Doctor Player Chapter 419 Discussion

This is not a bad read as long as you don't mind extremely weak-minded characters and repetitive progression. I enjoyed the novel up until around 200+ chapters when things start to fall into a predictable pattern and MC becomes more cowardly and there were less instances of him actually standing up for his patients, which I think are vital for redeeming his otherwise very unworthy qualities.

The system is interesting and I am forcing myself to finish the novel so I can find out more about it (this and if he every actually becomes rich), about the ancient civilization, etc. It is a tad overpowered but it can't be helped since MC needed the supplementary skills to basically copy the modern technological level of current Earth medical science.

MC's character can be characterized at the beginning as timid, greedy, ambitious, but has a heart for his patients. The author seems to want to portray him as a money-grubbing doctor (in his head) but misunderstood by everyone as impossibly noble (in the eyes of everyone else) but the readers will see him as actually selfless (because we can see how he acts against his greed). And at the beginning, it does seem like that. The arc with him in the slums crying over patients he had lost was quite poignant. Readers will find humor in how MC can't even see himself properly. But a few hundred chapters after that, he just seems really greedy and cowardly but conveniently misunderstood by everyone around him. He actively tries to manipulate public opinion and even seriously considers not helping patients right in front of him unless the systems urges and intervenes and he finally finds a reason to treat said patient (because he will benefit). At this point, it made me think that he isn't actually kind; he is just too cowardly and timid to cause harm. I am not sure that is really a virtue.

The plot unfolds very predictably after some point. He is embroiled in a political scheme. He wants nothing to do with it and tries hard not to treat patients. But then, he realizes his dreams of becoming rich is affected and so he (timidly) steps up. I do appreciate that he is somewhat consistent but reading the same thoughts over and over again tend to kill what little humorous edge it had before. Eventually, he realizes who is the real big bad behind all the tragedies and seriously considered just absconding without even thinking to stop that after all he had done at that point, he would be their first target if they should ever come out victorious. For a doctor, he isn't very sharp.