The third season of 

The Exciting Offer, a reality show on streaming

platform Tencent, was released on Nov 9 to follow the stories of these future
doctors. In the show, eight medical students from Zhejiang University School
of Medicine, become interns at the Second Affiliated Hospital. They are tutored
by respective doctors from different departments in checking sickbeds, writing
medical reports and finishing other daily tasks. They also take part in simulated
diagnoses of patients and provide medical suggestions. By the end of the
season, the most outstanding student will be offered an interview by the
hospital director.
First released in 2019 to much acclaim, the previous two seasons of  The
Exciting Offer focused on young job seekers for a job at a prestigious law firm.
When preparing for the new season, Wang Xinxuan, producer of the program,
wanted to switch it up and cover a different sector, one that would be
"mysterious, yet widely expected by young people". Medical students seemed
the obvious choice to her. Medical issues are closely linked to daily life," she
recalls. "The pandemic has encouraged many young people to switch their
attention to health and hospitals, but they lack knowledge about how a hospital
operates daily. Everyone gets to see doctors, but do we really understand
them?" The producer also expects the new season to encourage people to learn
about the working conditions of medical practitioners from the beginners' point
of view.  Programs like The Exciting Offer  provide a fairer and more scientific
public view of doctors.
Talking about why they chose medicine as their major, the students in  The
Exciting Offer express different reasons. One student is aiming to be his
family's fourth-generation medical practitioner and sees the career as a duty to
continue a family tradition. Another student says the toughness of learning
medicine once made him want to quit, but all of the past effort he has put in
over the years spurs him on. One medical student in the program said that,
"What the patients need is beyond treatment," he says. "They also need
humanity and care. Many details in this program just reflect a warm
atmosphere. We expect the relationship between patients and doctors to be like
that of friends.
"Medicine is a science," Ding Rongjing, a cardiologist from Peking
University People's Hospital, shares her experience of watching the program.
"The program reminds me of my days when I almost knew nothing about
clinics," she says. "The days were exciting, and full of hope, but I also lived
with anxiety . It's a pleasure to see a new generation of students grow and get
experience."
This is a meaningful program. Through it, people can know more about
doctors as a profession, and then give them more respect and understanding. In
our daily life, there are many people who do not respect doctors, and many
patients even blame all the faults on doctors. Some of them will ask the doctor,
when will you cure me, why haven’t cured me? When doctors failed to cure
patients, some patients’ families even beat and hacked doctors to death.
During the pandemic, doctors are on the front lines and have saved many
lives. They left their family and homes to go to other places to give help. Some
doctors even died in the battle. I think in our later life, we should understand
doctors and give them more warmth.