Consultant surgeon Bryan Rhodes talks to Kathy Oxtoby about his lifelong love of table tennis and why it’s the perfect sport for surgeons It was the long hot summer of 1976 when Bryan Rhodes’ friend asked him to practise table tennis at the renowned Hermits Table Tennis Club in Bradford. “Up until that time I’d only played it on the kitchen table at home—with books down the middle as a net—so it was quite an experience playing on a proper table, in a proper facility,” Rhodes recalls. That experience sparked a lifelong love of this relatively unsung sport. “Table tennis doesn’t get enough publicity—it’s not commercial like tennis, or as high profile. But for me, it’s more enjoyable to play,” says Rhodes, a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. His passion for the sport continued through his medical …

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为什么我 。. . 打乒乓球

顾问外科医生 Bryan Rhodes 与 Kathy Oxtoby 谈论他对乒乓球的终生热爱以及为什么它是外科医生的完美运动 1976 年漫长炎热的夏天，Bryan Rhodes 的朋友请他在著名的 Hermits 乒乓球俱乐部练习乒乓球布拉德福德。“在此之前，我只在家里的厨房桌子上玩过它——中间是书本——所以在合适的桌子上、在合适的设施中演奏是一种非常好的体验，”罗德斯回忆道。那次经历激发了人们对这项相对不为人知的运动的终生热爱。“乒乓球没有得到足够的宣传——它不像网球那样商业化，或者高调。但对我来说，玩起来更有趣，”皇家兰开斯特医院的创伤和整形外科医生顾问罗德斯说。他对这项运动的热情通过他的医疗继续……