A young Korean man who's dedicated his whole life to his job as a doctor goes to a war torn country as part of a doctors-without-boarders program. The war gets to their ramshackle clinic, and our MC gets gunned down. He wakes up in the body of a young child in um... murim Korea times. He's among a bunch of dead and injured people, and goes right back to doctoring despite being in the body of a small child. From there he meets people, figures out he's in the novel he was reading, meets a medicine master and learns the ways of this strange world he's now in.
Really liked the beginning where martial arts magic was partially explained with modern medicine. Was really interesting and I liked that aspect a lot. As MC learns more martial arts however, that aspect kind of stops, as martial arts magic starts to take over and is no longer viewed through the lens of someone steeped in modern era science. There's occasional bits, but it's rare. It's a bit sad.
Also, the passage of time is at first is kept track of very well, but in the later chapters I completely lost track of how old MC's body is now supposed to be and how long it's been since he reincarnated. I thought it had only been 2 years but at some point there was dialogue talking about him learning martial arts for "several years". This seems to happen a lot in this kind of webtoon, and for the life of me I can't figure out why. It always breaks immersion for me when they do that. =/ Translation ranges from Asura-scans, which is mostly good, to something that continually confuses pronouns for characters previously established to have other pronouns. Also bad grammar, but mostly understandable, so it doesn't ruin the reading experience. I really like MC, he's shown to more clearly struggle with learning and getting stronger, especially when he fights foes. Dude is always panting lol. There is some potential with side characters that feels mostly wasted as they aren't used. Like why didn't Mr. Archer who swore loyalty to MC go travel with him as a body guard? Dude is super strong and then the medicine master wouldn't have to worry as much? But no, friend can't go with him, but the fucking dog (that doesn't belong to him, why is he with MC still??) and the birds are fine. <_<;; I thought they were gonna do something with archer dude, so it's a shame the author wasted him like that. We don't even see him much anymore, what was the point of keeping him in the story? And that's kind of the problem, MC has his quests and goals, which were compelling enough to keep me engaged, but after thinking about it, MC is the only character I care about. Everyone else is kind of one note and just there (except for the master and possibly the fox guy). No-one else has any character, and you don't really end up caring about any of them because you don't get to know anyone. MC has people he cares about and who care about him but it all feels very superficial somehow.
Anyway I do recommend giving this a read and seeing what you think for yourself, it's good fun if nothing else! =)
Doctor’s Rebirth