[ Episode 7 ]
What brings you here?
I'm here to see Yoo Bin.
Why would you...
want to see Yoo Bin?
I left for the US, so it's been a while.
Yoo Bin doesn't even know you.
Wouldn't she be confused
- if you visit her like this? - Doctor.
I'm heartbroken that this is all I can do.
Heartbreak...
won't kill you.
Please stop visiting Yoo Bin.
That's all I ask of you.
Is it that you can't forgive me
or you can't forgive yourself?
What?
Aren't you working at Taesan
to start a pediatric cardiac center?
You haven't changed at all since I left four years ago.
Same place and same situation.
Use me now that I'm back.
Don't just push me away.
I'll use my position as the chairman's daughter to support you.
A pediatric cardiac center is
crucial for saving children
like Yoo Bin.
I'm sorry,
Yoo Bin.
[ Choi Yoo Bin ]
I'll make sure to
become a good doctor.
Doctor.
Thank you, Dr. Park.
I'll take him with me after he recovers.
Yes.
I owe you big time.
Don't mention it.
Please take care of him.
Oh...
Can you give me his chart?
I'm sure Taesan did well, but just in case.
Please bring it by tomorrow morning.
- Got it. - Okay.
You worked with him at Joongsan University Hospital,
- right? - Yes.
Please gather all the medical records.
All of them?
Don't worry too much.
You saved him.
Nothing will happen.
Move!
Intubation.
[ Patient: Yoon Soo Yeon ]
Yoo Bin, wait a little bit.
I'll make you feel better.
Get ready to open her up.
What are you doing right now?
Why, Yoo Bin...
Dr. Park, why didn't you pick up...
Hwang Young Ki woke up.
Sir, can you hear me?
You're at Taesan Hospital's ICU.
Do you remember passing out on the plane?
You were operated on here.
That's a relief.
He woke up. Why would they make an issue out of it?
- Please do an ABGA. / - Okay. [ ABGA: Arterial blood gas analysis ]
We called your family. No need to worry.
The respirator must be causing discomfort.
Please wait a bit longer.
The ABGA results.
It looks good.
I think we can extubate. [ Extubation: To remove tubes ]
He woke up?
Yes, Doctor. He just woke up.
Good work.
It's all thanks to you.
You're the one who saved him.
Please call his family in the morning.
Yes, Doctor.
Please have OR No. 20 sanitized.
I had to retrieve something from there.
Pardon? Oh, yes.
Dr. Park,
tell him that his brother asked for the medical chart.
He'll help you.
Doctor.
It's nothing.
[ Heart Surgeons ]
Did you put in the order for Jung In Seok?
- I'll be at the ICU. - Again?
- You were there this morning. - It's Mother.
I wonder if she woke up.
Hwang Jin Chul?
What's he doing here?
Here are the medical records.
Thank you.
Dr. Choi went home after being on call. I'll fill him in today.
Okay.
Hey, Tae Soo.
- Tae Soo. - Woo Jin.
That moron Hwang Jin Chul is here. Did you see him?
What?
He's here.
Hello, Doctor.
Long time no see.
Please get to it. I'm busy, too.
Hello?
An emergency? I'll be right there.
He works here, too?
Whatever happened to Taesan University?
Here's the document you asked for.
Okay.
I'd like to look at it in private.
The surgery went well.
So Dr. Choi Seok Han was the attending surgeon?
- Yes. - I doubted him at first.
He went to Haewon University like you.
I couldn't trust him.
I'd like to thank him in person.
He went home in the morning since he was on call.
On call?
Aigoo, wherever you go,
the cardiac surgeons are so busy.
I'll see him before I go back.
How's working at Taesan? It's not bad, right?
It's not bad.
Enjoy.
I don't think you'll be here for long.
I thought he came here straight from the airport.
I guess that's not what happened.
I heard something really interesting at Bohye Hospital.
Not only did you open him up at
a hospital you don't work at, but you also used glue
on the heart?
Well...
There weren't other options.
If I hadn't stopped the bleeding with glue, he would've died.
I'm sure.
He survived.
Before surgical glue existed,
I read about a case where they used regular glue.
I know.
I also know this could ruin your career.
- You're a cardiac surgeon, too. - Yes.
You can use it as long as you save the patient. Who'd blame you?
But Park Tae Soo,
you can't make it as long as my heart beats.
[ 20th floor, the director's office, chairman's office ]
My mother is hooked to an ECMO right now.
I'll leave as soon as she gets a heart transplant.
Please wait until then.
Life is funny.
In the elevator last time, I was the one begging.
I used the glue to save him.
Yes,
just tell them that
at the disciplinary meeting, you enjoy so much.
What are you doing?
Please let go of this just once.
How come you haven't changed at all?
Four years at Taesan.
It couldn't have been easy keeping your spot.
Why don't you take a break?
How does that sound?
Doctor,
please give me one month. Just one month.
You probably knew you wouldn't get a teaching position here.
You'll just be leaving a bit earlier.
Taking a few months off isn't bad.
I got to take a break
and be in court because of you.
It changed my perspective in life.
What did I do wrong anyway?
Say that again.
Dr. Yoo Soo Yeon came back.
No one ever told me that.
I just heard it this morning.
She came here with an emergency patient.
She'll start this week.
What sudden news...
Good morning, everybody.
- Hello. - Hello.
Sir, you must be thirsty. Have some.
Did you dye your hair?
Thanks for the coffee.
My father's heart beats fast when he drinks coffee.
It's a no-no.
How could you joke around
at a time like this?
Now what? You seemed fine at breakfast.
This bastard...
Come!
This is a no-no.
Thanks for the coffee.
- How about for Mi Ran... Ouch! - Nice.
- Yoon Soo Yeon is back? - Yeah.
- She's starting tomorrow. - That's good.
I won't have to be on call as often during weekends.
I hate being at the hospital on weekends.
How will you beat Yoon Soo Yeon and become a professor here?
Are you that good? Or do you have connections?
- So that's what you meant. - This bastard!
How did you even get into medical school?
How did you get in?
I wasn't bad at studying, okay?
I'm just not good at surgeries, just like you know who.
What?
You should take responsibility.
You said you'd make me a professor if I came here.
Only if you weren't so bad!
Do you know how many of them...
I had to reject because of you?
I told you I wanted to live an easy life shooting lasers at faces.
Can you even shoot lasers with your skills?
Change to pulmonology.
Why lungs?
Dr. Heo is retiring next year. You should take his spot.
I'm finally starting to understand hearts. You want me to start over with lungs?
- It'll take forever. - What else can you do?
I thought she'd never come back. But here she is!
Could you become a doctor elsewhere?
Who would recruit you?
I don't know.
You take care of it, Dad.
That girl!
Why didn't she just stay at that nice place? Why'd she return?
Where are you going?
I have surgery to attend.
How could you operate in this situation?
Please don't pull my ear in front of people.
[ Director ]
Yes, Director. How are you?
Come fix this right now!
What am I fixing?
Pardon?
I wonder if he'd be willing to.
Can I have it?
Thank you.
Is this how you run your department?
I'm sorry, Director.
I'll make sure this won't happen again.
I'm sorry.
Do you think an apology is enough?
I'll accept my punishment for working at another hospital.
But the glue was
necessary given the situation, Director.
Dr. Park!
How dare you say that...
It was necessary given the situation?
You mean...
you'd do it again in a similar situation?
You think the patient or the family would understand?
Will you show them the thesis each time?
Don't you know what kind of hospital Taesan is?
What kind of hospital is it?
One that discards patients and lets them die?
Are you crazy?
I'll attend the disciplinary meeting.
You think the disciplinary meeting will be held for just one fellow?
If you fire a doctor whenever the family gets upset, who'd be left?
Hey, did you eat spoiled food?
How dare you...
I devoted myself to this place for four years.
I can't leave like this.
Haewon University.
Did you hire him?
Yes.
No.
Dr. Choi Seok Han
asked me to since they went to the same school.
- I had no choice. - Fire him right now.
This is what happens when you hire someone with no basis.
Yes, Director.
Choi Seok Han.
He hired someone just like himself.
[ Personnel Record ]
Be gentle.
- One more time... - It hurts.
Who did this anyway? Someone's family again?
It wasn't me this time.
I managed to send him off when he threatened to protest in the lobby.
Where did you find him anyway?
He didn't seem like a normal person.
You must've gone through hell.
It's all done.
I thought you were going to hit me.
I'm sorry, Section Chief.
The director wants me to fire you immediately.
Do you want to leave now?
Why'd you do something so stupid?
Do you think firing you would make me happy?
Who'd do surgeries for Dong Joon?
What will you do now?
Let's not renew the contract.
Section Chief.
I need to report something to the director.
You only have one month left until the renewal anyway.
Your mother could at least get a heart transplant until then.
You've been helping Dong Joon for four years.
This is all I can do for you.
Just focus on your mother's transplant.
She should benefit from having a doctor for a son at least.
Mom.
[ 24 years ago ]
Aigoo, what'll Tae Soo do now?
What do you mean?
Madam Oh will have to take care of him.
Do you think she's crazy? Why would she do that?
Where else would he go?
No one comes by even though his father died.
He'll probably go to an orphanage.
Just drink. Not like you'll raise him.
Geez.
This is the last one.
Leave after this.
Why the nagging?
Is it my fault that you didn't catch any fish? Don't start with me.
Are you drinking midday again?
Aren't you going to go?
Go where?
You know where.
I'm so glad that bastard died.
But you still lived together.
You call that living together?
His fists destroyed everything whenever he drank.
I'm so sick of it.
What'll you do with Tae Soo?
Tae Soo?
Why ask me? Did I give birth to him?
Since his father died,
he'll go his own way now.
What? Am I wrong?
Tae Soo, you're here.
Have you eaten?
You heard me, right?
You know what to do now.
Tae Soo,
eat before you go.
Why are you taking out on him? What did he do wrong?
He's not innocent.
It's his fault for having a bad father.
Who are you looking for?
No one would come here.
Ahjumma,
why don't you go to bed?
Your father...
would probably wake up from the dead
if he smelled soju.
I like it out here better.
Do you want some, too?
I'm a middle school student.
Middle school students shouldn't drink?
When else should you drink but now?
Never mind.
It's bad to drink on an empty stomach.
I don't even have a stomach to ruin now.
Have some.
You haven't eaten, right?
Come on.
Sit down and eat.
Eat slowly. You'll get indigestion.
You and I both...
have such a rough fate.
What kind of life is this?
[ Episode 8 will air shortly. ]
[ Episode 8 ]
[ Flower Carriage Karaoke Bar ]
Your husband just died. Already fooling around with a guy?
If I catch you again,
I'll burn this place down. Understand?
There's nothing to see here.
It's not the first time.
Go get some food now.
Aren't you going to school?
Your teacher called.
I suppose...
you can't focus on your studies
when your mother
works at a bar.
I'm not ashamed of anything.
I'm ashamed of you.
Your teacher told me to make you study harder.
Send you to a tutoring center, too.
Would you like to?
Do you want me to enroll you?
I don't care what you do with your life,
but don't become like your dad.
I'll do it.
I'll study.
Try it then.
Study.
[ Flower Carriage Bar ]
- It's here. - Yes.
- Here you go. - Okay.
Aigoo, thank you.
Enjoy your meal.
Looks good. Let's eat!
What?
You think it's weird?
I don't know
how you'll earn a living
but at the very least, I shouldn't
sell alcohol and smiles
as a mother.
Go home and eat.
Mom.
What?
Thank you.
Okay.
I heard you.
Mom!
I'll make sure to become a doctor!
Why a doctor?
A doctor is...
a teacher.
I'll make a lot of money, too.
Okay.
Let's have a doctor for a son.
You promised me, okay?
Okay!
Mom.
Your doctor son is here.
Wait just a bit.
I'll make sure to find a heart
and put it in for you.
I figured out what the chairman
found out.
Geez, our chairman...
How small-minded.
Where'd he find this?
[ Taesan University Hospital's Africa branch's report on final accounts ]
I believed it was for a good cause
when the hospital was being built in Africa.
But he set the money aside.
His mind was bound to change.
Do you think he'll leave on his own?
It won't be easy.
I'll have to make him leave.
- The board meets soon. - Right.
He'll at least get kicked out of the board of directors.
Do you think I could do it?
- If you work for the hospital again... - Soo Yeon.
Nobody will trust and follow a surgeon who can't operate anymore.
Dad.
It might be difficult at first,
but I'm sure you could do it.
Yes.
By the way,
the patient I brought woke up. He's recovering well, too.
I heard you met a fellow at Taesan before you arrived.
Was the situation bad enough to use glue?
How do you know about this?
The patient's family complained.
And?
I heard they decided
not to renew his contract.
The patient would've died if he hadn't used glue.
Hello.
Do you know how fragrant Taesan Hospital is?
Pardon?
If I can't smell this anymore,
I think I'd be so sad.
Why would that happen, Director?
- It wouldn't, right? - No.
Please come this way.
How are you feeling?
I feel much better.
It's been three days since the PCI. The inflammation is down.
The x-ray looks good, too.
Let's do another test this afternoon
and start discharge procedure.
- You're going home! - Thank you.
How do you like the food?
It's very tasty.
Would you like to try some?
Sir, you can't...
- Should I? - Well, you can.
It's good.
The meals are great.
The director gives medical treatments,
but he's interested in patients' diets as well.
How nice of you, Director.
Thank you.
What a joke.
Don't schedule rounds at mealtimes from now on.
Got it.
Understand?
Yes.
You heard him, right?
What an army.
How many residents are there? One, two, three...
Seriously...
Since when can you save lives based on the number of doctors?
Only so many can fit in the OR.
But isn't it crazy that I'm the only CS resident at the great Taesan?
You're not the only one. How about Min Woo?
Min Woo ran away a long time ago.
- How many times? - Twice!
He'll come back soon. Just wait.
You have to run away at least five times to be in cardiac surgery.
Tae Soo.
My dad might be hot-tempered, but he's not a bad person.
I know.
I'm okay.
Irrigation.
What will I do without you?
I still haven't operated on the arteritis mammaria artery yet.
It's not like I can ask Yoon Soo Yeon.
Until when will you be like this?
Well...
I'm trying to do what I can...
Until when will you stand there and watch me?
What?
If you're just watching over there, you'll never learn.
You come on this side starting tomorrow.
I'll teach you.
Huh? Okay.
Thank you.
Does Dr. Choi know that Dr. Park is leaving?
Even if he did, what could he do? He has no power.
I heard that this is Dr. Park's last month.
Are they really not renewing his contract?
The family made a scene in the director's office.
That's why Section Chief got scolded.
But why did Dr. Park have to work part-time?
You're not allowed to moonlight.
Probably because of his mother's hospital bills.
Fellows get paid less than residents in the cardiac department.
If he leaves like this, no hospital will hire him.
Isn't there some way?
- Why doesn't he fight it? - It's for the better.
A doctor can do much worse than using glue if you can save the patient.
Why stay at a hospital that doesn't even stand with you on that?
I should tear this whole place down.
- When will you do that? - What?
When?
This is the 79th time you've said that. So when?
Just wait.
Once I become the director,
or the chief anesthesiologist...
- Sure. - Enjoy your meal.
- I'll go see the director now... - Just finish your meal.
- You've never even been to his office. - Should I?
Should I just enjoy the meal?
I'm the one who built all this.
Trying to destroy me with that?
Soo Yeon!
You must be tired from traveling.
I missed you, Uncle.
I missed you too.
Let me see.
Aren't you too tired to start working right away?
I'm okay.
Have a seat. Sit.
Chairman, have a seat.
Okay, let's sit.
- I hope I'm not being rash by returning. - No, I'm glad you're back.
A fellow in the cardiology is quitting soon anyway.
Because of glue?
Do you know that patient, too?
I'm the one who bought that glue.
I thought it was right to use it in that situation.
You were also...
- there when that happened? - Yes.
- So I think Dr. Park Tae Soo should... - You should also...
leave Taesan then.
I shouldn't only penalize the fellow doctor.
Even if you're my niece, I can't allow it.
What are you talking about?
If that's the rule, I should also leave.
- Soo Yeon. - If the fact that we saved the patient
is the reason we have to leave.
I'm just kidding.
Why are you two so serious?
Even if it weren't for this incident, that fellow doctor would've had to leave anyway.
Don't worry about it.
Why I am not doing anything?
You can find a way to help Dr. Park.
Even when the chairman's daughter couldn't.
You think I could?
He would've asked if he needed help.
I heard about your situation.
I'm sorry.
Let's grab a drink some time, Tae Soo.
Yes, Doctor.
- Dr. Park. - What are you going to say?
It's unfair for him to leave like this.
- I'll talk to Father again... - Unfair?
Do you know what that word means?
You probably never experienced it.
Is experience necessary to do something?
Dr. Park made a decision and he's taking responsibility for it.
What responsibility should I take?
You said I'll be responsible at some point.
I'm sorry.
It was my decision.
Working part-time and using glue.
You were against it.
I was the attending surgeon.
And you were helping me.
I'll talk to Uncle again. There must be a way.
You also told me that
I don't fit in at Taesan.
I'll leave as soon as my mother gets a transplant.
What's this?
You were probably aware of it.
You're my younger brother, Hyun Il.
Was this it?
Decide before Monday's board meeting.
About what?
Let's take care of this
discreetly before the board meeting.
It's for your benefit.
Since when did you care about me?
If you cared about me that much,
did you have to call Choi Seok Han
so you could remain the chairman?
- Yoon Hyun Il. - Choi Seok Han probably knows
how after his daughter died
and his wife divorced him, a Haewon graduate living like a bum
was able to come to Taesan!
[ 2003, Taesan Hospital Gangreung branch ]
Dr. Choi.
Are you still living like this?
Seriously...
The living should live.
Get up. We have a guest.
Dr. Choi,
I'm Yoon Hyun Mok.
Dr. Choi,
I'm sorry.
I really had no idea Yoo Bin would
end up that way.
What are you here for?
I don't know if coming here is right.
I read your thesis.
This surgery...
Could I ask you to perform it just once?
This surgery will determine whether I'll become the next chairman or not.
It started last year.
There isn't...
anything I can do with my hand like this.
That's why I couldn't operate on Soo Yeon...
I know I shouldn't be asking you
to do this, but...
I have no other choice.
Why me?
If I asked anyone else,
I can't avoid my brother's watchful eye.
I'm sorry.
I'll do it.
That surgery.
Do you mean it?
But I have a request.
I want to work at the main branch.
- The main branch? - Yes.
I can't find out why Yoo Bin died from here.
It's a small hospital with no similar cases or patients.
I'd like to find out why that happened to Yoo Bin
at the main branch.
Use me now that I'm back.
Don't just push me away.
I'll use my position as the chairman's daughter to support you.
There's something you'd like to do
after the board meeting next week?
Yes, Dad.
Is it regarding the fellow doctor?
I must have guessed right.
Taesan needs him.
I understand how you feel,
but it's true that he broke the rule.
Do you also care more about the rule than the patient's life?
Sometimes.
You saved one person's life like that.
That's great.
But...
if all the doctors here operated that way,
what do you think would happen to Taesan?
You'll understand once you experience it,
but treating a patient
and running a hospital are very different.
Uncle is right about this matter.
I'll get going for a lunch date.
Dr. Park was right.
If you can't even save a patient in front of you,
who can you save?
The Taesan I know is not like that.
[ Doctors' office, thoracic surgery staff's office ]
Section Chief.
Wait a second, who's this?
Dr. Yoon Soo Yeon?
Have you been well?
Not possible without you here.
Section Chief, really?
Of course, what do you mean?
I've been waiting for you to come back for so long.
I don't think so.
Section Chief.
Have some. Dr. Yoon brought them.
Is that so? I have to eat if she brought them.
- That looks good. Is that an extra one? - Yes.
You can't drink coffee, Dad.
Sit, sit.
When will you start operating?
- When is a good time? - You're always welcome.
What is it?
Why are you looking at me?
I feel bad that you work so hard on your own.
I don't think that's what you meant.
What then?
Dr. Song and Dr. Seung Jae will finish surgery soon.
I'll set these aside for them.
Yes, Doctor.
One second.
Dr. Yoon, Dr. Choi is asking if you could join surgery this afternoon.
Yes, I'll get ready.
She's available.
Yes.
What kind of surgery is it?
It's a tricuspid valve, mitral valve, and double valve replacement surgery
for a 58-year-old patient.
It'll be tricky since his heart is big.
I'm sorry, the treatment got prolonged.
- Thank you. You must be busy. - Not at all.
The two Park Tae Soos should help each other.
Apparently, they call me that in cardiology.
"The female Park Tae Soo."
- I'm sorry. - It's okay.
I'm glad I'm not "the female Koo Dong Joon."
The cardiac function is still low.
I think it's functioning about 25%.
I'd be nice if she recovered enough to get the ECMO removed.
She's been connected to the ECMO for a short while.
Let's give it more time.
Did she regain consciousness?
She's not on any sedatives.
She hasn't woken up yet.
The attending doctor is still Dr. Choi Seok Han, right?
Yes.
I'm relieved that it's Dr. Choi.
I'm sure her transplant will go well.
Thank you.
Woo Jin.
Are you really quitting?
Let's talk later. How's the patient?
Yeah...
He came because he didn't feel well,
but I think it's because other hospitals rejected him.
Take a look at this.
It's a type A aortic dissection. [ *Condition where the aorta gets broken ]
I think there's a lot of blood in the pericarditis.
I think he needs surgery immediately.
Don't do it.
What?
There are more problems.
[ Park Tae Soo ]
- Yes, Dr. Park. - Doctor.
A 66-year-old male patient came to the ER due to chest pain.
According to the CT scan, it's a type A aortic dissection
with a hemopericardium. [ *Bleeding inside the pericardium ]
Reserve an OR in advance.
I can do it in three hours.
Yes, Doctor. By the way,
this patient is receiving palliative treatment for terminal lung cancer.
I think he's here because other hospitals won't take him.
I just uploaded the chart. Please take a look.
If he's receiving palliative treatment for cancer, trachea function must be poor.
His overall condition is extremely grim.
According to the CT scan, cancer has spread to the aorta.
Operating is more dangerous at this point.
The heart might burst while we open him up since
it conglutinated from the radiation treatment.
If we operate, it's highly likely that something will go wrong in the OR.
I explained all that to the patient, but
he said you'd still operate.
What?
Is it someone I know?
Doctor, come this way.
Dr. Choi.
Long time no see.
Dr. Han.
I want you to operate on me.
Nobody else wants to do it.
I thought you might
be able to save me.
As you already know,
the situation is too far gone to do anything.
That's why I came to you.
[ Blood Pressure 140/130 ]
The blood pressure's high. Lower it to 122. Control the pain, too.
Yes.
It's best to treat with medicine at this point.
Everyone is saying the same thing.
Are you telling me to die this way?
Can't you do something?
Is there nothing you can do?
I'm sorry.
Did you find the reason
why Yoo Bin died?
That was the reason you came here.
I remember.
Since you're still here,
I guess you haven't.
- What are you talking about... - Dr. Choi.
Do you know how I became the director of the Gangreung branch?
Yoo Bin wasn't supposed to die.
What do you mean all of a sudden?
Yoon Soo Yeon should've died.
You chose...
- Yoon Soo Yeon then. - What are you talking about?
Save me.
I'll tell you everything then.
What are you talking about?
Tell me.
Tell me right now!
[ Heart Surgeons ]
If I die, you'll never learn the truth.
Quit playing games.
Do you think I'll operate if you do this?
This surgery will kill him, not save him.
A TA patient is arriving soon.