The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 311
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Chapter 311
Essential requirement: Must have overflowing passion for Korean medicine studies and clinical practice.
Preferred qualification: Must have MZ generation sensibility and sparkling wit.
…Honestly, I thought we wouldn’t be able to find someone like this.
It’s like a client who wants something that preserves traditional flavor while being trendy, uses various subtle colors while having strong primary color impact, right?
[I found an incredible talent!]
[Oh?]
But Kim Chunsik somehow found and brought such a person from somewhere.
Moreover, he was already someone I knew.
“Park Jun, that student was doing Korean medicine VTubing…?”
Virtual YouTuber… I roughly know what that is.
I played one once while searching for game strategy videos, and it kept getting caught in the algorithm after that.
They put up handsome and pretty characters to sing or play games, and chat with viewers who send messages… wasn’t that it?
What kind of stories could they possibly tell using Korean medicine as material?
So I clicked on the link Kim Chunsik gave me.
– Look, look, this guy arches his back and sticks out his belly every time he fights, right? He’s exerting force in a posture that puts tremendous strain on his lumbar spine. If he can’t generate core strength without this pose, it’s safe to say lumbar lordosis is already progressing!
Good heavens.
Amazingly, the character on screen was holding a stick, banging on the wall, and shouting to straighten the spine.
[No way lol there’s no anime that Jun-jun doesn’t know lolol]
[Please check our Cardinal’s spine too, is turtle neck okay?]
[Can you diagnose aliens’ body constitution too?]
└ [I’ll prepare that as next week’s content]
Since it was an anime I didn’t know, I couldn’t understand everything being discussed.
But I could fully understand why Kim Chunsik kept excitedly saying it was so MZ generation.
I could occasionally see comments about wanting to get their own spine corrected or having visited nearby Korean medicine clinics.
[Does anyone know this VTuber?]
I asked in the guild group chat among my acquaintances who might know about virtual YouTubers.
[Jun-jun? I don’t watch the streams, but I’ve seen the meme of him roaring to straighten your spine]
A positive response came back from Yun Hanbyeol.
…So there was such a meme.
“Wow, I’m glad I got hired quickly. Amazing talents keep gathering, don’t they?”
“Really. I got in lucky as a parachute hire because we’re classmates.”
Lee Ahreum and Hwang Sanghun were amazed while showing unnecessary modesty.
But I had to nod in agreement that Park Jun’s background was incredible.
To make fans even before getting his first job…
Given the VTuber nature of not revealing personal information, didn’t he study tremendously hard for broadcasting?
While making exaggerated reactions for entertainment, the content itself was extremely professional.
– Clinic Director! Greetings after a long time! I’ll be working at Seongsoo Korean Medicine Clinic Songpa Branch. Thank you for viewing me favorably. I’ll work hard…!
Though the hiring was entirely Kim Chunsik’s decision, Park Jun contacted me separately as well.
What a truly polite friend.
“Have you been well? I heard from Director Kim too. Welcome to becoming part of our family.
– Thank you! I think Director Kim also viewed favorably that I did volunteer work with Doctor Han back then!
Hmm? There seemed to be a slight misunderstanding.
I didn’t even mention the story about going to volunteer work together.
He broke through the 300-to-1 competition rate purely with his own strength.
“It’s more that Director Kim highly valued your VTuber experience. How did you manage broadcasting while attending school?”
– Aaahhh…! You heard about that too. It was just a hobby, but somehow it gained popularity and I couldn’t quit… Still, I studied hard since I couldn’t risk spouting wrong information!
Park Jun’s voice contained both shame and pride coexisting.
– Ugh, Doctor Han knows about VTubers… I showed it at the interview but they didn’t know what it was, so I had a really hard time explaining.
Even though it was a voice call, I could almost see his flushed face.
“Hey~ How much age difference is there between Director Kim and me? Of course I know! Keep up the good work with your activities. I’ll watch with interest!”
Ahem, aren’t I also MZ generation according to my resident registration?
When I smiled gently and encouraged Park Jun’s VTuber activities, he earnestly expressed embarrassment saying there was no need to go that far.
– Sob, I thought it might help even a little, and I felt I’d regret it if I didn’t mention it, so I brought it up, but I’m grateful everyone views it favorably… I never thought you’d actually hire me over such experienced candidates.
Actually, they were planning to hire him even before he brought up the topic.
Hmm… let’s just not say this. No need to make him kick the blankets unnecessarily.
Wouldn’t it be better for both of us if he thinks his best effort at self-promotion succeeded?
“You’ll have a lot to learn from Director Kim Chunsik. Work hard, and contact me anytime if you have personal questions.”
After hanging up with encouragement.
The chat room where branch directors gathered was piled with unread messages again.
[You should see how hard our vice director works… I gave him the manual to read yesterday, and didn’t he finish it all in just one day? At this rate, he’ll surpass me soon. Haha.]
Kim Chunsik was excitedly bragging about Park Jun in the group message room.
He was like a doting father who got a late-born child.
‘She’ll adapt to clinical practice quickly too.’
When I saw her at school and during volunteer activities, I thought she was just an ordinary popular person, but on the broadcast she was so faithful to her concept.
She’ll surely be able to burn her overflowing passion in clinical practice as well.
If Kim Chunsik is a large hexagon, then Park Jun is… a cylinder?
I thought it would be better to have a somewhat unique vice director rather than a small hexagon, but I never expected such a dimensionally different talent to come.
It definitely felt like fresh blood had entered, so I was in a good mood too.
* * *
I’ve been living so busily solving issues at the clinic and various network branches that I didn’t even notice time passing.
But when I see the children growing up, I suddenly realize it from time to time.
“Hello, Clinic Director. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”
To think Kang Joyun is already a high school student.
Even in middle school he seemed like a complete baby, but he’s grown tremendously tall while I wasn’t seeing him.
He was a friend I worried a lot about, wondering what would happen if he couldn’t use his arms when all he knew was archery.
He used to worry about his career path, saying he’d try to find other things he liked, and also struggled with his relationship with his mother who forced excessive practice on him.
“Wow, you’ve grown so tall I almost didn’t recognize you! It’s been a while. Are you still enjoying shooting arrows, Joyun?”
Just from looking at his developed muscles, I could tell he was still doing archery.
Seeing that he came alone without a guardian, does his mother now trust her son and let him be free?
“Yes. If my shoulder and arm had gone wrong back then, I wouldn’t have made it this far. It’s thanks to you, Clinic Director.”
Kang Joyun spoke brightly while pointing to his right shoulder.
“Looking at the records, it was bicep tendinitis. Did it recur?”
At that time, I had of course treated it completely until there was no visible inflammation and no pain.
But archery was ultimately a sport that used the shoulders and arms asymmetrically. For someone at the athlete level, no matter how well they managed it, there would come times when they’d overuse them.
With repeated stimulation to muscles and tendons, it could easily recur.
“I’m not sure. The condition is a bit different from back then. This time it’s also the front of the shoulder, but it seems to hurt a bit more toward the chest.”
“The pectoral area? Can you point to it with your hand?”
Kang Joyun pointed right below his collarbone.
The subclavius muscle? The pectoralis minor? It would be good if it’s a muscle problem.
“How long has it been?”
“Um… it started aching dully about 3 weeks ago, then last week I started getting sharp pain in the aiming position.”
Ah, fortunately it’s not something that’s been going on for long.
It was worth telling him to come right away if he felt even a little pain.
“At first I thought it was just from tension and fatigue, but even after loosening the sternocleidomastoid with a massage ball, it kept feeling bad. I thought it would be better to get treatment before entering the final tryouts, so I made time.”
“Tryouts… you mean?”
“The national team tryouts.”
He lowered his head slightly and smiled bashfully, showing a bit of his previous youthful face.
Archery national team tryouts!
I knew he was good before, but he’s really become an amazing talent.
‘Is this year the Olympics? That’s right, isn’t it?’
If he’s on Korea’s archery team, that’s truly the world’s best. Aren’t they the people who sweep up all the gold, silver, and bronze medals?
“I’ll treat you well so you can perform at your best!”
Of course, his selection isn’t confirmed yet.
It would be troublesome if I got carried away and put pressure on him.
I tried to calm my excited heart.
‘Lee Jini said she would bring glory to our Oriental Medicine Clinic at the Olympics… I wonder if she’s also doing tryouts?’
She must be busy lately since there’s been no contact recently, so I had no idea about her schedule.
Kim Ijin would be selected without any problems, right? If she appears in the Olympics, it would be different from professional team game broadcasts.
“Let me check the painful muscle first.”
“Yes.”
I first checked the bicep tendon that had inflammation last time, but there was no particular problem there.
The rotator cuff, which is usually the biggest problem when shoulders hurt, was also fine.
Range of motion was normal, no tenderness either.
“This is where it hurts when you aim, right?”
“Ah, yes. That’s it! It’s gotten noticeably tighter compared to the left side.”
When I pressed the muscle right below the collarbone that Kang Joyun had initially pointed to, the subclavius muscle, he complained of pain.
“If it’s simple subclavius tension, it would be resolved with a few acupuncture needles, but you said there’s also a sharp sensation, right?”
“Yes. When I aim with the bow in exactly this position, I get a sharp sensation. There’s no sound, but it feels like something is catching inside.”
Kang Joyun took a bow-shooting stance and pointed to the painful spot once more.
I palpated the very front of the collarbone, where it connects to the sternum.
“Is this area okay?”
“Huh? It hurts!”
“It’s reached the joint… If you look very closely, there’s also slight swelling. I’d say there’s minor inflammation in the sternoclavicular joint along with subclavius tension.”
Fortunately, the inflammation wasn’t severe on ultrasound.
I could see it because I knew it was painful from the interview and palpation first, but if I had only looked at the scanned images, I wouldn’t have noticed it.
“I was fine after receiving treatment from you, Clinic Director. I don’t know why this is suddenly happening lately.”
Haha. Even I can’t make it so that nothing ever hurts anywhere forever.
The fact that it was fine for about two years while doing archery was already quite long.
“Hmm, the archery stance you took earlier seems to be straining the subclavius muscle. When you draw the arrow with your right arm, your collarbone lifts up, right?”
“Ah, yes.”
“Your posture is maintained in a tense state before shooting, and fatigue accumulates during isometric contraction.”
“Ah, I see… Is it unavoidable?”
If we were to correct the posture, pulling the shoulders back and using the rhomboid muscles would reduce the burden on the subclavius and pectoral muscles.
‘Ah! Come to think of it, I think there was a character who shoots arrows in one of the videos Park Jun uploaded to his channel…!’
I started to reach for my phone to recommend it, then stopped.
Since the selection match is right around the corner, bringing up unnecessary topics might negatively affect performance if it changes the aiming posture.
“Let’s look for a posture that won’t strain you after the selection match is over. For now, let’s focus on treatment first.”
“Yes!”
“I need to release the subclavius muscle and treat the joint inflammation as well. I’ll use pharmacopuncture to help you recover as quickly as possible.”
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