The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 364

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Chapter 364

I had a feeling that might be the case.

But I was cautious about voicing it out loud, worried that Seon Nayeon might have actually caused an accident and I’d be suspecting the patient and guardian.

[Doctor Han is right.]

[That mother and child are definitely lying.]

But when the directors all spoke in unison saying that Leroy’s guardian was acting strange.

My regret about the poor initial response grew even greater.

However, Doctor Han comforted Seon Nayeon, saying what’s done is done.

And various directors thought together about what she should do going forward.

“Hello, Clinic Director.”

“Manager Seo! It’s been so long since I’ve seen you!”

The strategy ultimately came from Doctor Han.

“I’m glad to see you too.”

“Thank you for coming. Phew, I’m sorry for making such a difficult request.”

“It’s work, so don’t mention it. I’m just buying time anyway, your role is much bigger.”

Manager Seo Inae agreed to help with the execution.

“Well then…”

“Fighting.”

Seon Nayeon contacted the guardian in advance saying she had something to discuss regarding compensation, and made an appointment for them to come with Roi.

Today, the two arrived exactly 5 minutes late from the scheduled time.

“Hello. Are you the guardian of patient Leroy?”

As soon as the patient and guardian entered the clinic, Manager Seo Inae approached the guardian and greeted them.

Perhaps expecting Seon Nayeon to handle things, they seemed slightly flustered when a serious-looking person in a suit with a stern expression spoke to them.

“Ahem, are you from the insurance company?”

“No. I’m from Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic Main Office. I’m Manager Seo Inae.”

“Ah!”

The guardian was visibly pleased.

“Roi, has your foot gotten much better?”

“It’s still not good at all. I think it’s going to scar.”

Leroy took off his socks but didn’t remove the dressing to show it.

Seo Inae comforted the guardian instead of trying to check the exact condition.

“You must be very distressed. Headquarters is taking this matter very seriously. Would it be alright if we discuss the details in the consultation room?”

“What about Roi…”

“Since we’ll be talking about money, I’d like to speak with you first, ma’am.”

And she naturally separated the two.

“Oh, we’ll watch him.”

“Would you do that? Roi, sit over there for a moment.”

Up to this point, Seon Nayeon hadn’t stepped forward at all, hiding in the examination room and watching the situation.

If Seon Nayeon came out saying she’d watch the child, they might be suspicious, so they decided to stay quiet as if everything was being handled by headquarters.

Seo Inae deliberately asked the most innocent-looking staff member at Seon Nayeon’s clinic, who actually knew nothing about the current situation, to just say they’d watch the child.

And the moment Leroy’s mother actually entered the consultation room.

“Hello? How have you been?”

“Oh, Doctor.”

Seon Nayeon came out and greeted the child.

She knelt on one knee and made eye contact with Leroy.

He quickly averted his eyes, perhaps being shy, but Seon Nayeon smiled brightly and waited for him to make eye contact.

When he awkwardly looked at Seon Nayeon’s face, she patted his head.

“Mom will be out soon, so let’s go into the examination room and wait for just a moment. Do you have any snacks you like?”

“Mom told me not to eat snacks…”

“Try one throat lozenge. It’s good for your body, and it tastes better than you’d think.”

Not as smoothly as Seo Inae, but Seon Nayeon also quite naturally brought Roi into the examination room.

Roi unwrapped the throat lozenge with curiosity, then frowned saying it tasted strange.

The way he glared at Seon Nayeon as if he’d been tricked seemed to show he’d lowered his guard somewhat.

“Your foot hurt a lot, didn’t it?”

“…”

But the moment she brought up his foot, Roi clamped his mouth shut.

There are children who chatter away no matter how much you try to keep them quiet.

If Roi had been that type of child, she wouldn’t have even thought of this idea.

“Mom told you not to talk about it, right? I know.”

Seon Nayeon spoke as gently as possible, with no intention of frightening the child.

But Leroy clenched his teeth and his cheeks trembled.

“Sob…”

He tried hard to hold back his tears.

Since it would be very troublesome if he started crying for ‘Mom!’ already, Seon Nayeon didn’t rush him and quietly patted Roi’s head.

“The lie mom told is causing the teacher a lot of trouble.”

“Sob. Waaah. Sob.”

Roi started hiccupping.

“…When did it start hurting? Just tell me that, okay?”

“I’m sorry. Mom told me to say that it hurt after the moxibustion treatment you gave me.”

There it was.

“No, Mom said she would do all the talking, so I should just nod and not say anything.”

“Yes, that’s what she said.”

“It didn’t hurt on the day of treatment. My ankle didn’t hurt either, so I wanted to come here again. But the day after next. Mom did it at home with similar-looking moxibustion. It was hot, but Mom said it would be a waste to only use it for 5 minutes, that you did it for 10 minutes here, so I should endure it a little longer.”

Finally, Roi opened his mouth.

Seon Nayeon still had a gentle smile, but her feelings were complicated.

She had expected that the burn was caused by something else.

The worst-case scenario she had imagined was that they deliberately burned the child to get compensation.

There were rumors floating around like ghost stories about people deliberately inflicting minor burns on themselves to get a big payout, but fortunately it wasn’t serious enough to report as child abuse.

When you search for mini moxibustion, many similar products are sold.

Since all a Korean Medicine Doctor seemed to do was attach the moxibustion and light it with a lighter, she must have decided to try it at home.

Then she overlooked that different products have different appropriate usage times and ended up misusing it.

“It must have hurt a lot.”

“Really, really, it hurt so much.”

Was he crying from pain?

Or crying from guilt?

Leroy burst into loud sobs.

Since he was still a child whose conscience hadn’t worn away, it must have been very hard on him emotionally even while going along with his mother.

Seon Nayeon gently patted the child.

But Roi cried even louder, as if the clinic would collapse.

And that sound reached Roi’s Guardian who was in the consultation room.

“What’s wrong, what’s happening?”

The Guardian burst open the door, but Seon Nayeon wasn’t flustered.

She had heard everything she needed to hear.

“I understand what happened. You performed the moxibustion treatment at home, didn’t you?”

At Seon Nayeon’s words, Seo Inae, who had followed behind the Guardian, also let out a sigh of relief.

Seon Nayeon thought everything was over here.

What more could they say when everything was exposed?

Either apologize and confess the truth.

Or run away in embarrassment.

That was about the range of what Seon Nayeon could expect.

“What? You coaxed the kid into telling such lies? Geez, I wondered why he was beating around the bush, so you two planned this together?”

But the Guardian’s reaction was different from what she expected.

She was still shameless.

Instead, she came out with brazen defiance, saying her son had lied.

When Roi flinched under his mother’s gaze, Seon Nayeon quickly took the child’s hand.

“I was going to let it slide for just a few hundred thousand won, but this won’t do. You left permanent scars on a young child’s foot and now you’re trying to avoid responsibility by blaming me? Ha, I’m the president of Sinbi Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association and Roi’s sister is the class president. I’ll spread this all over the neighborhood!”

The Guardian deliberately raised her voice and shouted loudly.

Although they had avoided scheduling appointments for this time slot today.

There were several walk-in patients in the treatment rooms.

‘No. If I panic and get dragged in again, I won’t be able to handle it this time!’

Seon Nayeon was greatly flustered, but she had already mishandled the initial response.

If she apologized here, there would be no turning back.

“The timing of the burn doesn’t make sense to begin with. Everything will come out when investigated anyway. Please don’t cause unnecessary trouble.”

Seon Nayeon spoke firmly.

But the Guardian paid no attention.

“Ha… This is really absurd. Excuse me, are you really someone from headquarters? Are you someone Clinic Director Seon Nayeon called?”

Perhaps feeling that she wouldn’t be swayed anymore, she changed targets.

“I am the headquarters manager. I came out for accurate situation assessment, and headquarters has neither responsibility nor intention to compensate you.”

“Ha!”

The Guardian glared at Seo Inae and Seon Nayeon once each, then at Leroy once more.

Then she smiled coldly and said.

“I have no intention of letting this slide quietly either. Put me through to the headquarters CEO!”

Ah….

Doctor Han had gone to the trouble of thinking of a solution.

And even sent Manager Seo.

But to cause this much trouble….

Seon Nayeon’s vision was about to go white again.

But Seo Inae just calmly took out her phone.

“Go ahead then.”

* * *

I wonder if things are going well in Gwangju.

Since it happened to be a day off, I thought about going there myself to lure out the Guardian.

But Seo Inae volunteered to go herself, saying I should maintain some dignity as CEO.

I told her to contact me immediately if anything happened, and that I’d take responsibility even if she had to throw punches.

Seo Inae or Seon Nayeon wouldn’t do such a thing, right?

If everything went according to plan, it would be resolved without major problems.

But since I couldn’t receive real-time situation reports, I was quite anxious.

So I was continuously checking my phone, waiting only for a message saying it ended well.

Then a call came from Seo Inae.

“Ah, Manager Seo…!”

– Are you the CEO?

I naturally thought it would be Seo Inae, but I heard an unfamiliar voice from the other end of the phone.

“Are you perhaps the guardian of patient Leroy?”

It’s not like I have no enemies at all.

But in Gwangju where Seo Inae is now, there was only one person who would call with this kind of attitude.

– That’s right. It seems the CEO really knew about this situation. Is it the position of Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic as a whole to come out with such shallow tricks without proper apology or compensation?

“Watch your words…”

– Clinic Director, it’s me. Roi told the truth. After Doctor Seon’s treatment ended, his mother personally performed moxibustion at home and got burned.

Just as I was about to retort, Seo Inae snatched the phone and informed me of the situation.

Ah, so that’s what happened? I thought maybe hot water had been spilled!

– Your Gwangju branch director coaxed the child into lying! That never happened!

It seems they decided to continue acting shamelessly even after the child’s confession.

Without even seeing it, it must be complete chaos.

Should I have gone to Gwangju after all?

“I understand your position well. I understand. Let’s see this through to the end.”

– I’m not asking for much… To the end? Are you saying you’ll file a lawsuit?

“Yes. Let’s file a lawsuit, sure.”

It seems the guardian shouted to change to a higher-up, but it was actually better that the phone came to me.

“You should sue Doctor Seon for medical malpractice. With a proper investigation checking moxibustion purchase records, attachment locations, medical staff opinions on when the burns occurred, and so on, the truth will be revealed quickly.”

It would be difficult for Seo Inae to say this much.

Since I’m the one paying for the lawsuit costs.

“Of course, we will sue you for false accusation, defamation, business interference, and so on.”

Whether the recording of the child telling the truth is accepted as evidence or not, if we really go all the way, there’s almost no chance of losing.

The process is complicated and bothersome, and even troublesome people might have their circumstances.

Sometimes relationships improve when treatment goes well, so we usually try to handle things amicably.

If they really want to expose everything down to the bottom like this, there’s no choice.

– What is Doctor Han saying…

– Ah, don’t worry. Doctor Han says he’ll take responsibility.

– Wh-what! Haneul Clinic properly compensates for such incidents…

It seemed Seo Inae had snatched the phone again and switched to speakerphone.

I could hear the mixed voices of Seon Nayeon, Seo Inae, and the guardian.

“That’s right. I’ll take responsibility and proceed with the lawsuit. It seems you started this incident to earn some pocket money, but even if lawyer fees cost ten million won, I won’t give you even a hundred thousand won.”

I spoke clearly so everyone could hear.

Seeing Haneul Clinic being mentioned, did they start this incident after hearing that Choi Eunhee would fully compensate for medical accidents this time?

The patient’s guardian didn’t answer.

– Clinic Director…?

I heard Seon Nayeon’s flustered voice.

I happened to have received legal consultation recently considering the possibility of a lawsuit with Choi Eunhee, so I roughly knew the attorney fees.

Ten million won was an exaggeration, but if it really led to a lawsuit, it would cost at least several hundred thousand.

Well, even without this incident, if it were Haneul Clinic, they would have chosen to give them a smaller amount of money and quietly cover up the situation, even knowing they were lying.

Because when calculating profit and loss, their losses would be smaller.

But I never compromise with terrorists.

What is the iron rule of the Sichuan Dang Family?

Even if we don’t know gratitude, grudges must be repaid tenfold.

If someone touched a member of the Tang Family, we chase them to the end and repay them, even if it means greater sacrifice.

Thanks to that, no one could touch the Tang Family, and the Sichuan Dang Family was able to reign as one of the Five Great Families in the Martial Arts World for a long time.

“Manager Seo. Kick that person out. If they won’t leave on their own, report them to the police for business interference.”

Since there seemed to be nothing more to say, I gave instructions to Seo Inae.

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