Kanaya Nobuhiko, Kuroda Shinji, Kondo Yoshitaka, Takehara Yuko, Kakiuchi Yoshihiko, Minagi Hitoshi, Sakamoto Masaki, Kagawa Shunsuke, Kataoka Hitomi, Fujiwara Toshiyoshi
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan.
Department of Surgery, Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital, 2-25, Kokutai-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-8511, Japan.
Surg Today. 2025 Aug;55(8):1213-1215. doi: 10.1007/s00595-024-02959-y. Epub 2024 Dec 7.
Work-life balance is often discussed in Japan. Yet surgeons find it challenging to take paternity leave because of their demanding surgical duties and a strong sense of responsibility. One Japanese male surgeon had his first paternity experience as a research fellow in the US. When he returned to Japan, he resumed his surgical training and started a research project to become an academic surgeon. When he and his wife were expecting their second child, they discussed his paternity participation before the delivery and decided on a sustainable paternity participation plan. By coordinating his responsibilities with his co-workers, he limited his attendance at work to daytime hours only for 1 month to manage paternity duties. This adjustment did not affect the number of main and assistant operations conducted that month and effective optimization of workflow processes decreased the extra workload for other team members. His experience suggests that the optimization of workflow processes can enhance personal life, including paternity participation. (150/150).
在日本，工作与生活的平衡常常被人们提及。然而，由于外科手术职责要求严苛且责任感强烈，外科医生们发现休陪产假颇具挑战。一位日本男外科医生在美国做研究员时首次体验了陪产。回到日本后，他继续接受外科培训，并启动了一个研究项目，目标是成为一名学术型外科医生。当他和妻子怀上二胎时，他们在分娩前讨论了他的陪产参与情况，并制定了一个可持续的陪产计划。通过与同事协调职责，他将工作出勤时间限制在仅白天的1个月，以便履行陪产职责。这样的调整并未影响当月主刀和助手手术的数量，而且工作流程的有效优化减少了其他团队成员的额外工作量。他的经历表明，工作流程的优化可以提升个人生活，包括陪产参与。
