The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 365

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Chapter 365

Beep~.

The mechanical sound of the phone hanging up.

She was the one who insisted on being connected to CEO Hanyewon.

But when things didn’t go her way, she pressed the end call button.

“Ha… Ha…”

Leroy’s guardian… no, the swindler was breathing heavily and fuming, neither laughing nor crying.

She was pretending to hold back her anger, but there was nothing more she could do.

Who would have thought Doctor Han would come out this strong.

If Seon Nayeon had to handle this matter alone.

She might have called liability insurance and unknowingly admitted fault, taking all the blame.

Even if she had listened to other people’s advice and was convinced that the accident wasn’t caused by Seon Nayeon.

If Director Hanyewon hadn’t stepped forward to cover all the costs and proceed with the lawsuit, she would have tried to settle it quietly.

It was a little scary.

But while bewildered, she felt refreshed inside.

“Please return the phone.”

Unlike Seon Nayeon, who was surprised by the guardian’s sudden behavior and Doctor Han’s every word, Manager Seo Inae maintained her composure throughout.

The guardian stared at the screen to see if Doctor Han would call back.

Only after confirming that she wouldn’t did she return the smartphone.

“What will you do, ma’am? Will you leave on your own, or should I call the police?”

“…”

She had been shameless when Seon Nayeon pointed things out based on the child’s words.

Now even the guardian would find it difficult to say anything.

Wouldn’t this person be too scared to really go all the way?

“I’ll let Roi’s injury slide this time. Let’s pretend it never happened.”

After being told to leave, she stood there for a long time before coming up with just this.

She must have been desperately scheming, afraid that apologizing would be admitting fault.

She grabbed Roi’s arm and tried to leave the oriental medicine clinic.

“That won’t do.”

Seon Nayeon reflexively grabbed the guardian’s wrist.

“Never happened? You threatened someone’s livelihood with fraud and intimidation, and it never happened?”

Manager Seo, who had been trying to kick them out until just now, also didn’t seem to want to end things this way.

“Then, then what do you want to…”

The guardian anxiously bit her lower lip.

“Properly…”

“Reflect sincerely. If we send you away like this, won’t you just take it out on the child who told the truth?”

Seon Nayeon said.

Since it ended as an attempt before actual damage occurred, Seon Nayeon had no desire to receive compensation.

But she had to prevent harm from coming to the child who told the truth instead of siding with his mother.

“That’s excessive meddling. What reflection? I’m just letting it slide because a lawsuit would be troublesome, but I…”

“If we just send her away, she’ll only scold the innocent child and spread rumors as much as she can.”

Manager Seo’s face hardened coldly.

“Doctor Seon is right. Reflect, show proper remorse, and bring a handwritten apology letter. You need to do at least that much to stop this nonsense.”

“A letter of reflection? That’s ridiculous…”

“You said you were the PTA president of a nearby elementary school and would spread rumors in the neighborhood, right? That constitutes a threat to damage our reputation. We could sue you first.”

The guardian was reluctant to back down.

But Manager Seo pressed harder.

“You heard Doctor Han’s firm intention, right? You don’t know our director, but when she says she’ll do something, she really does it.”

That’s true.

Seon Nayeon found herself nodding unconsciously.

“Once the lawsuit starts, you’ll end up begging for a settlement and writing a letter of reflection anyway. Instead of losing face by sending it to us, posting it publicly, and sending it to the judge everywhere, bring one while we’re still being nice about it.”

The cornered guardian twisted her face.

Was this a precaution against her spreading false rumors?

It seemed like a good idea.

“Mom…”

Leroy, who had stopped crying after the guardian started her crazy talk, opened his mouth while trembling.

The child seemed afraid of both his mother and Manager Seo.

Seon Nayeon held Roi’s hand tightly and said.

“Do that. Apologize to me and apologize to Roi too. Stop acting shamefully in front of your child and at least show some remorse.”

Still, she was his mother.

Roi pulled away from Seon Nayeon’s hand and approached, gripping the guardian’s clothes tightly.

“…I’m sorry.”

She finally admitted it properly.

“I was blinded by money and did something I shouldn’t have done. I’m sorry.”

Whether it was because Seon Nayeon’s emphasis on not abandoning the last moral principle worked.

Or whether Seo Inae’s pressure that there was nowhere to run had an effect.

The guardian finally bowed her head deeply and began to properly apologize.

Her face turned red.

She was still holding back emotions that could have been anger or shame.

But at least Roi’s face brightened a little.

“Why on earth did you do that?”

“…I’m really sorry. I went crazy for a moment. I heard from a friend that she got compensation from Haneul Clinic for something trivial… I was just trying to get a few hundred thousand won… It was wrong of me to do that to both the director and my son.”

Listening to her rambling, it seemed her friend had succeeded in getting money from Haneul Clinic over something ridiculous.

She was a bit on the heavy side, and when she sat down with a thud, the waiting room chair collapsed?

Since Director Choi Eunhee had been receiving compensation complaints recently, when she mentioned that story.

The CEO of the headquarters personally apologized for the poor facility management.

Even though she hadn’t received any treatment, they gave her 100,000 won saying she must have suffered from lumbar sprain.

‘Even if they say when your cousin buys land, your stomach hurts… is that really something to be jealous of?’

Seon Nayeon found it difficult to manage her expression at such an absurd way of thinking.

“The burn was accidental, right?”

“Yes. After the moxibustion treatment, his growing pains were fine that night. It looked easy, so I bought some to save money and did it myself… I’m the one who caused the injury. It’s all my fault. Roi, mommy is sorry.”

The circumstances of the accident were also quite absurd.

At the clinic, they had definitely applied moxibustion for more than 10 minutes, but the moxibustion she bought had a usage time of 5 minutes written on it.

Since it was disposable, she thought 5 minutes was too short and decided to use it a little longer, which led to the burn.

“Mom…”

Roi, who seemed to be receiving an apology for the first time, was very surprised and awkward.

“…I won’t use harsh words in front of the child. Please take this opportunity to reflect and regret sufficiently, and make sure nothing like this happens again.”

“Yes. I’m sorry.”

“Don’t resent the child either. This could have become a much bigger issue, but it was able to end here because Roi told the truth. You should consider it fortunate.”

Seon Nayeon gave the guardian a few more words of admonishment.

Only after finishing everything she had to say did she send them out of the examination room.

Manager Seo took the two back to the consultation room and actually obtained a handwritten apology letter.

Below the neat handwriting that filled one page, a single sentence in somewhat crooked letters saying ‘I’m sorry, teacher’ was particularly touching.

“You worked hard, Director. He was crazier than I thought.”

“If it weren’t for Manager Seo, I wouldn’t have been able to handle this so well. Thank you.”

Seon Nayeon and Seo Inae exchanged gratitude and encouragement.

Manager Seo soon left the examination room again to report the situation to Director Han Yewon.

Only then did Seon Nayeon’s tension completely release.

She collapsed into the examination room chair.

* * *

‘Never compromise with obvious troublemakers.’

I added one sentence while recording this incident in the revised manual.

Since this incident was resolved through the quick thinking of Seon Nayeon and Seo Inae.

I’m not sure if other clinics would be able to follow suit.

Perhaps for individual clinics on the front lines, paying a few hundred thousand won to settle.

Might be better than spending money on lawsuits and suffering mentally.

But the policy of Seongsoo Oriental Medicine Clinic headquarters is.

Not to yield to malicious threats.

As for minor troublemakers who are sensitive because they’re sick, we try to embrace them as much as we can afford.

But with people who have clear malicious intent like in this incident, we must fight back refreshingly to feel at ease and sleep soundly at night.

If you keep unfair treatment in your heart, it becomes qi stagnation and fire disease.

Just forget about it? I can’t forget.

Protecting myself and those who fall within my scope is the top priority.

[Wow, Director Seon is so cool.]

[Haha. It was thanks to Manager Seo. I thought we were definitely going to get screwed, but this got resolved.]

After hearing the whole story from Seon Nayeon, the other directors were also very pleased.

Usually troublemakers are handled appropriately at the director level, and they shared some discussion about what would have been better to do.

We decided to slowly proceed with manual revision work by collecting these cases.

[By the way, Director. What happened with the 100pick translation publication? Are you doing it with Hyeondo Library?]

[Ah, yes. We decided to sign a contract.]

That matter also went well.

The royalty distribution conditions proposed by Hyeondo Library were exactly at the average level that Seo Inae had researched in advance, so I gladly accepted the proposal.

[But are these titles really that bad?]

However, there was something from the conversation that I wanted to get the directors’ opinions on.

[Hundred Prescriptions Detailed Analysis, Hundred Prescriptions Essential Points, Prescription Medicine Compilation, Hundred Selected Medical Prescriptions.]

[Aren’t they all fine?]

[?]

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[?]

[?]

[?]

This isn’t even a game guild chat room.

Most of the directors tend to have conversations in proper sentences.

Today, about ten question marks came up.

[What on earth is the reason for doing that?]

Hwangseoyeong made one final comment.

[Don’t you like it?]

I really asked because I didn’t know…

[What is Gendoseolim saying? How can you go with a title that would have been popular a hundred years ago!]

[They said they’d think it over and let us know the candidates…]

[Let’s follow the publisher’s suggestion.]

[That would be better.]

[I think so too.]

Everyone unanimously said it wouldn’t work.

But it’s so cool.

I really don’t understand.

* * *

While there are people who repay kindness with malice.

There are also people who greatly return even the smallest acts of kindness.

“Clinic Director, hello? It’s been a while.”

Pianist Park Miseun was one of those people.

She was a patient whose fingers had improved tremendously after acupuncture treatment before.

She was extremely grateful that I treated her slightly past closing time the day before her recital, and even after she fully recovered, she would introduce people around her whenever she had the chance.

“Ms. Miseun, hello. How are your fingers?”

“Of course they’re fine. I have completely steel fingers now. I came today because of my friend.”

As she said, the only person who registered today was Jo Yura.

The affected area was exactly the same as Park Miseun’s before – pain in both fingers.

“I went to a class reunion, and this girl was stupidly enduring the pain, you know? I brought her right away.”

“You did well to come. Thank you as always.”

“Oh my, don’t mention it. We’re the grateful ones. When are you opening in Rome? There are really many people waiting there.”

Rome…

Come to think of it, Park Miseun had met Sandro directly.

With graduation not far away now, I felt slightly dizzy thinking about what kind of patients would come if I really opened there.

“There will be news soon.”

That aside.

“Today, let’s look at Ms. Jo Yura’s fingers first.”

For now, I was more concerned about the patient in front of me who was watching her friend and me nervously.

“Ah, yes.”

When I looked at Jo Yura, she spread both hands wide as if she had been waiting.

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