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“Disgraced surgeon relives life as studious teen aiming to become wealthy dermatologist.”
Medical Return
메디컬 환생
7.81
1,440 rank · 9,177 readers · 117 favorites
Medical
Time Travel
Drama
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Synopsis
Disgraced surgeon relives life as studious teen aiming to become wealthy dermatologist.
Kim Jihyun, who lived his life as a disreputable surgeon, gains a second chance to relive his life. He then goes back to his middle school days, and live his life to the fullest unlike before, he studies nonstop. His goal is to become a dermatologist who make lots of money instead of the poor surgeon he was from previous life! (Source: Kakao Entertainment Corp., translaetd)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
8.0
/10
What 8 readers settled on.
83%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 10
σ 2.12
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.12 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.6 pts
Recommenders 9.6 · others 5.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 2.00
Running avg · Aug 2022 → Oct 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “I really love this manga,i read it straight after the "Megumi no Daigo",in this manga we can see a very passionate young man who returned in past after his life became worse,his dad died,his wife...”
- 9 “9/10 The protagonist has a new opportunity to improve his life after the number of failures in his past life and he will even follow the path of medicine again, a subject that I love. Story: 9/10...”
- 9 “I will keep this short, as I don't particularly like long reviews (I'd rather just read and see if it's good instead) 9/10: You know that feeling you get when a great read is finally over, and you...”
Verbosity
Short · 63%
Medium · 38%
Long · 0%
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A Manhwa Publication
- Format 150 ch ch × vol
- Total read 20h 00m approx
- Published Sep 2019 – Jan 2022
- Source Manhwa media type
- Ref. BS-M62791 catalog