The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 197

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Chapter 197

Kim Juhyeok’s pain improved day by day.

It was literally true, without any exaggeration mixed in.

His condition was different every time he entered and left Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic.

‘I wasted time going to the wrong places!’

His dizziness also gradually improved, and there was no strain on his daily life.

The occasional dizziness that made him stop while walking, and the anxiety that he might not be able to drive anymore, all disappeared.

“Juhyeok!”

Meeting his girlfriend after a long time made his mood instantly better.

During this time, he had been receiving treatment every day, and was also afraid of getting into an accident while traveling far, so he couldn’t go see his girlfriend.

“Noona!”

“Sorry. I should have visited you while you were sick. I was ridiculously busy.”

She was a girlfriend he could only meet once every two weeks anyway.

He had tried to visit at least once by train the following week, but she had dissuaded him, so they were only meeting now.

“It’s okay. My pain has gotten much better too. Did you finish your busy work?”

“…Yeah. I can hang out until tomorrow!”

She had said that work kept piling up since she hadn’t been employed for long.

Kim Juhyeok instead comforted his girlfriend and started their date.

They ate at a restaurant he had reserved, then went to a cafe with a nice atmosphere.

It was a common course, but just being together made him feel better and completely forget his pain.

“Ah.”

Still, I should take my medicine.

“Is that the new herbal medicine you got?”

“Yeah. At first it was medicine for dizziness, and now that I’m much better, they changed it to blood stasis medicine. Isn’t it really amazing? It tastes similar to what I first got from that Korean medicine hospital, but the nausea disappeared and I actually feel comfortable after taking it.”

“I see. Oh, Juhyeok. Your phone is ringing.”

Kim Juhyeok also heard the vibration sound.

He only moved his eyes to check the caller.

Click.

And he covered his phone and rejected the call.

“What’s wrong?”

“The accident perpetrator.”

Was it a mistake to exchange numbers with the perpetrator right after the accident?

Even when he told them to go through the insurance company, that punk kept contacting him personally.

At first, he answered the phone a few times and checked messages, but since there was no meaningful conversation at all, he was now barely looking at them.

“What are they saying?”

He didn’t want to have his date interrupted for no reason, but when Kim Juhyeok rejected the call, the guy started sending text messages.

[Haven’t you settled yet?]

This was a date he was finally having after being tormented for days.

There was no point in getting unpleasant on a good day…

[Hey, cut it out]

[Damn, how many days are you going to be hospitalized when it was just a light touch]

He was instantly furious.

If that bastard had just paid proper attention, this wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

For over a week, he was in pain and couldn’t sleep properly, going back and forth to the hospital while being anxious about possibly collapsing, and how much he had to watch people’s reactions even when taking sick leave from work!

What? Just a light touch?

The car was sturdy so it was fine, but the collision and impact were tremendous.

What was he saying after clearly hearing that loud crash?

“It’s nothing serious. They’re making a fuss telling me to be discharged. I guess their insurance company told them I was hospitalized at a Korean medicine hospital.”

“What? When did you get discharged?”

“Exactly. I guess they didn’t tell them about the discharge. Should I just tell them?”

According to the manager at the Korean medicine hospital he first consulted, the treatment costs had nothing to do with the perpetrator’s insurance premium increase anyway.

Once the medical certificate comes out, that’s the end of it.

He was probably getting angry without knowing that, right?

Kim Juhyeok replied politely.

[If you mean Hwangje Korean Medicine Hospital, I was discharged soon after, and I’m currently receiving outpatient treatment at an oriental medicine clinic. I’m almost fully recovered and treatment should end within a week. I heard that my treatment period and costs have no connection to your insurance premium, so please stop getting angry at me.]

No matter how barbarically the other person acted, he couldn’t become the same.

Getting angry would only be a loss for himself.

“Let me see.”

He tried not to show her because he was worried about making her concerned for no reason, but his girlfriend quickly snatched the phone from his hand.

Buzz-.

Buzz-.

As if confirming Kim Juhyeok’s message, two more texts came.

“…Juhyeok, you should have told me about this.”

And his girlfriend’s face hardened coldly.

“Huh?”

Why is he acting like that?

Even if he’s being annoying, there’s no need to be that stern about it, right?

“I’ll take responsibility and proceed with the lawsuit, so leave it to me.”

“What lawsuit?”

Kim Juhyeok had momentarily thought about that in his anger too.

But the treatment costs were ultimately paid by the insurance company, and he received them properly.

All the perpetrator did was act somewhat rudely – how could you file a lawsuit over that?

Just then, his girlfriend handed back his phone.

Two newly sent messages caught his eye.

[Fucking bastard, stop acting up]

[I’ll kill you]

…Should I actually consider this fortunate?

It was clear intimidation.

“How can you put up with this when you have a lawyer girlfriend?”

No, just moments ago there were only messages like ‘cut it out’ and ‘get discharged’.

Kim Juhyeok scratched his head.

“I’ll trust only you, noona.”

* * *

Kim Juhyeok’s treatment concluded successfully.

The pain completely disappeared, and there was no recurrence of symptoms during the observation period we maintained just in case.

“We can end the treatment now. I’m relieved that you recovered well without any aftereffects.”

“Thank you so much. Really, I thought I was going to go crazy for a while, but I’m quite relieved too. Next time I have any pain, I won’t wander around and will come straight here.”

Thanks to him following through well until complete recovery, I immediately declared the treatment finished.

The tangled situation with the accident perpetrator seemed to be resolving well too.

Perhaps because I spoke to Hwang Sanghun about it, he said he even received an apology from the Busan branch where he was first hospitalized.

Did Hwang Jihun take some kind of action?

In any case, thanks to all the painful areas disappearing, Kim Juhyeok was no longer upset.

“I’ll see the next patient.”

Kim Juhyeok left the examination room, and soon another patient came rushing in.

Certainly, with one person fewer, the clinical workload had increased.

‘Still, it’s better than I expected.’

During this time, it was supposedly four days a week anyway, but I was proceeding with various other tasks, so it felt similar in terms of actual experience.

Since Lee Ahreum was doing more than her share, on days when both of us were there, we even had time to rest.

Hwang Sanghun might actually be busier?

‘I did have too many non-clinical tasks recently…’

For a while, a lot of absolute time was consumed traveling back and forth to Gwangju for Seon Nayeon’s matter.

After that, I was absorbed in finishing work on papers and books.

The case study paper that Yu Gyeonghun published first safely passed review and was published.

Perhaps stimulated by this, Hwang Sanghun also showed considerable enthusiasm.

Seeing him proceed with work despite being extremely busy with Changwon Imperial Korean Medicine Hospital affairs.

‘Could we really do an RCT soon…?’

I thought it was impossible, but if we keep expanding the scale like this, it might be possible.

Well, papers aside.

The book organizing manual and study content was now truly finished.

Thanks to Seon Nayeon joining, the quality improved significantly too.

[Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic Treatment Manual]

[Hanyewon’s PICK 100 Prescriptions]

Actually, I wrote the first draft quickly.

The manual started when I was working with Chu Miyoung, and I updated it regularly whenever new people joined the network.

I started organizing it to be as readable as possible, hoping it would help other junior oriental medicine doctors too.

But when it came to actually releasing it to the public, there were many aspects to worry about.

The prescription compilation was one thing, but wasn’t the manual being released under the clinic’s name?

I reviewed it over and over, worried that if unnecessary fault was found, it might harm other branch directors too.

‘I guess other places don’t hide their manuals for no reason.’

While some large networks published books that even the general public could see, others only let internal people see them and absolutely prohibited external leaks.

I chose something like a middle ground approach.

Not formal publication, but taking reservations through the oriental medicine practitioner community and printing at a print shop.

A method where you make a deposit and leave your name, contact information, and address in a private comment, then they send it by a set date.

Though not manuals, there were often people who made books this way to share knowledge and experience.

‘Well, fine. I’ll take questions! If there are mistakes, I’ll fix them!’

It wasn’t a profit business anyway.

I set the price by adding only 10,000 won to the printing cost.

“Alright, I’m posting it today!”

I’d prepared enough by now.

I had the reservation post confirmed by all branch directors too.

I uploaded a simple introduction along with the table of contents and a few preview pages.

“Clinic Director, treatment room….”

“Yes, I’ll be right there.”

As soon as I pressed the registration button, a call came from the treatment room like clockwork.

I treated the patients who had finished physical therapy in order.

Then I returned to the examination room to do charting.

‘Did I get some comments?’

I tried to check the site on my phone.

“Huh?”

Strangely, the battery was completely drained.

When did it turn off?

‘No, I’ll just check on the computer.’

I had reflexively reached for my phone, but I had posted the article on the computer anyway.

I unplugged the charger and plugged it back in, then accessed the community.

‘I really need to change my phone. It got messed up when I used to run 5 games at once. But still, discharge being faster than charging speed is a bit… huh?’

The post was still there, at the top.

But something was strange.

‘Why are there so many comments?’

I checked the title wondering if I had mistaken it for another post, but it was definitely my pre-order sales post.

671 comments, no wait 673, 678, 681….

The number was increasing in real time every time I refreshed.

‘…!’

So that’s why my phone died.

I had thoughtlessly turned on new comment notifications, so my phone kept vibrating until it finally ran out of battery.

‘I’m screwed.’

I had completely failed at demand forecasting.

I thought of it as simply sharing what I had studied and took reservations through comments.

It felt more awkward to create a ‘books’ menu on the herbal medicine ordering site when it wasn’t even a formal publication.

But this way, I’d have to manually transfer all the personal information from 671, no, over 700 comments now….

‘I have to copy everything into Excel by hand?’

I should have just taken orders through the website!

No, I should have at least done a demand survey before taking reservations!

[Oh~ the hot Network these days? Welcome to talent donation.]

[└It’s hot?]

[└└Actress Hyun Jumi wrote related posts before, and this time Melon Soda also…(link)]

[└└└Wow amazing]

Was I that famous?

[Thank you so much, Director!!!! You are a ray of light and hope for a new graduate like me ㅠㅠ It must have been a difficult decision, but I will watch and learn well!!!!]

[Is it okay to sell it this cheaply?]

[I’m a 20-year veteran director, but this looks like it’ll be very helpful.]

No, if you’re a 20-year veteran, why would you need…?

There’s nothing particularly special in it though?

[Do you have any plans for lectures?]

[└22 Even just a one-time event to commemorate publication~ I’d love to meet you!]

What’s this sudden talk about lectures! The book was already this difficult, how would I create a curriculum?

I took a deep breath for now.

Far more people than I expected had purchased the book.

Although I had always done my best until now, I felt a heavy sense of responsibility to meet their expectations more certainly.

For that, first of all.

[Please stop commenting from now on and fill out the order form! Sorry!!!!!]

…I need to avoid shipping errors first.

I hurriedly edited the post in red text.

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