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There's literally an example for this, my man ken jeong. He forsaken the doctor carrer for his passion of acting and comedy
I'm more uneasy with her being depicted as a drunk, but, yeah, I get where you're coming from. It's not my favorite "It's just a manga" sort of situation.
Could just be a mid-life crisis
Late 20s are mid-life now? I knew I was old already, but this makes it even worse.
Achieving a major goal (like becoming a surgeon) and then realizing you're not really passionate about it should be a viable substitute for ACTUALLY getting old.
Again, I get it. But it's more about the idea that they're depicting a surgeon as a drunk. Kind of uneasy with that. Maybe just me.
You might be underestimating how stressful of a job it is.
I'm really not. What I am doing is uneasy with the mangaka depicting a surgeon as a drunk. Yes, there are alcoholic doctors. But there aren't many professions with their own version of Alcoholics Anonymous because of the professional standards to which doctors are held, unlike the vast and overwhelming majority of other professions (a particular exception would be lawyers, who also have their own version of AA). Society has expectations for surgeons (and other doctors) that they don't for most other professions because lives are literally in their hands.
Seriously, just make her a businesswoman or something. Picking surgeon specifically seems very weird. You're right, it does break the immersion. Luckily she's not in the story often and isn't the main focus.
