Published by CITIC Press in April 2024
A female coming-of-age medical drama in the vein of The White Tower
A brilliant but tragic female neurosurgery PhD versus a clear-eyed startup scientist.
Huaren Hospital's neurosurgery department ranks first nationwide among its specialty departments. Its glorious history includes ten female PhDs, yet never a single woman doctor on staff.
The work is grueling and exhausting. In the eyes of society, this is a forbidden zone for women. But Su Guixiao is determined to be a wild rose growing in the desert.
From being dismissed as the “also-ran” to becoming the hospital's renowned “Iron Lady,” Su Guixiao still ends up with a sacrificial role. Her boss exiles her to take over a challenging AI medical imaging automation project, earning her nothing but sympathetic sighs from everyone.
Everyone except Ye He'an.
When she erupts in anger, he says, “There is no absolute fairness in this world. You knew from the beginning that you would be at a disadvantage, yet when the outcome comes, you still get angry for reasons you already knew about. Isn't that childish?”
When prejudice gets in the way of her work, he says, “How many patients can you cure if you spend your whole life performing surgery? Once this AI system is completed, it will transform the diagnosis and treatment process for hundreds of millions of people. Can't you even do such simple arithmetic?”
She has thorns, and he has an edge. They thought they would be at odds for life, but they never expected that after crossing the brambles and traversing the desert, she would become the wild rose blooming in his heart.
Author's Weibo: @Ningmeng Yuyan lemon
The hard-hitting, inspirational medical novel The Scalpel and the Wild Rose was published by CITIC Press in April 2024. It is available online from Dangdang, JD.com, Tmall, and other retailers, as well as in major brick-and-mortar bookstores. Thank you all for your support!
[Editor's Recommendations]
1. The Scalpel and the Wild Rose is the latest work by Ningmeng Yuyan, author of the original novel for the television series Healing Love, starring Luo Yunxi and Zhang Ruonan. It was selected for the China Writers Association's 2021 Key Support Program for Online Literature. A rare, comprehensive workplace coming-of-age story and hard-hitting medical novel, it follows a female neurosurgery PhD as she becomes the first woman neurosurgeon at a top hospital. There are countless obstacles that can keep you from becoming a top neurosurgeon, but being a woman is not one of them!
2. A Chinese women's version of The White Tower, offering a candid portrayal of the realities facing women doctors at work: abuse of authority, workplace bullying, academic fraud, and malicious rumors spread to sexualize and slander them. See how this brilliant but tragic female neurosurgery PhD fights her way through a forbidden zone.
3. A brilliant but tragic female neurosurgery PhD × a clear-eyed startup scientist. This formidable pair work together in perfect sync, spearheading breakthrough innovation in AI medical imaging research. They overtake the competition and break an international monopoly, putting China's name on cutting-edge medical technology and honoring every unique life in the world.
4. There will always be people who fly into the flames like moths, defy the odds, and walk a path that did not exist before.
Theme: The strength of women in specialized professions, strengthening the nation through science and technology
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