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1. The Hippocratic Oath Revised by ragingflamesheep (bartenderblitz) for yellow_caballero

   Fandoms: Tokyo Ghoul  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • No category
   • Work in Progress

   26 Jul 2023

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Kaneki Ken | Sasaki Haise & Nagachika Hideyoshi
   • Kaneki Ken | Sasaki Haise & Nishio Nishiki
   • Kamishiro Rize & Kaneki Ken | Sasaki Haise
   • Kaneki Ken | Sasaki Haise & Suzuya Juuzou
   • Kaneki Ken | Sasaki Haise
   • Nishio Nishiki
   • Nishino Kimi
   • Nagachika Hideyoshi
   • Kamishiro Rize
   • Kanou Akihiro
   • Suzuya Juuzou
   • Self-Harm
   • Depression
   • Recovery Or Bust
   • College
   • Cannibalism
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Canon-typical Torture and Self Destructive Coping Mechanisms
   • Earn Your Happy Ending
   • Suicide Attempt
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Suicidal Ideation
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Angry Kaneki
   • premed changes you ok it Changes You
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Medical Procedures
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Rating for Psychological Shit
   • for personal reasons i am not comfortable writing the ghoul restaurants
   • so those don't exist in this au. sorry.
   • there are however ghoul yakuza.
   • because this fic is my swan song to my first fandom so go big or go home
   • Queerplatonic Relationships
   • Non-Linear Narrative
   • Gore
   • Hallucinations
   • Aromantic Asexual Kaneki Ken
   • Aromantic Asexual Nagachika Hideyoshi
   • neither of them figure that out until theyre 30 but thats how it b sometimes
   • Asexual Character
   • Aromantic Character
   • Not TG Re Compliant
   • Altered Mental States
   • Autistic Kaneki Ken
   • apparently. it's been an eventful year ok

   Summary

   Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that is not the right question. The question is: are we living a life that is worth the harm?

    

   Kaneki Ken loves medicine.

   He loves his father's old textbooks. He loves the colorful anatomy diagrams. He loves the rhythm of scientific articles, the shape of words like 'fossa' and 'muscular dystrophy'. The research projects/work shifts/studying/crying don't leave time for Kafka, but those books were for creepy little orphans, anyway. Which he isn't anymore, because he's not a kid anymore, because soon, he'll never be that kid again.

   The world is hurt or be hurt. It is better to be hurt than to hurt others. But to be a doctor is to heal hurts without hurting yourself. To be a doctor is to be free.

   Kaneki Ken is growing up. Kaneki Ken is moving on. Kaneki Ken will become a doctor or die trying, because hope is a thing with teeth and he'd bite through his tongue before going hungry ever again. And god help anyone who gets in his way.

   aka: an au in which kaneki ken is premed instead of a lit major, with mixed but (ultimately) uplifting results

   cw: suicidal ideation.

   Series

   • Part 1 of caduceus on high: a tg au

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