Episode 1 recap: Zhou Xiao Feng and Lin Yi encountered a doctor-patient conflict when they first met.
At the operating room of Dongli Hospital, Zhou Xiao Feng, the deputy chief physician of the cardiology department (played by Zhao You Ting), is performing a heart surgery. Suddenly, Zhou Xiao Feng remembers what the cardiovascular surgeon, Lin Yi (played by Jin Shi Jia), said to him: "If it weren't for the failed surgery, Old Wang would have lived another twenty years."
The story goes back two days. Early in the morning, Lin Yi goes to the market to buy vegetables. Just as she finishes shopping, she notices a middle-aged man sitting on the roadside, feeling uncomfortable. He complains about shortness of breath. Being a doctor, Lin Yi pays attention and starts questioning the man.
Lin Yi notices that the man's heartbeat is very fast. The middle-aged man mentions a previous fracture, and Lin Yi strongly suspects a heart condition. Despite the man's denial and intention to leave, he is unable to proceed alone. Lin Yi kindly takes him to Dongli Hospital. Meanwhile, Zhou Xiao Feng is explaining the upcoming surgery to the patient's family, hoping to inform them about the entire treatment process. The surgery is successful.
Lin Yi brings the middle-aged man to the hospital, and Zhou Xiao Feng happens to receive him. Lin Yi explains the situation to Zhou Xiao Feng, who quickly leaves due to some personal matters. Zhou Xiao Feng plans to examine the elderly patient first. Although Mr. Wang insists that he is fine, Zhou Xiao Feng's examination reveals the possibility of acute myocardial infarction. When Mr. Wang learns that he needs to pay a hospitalization fee of 15,000 yuan, he refuses treatment and even claims that he is in good condition.
After returning home, Lin Yi promptly treats her brother, who is experiencing shortness of breath. Meanwhile, Zhou Xiao Feng receives a nurse's notification that a patient's heart rate is rapidly dropping. Zhou Xiao Feng rushes to the patient and performs emergency rescue. It is too late to transport the patient to the operating room, so Zhou Xiao Feng performs a puncture on the spot and installs a temporary pacemaker, gradually stabilizing the patient's heartbeat.
On the other hand, Lin Yi successfully stabilizes her brother's condition, causing her to sweat profusely. When Zhou Xiao Feng prepares to explain the situation to Mr. Wang, he has quietly left. After finishing her tasks, Lin Yi calls Mr. Wang, but he claims to be fine.
Back at home, Lin Yi receives a call from Lao Cao, inquiring about the medical examination report. Lin Yi is about to start working at Dongli Hospital; previously, she worked at Xili Hospital. Her teacher advises her to do a good job. Fang Xiao Ran (played by Mao Xiao Tong), a physician in the cardiac intensive care unit at Dongli Hospital, interviews and records information from each patient every day.
After finishing her outpatient tasks, Zhou Xiao Feng often visits the intensive care unit. It can be said that Fang Xiao Ran is Zhou Xiao Feng's super fan, sometimes even secretly taking pictures of him while he's working. During the morning meeting, Vice President Cui Jing announces that Zhou Xiao Feng has won the innovation award in the cardiology department for the first time. This time, both the cardiology and cardiovascular surgery departments will be rewarded, and everyone welcomes this news.
Subsequently, Cui Jing introduces Lin Yi to everyone. Lin Yi is considered a genius doctor, and Zhou Xiao Feng immediately realizes that Lin Yi is the person who brought Mr. Wang.
Zhou Xiaofeng quickly asked his colleague Zhang Zhen if there was an elderly Mr. Wang who had come for a follow-up, and told him to hurry up and practice. Zhang Zhen immediately came out of the meeting room to find Mr. Wang.
Zhou Xiaofeng then began to discuss the recent medical conditions, and the cardiology and cardiovascular surgery departments started their daily rounds. Zhang Zhen called and found out that the phone number left by Mr. Wang was incorrect and they couldn't contact him. Zhou Xiaofeng suddenly remembered that Lin Yi might have the correct phone number, so he quickly went to find Lin Yi and ask for Mr. Wang's phone number.
Lin Yi promptly gave the phone number to Zhou Xiaofeng. Zhou Xiaofeng called the number but no one answered. Zhang Zhen called and said they had found the person but he was now in the emergency room. Zhou Xiaofeng and Lin Yi hurried over, but by the time they arrived, Mr. Wang had already stopped breathing. The doctors had been trying to resuscitate him for half an hour, but there was still no response, and they had to declare his death.
Lin Yi questioned Zhou Xiaofeng about how the situation had escalated to this point. Zhou Xiaofeng said that the patient didn't want to cooperate with the treatment and left. Lin Yi wondered why Zhou Xiaofeng didn't keep the patient in such a serious condition, but Zhou Xiaofeng didn't offer an explanation. Lin Yi received a call from Director Jiang asking for help, so she didn't have time to argue with Zhou Xiaofeng and immediately rushed to the operating room.
At this time, everyone was racing against time to start the heart surgery. With Lin Yi's help, they managed to save the patient's life. Now, everyone is questioning Zhou Xiaofeng about Mr. Wang's case, and Zhou Xiaofeng provides an explanation. However, Lin Yi still feels that Zhou Xiaofeng didn't make enough effort to keep the patient. Zhou Xiaofeng didn't even have a chance to mention that he had also been rescuing a patient with a heart attack the previous day.
The son of the deceased is relatively reasonable, but other relatives are more impulsive. Because of this incident, Zhou Xiaofeng also faced accusations. The reason Lin Yi transferred from Xili Hospital to Dongli Hospital was to be closer to home. Mr. Wang's family members confronted Zhou Xiaofeng, and Fang Xiao Ran also stepped in to explain that Mr. Wang's son had fulfilled his duties as a son.
Don't romanticize doctors and nurses too much. I don't deny that some of them are responsible and caring, but in reality, we all know what it's really like.
The criticism of Dr. Zhou seems a bit excessive. When Lao Wang called and said the pain had subsided, Dr. Zhou simply responded with "that's good" without further inquiring about whether the imaging was done. Perhaps he should have communicated with Dr. Zhou Xiaofeng at that time to bring Lao Wang back. Can the hospital arrange for more doctors? It's indeed difficult for one doctor to handle so many patients in rotation.
In the fourth episode, when Lin Yi chose to perform surgery against all odds, I can understand it, but I can't fully agree with it. This scene is not a battlefield emergency or a wilderness environment where such actions would be permissible.
With so much uncertainty, where there is an equal chance of life or death, he won this gamble once, but can he win every time?
Humans are complex beings, and psychological changes are extremely intricate. Perhaps he risked it this time, thinking he would never have to take such risks again.
But changes will occur within him, changes that he won't even realize.
Just like when a person's moral boundaries are broken once, there will be a second and a third time, until eventually, those boundaries are no longer boundaries. If he keeps pushing himself every time, his psychological transformation might lead him to become unconsciously arrogant, feeling invincible in his skills.
Can he guarantee that he will win every single time? Doctors also have a professional discipline. Even if he saves ten thousand people, if just one person dies due to his "reckless gamble," his career is over.
We all know the saying, "Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot," but why is it that if someone has been a good person for ten lifetimes, but makes one mistake, they are condemned to hell?
Why is that? It's a problem in human society, and it's a flaw in human nature. People will remember that you caused the death of someone and it will be magnified indefinitely.
This kind of choice is more likely to have a negative impact on other doctors.
People tend to imitate each other, but not everyone is Lin Yi. Not everyone has such good luck and skills. Even if Lin Yi fails in a surgery, at most his medical license will be revoked, and he will be permanently banned from practicing medicine.
But what about the patient who loses their life?
Saving a life is of utmost importance, but his behavior in this case cannot be recognized or promoted. Copying such behavior would only harm more patients.
The behavior of the two male leads in front of the patient's family was really disappointing.
It's not common to have two doctors arguing with different opinions in front of the family. And ordering the family to sign the agreement document with impatience? It's important to reassure the family and make them understand the stakes, the different possibilities, risks, and outcomes of the choices.
But it should never be a situation where they witness conflicting opinions. How can the family feel at ease?
It only leads to more distrust of the hospital and the doctors. In reality, doctors cannot bear any responsibility unless it's intentional criminal behavior.
After an incident, at most, the doctor loses their job, but the patient loses everything.
From the patient's perspective, they surely hope that the doctor can save their life and are willing to take a chance. However, as the female leader said, "That's what you think." Patients want to be saved, and doctors want to save lives, but life is not filled with endless "ifs.
When it comes to saving lives, the result is what matters. If the patient is saved, there is gratitude. But if they cannot be saved, it can drive people to lose their sanity. That's human nature.
That example of Mr. Wang really infuriates me. The doctors informed him of the risks and even requested him to undergo imaging tests. The emergency department is so busy, dealing with other urgent cases and patients.
Who can solely focus on him for 24 hours? And when he dies, they come looking for the doctors to blame. What responsibility does the doctor have? The doctor's responsibility is to inform about the condition, arrange treatment.
They're not his babysitters, constantly chasing after him. If he wants to die, can they die on his behalf? It's truly exasperating.
Oh! I personally experienced having three stents placed in my heart in the past six months! I also discovered mitral valve prolapse and just underwent surgery. This TV drama feels like it was filmed based on my hospitalization process over the past half year!
It's so realistic! It resonates with me deeply! Unfortunately, I don't know how long I can live after this mitral valve repair. I hope everything goes smoothly! By the way, most doctors are still good!
And the surgical doctors are really exhausted! Very exhausted!
I really don't understand, what are you all thinking with these barrage comments? Saying that the male lead has no sense of responsibility? In real life, if a doctor takes you to the hospital, that's already a good thing.
What more do you want from him?
Moreover, the character played by Jin Shi Jia doesn't even work at Dongli Hospital. He was just coincidentally there when he took the patient. Besides, at that time, his brother or even his father was sick.
If he didn't go back, he would have lost his brother or father.
And there are so many people in the hospital like Zhou Doctor, played by Zhao You Ting. They could have arranged a nurse or a less busy doctor to take care of the patient, right?
You all blame everything on the doctor played by Jin Shi Jia. I don't think you deserve to be called human beings!
At that time, the character played by Jin Shi Jia happened to encounter this 63-year-old man, and there were acquaintances around him.
Was it wrong for him to kindly take him to the hospital?
Are you suggesting that in such a situation, we shouldn't take him to the hospital and just watch him die? Any decent person would have taken him to the hospital.
Moreover, there were acquaintances around, people who knew this 63-year-old man. And you shouldn't blame everything on the doctor played by Jin Shi Jia and Zhou Doctor played by Zhao You Ting!
Are you saying that the family, friends, and relatives of this 63-year-old man have no responsibility at all?
Isn't it because the son didn't care enough? If they had taken some proactive measures or done a health check earlier, they could have discovered the cause!
(This is my commentary after watching the first episode and reading the barrage comments.)
Dr. Lin is really too persistent. Every doctor with medical ethics wants the best for their patients, but sometimes there's nothing they can do when patients refuse to listen.
My grandfather is the type of patient who's extremely stubborn and uncooperative. The family is also very anxious, and all we can do is persuade the patient more, communicate with the medical staff, but not every healthcare professional can provide such meticulous care for a single patient.
After all, healthcare professionals have limited time and energy.
About ten years ago, I witnessed a scene in a hospital. There was an uncle who collapsed upon entering and couldn't breathe. Then a young doctor with glasses came over, examined him, and immediately ran to the nurse station. He took out a surgical knife, made an incision in the throat, and inserted a tube.
After that, the uncle started breathing again. Everyone around, including the patients, nurses, and a few senior doctors, were shocked. But that person survived! So, in my opinion, doctors should prioritize saving lives, especially in critical situations.