The First Surgical Medical Bureau has more than 60 members, including professors 1, associate professors 1, 2 lecturers, paid teaching assistants 18, and the rest are unpaid teaching assistants and graduate students.
It is under such a medical and personnel system that Cai Qianwulang gradually became an associate professor from an unpaid assistant. Under such circumstances, he wants to become a professor after Professor Dong retires. If Seiji Maehara misses Professor Dong's retirement opportunity, he will never become a professor at a national university.
Because the medical college of Su Lang University stipulates that the retirement age of professors is 63, and Caiqian Goro is 43 years old, so if he can't be promoted to the professorship smoothly, he will lose the chance to compete for the professorship forever.
Moreover, in the professor election, it is far from enough to rely on one's superb medical skills, but the medical college professors who are composed of 365,438+0 professors from 16 clinical disciplines and 15 basic disciplines vote. This looks very democratic on the surface, but in fact, these 365,438+0 professors belong to various factions, so Caiqian Goro had to rely on his father-in-law's strong economic strength to win over the medical minister and president of the Medical Association, Iwata Mao, and was involved in a brutal power struggle.
Before getting the professorship, Seiji Maehara annoyed his former professor Dong Zhenzang because of his arrogance. When the family members of a special patient asked Caiqian Goro to handle the knife, he did not strongly refuse, but readily agreed; He was interviewed by a magazine without the consent of the professor and was named "the new authority of esophageal surgery" ...
This behavior aroused Professor Dong's strong dissatisfaction, so Professor Dong, who should have supported Professor Cai Qian most in the professor election, secretly formed an alliance with Professor Imazu of the Second Surgery Department and elected Professor Kikukawa of Kanazawa University, in order to crack down on Professor Cai Qian Goro and set up a huge obstacle for his election.
It was not until Cai Qian became a professor and performed surgery for Sasaki Yongping that his arrogance reached its peak. Before the operation, the X-ray film of Sasaki Yongping's lung showed a shadow as big as a little finger, and Caiqiangoro rashly diagnosed the old focus of pulmonary tuberculosis without lung tomography. Even if the associate professor of internal medicine repeatedly stressed that the patient needed a CT scan, Caiqian Goro refused rudely and insisted on his opinion.
As a result, the patient died two weeks after the operation, and Cai Qianwulang was taken to court by the patient's family, which became a watershed in his life. Under the double pressure of being entangled in lawsuits and running for membership in academic conferences, Cai Qianwulang neglected his health and finally became very ill and died with a grudge.
Creation background
After the 1960s, Toyoko Yamasaki's writing style gradually showed a strong sense of realism. He felt the drawbacks and darkness of the Japanese social medical system at that time, and created the novel White Giant Tower, which reflected the social problems at that time.
According to Japanese media reports, Toyoko Yamasaki was hospitalized due to illness before writing this novel. During that time, Yamazaki was inspired by various feudal and decadent bureaucratic medical systems in Japanese university hospitals and created this realistic novel to face the realistic problems of Japanese society.
Author Toyoko Yamasaki wrote in the postscript to the publication of this novel: "The medical field must always face life and death, and the infighting and human entanglements among them must be more obvious than the general society. This kind of environment attracted me deeply. At the beginning, my writing motivation was as simple as that.