Wang Ning never imagined that one day he would go from the operating room to the conference room.
After leaving the military, he was assigned to an unfamiliar township. There, he saw too many helpless situations:
Shortages of medicine and equipment, patients enduring their illnesses rather than seeking treatment, and doctors unable to put their skills to use.
After one emergency resuscitation after another, he realized:
What truly threatened the lives of the people here was not just disease, but also flaws in the system and an imbalance of power.
He had medical skills, but he couldn't save people.
So he chose to enter grassroots politics.
From doctor to deputy mayor, then deputy director of the county government office, he used report after report on reform and redevelopment to forge himself into a different kind of “attending physician.”
