In 1972, top surgical expert Chen Qian was reborn as a down-and-out health worker in the Gobi Desert. In China, penicillin is more expensive than gold, county hospitals use kerosene lamps for surgeries, and Western medical technology is blocked like an invisible noose.
Chen Qian smiled. His hands from the future are the key to breaking the situation.
In a leaky earthen house, he refined oxytetracycline in a copper pot used to boil ghee and revived dying soldiers; in a county hospital that lacked equipment, he performed the first open-heart surgery, shocking the medical community. His improved manual for barefoot doctors protected the health of millions of farmers.
When an international delegation came with technical arrogance, intending to exchange equipment for privileges, Chen Qian stepped onto the podium of a national medical skills competition. An operation broadcast live to the world began - the veteran general who had retained shrapnel for thirty years performed the world's first minimally invasive shrapnel removal surgery. A three-centimeter incision, and in forty-seven minutes, all thirteen pieces of shrapnel were removed.
The coffee on the other side of the ocean has gone cold, and the iron curtain of technological blockade has cracked.
From then on, a Chinese scalpel began to perform the most precise surgery on the weak national destiny. Medicine can save people, but also the country - Chen Qian wants to use this cold and sharp blade to cut off the shackles and restore the strongest health pulse of a nation.
