A state-of-the-art operating room with pristine surgical equipment?
No can do; just a rusty bone saw in front of a jeering crowd for you! Sound like a waking nightmare?
Well, that’s the best that the finest 19th century British medicine has to offer Taepyeong Kim, a young student from Joseon who retains the memory of his past life as a surgeon in modern-day Korea.
For Taepyeong, London’s supposedly cutting-edge medical education is nothing but one barbaric display of malpractice after another, and he vows to drag the profession kicking and screaming into the modern age.
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