基金科学与技术进步奖(2002年)、国家科学技术进步二等奖(2001年)和吴阶平泌尿外科医学奖(2000年)。他说，这些奖都与他提出并证实“人工反射弧”理论有关。
In Xiao's office, the reporter saw a wall filled with certificates and award plaques. The awards include HE-Liang-He-Li Fund Awards for promoting progress in Science and Technology (2002), second Prize of the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology (2001), and Wu Jieping Medical Fund for Urological Research (2000). He said that these awards are all related to his proposal and verification of the "artificial reflex arc" theory.