Combo photo taken on Dec. 20, 2016 shows (up) Zhou Jianbo, an otolaryngology-head and neck surgeon, eating with cotton swabs instead of chopsticks to improve finger flexibility and (down) Zhou performing operation on a patient at the Hunan Provincial People's Hospital in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province. Surgeon Zhou Jianbo often gets his fingers trained in daily life by using tiny cotton swabs to eat or practicing surgical suture on grape skin. (Xinhua/Li Ga)