Returning to ’90s, She Became Famous in Major Surgical Fields Chapter 3500 Discussion

There is a common trope in chinese novel, wuxia or xianxia, modern or sci-fi, that of the "divine doctor". He can accurately diagnose people, prescribe medicine, concocting medicine from materials, stab people with needle and they instantly cure, neutralize poison or even poisoning other, saving someone in the brink of death, restoring one crippled meridian to 1000%, etc. The problem with such fiction is that they are written by amateurs who don't really understand medicine, or based on outdated medical information in ancient times.

The real value of this novel is, in my opinion, that it put the trope of "divine doctor" in the setting of real, modern day, western medicine. This is based on science, and many things explained here can be googled and some real academic medical journal will pop up.

Premise of the story: Xie Wanying is a female doctor. Due to unfavorable conditions, she graduated from second rate medical university and work in third rate hospital in the countryside. She worked in laboratory as pathologist, and as a result had the biggest regret in her life. If only she worked in clinical side....

And then time regressed, and she was back to the time when she is about to do college entrance examination. This time she is resolved to enter the best medical college, work in the best hospital, and change her fate.

Advantages after regressing

Despite its modern setting, I still consider it sci-fi novel. Beside the regress, there are things that is too fantasy-ish and can not happen in real. Anyway, here are the advantages/ abilities she gained after regressing

1. Prior learning and experience

The average student will spend 7 years before he become full fledged doctor. 4 years in theory, 1 year as intern, and another 2 years in residency after getting licence - usually in specialist department. And then more and more years because medicine science is always advancing and doctor need to study for a lifetime. XWY had already done her 7 years and accumulating real job experience, and now she is repeating the process. Medicine is very difficult to study, and she got twice the time to study it.

2. Perfect Learning

Not as strong as real photographic memory, but strong enough to remember everything she had read about medical knowledge. Her brain can also absorb other people surgery skill by only watching them.

Combined with (1), this create absurd situation where she is very knowledgeable about many specialist field. Something can't be humanely done in real world because, well, human generally lack the time and capability to learn so vast field. Usually doctor learn one specialist field, only one.

3. Supercompuuter brain

Her brain can simulate 3D model of a human body, of anyone she see. With input from her 6 senses, she can calculate 3D model and detect diseases, and formulate the best treatment.

4. Future knowledge

Medicine is always advancing, and technology is always improving. With the increase of economic condition, some expensive technology had become more common and affordable. There are more clinical data from cases, there are more drug developed, and more research done. She was sent maybe around 25 years to the past. By the time of her internship, she had future knowledge of medicine 20 years later. She knew things and common sense for medicine 20 years later.

Story

It is good, not bad. But also not that amazing. It is mainly about XWY shocking people again and again, because she exceed their expectation. She was just too amazing. And the stereotype for female doctor is just too bad. The excitement is mainly of watching the faceslapping when some bad people underestimate her.

The romance exist. Just very tiny. Because XWY cannot afford to fall in love before she graduate. Anyway, it is the typical female oriented romance - the male lead is almost perfect, handsome, rich, strong, and very affectionate and spoiling the MC, but fortunately still reasonable and not creepy like other ML in some novels.

Setting and infodump.

I suspect the author is a medical student. There are just too many specialist knowledge, insider information about situation in the industry, and real anecdots. It was like a medical student read some divine doctor novel, and decided that those stories are scam full of nonsense, and then write story based on real medicine science.

Some of the arcs involved XWY tried to cure a patient. And then there are infodumps about the nature of the disease, the cause, the cure, how difficult it is, and the treatment plan. Some readers might skip this infodump, because 1) it doesn't really matter to the plot 2) it is hard to understand. Well, it almost like author copied a medical textbook. 3) it is boring and not relevant to me.

Wrong! This is where the novel actually shine. Even if you don't understand, you should read it. After reading 3500 chapters like me, you will develop new understanding. Nope, you don't suddenly become a doctor. Even a doctor may not be able to do what XWY do in the novel. But I develop new understanding about health, about disease, about the right way to go to a doctor, what to watch out, about medical industry, etc.

As health and disease are something real and close to us, this is actually more relevant to us, no matter our age, profession, gender, or reading preferences.

Conclusion: every one should read this novel.