After much consideration, Chen Yu decided to have his girlfriend help him with his paper.
While part of it was because Chen Yu himself was not skilled at writing papers and wanted to have his girlfriend help him organize the paper, more importantly, he hoped Jounouchi Hiromi would gain so advancent.
One should not assu that female doctors have bright career prospects just because the Eastern University Affiliated Hospital has a female Departnt Head of Internal dicine and a female dean.
If that were the case, the large surgical departnt at the sa hospital would not have just Jounouchi Hiromi as the sole female surgeon, and besides Yamamoto Hisae, the head of the departnt, there would not have been a lack of female doctors in internal dicine.
The dical profession inherently discriminates against female doctors, natively setting a higher threshold for won to enter the field compared to n. One notable dical school in Japan even manipulated admission scores to prevent won from entering, resulting in no female students for many years until the scandal was finally exposed after more than a decade.
In fact, in Japan, the act of won working is itself subject to discrimination. From an employer's perspective, after all the effort of training a competent employee, they're faced with a sequence of events—falling in love, getting married, pregnancy, childbirth, and resignation—which can be overwhelming for any enterprise.
In Japan, there is, after all, a tradition of won resigning from their jobs after marriage to beco full-ti housewives.
For the dical profession, this issue is even more serious.
Due to the nature of the education system, one must at least finish high school before entering a specialized dical school and undergo at least six years of study (in China, it's five years for undergraduate, seven years for master's, and eight years for a doctorate, with an additional three years of postgraduate training) before becoming an intern, or what Japanese hospitals call a Trainee Doctor.
A Trainee Doctor needs at least two to three years of internship to beco an official doctor. If one has connections, background, or a professor's recomndation, this period can be reduced to about one or two years, after which one can start practicing dicine officially and, with so luck, even be recomnded to pursue a Doctorate in dicine while practicing.
Thus, it takes at least ten years to cultivate a doctor with a doctoral degree. A female doctor who has been trained for over a decade may simply resign due to reasons like love and marriage, and return ho to be a full-ti housewife, thereby wasting all the educational resources invested over the years.
What hospital or dical school would want to endure such a loss? Which professor would recomnd female doctors for a Doctorate in dicine? Hence, it's no surprise that female doctors are rare.
Jounouchi Hiromi was naturally not a Doctor of dicine as she didn't receive a recomndation due to her gender, and initially, she was just an ordinary anesthesiologist. Moreover, her promotion was hindered by her switch from anesthesiologist to surgeon due to Daimon Michiko.
So much so that up until now, she was still only an assistant professor, which was an advancent she obtained thanks to Chen Yu pushing for her promotion to assistant professor.
For a female doctor, being promoted to assistant professor in her thirties is already quite an impressive pace.
After all, soone like Chen Yu, who at eighteen was accepted into a university in China, completed a seven-year integrated bachelor's and master's degree program, and then went on to pass the doctoral program at the University of Tokyo dical Departnt, finished his PhD in three years, beca the main surgeon in thoracic surgery within a year, and made associate professor before thirty, has a career advancent pace that is not just rare but almost impossible for ordinary people to achieve.
Normally, doctors Chen Yu's age would be doing well to have reached the level of assistant professor. The ones who perford exceptionally might be promoted to lecturer in their thirties and then strive for an associate professorship before hitting forty, depending on luck or abilities, before finally competing for a professorship at a University Hospital.
With so luck, one might beco a professor at a University Hospital before fifty; others, less fortunate, might remain lecturers for life.
For a female doctor like Jounouchi Hiromi, the possibility of ending up as a lecturer for life is quite high, considering the difficulty for female doctors to take on professorships at Japanese University Hospitals—this is more challenging than entering politics to be elected a mber of the National Diet.
At least there are a few female mbers of parliant, but female professors are exceedingly rare.
This was why Chen Yu wanted Jounouchi Hiromi to help him with his paper. Since Jounouchi Hiromi wrote the paper and was also involved in the patient's treatnt, there was no issue with her being the first author on the paper.
Once the paper was published in top-tier dical journals like The Lancet, New England Journal of dicine, or Brain, it would significantly benefit Jounouchi Hiromi's credentials. With this, even if Chen Yu continued to promote her to lecturer, there would be sufficient reason to do so.
If she could put together a few more papers of similar caliber, even an associate professorship might be within reach.
However, faced with her boyfriend's kindness, Jounouchi Hiromi hesitated, "Mr. Chen Yu, is this really appropriate? You did all the research, and you have to personally treat the patients. , becoming the first author just for helping you write the paper, just doesn't seem right..."
Jounouchi Hiromi was not the type to use any ans necessary to climb the ladder. If she had been, she wouldn't have been implicated because of Daimon Michi and forced to switch from anesthesiologist to surgeon.
Although Chen Yu was her boyfriend and she was contributing by writing the paper for him, she could accept being nad as the second author or similar, but taking on the title of first author so overtly was still sothing hard for Jounouchi Hiromi to accept.
"The problem is you know my level when it cos to writing papers, Hiromi. If I had to write this paper myself, I would eventually have to bother soone else to help edit it. Your journey continues at empire
If you help write it, you would be the main author of the paper, and being nad the first author is no problem," Chen Yu said, showing a helpless gesture to Jounouchi Hiromi: "Besides, a paper like this doesn't an much to anymore, but for you, Hiromi, having such a paper published in an international journal would be a great help."
Despite Chen Yu's persuasive argunts, Jounouchi Hiromi still shook her head. Even though it was a well-intentioned offer from her boyfriend, she still did not want to unfairly claim soone else's work, even if she was to write the paper herself at her boyfriend's request.
Chen Yu was left scratching his head by Jounouchi Hiromi's firmness, but he also didn't want to go against his girlfriend's wishes. After giving it considerable thought, Chen Yu said to Jounouchi Hiromi, "How about this then, Hiromi? You help write the paper first, and you also take care of the patient's ancillary healing.
As for the paper's authorship, let's not do the first author thing, we can co-author, and I'll put my na before yours. That should be okay, right?"
Hearing Chen Yu say this, Jounouchi Hiromi still hesitated for a while before reluctantly nodding her head.
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