Shen Yan, an attending pediatric orthopedic surgeon at a top-tier hospital, suddenly dies beside the operating table after a surgery. When he wakes, he finds himself in Shuntian Prefecture during the Zhengde era of the Ming dynasty. His new body belongs to a young apprentice physician who was expelled from the Imperial Medical Academy for “recklessly criticizing medical practice.”
No golden finger. No System. Just his own two hands and the modern orthopedic knowledge in his head.
Bone-setting? All you know is how to pin people down and yank their bones into place?
Fracture reduction? With no X-rays, you’re just guessing at the alignment?
Postoperative infections? You stitch people up without even washing your hands?
The orthodox medical establishment regards him as a heretic. The Imperial Medical Academy’s director denounces him in public as a “purveyor of heresy.”
But when the Grand Secretary’s grandson falls from his horse and every imperial physician is helpless, Shen Yan picks up a trimmed willow branch and a length of boiled thread.
“Internal fixation. You don’t need to understand it. Just watch.”
