Reborn in 1992: Striving Upward from a Factory Doctor's Post

[Period piece + medical drama + everyday life + no System + one heroine] 1992: Big mobile phones, heading south to seek one's fortune... 1992, deep in the Qinling Mountains. Twenty-six-year-old Zhou Yan is reborn as the most unremarkable resident doctor in the surgery department of a machinery factory hospital. Three years after graduation, all he can do is clean and stitch wounds. After a “mistake,” he's even transferred to the emergency room. Hospitals in that era had no CT scanners, endoscopes, or minimally invasive procedures. In a place like that, a surgeon might perform only a handful of major operations in their entire career. Then Zhou Yan discovers that he can rehearse an operation dozens or even hundreds of times in his mind. By the time his fingers have memorized exactly how to make each incision, only a few seconds have passed in reality. Before a patient even takes a turn for the worse, he can see what they will be like a few minutes later. From then on, he sees at a glance the difficult cases no one else can diagnose. He steps up to perform the surgeries no one else dares to attempt. The department head waits to see him make a fool of himself, other people take credit for his work, and his colleagues say he's good for nothing but holding the retractor... Zhou Yan doesn't argue or explain. He just performs one operation after another, pulling patients back from the brink of death. His reputation spreads little by little through the machinery factory's bathhouse, cafeteria, and bulletin boards. Starting in an emergency room with just three beds, he moves through the staff hospital, the city hospital, the provincial capital, and Beijing... step by step, he reaches the surgical demonstration stage at international conferences. Zhou Yan never set out to become famous. He only wants to do his job well. And yet... In 1992, China's medical community has no idea what kind of figure has just arrived.