Jaein’s Player Doctor

Jaein is still taping a bruised wrist when the senior doctor retires and leaves her alone with the worst job in the building. She knows how high-rank exposure changes a body over time, and that knowledge makes her dangerous to the people who want clean reports. Her private life is already thin, with a younger sibling who barely knows her work and a home full of old training gear, a copied glove, and a name-tag she keeps touching when she cannot think. When pressure rises, her calm cracks in small, human ways, like counting breaths before she speaks and flinching at praise she did not earn. The first time she is pushed into the spotlight, she has to protect a player, protect her place, and pr...