After binding with the system, I became a proctology expert.

"It's so hard! Writing a thesis is really too hard!"

The cramped ten-square-meter rental room could only fit a single bed, a desk, and a wardrobe.

The wood-grain-look compressed board tabletop was cluttered with open books, and the dim light from the desk lamp and CD player dispelled the darkness, but could not dispel the anxiety in Lu Renxin's heart.

With a haggard face, disheveled hair, and dark circles under his eyes, he sat upright in front of the computer, a typical look for a resident trainee.

She ran her hands through her hair and scratched her already messy hair hard before collapsing into the chair, completely deflated.

I am a master's student at Guanghai Hospital, the most famous tertiary hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in Guanghai City.

This is my third year of residency training, and I only have a little over two months left until graduation.

However, he has not yet had any academic papers accepted for publication.

As a resident physician, he spends his days in the department completing clinical work, including admitting patients, writing medical histories, and assisting with surgeries...

As a professional master's student, he also needs to prepare for graduation, revise his thesis, and prepare for his defense...

Guanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has certain requirements for students' graduation, including the requirement to publish or have accepted one academic paper as the first author.

Despite his heavy workload at the hospital, Lu Renxin made a concerted effort to find time to write papers and submit them to various magazines.

I don't know how many rejection messages I've received, but tonight that number has increased again.

"Once you enter the world of medicine, it's like entering a deep sea; from then on, you can easily become a stranger in the field."

His gaze was vacant as he stared at the open document on the computer screen and muttered to himself.

Without publications, it's impossible to obtain a degree certificate.

Without a degree certificate, it's impossible to find a good job.

After studying hard for eight years, Lu Renxin couldn't find a job and felt he had let his family down after all those years of nurturing.

Women fear marrying the wrong man, and men fear choosing the wrong profession. It's important to know that medicine is a profession with extremely high sunk costs.

Five years for undergraduate studies and three years for master's degree; I've dedicated my youth to this industry.

High school students who chose other majors have either found jobs or gotten married... their lives have long since settled into a routine.

Meanwhile, he was still struggling in the hospital, worrying about his thesis.

This sense of loss made him unwilling to accept it and unwilling to give up.

If studying medicine was Lu Renxin's first mistake, then choosing traditional Chinese medicine was an even bigger mistake.

Having just graduated from high school, he was too naive and loved reading martial arts novels, and was full of fantasies about the ethereal and divine doctors in the books.

Thinking that traditional Chinese medicine only requires taking a pulse, looking at the tongue coating, and prescribing Chinese medicine, I resolutely jumped into the deep pit.

Who would have thought that after entering university, anatomy, diagnosis, pharmacology... I would be studying them all.

Traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis, traditional Chinese medicine... those are just icing on the cake.

Everyone else has one set of "Autumn in My Heart," but he has one set after another.

Finally graduated from university and looking for a job? Nowhere wants a TCM graduate with a bachelor's degree!

He had been turned away countless times in the past three years.

He has no medical license, no standardized residency training, and insufficient academic qualifications.

If I can only continue to graduate school, what major should I choose?

By this time, Lu Renxin had gained some understanding after a year of hospital internship.

As the saying goes: ophthalmology is gold, surgery is silver, dentistry is like driving a BMW, and pediatrics is just a noisy affair...

He naturally wanted to choose ophthalmology and surgery, or orthopedics.

However, these are all popular departments, and the competition is extremely fierce.

Lu Renxin's score was not high, and he knew he was not very competitive and might not be able to beat the high-scoring top students.

Just as he was hesitating, the three large characters "Proctology Department" caught Lu Renxin's eye.

After all, it's a low-level department, so quite a few people mind and it's not that sought-after.

Ophthalmology isn't enough, but the anus is also an eye, and therefore a surgical area, so it should be okay.

So he gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, and joined his current mentor's program, becoming a professional master's student in proctology.

Speaking of proctology, it is indeed a top-tier department in traditional Chinese medicine surgery.

After all, the saying "nine out of ten men have hemorrhoids, and ten out of ten women have hemorrhoids" is not a joke. There is no need to worry about the number of surgeries performed, and the income is quite considerable.

But all of this is based on Lu Renxin graduating smoothly and finding a job.

Over the past three years, he has diligently followed his mentor's guidance, conscientiously admitting patients, writing medical histories, and assisting in surgeries, gaining considerable experience in treating common anorectal diseases.

However, upon graduation, they don't focus on technical skills or how well the surgery was performed; instead, they care more about whether there were any achievements or papers.

He is not good at writing academic papers.

Lu Renxin prayed every day that he would receive the offer, but tonight he received another rejection email.

Only one manuscript hadn't been rejected yet, and it was his last hope—"An Introduction to Anorectal Diseases".

These journals have extremely slow review processes and do not allow multiple submissions of the same manuscript. If you're going to get rejected, it will be too late.

He couldn't help but let out a mournful cry:

"Isn't it enough that I perform good surgeries and treat patients well? Why do I have to publish articles?"

"I just want to graduate smoothly, why is it so difficult!"

[Ding, a matching object has been found. System host binding in progress...]

[Medical student training system successfully bound! Please use the system's assistance to become a world-class doctor!]

What was that sound? Lu Renxin reached out his little finger and picked at his ear, wondering if he was hallucinating from staying up too late.

But he did see a flashing gold icon right in front of him, square and shaped like a keyboard button, with "Dr." written on it in English.

It's not a hallucination.

Medical student training system?

Become a top doctor?

Is there a price to pay?

When I buy home appliances, they even give me a user manual, which is just one sentence long.

I've only ever seen such a simple beginner's guide in one game.

……

He hesitated for a moment, then slowly raised his right hand, attempting to click the gold icon.

The icon popped up instantly, and the field of vision was filled with a golden screen.

There are two toggle options in the upper left corner: [Personal Introduction] and [Shop].

Open [Personal Introduction]:

Name: Lu Renxin

Age: 26 years old

Specialty: Traditional Chinese Medicine Surgery

Professional title: Resident physician

Academic achievements: None

Training direction: Proctology

……

There was nothing particularly special about it, except that it was exceptionally detailed and clearly recorded all his personal information.

When the app switched to the online store, Lu Renxin's eyes widened in disbelief.

The page displays a wide variety of products, much like a shopping app.

However, it's not ordinary goods like clothes or food.

Instead, it's medical papers, technologies, and research findings...

There are even various operational skills, including meticulous operation and keen disease detection...

Thesis! Lu Renxin turned to this subcategory and browsed it carefully.

The system categorizes them into general journals, SCI, etc.

He saw a familiar name—"Introduction to Anorectal Diseases".

Curiosity drove Lu Renxin to click, and a prompt popped up:

[Should I spend 420 healing points to exchange for one paper published by this magazine?]

Treatment value?

I just bound myself to the system, so my healing value should be 0, but... I'll give it a try, just in case there's a bug.

Without hesitation, he clicked "Yes".

The prompt popped up again:

[Insufficient healing points. Please continue your efforts.]

As expected, Lu Renxin, who held onto a sliver of hope, was not disappointed.

It's already a great privilege to have the opportunity to graduate smoothly.

"But how do I gain healing points?"