Directed by • Lee Min-woo-V 이민우 • Park Hong-gyoon 박홍균 Written by TV Channel/Platform MBC MBC Airing dates 2007/12/12~2008/02/2823 episodes Synopsis Chest surgery is the most demanding field in medicine. Chest surgery is the most difficult and dangerous type of surgery to perform but it is regrettably shunned by the medical community. Chest surgeons are bombarded daily with emergency calls to operate on patients. Not only are chest surgeons at a higher risk of losing a patient on the operating table but the life-saving open heart surgery they perform for hours with a team of doctors costs the same as a simple 30-minute eye-slit operation performed by a single plastic surgeon. Since it is nearly impossible for a chest surgeon to open his own private practice, less and less medical students are applying to become chest surgeons, causing the shutdown of entire chest surgery departments at general hospitals. Even general hospitals that are affiliated with prestigious medical schools suffer shortages of new chest surgeons. Chest surgery has become a field that is avoided by young doctors looking for a less stressful career. Because of this deteriorating situation, patients might have to go abroad in the near future if they need heart or lung surgery. But even in these difficult situations, a few young doctors are blazing new trails. Oblivious to the falling status of their profession and worsening circumstances, they swear by the Oath of Hippocrates and save precious lives. is a medical drama that will depict the lives of chest surgeons as close to reality as possible. Their tears... Their joy... Their troubles... All of this and more will be intertwined in an engaging, heartwarming story. The courage they display will make you realize how precious a life is... We would like to thank them for showing us that we are not alone in this world. They are the one who make a difference in our lives. Starring Lee Eun-seong actor Ji-seong A young doctor who graduated from a small town medical school. He took the high school equivalency exam and then made his way to medical school. He was a low-achieving student in high school He grew up in an all-boys orphanage and tries to hide this past. With a single-minded pursuit to become a doctor, he applied to the chest surgery department of a general hospital affiliated with a prestigious medical school after learning that there was a shortage of applicants. Doctor Choi Kang-guk deems him as a dunce but Eun-seong is unfazed as he tries to become a skilled doctor. Through hard work, deft hand coordination, and a heart full of compassion, he later gains the respect of Doctor Choi. He even joins a teddy bear-making club to improve his hand coordination where he ends up making several teddy bears. He gets along with the ladies in the club He favors a Swiss knife that he uses during surgery and sewing teddy bears. When he has free time, he improves his image recognition skills by looking over the shoulders of the experienced doctors. Nam Hye-seok actress Kim Min-jeong She scored a perfect score in the KSAT and entered medical school at the top of her class. She graduated from medical school with the highest honors and even though she was the most skilled doctor among her peers, she chose to become a chest surgeon, causing another sensation. When Professor Choi Kang-guk tells her that he cannot accept her because they do not have separate sleeping quarters for female doctors, she rails again gender inequality and threatens to file a complaint to the human rights organization. With strong principles, she will declare a patient dead if they do not respond to resuscitation efforts after 30 minutes. When she diagnoses a patient as having cancer, she’ll immediately tell them they have cancer without any hesitation. Her mother is Park Joon-hee, a famous hanbok designer. Her actual father is the chairman of Hansung Textiles but since he was marred to another woman, her uncle adopted her. So in her family register, she is stated as being her mother’s niece. She has strict morals and will pass over burn victims to other doctors if they had affairs at hotels before it caught on fire. Choi Kang-guk actor Jo Jae-hyeon He considers himself to be one of the best chest surgeons in the nation but laments the fact that hardly anyone applies to the chest surgery department while the few applicants they do receive are low-achievers. He is disturbed that his department is becoming stocked with doctors who graduated at the bottom of their class. In a conversation with his colleagues from the plastic surgery and ophthalmology department, his pride is bruised when he is chided for being picky about the applicants. They tell him he should actually be thankful that anyone would want to apply to the chest surgery department. After having this conversation, he deliberately rejects Lee Eun-seong, a young doctor who graduated from a small town medical school, and Nam Hye-seok, the most promising intern at the hospital who scored a perfect score on the KSAT. He will forge documents to lower the medical bills for patients who are poor and give tips on how to sneak out of the hospital without getting detected to patients who do not have any medical insurance. He is always busy with his work and medical research and thus, he hardly has any time to spend with his family. He is glad that his wife is not clamoring for a divorce. Lee Dong-gwon actor Lee Ji-hoon While shooting a scene for a TV series on location at the hospital he develops an irregular heartbeat and receives an surgical procedure from Nam Hye-seok. He learns that Nam Hye-seok was an old elementary school friend but he finds it awkward to be around her. He follows the doctor’s orders to rest and stays as long as he can at the hospital where he tries to rekindle his friendship with Nam Hye-seok and take it one step further. But his relationship with Nam Hye-seok hits the gossip columns and entertainment news. Episode guide Episode 1 Dr. Choi Kang-guk sends a heart patient to Seoul for heart surgery and resigns himself to his experiments with animals where he perfects heart transplants techniques by using live pigs. The new hospital director Park Jae-hyun tries to dissuade Hye-seok from joining the chest surgery department but Hye-seok is determined to become a heart surgeon. While fishing at a pier, Dr. Choi gets into a fistfight with some rowdy, drunken men and suffers a gash on his forehead. He is taken to an emergency room where Eun-seong treats him. When Dr. Choi sees the X-Ray results of one patient, he immediately recognizes that the patient is in serious danger and he swipes Eun-seong’s stethoscope to listen to the patient’s heartbeat. After administering a life-saving procedure on the patient, Dr. Choi reluctantly tells Eun-seong that the patient should be taken to Seoul for major surgery. Eun-seong finds out that Dr. Choi is one of the top heart surgeons in Korea. Eun-seong is surprised to hear that Dr. Choi’s emergency procedure saved the patient’s life. Eun-seong’s resolve to become a heart surgeon is reinforced through the chance meeting with Dr. Choi. Hospital director Park meets with Dr. Choi and offers him the head position of the chest surgery department. Episode 2 After interviewing Eun-seong and Hye-seok, Dr. Choi decides not to choose either one of them to join the chest surgery department. Eun-seong, Hye-seok and all the other doctors are surprised when they hear Dr. Choi’s decision. Hye-seok hounds Dr. Choi, asking him to explain why he rejected her. Dr. Choi tells her that she lacks compassion towards patients and that that is her greatest weakness as a doctor. Hye-seok feels dejected and cries. Eun-seong, who was following Hye-seok, closes the door to the stairways where Hye-seok is crying to give her a private moment. Dr. Bae Dae-ro gets furious when he hears from Dr. Lee Seung-jae that Dr. Choi decided not to hire any interns so he tells everyone that he has had enough and will quit. He takes two other interns with him. Dr. Choi finds something wrong with a patient named Kim Pil-joo. The hospital director barges into the operating room where Dr. Choi is operating on a patient and sternly warns him to fix things after the interns abruptly left their stations to show their displeasure over Dr. Choi’s decision to reject two qualified intern candidates. Eun-seong demonstrates alone in front of the hospital to protest Dr. Choi’s decision while Hye-seok and her elite medical school classmates demonstrate as a group. Episode 3 After waiting for Hye-seok to make up her mind, Dr. Choi decides to leave with Eun- seong. Facing Dr. Kim Jung-gil, Hye-seok has a troubled expression on her face. Hye-seok is overcome with mixed emotions when she hears from Dr. Kim Jung-gil that it was the hospital director’s idea to have her join the John Hobkins Hospital medical staff for two years. Then she remembers what Eun-seong told her and gets up to leave. Hye-seok goes to see Dr. Choi and asks him to give her another chance. She promises to him that she’ll do her best as an intern at the chest surgery department and Dr. Choi accepts her. A curtain is newly installed in the sleeping quarters at the hospital for Hye-seok’s sake. Seung-jae gives Eun-seong and Hye-seok used gowns to wear. Wearing doctor gowns, Eun-seong and Hye-seok begin their career as 3rd-year interns. Eun-seong tells Kim Pil-joo that he is glad that he survived to become his first patient but Mr. Kim is not very happy.... Episode 4 Dr. Kim Tae-joon tells Dr. Choi that Eun-seong is not capable of handling his duties as an intern and requests that Eun-seong undergo a second review. When Kim Young-hee takes a look at a CT scan of a gang member, she diagnoses the patient as having arteriovenous fistula, which surprises Hye-seok. Eun-seong enters an operating room to watch an ongoing operation but Dr. Kim Tae-joon curtly orders him to leave because he’s not qualified as a doctor. Hye-seok is troubled that she overlooked the patient’s condition when she was the first person who detected it. While shooting a scene for a TV drama, actor Dong-gwon collapses on the set and is taken to the hospital. He is happy to see Hye-seok when he opens his eyes. Dr. Choi and his fellow colleagues explain the procedure they will use to treat Dong- gwon and Dong-gwon blurts out that Hye-seok is his girlfriend to the surprise of everyone in the room. Dr. Choi Kang-guk decides to have Min Young-gyu and Kim Jung-gil perform the operation while he will observe it. Episode 5 Hye-seok is in a daze when she sees Dong-gwon surrounded by young fans. Eun- seong offers coffee with milk to Hye-seok, telling her that it’s a perfect drink to have when you’re feeling depressed. As Min Young-gyu is about to begin the operation, he is told that the patient’s liver is showing problems and he is ordered to call off the surgery. Dr. Choi tells Min Young-gyu that the patient’s life depends on his decision and then asks him if he can save the patient. Observing the heated exchange, Eun- seong and Hye-seok are touched by Dr. Choi’s passion to save a patient’s life. Eun-seong asks Hye-seok to give a teddy bear wearing a basketball uniform to Kim Pil-joo on the day he will be discharged from the hospital. A friendly basketball game between the interns of Gwanghee General Hospital and celebrities takes place and Hye-seok finds it odd that Eun-seong is all smiles even though their side is losing. After finishing a photo shoot with actress Han Soo-jin at Hye-seok’s mother’s hanbok shop, Dong-gwon decides to go to the intern admissions ceremony where Eun-seong and Hye-seok will officially become interns. Episode 6Han Soo-jin slips out of the hospital to shoot a commercial but she collapse on the set. Dong-gwon, who was at the set with her, takes Han Soo-jin to the hospital. After secretly mastering a new robot-assisted surgical procedure, Kim Tae-joon asks Seol Lae-hyeon and Cho Min-ah over dinner for their support to become the best medical team in the country. When Dr. Choi and the other doctors of the chest surgery department gather around to see a recent group photo of themselves in the alumni newsletter of Gwanghee University Medical School, Eun-seong feels left out and leaves the room. He comforts himself by shooting hoops in the empty gymnasium. Eun-seong warmly hugs Soo-min on the day she will be discharged from the hospital and gives her words of encouragement, which leaves a strong impression on Hye-seok when she sees Eun-seong’s compassion. Hearing that Dr. Min Young- gyu refused to operate on actress Han Soo-jin because her diseased area is very large, Eun-seong suggests that Kim Tae-joon can perform the surgery by using the Da Vinci robot. Dr. Choi approves of using Da Vinci. After eating the mugwort soup that Eun-seong prepared for her, actress Han Soo-jin is touched and she decides to proceed with the innovative surgery. Kim Tae-joon uses Da Vinci to successfully cure Han Soo-jin. Episode 7When Dr. Choi leaves the room to tend to an emergency patient who needs surgery, Song Ho-jae gets furious and grabs Eun-seong’s collar and begins to hit him when he is told to calm down. Dr. Kim Jung-gil visits Song Ho-jae and suggests that instead of getting heart surgery, he could have a simple surgery at his internal surgery department. Song Ho-jae promptly calls the hospital director. Song Ho-jae’s personal aide gives Eun-seong an envelope full of money and when Hye-seok sees this, she tries to return it. But Eun-seong accepts the money and donates it to an orphanage. Dong-gwon sends a bouquet of flowers to Hye-seok but she decides to throws it out. Dr. Bae Dae-ro asks if he can have the bouquet, which he gives to one of the young interns called Mimi. Hye-seok heads to the OBY/GYN department when she is told that a pregnant woman is hemorrhaging. Dr. Choi is also there and he says they need to revive the woman’s heart first. While Dr. Choi is operating on the patient, Eun-seong tells him that Song Ho-jae’s blood vessel collapsed. Dr. Choi operates on Song Ho-jae after having him moved to the chest surgery department. Episode 8 Eun-seong carefully wraps bandages around Hye-seok’s blistered hands. Hye- seok is thankful that Eun-seong did that for her. As they ride on a scooter back to Seoul, Hye-seok hugs Eun-seong tightly and leans her face on his back. Dr. Choi bows deeply to Song Ho-jae and apologizes for putting his life at risk. Eun-seong is surprised that Dr. Choi would apologize to a patient over such a matter. Knowing that Eun-seong came to give her a ride to work even though it is his day off, Hye-seok tries to thank him but can’t get the words out of her mouth. Suddenly a street sweeper collapses in the street right in front of them. Eun-seong and Hye- seok drink a cup of coffee inside a tent they erected next to the Han River. Hye-seok tells Eun-seong that she wanted to say thank you to him before the end of the day. Dr. Choi operates on a patient whom Kim Tae-joon rejected but then the patient’s condition gets worse after the operation. When the hospital director hears about this he sternly warns Dr. Choi not to proceed with dangerous operations. Episode 9 When the hospital director tells Dr. Choi not to operate on the janitor, he disobeys him and heads to the operating room to save the man. So Dr. Lee Seung-jae follows Dr. Choi and tries to dissuade him but to no avail. During an operation, Min Young-gyu leaves the delicate valve procedure to Kim Tae-joon who has no choice but to follow orders. Dr. Choi asks Eun-seong to have the janitor sign papers of consent for open heart surgery and offers a special bonus if he gets it done. The janitor finds the will to live. While operating on the man, Dr. Choi finds it difficult to proceed so he takes a break to use the bathroom. Eun-seong suggests that they take the man’s heart out, operate on it, and then put it back in. Dr. Bae Dae-ro laughs in a mocking tone. The hospital director directly calls the operating room, telling Dr. Choi to cease the operation, but Dr. Choi proceeds with the surgery. When Dr. Choi tells everyone that he’ll suture a vein from the patient’s leg onto to the heart, everyone looks at Eun-seong in surprise. Dr. Lee Seung-jae and Hye-sook operate on a rapist who suffered a knife wound and blood spurts on them. Eun-seong tells them that he thinks the rapist has AIDS and everyone starts to worry. Episode 10 After kissing Hye-seok on the lips, Eun-seong turns around and sees Dong-gwon looking at him. Dong-gwon leaves after witnessing their kiss. Hye-seok tells Eun-seong not to be bothered about Dong-gwon and holds him back but Eun-seong catches up with Dong-gwon and tells him that what he saw wasn’t what he thinks it is and then reveals that Hye-seok might have contracted AIDS. During an internal conference, Kim Young-hee asks how Dr. Choi was able to successfully operate on the janitor when Dr. Choi Chung-won failed. Dr. Choi answers that he was able to pull it off thanks to the anesthesiologist. The son of the janitor creates a big commotion at the hospital and demands that Dr. Choi make his father speak again and compensate his dad’s lost wages. Dr. Choi diagnoses an old lady who is brought to the hospital on a stretcher and then tells Nurse Cho Bok-gil and the physicians to look after her. The old lady begins to gasp for air and her blood pressure starts to fall. But Bok-gil quickly spots the problem and brings her pulse back to normal. After seeing Hye-seok’s haggard face, Dr. Choi tells her to go home and get some rest. He also tells Eun-seong to take Hye-seok home. Hye-seok asks Eun-seong to take her on a drive. Episode 11 When Dr. Choi is notified that the son of the janitor is suing him for malpractice, he calmly dismisses the notice and makes his rounds around the patient rooms. Dr. Bae Dae-ro tells Dr. Lee Seung-jae and Nurse Cho Bok-gil about the malpractice suit. Dr. Choi enters the operating room where Kim Tae-joon is performing surgery and this flusters Kim. When Dr. Choi offers to help him with the surgery, Kim Tae-joon gets upset. While ice-skating with Dong-gwon, Hye-seok falls down and the PDA in her back pocket gets broken. At the repair shop, Hye-seok asks the service repairmen to fix her PDA at any costs because it contains important stuff. When Eun-seong tells Hye-seok that the rapist who spurted blood several days ago does not have AIDS, she feels much better and cries tears of joy. At the hospital, Hye-seok searches for Eun-seong everywhere in a rush. She says high to Eun-seong, who is having a drink with Dr. Bae Dae-ro, in a merry voice. After finishing a practice surgery, Min Young-gyu tells Eun-seong that he would make a good member on his team and tells him to join him in his next operation. When a rowdy patient gives Hye-seok a hard time, Eun-seong intervenes and gets punched in the face. Episode 12 Dr. Choi enters the operating room with a tense expression and pushes away Min Young-gyu who tells him not to interrupt him. But the old lady on the operating table is already dead. Dr. Choi tells the son of the old lady that he should have done everything he could to save his mother’s life and says sorry before he starts to cry. Upon returning home, Dr. Choi receives a threatening phone call from the son of the janitor while his wife tells him she’s going to leave for America with the kids. The hospital director tells Min Young-gyu to submit his resignation. Min Young-gyu goes to see Dr. Choi and asks him to vouch for him so that he can hold on to his job. Upon overhearing the conversation between the vice director and Dr. Choi, Hye-seok tells Dr. Choi that Eun-seong got hit while trying to protect her. Entering the patient’s room, Hye-seok feels uncomfortable when she sees Eun-seong look at Mimi with such tenderness. Kim Tae-joon’s paper is published in a prestigious medical journal and Hye-seok is fascinated that her name is included as one of the co-authors of the paper. Episode 13 When Hye-seok asks Eun-seong why she can’t be his girlfriend, Eun-seong tells her that it’s because she’s too special for him. Dr. Choi tells everyone that they need to find the best treatment for a particular patient and assigns Dr. Kim Jung-gil of the chest surgery department to handle the patient’s case. At a pig’s feet restaurant, Dr. Choi has a drink with Dr. Lee Seung-jae and Kim Young-hee and expresses his sorrow over losing the old lady on the operating table. When Dr. Choi meets Eun-seong in front of the hospital, he tells him to be a warmhearted doctor first and foremost and ignore people who call him an imbecile. Dr. Choi bumps into a cop and it leads to a shoving match. When the cops check his criminal record, they learn that Dr. Choi missed a court order summons and they keep him at the precinct to interrogate him. After being released from the hospital, Dr. Choi tells Dr. Lee Seung-jae that he’s only guilty of saving a person’s life. When Hye-seok asks Dr. Choi when he’ll be ready for the next operation, the doctor tells her to have Min Young-gyu and Kim Tae-joon handle the next operation instead. This shocks Eun-seong. Eun-seong gets dismayed with Dr. Choi when he sees him drinking all day at the lab. When Eun-seong is harshly scolded by Kim Tae-joon over a matter that was caused by Mimi, Eun-seong decides to call it quits and starts packing his things. Episode 14 Dr. Choi informs Dr. Lee Seung-jae and Kim Young-hee that he’s thinking about bringing Ha Tae-jin to head their department. But they object because Ha Tae-jin is not a graduate of Gwanghee University’s Medical School. Kim Tae-joon hears about Dr. Choi’s choice through the hospital director and brimming with confidence, he proposes that the department hold an open hiring process. Kim Young-hee tells Dr. Choi that the department is leaning towards Kim Tae-joon’s side and that Kim Tae-joon is cherry picking the easy operations. In a tired, weary state, Hye-seok drags herself to the sleeping quarters and recollects the good times she had with Eun-seong. Jae-seob kicks Eun-seong out of his flat so Eun-seong decides to stay at a friend’s gold course for one night. While lying down on the grass, he looks at the stars in the skies and calls out Eun-seong’s name. The former British prime minister suddenly clutches his heart at the same golf course where Eun-seong is staying and collapses. Eun-seong delivers emergency treatment to the ex-prime minister and boards the helicopter that takes them to Gwanghee University Hospital. Episode 15 The aide to the former British prime minister tells the hospital director that he’d like Dr. Choi and his team of heart surgeons to handle the operation. The hospital director promises that the ex-prime minister will be able to fully recuperate from the surgery within a week.. The hospital director and Kim Jung-gil plead with Dr. Choi to perform the operation but he tells them that he’s sick and tired of patients and recommends Ha Tae-jin. Worried about the health of the janitor, Dr. Choi heads to the house of his former patient where he happens to meet Eun-seong. Hye-seok goes to the Hope Orphanage to find Eun-seong but doesn’t find him there. At the orphanage, Sister Song tells her why Eun-seong decided to become a doctor. After Hye-seok sincerely pleads with Eun-seong to come back, Eun-seong returns to the hospital where he gets down on his knees, asking the doctors to forgive him. When the ex-prime minister’s aide learns that Dr. Choi took a leave of absence, he decides to have the ex-prime minister operated in England but on their way to the airport, the ex-prime minister’s condition worsens and they have no choice but to turn back to the hospital. Dr. Bae Dae-ro, Eun-seong, Hye-seok, and Lee In-ho visit Dr. Choi and plead with him to return once more. Episode 16 After consulting with Ha Tae-jin on a case that Kim Tae-joon and Min Young-gyu wanted to toss to the brain surgery department, Ha Tae-jin tells Dr. Choi that he will lower the body temperature of the patient during the operation. Eun-seong and Hye-seok assist Ha Tae-jin during the surgery and they are amazed to see how he makes incisions without making the patient bleed. Dr. Choi gets tears in his eyes when his daughter in America tells him that she saw his face on the cover of an American news magazine. The son of the janitor meets with the hospital director to inform him that he’ll drop the lawsuit against Dr. Choi. Then the hospital director asks Dr. Choi to sign a statement that he will never perform risky operations again. The five-member resident staff, Eun-seong, and Hye-seok prepare a special event for the patients on Lunar New Year’s Day. While attending the special event with Eun-seong, Hye-seok freezes when she passes by the hospital director who is with his family. She tells Eun-seong about her painful past. Episode 9 When the hospital director tells Dr. Choi not to operate on the janitor, he disobeys him and heads to the operating room to save the man. So Dr. Lee Seung-jae follows Dr. Choi and tries to dissuade him but to no avail. During an operation, Min Young-gyu leaves the delicate valve procedure to Kim Tae-joon who has no choice but to follow orders. Dr. Choi asks Eun-seong to have the janitor sign papers of consent for open heart surgery and offers a special bonus if he gets it done. The janitor finds the will to live. While operating on the man, Dr. Choi finds it difficult to proceed so he takes a break to use the bathroom. Eun-seong suggests that they take the man’s heart out, operate on it, and then put it back in. Dr. Bae Dae-ro laughs in a mocking tone. The hospital director directly calls the operating room, telling Dr. Choi to cease the operation, but Dr. Choi proceeds with the surgery. When Dr. Choi tells everyone that he’ll suture a vein from the patient’s leg onto to the heart, everyone looks at Eun-seong in surprise. Dr. Lee Seung-jae and Hye-sook operate on a rapist who suffered a knife wound and blood spurts on them. Eun-seong tells them that he thinks the rapist has AIDS and everyone starts to worry. Episode 10 After kissing Hye-seok on the lips, Eun-seong turns around and sees Dong-gwon looking at him. Dong-gwon leaves after witnessing their kiss. Hye-seok tells Eun-seong not to be bothered about Dong-gwon and holds him back but Eun-seong catches up with Dong-gwon and tells him that what he saw wasn’t what he thinks it is and then reveals that Hye-seok might have contracted AIDS. During an internal conference, Kim Young-hee asks how Dr. Choi was able to successfully operate on the janitor when Dr. Choi Chung-won failed. Dr. Choi answers that he was able to pull it off thanks to the anesthesiologist. The son of the janitor creates a big commotion at the hospital and demands that Dr. Choi make his father speak again and compensate his dad’s lost wages. Dr. Choi diagnoses an old lady who is brought to the hospital on a stretcher and then tells Nurse Cho Bok-gil and the physicians to look after her. The old lady begins to gasp for air and her blood pressure starts to fall. But Bok-gil quickly spots the problem and brings her pulse back to normal. After seeing Hye-seok’s haggard face, Dr. Choi tells her to go home and get some rest. He also tells Eun-seong to take Hye-seok home. Hye-seok asks Eun-seong to take her on a drive. Episode 11 When Dr. Choi is notified that the son of the janitor is suing him for malpractice, he calmly dismisses the notice and makes his rounds around the patient rooms. Dr. Bae Dae-ro tells Dr. Lee Seung-jae and Nurse Cho Bok-gil about the malpractice suit. Dr. Choi enters the operating room where Kim Tae-joon is performing surgery and this flusters Kim. When Dr. Choi offers to help him with the surgery, Kim Tae-joon gets upset. While ice-skating with Dong-gwon, Hye-seok falls down and the PDA in her back pocket gets broken. At the repair shop, Hye-seok asks the service repairmen to fix her PDA at any costs because it contains important stuff. When Eun-seong tells Hye-seok that the rapist who spurted blood several days ago does not have AIDS, she feels much better and cries tears of joy. At the hospital, Hye-seok searches for Eun-seong everywhere in a rush. She says high to Eun-seong, who is having a drink with Dr. Bae Dae-ro, in a merry voice. After finishing a practice surgery, Min Young-gyu tells Eun-seong that he would make a good member on his team and tells him to join him in his next operation. When a rowdy patient gives Hye-seok a hard time, Eun-seong intervenes and gets punched in the face. Episode 12 Dr. Choi enters the operating room with a tense expression and pushes away Min Young-gyu who tells him not to interrupt him. But the old lady on the operating table is already dead. Dr. Choi tells the son of the old lady that he should have done everything he could to save his mother’s life and says sorry before he starts to cry. Upon returning home, Dr. Choi receives a threatening phone call from the son of the janitor while his wife tells him she’s going to leave for America with the kids. The hospital director tells Min Young-gyu to submit his resignation. Min Young-gyu goes to see Dr. Choi and asks him to vouch for him so that he can hold on to his job. Upon overhearing the conversation between the vice director and Dr. Choi, Hye-seok tells Dr. Choi that Eun-seong got hit while trying to protect her. Entering the patient’s room, Hye-seok feels uncomfortable when she sees Eun-seong look at Mimi with such tenderness. Kim Tae-joon’s paper is published in a prestigious medical journal and Hye-seok is fascinated that her name is included as one of the co-authors of the paper. Episode 13 When Hye-seok asks Eun-seong why she can’t be his girlfriend, Eun-seong tells her that it’s because she’s too special for him. Dr. Choi tells everyone that they need to find the best treatment for a particular patient and assigns Dr. Kim Jung-gil of the chest surgery department to handle the patient’s case. At a pig’s feet restaurant, Dr. Choi has a drink with Dr. Lee Seung-jae and Kim Young-hee and expresses his sorrow over losing the old lady on the operating table. When Dr. Choi meets Eun-seong in front of the hospital, he tells him to be a warmhearted doctor first and foremost and ignore people who call him an imbecile. Dr. Choi bumps into a cop and it leads to a shoving match. When the cops check his criminal record, they learn that Dr. Choi missed a court order summons and they keep him at the precinct to interrogate him. After being released from the hospital, Dr. Choi tells Dr. Lee Seung-jae that he’s only guilty of saving a person’s life. When Hye-seok asks Dr. Choi when he’ll be ready for the next operation, the doctor tells her to have Min Young-gyu and Kim Tae-joon handle the next operation instead. This shocks Eun-seong. Eun-seong gets dismayed with Dr. Choi when he sees him drinking all day at the lab. When Eun-seong is harshly scolded by Kim Tae-joon over a matter that was caused by Mimi, Eun-seong decides to call it quits and starts packing his things. Episode 14 Dr. Choi informs Dr. Lee Seung-jae and Kim Young-hee that he’s thinking about bringing Ha Tae-jin to head their department. But they object because Ha Tae-jin is not a graduate of Gwanghee University’s Medical School. Kim Tae-joon hears about Dr. Choi’s choice through the hospital director and brimming with confidence, he proposes that the department hold an open hiring process. Kim Young-hee tells Dr. Choi that the department is leaning towards Kim Tae-joon’s side and that Kim Tae-joon is cherry picking the easy operations. In a tired, weary state, Hye-seok drags herself to the sleeping quarters and recollects the good times she had with Eun-seong. Jae-seob kicks Eun-seong out of his flat so Eun-seong decides to stay at a friend’s gold course for one night. While lying down on the grass, he looks at the stars in the skies and calls out Eun-seong’s name. The former British prime minister suddenly clutches his heart at the same golf course where Eun-seong is staying and collapses. Eun-seong delivers emergency treatment to the ex-prime minister and boards the helicopter that takes them to Gwanghee University Hospital. Episode 15 The aide to the former British prime minister tells the hospital director that he’d like Dr. Choi and his team of heart surgeons to handle the operation. The hospital director promises that the ex-prime minister will be able to fully recuperate from the surgery within a week.. The hospital director and Kim Jung-gil plead with Dr. Choi to perform the operation but he tells them that he’s sick and tired of patients and recommends Ha Tae-jin. Worried about the health of the janitor, Dr. Choi heads to the house of his former patient where he happens to meet Eun-seong. Hye-seok goes to the Hope Orphanage to find Eun-seong but doesn’t find him there. At the orphanage, Sister Song tells her why Eun-seong decided to become a doctor. After Hye-seok sincerely pleads with Eun-seong to come back, Eun-seong returns to the hospital where he gets down on his knees, asking the doctors to forgive him. When the ex-prime minister’s aide learns that Dr. Choi took a leave of absence, he decides to have the ex-prime minister operated in England but on their way to the airport, the ex-prime minister’s condition worsens and they have no choice but to turn back to the hospital. Dr. Bae Dae-ro, Eun-seong, Hye-seok, and Lee In-ho visit Dr. Choi and plead with him to return once more. Episode 16 After consulting with Ha Tae-jin on a case that Kim Tae-joon and Min Young-gyu wanted to toss to the brain surgery department, Ha Tae-jin tells Dr. Choi that he will lower the body temperature of the patient during the operation. Eun-seong and Hye-seok assist Ha Tae-jin during the surgery and they are amazed to see how he makes incisions without making the patient bleed. Dr. Choi gets tears in his eyes when his daughter in America tells him that she saw his face on the cover of an American news magazine. The son of the janitor meets with the hospital director to inform him that he’ll drop the lawsuit against Dr. Choi. Then the hospital director asks Dr. Choi to sign a statement that he will never perform risky operations again. The five-member resident staff, Eun-seong, and Hye-seok prepare a special event for the patients on Lunar New Year’s Day. While attending the special event with Eun-seong, Hye-seok freezes when she passes by the hospital director who is with his family. She tells Eun-seong about her painful past. Copyrightc Since 2005, MBC & iMBC All Rights