Back to 2002 as a Doctor

Back to 2002 as a Doctor is an urban medical web novel by Zhenxiong Chumo, written after his Surgery Livestream Room; it was serialized and completed on Qidian, totaling roughly 3.45 million Chinese characters in more than 1,600 chapters. The protagonist, Zhou Congwen, is a top surgeon determined to conquer cancer and relieve human suffering. On his way to promote particle implantation, he dies in a car accident before his work is done, yet by a twist of fate returns to 2002, to the years when he had just started work in his previous life, was manipulated and belittled after refusing to drink with the old department director, and had hit rock bottom. Armed with twenty years of later clinical experience, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and a system that returns with him, he stands again at the starting point of the cardiothoracic surgery department of Jianghai Third People's Hospital: he uses the medical textbooks of the time to expose a senior doctor's wrong plan for a patient with crush syndrome and saves a young patient who would have died; he then goes on to handle tetralogy of Fallot, difficult emergencies, and rare diseases, gradually breaking through the technical ceiling of the era. The story centers on his clash of principles with Wang Chengfa, director of cardiothoracic surgery, interweaving medical scenes with period texture such as handwritten medical records, shortages of dialysis equipment, and the fight against SARS; it also follows him as he matches wits with peers at academic conferences, is taken as a closing disciple by the senior figure Huang Lao, and takes part in building the discipline and training talent. The author himself works at a top-tier hospital, and many of the diagnostic and treatment details are drawn from real clinical pathways and case records, so that beyond the thrill of a rebirth story, the novel preserves a calm, restrained, and solid observation of the profession.