The author is a breast cancer patient. She wrote the process of her medical treatment, treatment, recovery, and recurrence prevention into documentary literature. Based on the knowledge she learned and her personal experience, she gave an objective and true multi-faceted response to the current status of breast cancer treatment.
The book consists of eight chapters and approximately 340,000 words. The content of the whole book can be briefly seen in the excerpt list. (Table of contents attached)
The first four chapters: medical treatment, surgery, chemotherapy, and recovery, tell the story of Shulan's unusual treatment experience, interspersed with introductions to breast cancer-related knowledge. The article contains various measures to deal with the disease, various pains during surgery and chemotherapy, unpreparedness when approaching death, and profound insights into surviving in desperate situations.
The last four chapters: prevention, traditional Chinese medicine, thinking, and sharing, use examples to raise many problems that will be encountered during illness, and lead the author to analyze and think deeply about the problems. The article contains various measures to prevent recurrence, a deeper understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, introspection on the doctor-patient relationship, and various suggestions for life. She has a frank dialogue with her soul and shares her experiences with her patients.
The book describes the author's medical treatment process in detail in the form of a novel, introduces a lot of relevant medical knowledge in the form of dialogue and experience, shows the working and living conditions of doctors from different angles, and criticizes the current unhealthy phenomena in the medical field with the theme of thinking.