I Became the Oriental Doctor for Divine Beasts - Chapter 78

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The Healer of Divine Beasts
#78
On a bright summer day in August, during a holiday when the sun beat down relentlessly.
“Director O~ I’m here!”
As the entrance door opened, a cheerful voice rang through Baek Myodang.
I looked up from the reception desk with a smile.
“Mi-so, welcome!”
It was Jo Mi-so, our nursing assistant.
She had suffered a vicious assault and slipped into a coma, but fortunately regained consciousness, and now she was recovering well.
Today, her complexion looked far better than before.
‘Good. All that effort infusing the herbal medicine with spiritual energy is paying off.’
Jo Mi-so’s hands were full of bread bags.
“I brought some bread for you, Director!”
“What are you doing bringing all this…”
“It’s the least I can do for my savior!”
Her bright, beaming smile lifted my mood as well.
Jo Mi-so was set to begin working at Baek Myodang soon.
Today she’d come on a holiday specifically to get a feel for the clinic and learn the basics—reception procedures, chart organization, and so on.
“I’ve started living with Su-a now, and I’m so happy.”
Jo Mi-so smiled shyly.
“I’m really grateful to you, Director.”
“Is that so? I’m glad. I hope Su-a and her mother are doing well together.”
At that, she suddenly clasped both hands to her chest.
“Director…!”
“Yes?”
“I’m going to dedicate my heart to you! I’ll be buried with Baek Myodang!”
I immediately waved my hand in protest.
“No, no, I don’t need your heart or your bones. Just stay healthy and work here for a long time.”
“Sniff… You really are an angel, Director…”
I didn’t know what to say to her.
I let out an awkward laugh and headed toward the decoction room.
“Let me show you the decoction room first.”
Jo Mi-so stuck to my side as I taught her the reception procedures, chart filing, medicine packaging—all the small tasks, one by one.
Her hands were quick for a beginner.
“Wow, Mi-so, you’re really good at this. This isn’t your first time working at a clinic?”
“Hehe. I’ve always been quick to pick up on things. You know I grew up in an orphanage, right? There, it was all ‘Mi-so, read the room—Mi-so, understand what’s needed.'”
Jo Mi-so, who’d been joking around, suddenly stopped organizing the medicine packages.
“Oh, right. About my accident the other day. Everyone at the orphanage that raised me was shocked when they heard.”
She smiled with a hint of sadness.
“They found out late and kept apologizing that they couldn’t visit me in the hospital. But there’s no reason to apologize.”
“Ah…”
“They’re really good people. They keep in touch with the kids even after they graduate and try to look out for them.”
I was genuinely impressed.
“Wow… There must be so many graduates, but that’s really amazing.”
“Right?”
“Yes. I’d really like to help out somehow.”
At that, Jo Mi-so’s eyes widened.
She brightened and asked eagerly.
“Really? Would you come with me next time if you’re interested? We’re always short on volunteer help. Especially medical volunteers are always appreciated.”
I nodded immediately.
“Sure, let’s go together.”
“Really?!”
“Yes. I’m happy to help if I can.”
At my ready agreement, Jo Mi-so’s eyes grew watery with emotion.
“Gosh, you’re really… Where are you hiding your wings? Huh?”
She craned her neck forward and mimed searching my back for something.
Good grief, why does she have to embarrass me like this?
I watched her with an amused, if slightly pointed look.
“Stop fooling around. Now let’s go learn the treatment room duties.”
“Yes!”

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Jo Mi-so finally left around evening after learning the work.
“Director, I’ll see you next time!”
“Yes~ Get home safely.”
After she left, Baek Myodang fell quiet again.
I sat on the waiting room sofa to catch my breath.
That was when it happened.
The front door chimed again.
“Hmm?”
I tilted my head.
Did Mi-so forget something?
Thinking that, I opened the door, but the person standing outside was not who I expected.
“…Se-rin?”
It was Yun Se-rin.
Her complexion had improved considerably from a few days ago.
When she saw me, she smiled awkwardly.
“Hello, Director.”
But today was a holiday, so there were no appointments…
Puzzled as I was, I ushered her inside anyway.
“Se-rin, how are you feeling?”
“Much better, really. I’m sleeping well now, and that tight feeling in my chest is gone.”
That’s a relief.
I nodded gratefully and brought out warm tea.
But Se-rin’s expression quickly grew serious.
“Today I came because of something else.”
“What is it?”
She took a moment to settle herself, then spoke carefully.
“Actually, I’m a broadcast writer.”
“For television?”
“Yes. I work on health entertainment programs.”
I was a bit surprised.
Yun Se-rin got straight to the point.
“Director, would you consider appearing on a broadcast? It’s a program called Doctor Inside.”
My eyes widened.
Wait, that program?
I knew the name, of course.
I’d been hearing it constantly through Jeong Ra-bit and Yang Si-heon recently.
‘But she’s asking me to go on it?’
It was too sudden.
Yun Se-rin studied my expression and gave a rueful smile.
“To be honest, we already have another acupuncturist director lined up. Someone with a well-known name from a major oriental medicine hospital.”
“I see…”
“But going through this myself, I realized something. There are doctors who look at people, and doctors who only look at numbers.”
Yun Se-rin’s eyes grew deeper.
“You kept warning me that dieting was dangerous, but honestly, I thought it was tedious at the time.”
“…”
“But in the end, you were right about everything.”
She continued slowly.
“I think someone like you should be on broadcast. These days, medical shows are all sensationalism. I want to recruit real doctors instead of those show-off doctors.”
Yun Se-rin then added a practical explanation.
“Of course, that’s my own thinking. Our PD seems to have different calculations in mind.”
“…”
“He wants to frame you and the other acupuncturist as rivals.”
A rivalry setup.
Exactly the kind of angle a broadcast station would love.
Yun Se-rin smiled bitterly.
“Our PD takes viewership very seriously. He’ll push whoever gets the better reaction. If you fall behind in skill…”
She let her words hang.
“You could just end up being consumed as a comparison piece.”
Silence settled around us.
I took a sip of tea and asked, “Who is the other acupuncturist?”
At that question, Yun Se-rin’s expression hardened slightly.
“It’s actually the director who prescribed my diet medicine… O Ro-ji, the daughter of acupuncturist Oh Hwi.”
I went very still.
Yun Se-rin spoke with a sigh in her voice.
“Honestly, I’m uncomfortable too. At first I recruited her just for the broadcast angle…”
She paused, biting her lip.
“When I went back and told her about the side effects from the diet medicine, she kept denying it. Just blamed it on stress.”
O Ro-ji did that?
The patient reported side effects and she just kept stonewalling her?
Disappointment and anger began to well up slowly inside me.
Yun Se-rin smiled sadly.
“Director O doesn’t know I’m a broadcast writer yet. When she finds out, her attitude might change… But honestly, I’m very disappointed.”
I said nothing, just bit my lip.
Of course, different acupuncturists can have different opinions. Prescribing styles can vary.
But.
‘A patient’s body is sending danger signals and you keep pushing forward anyway? That’s a different problem entirely.’
As a doctor, that wasn’t something I could just overlook.
I swallowed a sigh.
The sudden TV offer was complicated enough, but now O Ro-ji was tangled up in it too.
I sat in silence for a moment, then spoke quietly.
“For now… let me think about the broadcast appearance and I’ll call you back.”

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That evening.
I sat on the wooden floor of Baek Myodang, staring blankly at my phone.
A broadcast appearance offer.
I still couldn’t quite believe it.
‘Me, on broadcast?’
Just thinking about it exhausted me.
I’m an MBTI capital I—this kind of thing was never my style.
“Ugh…”
Was this connected to Yang Si-heon’s Precognitive Dream?
Should I go or shouldn’t I?
A long sigh was escaping when it happened.
“What’s with the heavy sighing? You’ll collapse the earth.”
“!”
The gate to Baek Myodang opened, and a low, calm voice carried across the courtyard.
I blinked.
“…Eun-ho?”
Baek Eun-ho was standing in the doorway.

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