When the name on the gastric cancer diagnosis became his most proud student, the experienced director of the gastroenterology department trembled his hands in front of the pathology report for the first time. The girl who once had bright eyes in medical school class is now lying on the hospital bed counting her own survival time.
Ten years ago, she was the best student; ten years later, she became the most difficult case. Faced with the diagnosis of advanced gastric cancer, the teacher and student will experience a profound dialogue between medicine and life: when doctors become patients and teachers become healers, the survival rate numbers in the textbooks suddenly take on a whole new meaning.
From multidisciplinary consultation to clinical trials of new drugs, from the operating table to the bedside, this is a story about how doctors face their own diseases, and it is also an elegy about the intertwining of life and medicine. When the traces of the wedding ring on Fang Lianxin's ring finger overlap with the signet ring cells under the microscope, and when the dripping sound of chemotherapy drugs resonates with the timer in the laboratory, we will eventually understand: some cures are beyond the scope of medicine, and some courage can only come from facing death directly.
