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Both Small Town Remedy and Once Upon a Small Town follow someone in the medical profession (one a doctor and the other a veterinarian) returning to their small town and dealing with the ensuing small-town hijinks. While Small Town Remedy has a few more series topics to cover, both will leave you with a familiar feeling of home, with a side of healing and some romance tossed in for good measure.
Both are about more than doctors diagnosing illnesses: they explore how caring for patients, working with colleagues, and facing other people's suffering can change the doctors themselves.
In Small Town Remedy, Liu Zhengliang encounters patients whose problems cannot always be solved through medical expertise alone. Hospital Playlist similarly gives patients and their families emotional stories that extend beyond the operating room.
In Small Town Remedy, Liu Zhengliang encounters patients whose problems cannot always be solved through medical expertise alone. Hospital Playlist similarly gives patients and their families emotional stories that extend beyond the operating room.
Similarities: the idea that a community of imperfect people can become a kind of family, and that ordinary acts of kindness can change lives. In Reply 1988, that community is the residents of a Seoul neighborhood and five families who share food, worries, celebrations, and grief. In Small Town Remedy, it's the people surrounding Liu Zhengliang as he returns to his hometown and begins again.
