(Seogu University Hospital)
(Episode 13)
- We should call the professor. - Yes, I'll call him.
Professor, we finished the organ procurement. We're on our way.
How's my mother?
She's coming down to the OR.
Okay. We'll arrive in two hours.
Two hours? Okay. Get here safely.
- Okay. Let's go. - Okay.
The patient is coming in.
- Excuse me. - This way.
Put her right here.
(Nurse Lee Sun Young)
- Yes? - Professor, Dr. Yoon is...
I'm going to the ICU.
She's bleeding all of a sudden. Her BP is 70.
- How bad is her bleeding? 1,000? - I have one more.
2,000.
(ICU)
- Here you go. - Give me.
- Full drip for the IV. - Yes, sir.
Call the OR. I'm going in now.
Yes, sir. I'm on it.
It's an emergency open-heart surgery.
Get me the set, so I can prep the OR.
Slow down.
What?
Okay, I got it.
Ma'am.
My gosh, we have an emergency patient.
Your surgery will be delayed for a bit.
Okay.
I'm fine.
Dr. Park is on his way. You'll get your surgery soon.
Please wait for a bit here.
Okay.
I got it. Okay.
Dr. Koo, let's go.
Okay.
I'll be back.
Right here.
If the blood can't keep up, Soo Yeon dies.
- Can't you even suction right? - Okay.
Irrigation.
All of her stitches popped.
Her heart is too weak to endure this.
3-0.
(In Surgery)
What happened?
I'll scrub in.
I got the bleeding under control.
Already?
Even if it is under control now,
it'd be a mess if she bleeds again after she goes on the ECMO.
If there's bleeding in her brain, that will be the end of her.
Since her heart can't handle it, we can't get her off the ECMO.
Gosh, what should we do?
She needs a heart transplant.
Where and how could we get her a heart now?
Please save Soo Yeon.
Soo Yeon doesn't know anything.
And what did Yoo Bin know?
Why must I... Why must I save Soo Yeon?
Still, you are a doctor, aren't you?
I couldn't even save my own daughter.
But I'm a doctor?
I'm begging you.
Professor Choi.
I'll go ahead.
Okay.
Cut.
Finish up and come in.
Please watch over Dr. Yoon.
Will you leave Dr. Yoon like that?
Yes?
Professor, it's Woo Jin.
The ambulance that Tae Soo was in was in an accident.
What?
(Patient: Oh Jung Ae)
You must be tired from waiting.
Dr. Park will be here soon.
Take a nice nap, and the surgery will be over.
Okay.
Relax and take a deep breath.
Wait.
Stop.
There's a patient who'll die if she doesn't get a heart right now.
Dr. Yoon Soo Yeon. You must have met her too.
Is that true?
If she doesn't get a heart now, she won't last more than a few days.
I'm very sorry...
for asking you to make such a difficult decision.
Please do that.
Please save...
Dr. Yoon first, doctor.
Are you sure about that?
I've lived long enough already...
thanks to you.
But...
I don't know what Tae Soo will say.
I'll talk to him after the surgery.
And I promise...
to get you a heart.
Okay.
I'll get my surgery when you do.
Bring him in.
1, 2, 3!
Careful.
Tae Soo.
What happened?
A truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and ran a red.
Tae Soo.
Hey, you punk. Tae Soo.
Hey, Tae Soo.
Are you awake?
You okay?
There was an accident.
- How about my mom's surgery? - What?
I went to watch the surgery,
and...
it wasn't your mom.
Dr. Yoon Soo Yeon was getting the heart.
Tae Soo.
Tae Soo. You...
(Emergency Medical Center)
You can't come in like that!
You need to have on shoes!
Doctor!
Doctor.
Choi Seok Han!
(Patient: Yoon Soo Yeon)
No, right? That's a mistake, right?
Right, Professor?
I'll bring my mother.
I'll be right back. There must have been a mistake.
Your mother agreed.
You're kidding,
right?
We waited for months.
- Dr. Park. - Don't speak.
- Tae Soo, your mother... - Nobody speak.
I'll bring my mother. Wait, or I'll lose my mind.
We'll continue with the surgery.
Professor!
If Dr. Yoon doesn't get the heart now, she won't make it the night.
So what?
If there is any chance of survival,
it's our duty to save them.
Isn't that what you said?
She's my mother!
There will be another heart soon.
Let's wait.
Your mother still has time.
What if there isn't?
Let's hang in there...
until a heart becomes available.
(Central Surgery Center)
Tae Soo.
What happened to your face?
Did you get hurt? How?
What happened?
Mom.
My gosh.
Why did you agree?
That doctor needs it more urgently.
I can see my son's face like this,
and talk too.
- But that doctor... - Still.
We don't know when another one will become available.
My son is a doctor.
If I can't wait that much,
I don't deserve to be a doctor's mom.
I'm fine.
If anything hurts, say so, okay?
Don't say you're fine.
Okay?
Okay. I will.
I ought to...
listen to my son.
I'll put in...
the heart.
Scissors.
[Kocowa Ver] SBS E13 Heart Surgeons "What About My Mother?" -♥ Ruo Xi ♥-
(Heart Surgeons)
Please take care.
Thank you.
The hospital director and his daughter stopped by recently.
How could this happen?
Please take care of my brother for the 49th Day Funeral.
Okay.
You should go to the airport right away, sir.
I'll be cutting it close for the flight.
I don't want him to attend the board meeting tomorrow.
It's only for a while.
Only for a while.
This isn't what I wanted.
Your greed put Soo Yeon where she is now.
You'll be able to meet Soo Yeon soon.
I'll set it up so that you can have...
your board meeting after your cardiology conference in Germany.
Okay.
Let me run Taesan.
I'll release the clamp.
(Clamps hold the blood vessels together.)
- Flow down. - Flow down.
(It circulates the blood back to the heart.)
I'll raise the flow.
Professor, it's a V-fib.
Charge 10J.
10J.
Charged.
Clear.
- Charge again. - 10J.
Charged.
Clear.
It's beating.
- How's her vital? - It's good.
I'll close her up. Tube.
(In Surgery)
I'm worried about Dr. Park.
He waited for three months.
Dr. Park's mother is commendable.
It's not just any other organ.
She gave up a heart. She doesn't know when she'll get another one.
Not everyone can make that decision.
What will we tell KONOS?
Well, we should tell them that...
suddenly, her condition worsened, and she couldn't get the transplant.
In the US, a patient who was waiting for a heart transplant...
gave away the heart for the patient...
who was brought in after a car accident.
- It's a true story? - Of course, it is.
I think the patient was a Korean-American.
Then what about the patient who gave away the heart?
After waiting for some time, the patient got the transplant.
It's a happy ending. That's great.
I really hope Dr. Park's mother gets her transplant too.
Right?
Dr. Koo Dong Joon, stay here. Check for the bleeding regularly.
Yes, sir.
I'm sorry, Tae Soo.
I talked to your mother.
I told her Dr. Yoon would die without the transplant.
Why did you do that?
After saying all those things to the hospital director that night?
Don't die!
You need to watch your daughter die, too.
Don't die.
- Did you... - Was I asking too much from you?
Did I ask you to steal a heart? Or did I ask you to make one?
Since it was finally my mother's turn,
I asked you to save her.
I begged you to save my mother.
Your mother still has some time. I'll do whatever it takes...
Time. Time!
Why must my mother spend her time waiting again?
What if there's no heart?
What if then?
Then...
take my heart if you have to.
I don't understand myself why I...
Why I saved Yoon Soo Yeon.
Professor Choi.
If we can't find your mother a heart,
I'll give you mine.
I'm really sorry, Tae Soo.
Ma'am, why did you do that?
Don't you know how rare that heart is?
Tae Soo had desperately been waiting for it.
Woo Jin.
Please...
comfort Tae Soo for me.
It wouldn't work even if I tried.
Goodness, ma'am.
I had a feeling this would happen.
I'm scared of myself.
Keep your mouth shut. Please.
Help me with that then.
Have you gone mad?
Have I?
Hey, Seung Jae.
Are you all right? I heard you were in a car accident.
What about the surgery? Is it over?
Yes, it went well.
I mean Dr. Yoon's surgery.
It was true.
Why did Professor Choi do that?
What about Dr. Park?
He had been waiting for the heart for a long time.
(Professor Choi Seok Han)
Yes, Professor.
Okay.
Do you know, Ms. Lee?
Dr. Yoon is the first trauma patient in Korea...
who received a heart transplant?
Is that important now?
I'm making a point that this case is a rare one.
If the heart is damaged like Dr. Yoon's heart was,
she couldn't last days... No, not even close.
She couldn't last even for a few hours.
But a heart was available for her,
and she got the heart transplant and survived.
If it weren't for the heart meant for Dr. Park's mother,
it would have been great.
Why?
Keep an eye on her.
- What is it? - Come follow me for a second.
No. I need to stay with Dr. Yoon.
- It'll be a minute. - You ripped it.
What happened?
What else? We saved the person who was more urgent first.
Why didn't you tell me?
This is huge.
How could I not know that you were in that surgery?
I had no time to tell you. It was a madhouse.
How is she?
We'll see when she wakes up, but she's good for now.
The surgery went well, too.
This is bad.
She almost died. How could you say that?
If she wakes up, what about your professorship?
How is that important right now?
Aren't you sick of it?
Why would I be sick of it?
What's more important than your becoming a professor?
Is Soo Yeon dies... Gosh, I can't even say it.
If that happens, and I become a professor,
would that make you happy?
Did I say that?
It's just that hard to become a professor, that's why.
You need to go at it full force, but what?
You're sick of it?
I give up.
Where's Dr. Park?
Tae Soo?
I'm worried about him, too.
We ended his punishment at not renewing his contract...
so that his mother can get her transplant before he left.
I asked for that.
That way, he can look for another job during that time.
If word gets out that he was fired, he won't get a job anywhere.
Even our Chief Koo has a soft side?
You punk.
Come here. Let me give you a hug.
What... What are you doing? You punk.
Hey, Dr. Park. I heard.
Don't get the wrong idea.
No one told Professor Choi to do that.
I know, sir.
Stay here until your mother gets her heart, no matter what.
Don't worry about a thing.
I'll make sure of it.
Thank you, sir.
Tae Soo.
I don't know what's right, but...
hang in there.
How nice.
This is why everyone wants to be the hospital director.
(Koo Hee Dong)
Hey, Chief Koo. What's up?
What? The hospital director should be on the plane!
I'm coming. I'll be right there.
Professor Lee!
I told you. I'm the executive director!
How many times must I tell you?
Yes, sir. Mr. Executive Director.
What's this about Soo Yeon getting a heart transplant?
They put the heart meant for Dr. Park Tae Soo's mother...
into Soo Yeon.
Why did they put that in there?
The hospital director will have a fit!
The board meeting is right after he gets back.
He'll flip out for sure.
My gosh.
What?
If his niece gets a heart transplant and lives,
shouldn't the director be happy?
You're right. Why did I think he'd be upset about it?
Your brain isn't working lately.
But if Soo Yeon lives, he may lose the hospital director position.
Darn it. Where's Professor Choi?
Why is your... Hey.
- I'll take care of it. - You'll take care of it?
That's what you say after doing a surgery without consulting us?
You're not the only one who's dead...
once the hospital director gets back!
He'll be back three days from now?
I'll make sure there are no problems.
Please drink your tea.
(Episode 14 will air shortly.)
(Episode 14)
Get out.
I'm sorry.
This is her third surgery since the morning.
If it is, does it mean you can doze off during surgery?
Don't be a surgeon.
You're not strong enough for it. Get out.
You'll have surgeries tomorrow. I told you to get out.
Professor.
Why are you still up?
Since I'm not strong enough to be a surgeon,
at least, I should work on my technique.
Go to sleep now.
Surgeons need to rest when needed.
Okay.
I'll check how much your technique improved tomorrow.
Thank you, Professor.
I won't doze off tomorrow and do well.
Are you all right, Seung Jae?
Why are you lying here?
We don't have enough beds at the ER. I can't occupy one.
Let me check on your wounds. Scoot over a bit.
Move over.
- You must've been shocked too. - That's not important now.
You should have tried to stop Professor Choi.
Hey, her condition worsened all of a sudden. It was really bad.
I'm sure it must've been a difficult decision for Professor Choi too.
Anyway, thanks to Professor Choi's decision,
both of them are alive for now.
Dr. Park was really looking forward to that.
It'd be nice if we had an answer key.
But I wonder if there is such a thing in our field.
We only hope that the decisions we make at the moment are the best.
What?
So what should we do? Is there a way we can help?
We should put her on the VAD and try to buy her some time.
Dr. Park had been working part-time jobs...
whenever he was off, so he can put her on the VAD.
It costs about 200,000 dollars since insurance doesn't cover it.
It's not too late now. I'm going to help too.
I'm sure Tae Soo and Professor Choi know that too.
They do, right?
Hey, count how many doctors we have here.
We can save her.
Okay.
Seung Jae, get some rest. You went through a lot today.
I'm sorry.
The evaluation isn't over yet?
It's in progress now.
It's been three days already.
How could it still be in progress? What do you want me to...
We have a protocol to keep too.
What if the patient gets worse while waiting for the protocol?
After the approval,
it will take two weeks for us to get the VAD at the earliest.
What if the patient gets worse during that time?
You promised.
If we don't find her a heart,
you promised that you'd give up your heart.
- Tae Soo. - Keep your promise.
You don't have to be sorry to me.
I've lived long enough thanks to you.
Tae Soo may not say it,
but he likes you a lot.
He really likes...
working here, too.
Professor.
Even if I die,
please...
take good care of Tae Soo.
Bed five. I'll go.
Ms. Oh.
Call Dr. Park! Prepare for intubation...
and get the epi just in case.
Dr. Park.
What happened?
Her oxygen dropped to 60, but it went back up.
She regained consciousness as well.
Mom.
Give me the oxygen mask.
Yes, doctor.
Just a little longer.
Hang on a little longer,
okay?
Once you get your surgery,
let's go home.
Promise me.
I knew you'd be here.
Don't underestimate your mother. She's a tough woman.
When you saw your mother delivering food,
you got your act together.
When I saw you burn your comic books to start studying,
I got my act together.
Two delinquents became doctors and made it this far.
We need to get our act together so that your mother can be strong.
We're all she's got, after all.
If she dies...
Don't even think that.
Why would she die in this big hospital?
When she gets discharged after her surgery,
let's take her on a trip somewhere.
Let's go. She's waiting.
Don't say anything, and hold her hand.
You're lucky.
You can do anything...
you set your mind to.
That's just how it looks.
Sorry,
Soo Yeon.
I'm sure she wouldn't have wanted the heart transplant.
I'm positive Soo Yeon...
would not have wanted to live by sacrificing someone else.
(Central Surgery Center)
Professor.
Why did you decide to that?
Aren't you friends with Dr. Yoon?
I was Soo Yeon's closest friend. That's why I'm saying this.
Your decision was not for her.
Maybe it was your sense of responsibility as a doctor,
but when she wakes up,
she may have to watch someone else die...
because of her.
Are you talking about my daughter, Yoo Bin?
Soo Yeon...
struggled greatly with the fact that she survived...
at the cost of Yoo Bin's life.
How do you think I felt, having to save that person...
twice?
How do you feel?
I'm fine.
It must feel suffocating,
being indoors all day long.
After you get your surgery, let's take a trip.
Let's go to the mountains and to the beach.
Let's go everywhere.
Just the thought of it is nice.
(Taesan University Hospital)
(Taesan University Hospital Board Meeting)
(Medical Center Director Yoon Hyun Il)
Let's not celebrate my taking over.
The medical center director passed away and Soo Yeon is in a coma.
What would people think if we celebrate?
Yes, Director Yoon.
Here's your lab coat.
Let's go.
Okay.
He finally got Taesan.
Blood really is the best.
You think it's about blood?
He's much more impressive than you think.
He should've been the director much sooner.
What do you mean?
You don't know what his nickname used to be, do you?
- What was it? - Plain Rice.
Plain Rice? Why?
Because he'd eat only plain rice during lunch.
- What? - He ate plain rice in his office...
for 15 years to treat as many patients as possible.
He said he'd smell like food, so it was plain rice and water.
He isn't your average man. He's frightening.
By unanimous vote, Yoon Hyun Il...
has been appointed the director of Taesan University Hospital.
I have something to tell you.
Sure. Go ahead.
- It's about Dr. Yoon Soo Yeon. - What about her?
Is her condition very bad?
She received a heart transplant.
What do you mean?
Professor Choi Seok Han...
Let's go see her now.
Yes, sir.
Sweetie, good job today.
Your daughter is getting surgery tomorrow.
Wish her good luck.
I'll wait quietly in the car.
Fine. Then wait a few minutes in the car.
Director Yoo!
Dad!
Soo Yeon.
Dad.
Soo Yeon.
[Kocowa Ver] SBS E14 Heart Surgeons "The First Trauma Heart Transplant" -♥ Ruo Xi ♥-
Call Professor Choi right now.
Ask him what he's going to do now.
Okay, I got it. Keep it down. Be quiet.
It's me. Dr. Yoon is awake.
The hospital director is in her ward.
You said you'd take care of it. What's your plan?
(Conference Room)
Okay. I'll meet with him and explain it to him.
Okay.
What did he say? Does he have a plan?
Professor Choi is going to meet with the hospital director.
What? How could he call that a plan?
Now that Soo Yeon got a heart transplant,
what do you think people will say about me?
- I'm sorry. - I'm sorry.
Where is she?
The patient that gave up the heart for Soo Yeon.
That way, sir.
She's the mother of Dr. Park from the Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Is that so?
This is the hospital director.
I'm sorry. This isn't what I wanted.
I'm...
okay.
Please...
take good care of Tae Soo.
I will. I'll talk to him.
Thank you.
Where is Choi Seok Han?
Choi Seok Han!
You stabbed me in the back again.
I was waiting for you, sir.
Please come in.
(Taesan University Hospital)
We will now begin our presentation for the first successful...
heart transplant surgery of a trauma patient in Korea.
Hospital Director Yoon Hyun Il from Taesan University Hospital,
Chief Lee Joong Do from the Cardiology Department,
Chief Koo Hee Dong from the Cardiothoracic Surgery,
and Professor Choi Seok Han will be joining us.
Why didn't you tell me?
If I helped him with this,
he said I could write a paper on this case. Isn't this great?
- You punk. - Chief Koo Hee Dong.
I would appreciate it if you can take your seat quickly.
Now, Professor Choi Seok Han...
who led the surgery will present.
The patient was transferred to our ER...
after a car accident and had a rod lodged into her heart.
When she arrived, her BP was 60 and 40.
Before we put her under anesthesia, she had a heart attack.
(Cancer Center, Organ Transplant Center)
Any news yet?
No, Doctor.
If you do, please let me know.
I will.
(Moon Seung Jae)
Yes, Seung Jae?
What?
Show us the echo test, please.
As you can see, the heart she received is beating normally.
Her post-op is good too.
I expect her to make a smooth recovery.
Yes, you may ask a question.
Where did you receive the donation?
The trauma patient probably didn't have enough time to...
get listed and wait for a heart.
Within the hospital, we had a patient who was first on the list.
Call Dr. Park.
Push the bed.
However, on the day of her transplant surgery,
the level of inflammation hiked up all of a sudden.
We couldn't proceed with the transplant.
After carefully evaluating the situation,
our team performed the transplant surgery...
on the trauma patient who was next on the list.
The trauma patient is the daughter of the hospital director...
who passed away recently.
Is it possible that her connections could have given her the privilege?
A privilege?
That's not possible.
Reporter Lee, how could you say such a thing?
This is Taesan Hospital.
The donated heart arrived at our hospital.
And it was too late for us to send it to another hospital.
The best option we had was to save the patient who was second...
on the list within the hospital.
Dr. Park, we used the defibrillator, but she's not coming back.
- Bring me epi and ECMO. - Got it.
It is expected that...
the patient will be able to lead a normal life after 3 to 6 months.
We will do our best until the patient makes a full recovery.
After she makes a full recovery,
we'll hold another conference to present our case.
How's the flow?
(Flow: the amount of bloodstream)
We don't have much. It's not even 500.
The color looks good. It went in nicely.
- Lower the volume, and keep up. - Okay.
- What's her BP? - The mean BP isn't even 30.
We should insert another one through the carotid artery.
- Bring me the echo. - I'm on it.
Dr. Park, I'll read the ultrasound.
- Okay. Switch hands with me. - Okay.
- Did you reach Professor Choi? - He's not answering.
I'll call him again.
Our hospital has...
the highest success rate for heart surgeries.
It's all thanks to Professor Choi Seok Han, sitting right here.
(Nurse Lee Sun Young)
We will end our press conference here today.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you.
Good job.
- I must get going. - Sure.
I don't see any volume of blood.
We can't put her on the ECMO from this side.
I need to open her up. Bring me the kit.
She needs surgery now.
Penlight.
Bring me the kit now!
Mom. Mom.
Mom.
Mom!
Dr. Park.
Tae Soo.
Bring me a heart.
Bring me a heart!
Stop it.
Please stop.
Tae Soo!
Let go! You said you'd bring her a heart!
Professor Choi, go. Talk later.
Go!
Choi Seok Han!
Tae Soo!
Choi Seok Han!
Tae Soo.
Please watch over Dr. Yoon.
Will you leave Dr. Yoon like that?
You are a doctor, aren't you?
I couldn't even save my own daughter.
But I'm a doctor?
I promise to get a heart for your mother.
Sorry, Tae Soo.
I did something unconscionable to save Soo Yeon.
She will be the last patient I save as a doctor.
(Heart Surgeons)
Should we have operated on Dr. Park's mother instead?
- Did Professor Choi come by? - Tae Soo won't understand me.
Do you regret saving Dr. Yoon?
"You need to watch your daughter die, too."
Did they mishear that too?
Did you save me instead of Dr. Park's mother?
I will never save you again.
Where do you think Dr. Park is? Did he quit medicine?
We need to operate right away.
I'll operate on your mom, so she won't hurt anymore.