
Medical Trends: Things I Experienced in the Medical Circle
by Guo Xiaodun
About This Novel
[Industry insider + power game + marriage emotions + social reality] Is it difficult to see a doctor? Is it expensive to take medicine? If you understand the competition for power, resources, and interests in the medical circle, you will know the answer. After graduating from the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Li Yan rejected the utilitarian logic of the big city and insisted on returning to his hometown to inherit the traditional Chinese medicine hall passed down by his ancestors, adhering to the ancestral motto of "healing people and treating diseases." However, this persistence quickly reveals profound contradictions and dilemmas in the materialistic social context. After his girlfriend Liao Manxue became pregnant, her urgent need for a stable life and material security formed a sharp contradiction with the reality that he had been repeatedly frustrated in society. He had to give up his belief and work in a public hospital in the provincial capital. But the hospital is not a spotless place of angels. The various power games and black-box operations inside shocked him. He suffered greatly from his conscience as a doctor and his career life. He finally left because he could not bridge the gap between ideals and reality and went to a private hospital. However, private hospitals also have their own "jianghu". The boss He Xidong's words "your ideals are too high" reveal the reality that in this order built by resources and compromise, being high-minded often means being marginalized. When traditional values encounter market logic, when personal beliefs collide with the pressure of survival, propositions related to medical ethics and dignity reveal their sharp and heavy essence through daily wear and tear - a truth of life with a deep background in Chinese reality.
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