Yay bureaucracy! She doesn't want to scare anyone or get sued or make the hospital regret letting her do this!

She will totally de-ick those people! Do they mind telling her afterwards what they think they had? 

The first person had a rash that had swollen into an abscess. The rash is still there, the abscess is.... hm. It hurts less, now?

The second is much more indicative of her power: he has had this flu for the past week and it has been awful and now!! It's gone!!!!!! He is very grateful, can he get a picture with her???

She's so glad she could help and he can totally get a picture with her! 

Other people she could theoretically de-ick, over the next few hours: the guy who came in suspecting he had appendicitis and got taken back to see the doctor immediately, the utterly miserable coughing baby whose dad very reasonably doesn't want to try anything experimental, the old lady who smells like cigarettes and declined her offer, and the woman who got stung by a whole bunch of bees or wasps or something.

People she cannot help at all: the teenage boy with the broken ankle, the woman who sliced her hand in some sort of mishap, the elderly man who came in with chest pain and got taken back to see the doctor immediately, and the young woman covered in hives.

The hospital is really grateful for her help, and will be happy to work with her again in the future, and offer her a recommendation if she wants one for whatever she does next.

Her partner shows up at the tail end of this experimentation, beaming.

"I totally work on concrete," she announces, sitting next to Suk-ja for requisite probably-handholding.

Handholding! Handholding is excellent. "Congratulations! I work on infections and I think also some collection of things that includes wasp venom--maybe poisons in general? And not on injuries or allergies or old age."

"Niiiiice. Medical espers are rare, right? I expect you'll find a more compatible partner than me in, like, a week when the mixer's held? But I'm down to come hug you for the good of humanity."

"Thanks! And I'm happy to hug you for the good of people having places to live and stuff. At least until we both find someone more compatible. Are you going to start looking for full-time construction work?"

"Partner first, then construction, yeah. Though I might go for an apprenticeship or something first? Understand the principles before I start shuffling stuff around for people, make sure it's structurally sound? I'm not sure. There's not exactly a firm career path for espers, is there."

"Yeah, I'm still debating whether to drop out, switch to a medical degree, or stick with my original plans and heal part-time. I think it's going to depend on what kind of job offers I get and whether they say they'd pay more if I was a proper doctor."

Nod nod! "At least there are workshops for construction espers, to give us some kind of direction? Not that I've ever been to one, the next is in like six months. But I think someone will figure out how to help you exchange money for human flourishing. Congrats on your sweet power, by the way, it's cool."

"Thanks! I'm really happy with what I got. Will I see you at the mixer next week?"

"Yep! Uh, if I run into anyone I'm compatible with I can send them your way? I hear the demographics are that partners of espers are more likely to be compatible with that esper's other partners' partners. Compared to the average."

"Oh, that would make sense, wouldn't it. I'll do the same."

Nod! "I appreciate it!"

She's totally up for showing Suk-ja the research papers on the subject while they wait for their backlashes to go down, to pass the time.

By the time she needs to head out, both of their respective backlashes are just about squashed.

Research papers and not feeling like crap, both excellent things!

In the week leading up to the mixer she emails a couple of hospitals to check whether they'd be open to hiring her, and on roughly what kind of schedule for roughly what kind of money. She doesn't strictly speaking need any of this information before she goes to the mixer but the more she has a sense of her options she more useful a conversation she can have with potential partners.

Okay, so, usually hospitals don't directly hire espers? They can pay her for her time, but it's not going to be very competitive with what a guild can offer. Also, for her disease oriented power, there's going to be some major coordination, and honestly at some point she might end up with a whole wing of a hospital devoted to her, and she'd probably be at one that's specialized in infection diseases and the like.

If it makes more sense to coordinate through a guild then that's what she'll do! Whatever gets her, her partner, a bunch of consenting sick people, and some money into a reasonable configuration. Also apparently she wasn't being nearly ambitious enough, wow. She can't wait to find a really compatible partner and see how many people she can heal in a day! 

She shows up to the mixer in her nicest outfit, which is only a step or two nicer than her regular outfit, and gets ready to shake so many hands.

The government mixer is about as nice as a government based party tends to be, which means that it's a little bit... beige... and the available snacks are a little bit bland, but there is a large space with plenty of people who have hands that are perfectly amenable to being shaken.

Someone is bouncing on her toes in the crowd.

"Have you found her. Have you found her. Is she here??"

"You know this isn't much faster than just directly looking," snorts the woman whose hand she's holding. "And there's absolutely no guarantee that -"

"Shhhhshshshshshsh don't take this from me! Medical! Esper!!! In my country!!! I am meeting her regardless and if we are not compatible then fine but I am going to network."

"Ah huh," says the woman with long white hair, amused. " - Got her. C'mon. Thisaway."

"Eeeeeeeeeeee how's my hair, is it fine, do I have anything in my teeth..?"

"You want a mirror for that one, not me, I do not want to see anyone's biology from the inside, thanks." She tugs her partner along in the crowd. "I'm going to tell her you had me do this, you know."