# WebtoonLib — Medical Return #45

## Series
- title: Medical Return
- slug: medical-return-4e50d7

## Chapter
- number: 45
- release_date: 2025-05-07

### Summary
Despite his long-standing goal to abandon surgery for a lucrative dermatology career, Kim Jihyun is ironically thriving in the one field he wants to escape. Now working at his rival's hospital, he remains dangerously unaware of Lee Sangmin's true psychopathic nature, deftly navigating professional sabotage with his advanced medical knowledge. As readers lament his "hopeless" inability to escape his surgical destiny—or notice Haeni's affections—a new theory emerges: a senior doctor may be secretly grooming him as a protégé, pulling him ever closer to the very fate he so desperately rejects.
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## Spoiler
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### Safe teaser
Despite his long-standing goal to abandon surgery for a lucrative dermatology career, Kim Jihyun is ironically thriving in the one field he wants to escape.

### Spoiler summary
Despite his long-standing goal to abandon surgery for a lucrative dermatology career, Kim Jihyun is ironically thriving in the one field he wants to escape. Now working at his rival's hospital, he remains dangerously unaware of Lee Sangmin's true psychopathic nature, deftly navigating professional sabotage with his advanced medical knowledge. As readers lament his "hopeless" inability to escape his surgical destiny—or notice Haeni's affections—a new theory emerges: a senior doctor may be secretly grooming him as a protégé, pulling him ever closer to the very fate he so desperately rejects.

## Status
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- transcript: Hardsub chapter — image-only

## See also
- [WebtoonLib — Medical Return #45](/series/medical-return-4e50d7/chapter-45)
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