I am happy.
Doctor Lee, this is not it.
Because of your son, you can't drag him into such a dangerous surgery.
Don't you know? He is a child whom his parents abandoned.
The doctor appeared like an angel
and operated on a sick child like me.
Shouldn't we tell the guardian about that?
Doctor Lee, this is medical malpractice.
Starting from today, that child's guardian is me.
And he became my father.
It seems that I found favor in his heart.
I am very happy.
[Beautiful Mind]
Is it true?
That someone decided to garner international investments for our regenerative medicine research?
No, then our regenerative medicine... the stem cell treatment,
won't be led by our Hyun Sung research team,
But, a non-Korean overseas pharmaceutical company would own it?
I will obtain Hyun Sung Group in return.
The sweat and effort that we poured into this regenerative medicine research,
you can't just easily surrender our sacrifices to those that only know about money, and not the patients.
Would you reconsider it?
I beg of you.
In the past, I had no idea that our Director was such an easy person.
Why are you doing this? Stand up.
I solely arranged this to introduce you to your welcomed old friend.
This person will be very glad to see you too.
Do you remember him, Oh Young Bae Ph.D?
It's been a long time... friend.
Ah, our Director. Why are you so opposed to such a welcomed guest?
Oh Young Bae Ph.D from global pharmaceutical company, Green Pharmacy.
He made a big investment in our regenerative medicine research.
I see that your son grew up very well.
Affected frontal lobe, with empathy disability.
You didn't tell me, but of course... you were looking forward to it.
The MRI results. Believing maybe that there might have been a change, maybe that your feelings have appeared.
Right?
No, never. I am rather thinking that it's fortunate.
Because of emotions that are not certain and everlasting,
How much people can change and
And also I found out exactly how they can be wavered by that.
That's enough for me.
Right now...
Just the way I am right now, I am very comfortable.
That's what you always say.
Even though you say lies with your mouth,
Your body cannot lie.
That's right.
Did you notify me because of a patient's symptoms?
I... there's nowhere in my face where it doesn't hurt.
It feels like it has been touched with a knife and it also seems like it has touched fire.
1 year ago due to brain tumor surgery,
the brain tumor was extracted, but she suffers from chronic facial pain as an aftereffect of the surgery.
I heard rumors about you.
That you healed Party Leader Kim Myeong Soo and Hyun Sung Group Chairman Kang Il Do.
Doctor... I can't live like this any longer.
Please let me hurt no longer.
There's a facial sensory nerve for my face, right?
Please cut it off.
I'm okay. I can do anything as longer as this pain would go away.
Please, Doctor.
- Patient. - Yes.
Your facial sensory nerve has already been removed.
And it was removed 1 year ago together with the brain tumor.
Even though it hurts like this? Are you sure that you're not mistaken?
It hurts! I'm telling you that it hurts!
In a medical term, it's called as 'anesthesia dolorosa' (deafferentation pain).
In a reaction to compenate for the loss of sensation to your face,
your brain is producing fictitious pain.
So... like everyone else, are you saying that I'm crazy?
I... because it's so painful and agonizing, every day feels like hell.
But exactly why? Why?!
Maybe... Agony might be needed for us.
A world without agony is fake.
That's what that patient is saying.
Lee Young Oh. To me, you...
were the only person who showed me interest without any reason.
But when I found out that part of you was fake,
It even felt like my life was fake, so I couldn't bear it.
I was angered.
I thought it was a horrible rage.
But now I know,
It was that I was hurt.
It was that you were hurt?
What does that mean?
Someday, if it's possible Doctor Lee...
Accept agony as agony.
Real normal people might do like that.
Even though I didn't really know myself.
Can we start again?
From the beginning.
Isn't time very amusing?
Allowing you to meet me like this again.
What is it that you want?
The reason why you appeared in front of me like this.
Investment collaboration with your regenerative medicine business.
And the patent of the stem cell treatment.
Let's work together with our Green Pharmacy.
Whar are old friends for?
This regenerative medicine... I've put my life on this.
Because I wanted to give even a little hope to patients with incurable diseases.
I dreamed that one day all surgeons would disappear because they are not needed anymore.
Why are you saying that we can't do it?
Is there any other company that has contributed to human health as much as us?
We've suffered a lot because of your multinational pharmaceutical company.
I know as much as I need to know about it.
In order to gain a new drug patent, you lobby all the different parties and pour an astronomical amount of money.
After that, you have no interest in the patient's wellbeing and treatment.
In exchange for the lives of the patients,
you are only concerned about raising the price of the medicine.
If I were to transfer the stem cell research into your hands
The patients will not die because of a disease.
They'll die because of their not being able to use the medicine.
This regenerative medicine I've sacrificed my life for.
I won't let you do this.
You told me
you would devote your life to make this kid into a normal person.
I'm getting curious about which one you've truly devoted your life to.
You have no right to mock my life.
Are you sure though?
Me? I'm in a wheelchair.
Ah, is Doctor Lee Young Oh a neurosurgeon?
I heard that he's a better neurosurgeon than you.
I wonder if he could fix those legs?
I'll have to meet him myself then.
He knows about it, right?
Does he know that his frontal lobe is damaged and he is a psychopath because of your mistake?
That it was because of malpractice.
Oh my... Does he not know?
Oh! Wait!
Thank you, thank you.
[Wi-Fi]
Uhm...
But why aren't you picking up the phone?
I thought about it.
You're smarter than me, and you're more eloquent than me.
So of course, I can't win by arguing, can't I?
How about we don't make things more complicated?
The thing that I wanted from you,
and the things that I wanted to do,
is the time.
The time to spend together.
Isn't that enough?
It's Ewing sarcoma. ( Bone cancer.)
Surgery is difficult.
Should I tell him to live the rest of his life as a quadriplegic (paralyzed arms and legs) living off artificial airway?
Geez! This kills the guardian.
They are newlyweds, she's 8 months pregnant. He should hold the baby once.
But whenever he is brought in the emergency room, they are troublemakers.
They demand a ward room or an operating room.
What's the use of a ward room or an operating room for an hopeless patient? It makes no sense...
This young couple is pitiful. You have to treat them coaxingly and gently.
Is it hard to deliver the correct opinion to the patients?
Good job. It's all yours.
Wow. Good.
Wow, really.
We leave that to you.
There is... Ewing sarcoma in the C3 cervical vertebra (neck).
It's difficult to operate on this area. Well, quadriplegia—
And before he dies as the cancer progresses,
he must live dependent on an artificial airway.
When the tumor invades the spinal nerve, the only treatment will be radiation therapy.
If the edema appears then, the situation will not be reversed. Right?
Yes, you know well.
Going home after being rejected from the emergency department for the same reason,
It has been about 12 or 13 times.
Should I say more?
She is so smart, isn't she?
This is my wife.
Doctor, you must be mistaken right now.
I... am not doing this because I want you to completely heal my husband.
I'm not even asking for you to let him live for another 10 years.
I'm asking for you to buy time until our child comes out.
Time for us to be together.
No, I... did I ask you pick a star or a moon from the sky?
Just 2 months.
No, just 1 month. Just let him endure it.
He needs to at least see how his child looks like. To see whom he resembles.
So... I'm saying that this surgery is difficult, Guardian.
Look here.
This surgery, I'll do it.
Is it confidence? Or is it arrogance?
The surgery is that dangerous so if he wants to do it, let him do it.
Does he have to stand out like that?
It is dangerous, but both the patient and the guardian want it.
For me, it's worth giving it a try.
The patient says that he want to see his child.
How can you just ignore that kind of request?
What is it with you two?
Now that you have performed surgeries with him, are you fooled by his stare?
These people... look here! Red Sun!
Doctor Lee cannot empathize with the patient.
He just want to perform that surgery.
Because of an innocent medical curiosity.
Doctor So does have personal feelings against Doctor Lee Young Oh. But, his diagnosis is precise.
- Yes! - Isn't it possible only because it's Dr. Lee Young Oh?
That's right. The chances of succeeding are very low and it's a very dangerous surgery.
If an ordinary surgeon does this surgery,
his hands will shake and make a mistake as soon as the surgery starts.
It's unexpected.
All this time, you have chosen patients based on probability.
But, you... the probability of metastasis is high.
Not a full recovery, but you chose a patient that has a low chance to make it out alive.
Is it because of the patient's desperation or is it your desperation?
Desperation to prove your supremacy over a significantly dangerous surgery.
I'm also very curious about it.
Which side the Doctor Lee Young Oh, you think of is on.
If you become my business partner,
I'm just going to think about our future.
After all this time, if your son finds out the truth about you,
What would happen to Lee Young Oh, that fellow?
Will you be okay with it?
[Surgery Consent Form]
This is the surgery consent form.
This surgery will be very difficult.
Ewing's sarcoma is a tumor that develops from the bones, so metastasis is easy.
Perhaps if the surgery result isn't good,
For the rest of your life as a quadriplegic,
you will live off of an artificial airway.
Well, I am sitting in a wheelchair now.
But, the thing I'm curious is... about you.
No one recommended having the surgery because it's dangerous.
That probably means that it's dangerous for the patient.
But, it also means that doctors need to bear the consequences of dangerous effects right?
Responsibility, reputation... Well, it can leave a bad mark on that.
But, why the surgery... No, why did you choose me?
Why would you ask that, Oppa?
Don't be too touched.
They say that he's a surgery machine.
He wants to become more famous.
"I accepted the patient that everybody rejected and succeeded." Right?
After going one round, I can figure out the answer.
Are you okay?
Whose husband is so handsome?
In any situation, please be understanding.
For what should I be understanding of?
A surgery machine that wants to become famous? Or this behavior right now?
It doesn't matter what you think about it.
But, still... You just have to let him stay by my side.
My oppa... even if it's a little longer.
Sign the surgery consent form.
That you would follow my decision and treatment method in any situation.
You have signed the consent form.
That means that you will follow my decisions and treatment methods.
Guardian, excessive signs of affection will not help the patient.
I'm aware that it's not time for your checkup.
Is something wrong?
I... have been transferred to the Violent Crime Division.
Before I get my physical exam at the police department, just in case...
I worked hard to get into that team.
I can't be disqualified due to my heart.
That's great. You wanted to go there, Violent Crimes Division.
And you are working hard for the commercialization of the regenerative medicine.
I will get going now.
I will contact you when the medical results come out.
Doctor, there is something I'm curious about.
You do the thinking with your head.
But why, when you think about someone, does your heart not your head ache?
Wait a minute!
I don't think this is going to work.
I don't want to do this surgery.
Guardian, what?
Wha.. What don't you want to do?
This surgery... No matter how much I think about it, it's dangerous.
There is a reason in why everybody doesn't do it.
After the surgery ends, what will happen if my oppa can't get up again?
You signed the consent form.
I wrote it because the doctor told me to do it!
What's the use in that kind of document?
- Let's go. - Oh, oh!
Guardian, what are you doing right now?
Doctor Yang, what the guardian said is correct.
Instead of the consent form, I will ask this again.
Did you really give up on this surgery?
- Yes! Yes! - No.
Oppa, let's reconsider this, huh?
I'm scared.
I'm going to go through with this surgery, Doctor.
Oppa, don't you hear me?
I said that I'm scared! I said I don't want it!
Go Eun Joo! Close your mouth and wait.
I'm going to come out alive.
Let's go, Doctor.
Oppa, how can you be so mean to me?
I'm going to tell our baby everything.
Forgive her. Doctor.
For such a childish and absurd woman,
It's because I, who have developed such a horrible disease,
am her whole world.
And that goes the same for me.
We don't have any other family.
That's why she's standing on a plank.
It's desperation in order to protect each other.
That's why I couldn't give up on this surgery.
I definitely want to see my son.
After I leave,
whether I can trust and leave my son to that clueless woman,
I have to verify it.
I'll be able to leave in peace.
Doctor... please promise me.
Let's start.
I heard that Lee Young Oh went into a difficult surgery.
The fact that he enjoys performing dangerous surgeries, he resembles you.
As expected, he is a product that you created.
Haven't you still decided which side you would choose? You should decide today.
Doctor.
Surgery has proceeded properly.
All the tumors that were discovered pre-operatively have been excreted.
Don't say it so difficultly.
So... you're saying that my oppa is alive, right?
You're saying that he's fine, right?
As of now.
Oppa!
Dr. Lee Young Oh sure is amazing.
I heard he removed all the sarcoma tumors in the spine.
I saw the film. It's very clean.
It was the surgery only Dr. Lee can perform.
Right. The gamble paid off.
For both the patient and the doctor.
Recovery is important in surgery.
- What's the use of scraping all out if the patient doesn't survive? - That's right.
Hey Yang Sang Eun. How is the patient?
The recovery isn't easy as you thought, right?
What's the point of talking about it?
I know right? It isn't that easy.
Hey. Is the prognosis that bad?
As I said, what's the point of talking about it?
If Dr. Young Oh picks a patient, it means the patient will live.
- What?- Huh?
The surgery went well and the outcome is good.
That patient is going for an outing today.
An outing?!
We haven't had a chance to get ready for the baby because I had to come to the hospital in a hurry.
We'll come back after buying the baby's clothes.
Just make sure to come back at the promised time.
We decided to eat out.
Sure, let's do that too.
Thank you, Doctor.
The way I feel now, I could kiss you.
But I shouldn't because Oppa might get jealous.
That's a relief.
Thank you.
The surgery must have gone well, seeing how he's going out, too.
No.
Because of a tumor that I couldn't see on film had metastasized to his spinal nerves,
so I am thinking about changing to radiation treatments.
Yet you allow him go on an outing?
A doctor is not someone who saves a patient's life,
just someone who prolongs time.
To fight, laugh, chat and eat with people you love,
those unimportant passing times.
Normal people seem to receive happiness through that.
That happiness I haven't felt so far.
No... those emotions that I never learned nor studied.
You've done a dangerous surgery.
Based on the outcome of the treatments, you can be held responsible.
The radiation treatments must go well for you.
Is that why you ventured?
Lee Young Oh?
Because the patient was desperate?
What I wanted from you Dr. Lee Young Oh,
What I wanted to do for you was...
The time. The time to be together.
I am asking you to extend the time.
The time for us to be together.
Just let him stay by my side.
For my oppa to stay little longer.
The time...? The time to be together...
- He's in critical condition! Please move!- Oppa, no!
I was wrong, Oppa!
I'm sorry for wanting to go out...
Are you all right?
Take the patient to his room and call Dr. Lee Young Oh, hurry!
Doctor. I am sorry for whining for an outing despite your warning.
The odds are against me, right?
We are going to treat your tumor in your spinal nerves with radiation therapy.
My child... please let me hold him once...
Stop talking now.
We've already promised that in the operating room. subtitles ripped and synced by riri13
You make pretty words sounds ugly.
Like my Hyeon Joo.
You promised, too.
That you'll not give up and follow my decision and choice of treatments.
Can you do that?
Dr. Oh, I heard Dr. Lee Young Oh is doing the radiation therapy, is it right?
See... I told you that surgery is not possible.
The patient desperately wanted it.
Is it right to tell him to give it up?
We have to think about our risks, too.
If the outcome is not good
will the patients think "Well that can happen since the doctors are human, too." will they?
They'd say that the doctor had killed the patient and they would file a lawsuit.
Sincerity will be recognized. Here!
Sincerity! Sincerity.
Will the radiation therapy done with sincerity?
Can sincerity stop the side effects?
Hey. With his condition,
he'll get edema and trouble with breathing on radiation.
Don't get alarmed. It's edema due to your radiation therapy.
Now. Oxygen mask.
- Please turn it on.- Yes.
You are not forgetting the promise, right?
We'll continue with the radiation therapy.
So do not give up, okay?
We are easy to you, right?
Because we have no parents and no family to raise hell in the hospital,
- you are like this--- - Look here.
There is no one who'd think your tantrum is cute other than your husband.
Especially more so for a person like me.
I asked to give us more time.
What I need is the time to be with my healthy oppa.
Not a hellish time like that suffering while lying there half dead in pain.
I made a promise to your husband.
I promised to give him time to hold this baby.
That's why I intend to do everything I can for him.
So suck it up and endure it like your husband is doing lying there.
A miracle treatment to extend life without suffering
doesn't exist in this world.
Now that Dr. Lee Young Oh stopped giving me a headache,
Director Lee Geon Myeong is giving me headaches.
Is that their hereditary illness or something?
So are you saying he can't still turn over the patent to you yet?
He won't be hanging around very long.
Director Lee Geon Myeong—
So what the heck is his embarrassing part that Director Lee Geon Myeong tries to hide so desperately?
By any chance, is it related to Dr. Lee Young Oh?
Like a birth secret or things of that nature.
The reason why secrets have power is because it's a secret.
Because it's a secret that Director Lee Geon Myeong doesn't want the world to know.
Did you want to fulfill your curiosity or do you want to make a deal?
If I were you, I would choose to make a deal, President.
It's business.
Have patience, President.
The commercial event, how are the free trial patients doing?
It's a myocardial connective tissue which will be commercialized first among the stem cell treatments.
How about the patients to whom it will be applied?
I can apply it to the patients with weak myocardium, and
I plan on publicizing that stem cell treatment, it's easy and effective.
Since it's your opinion as the appointed leader, I decided to follow.
The success of commercializing the stem cell treatment is also my desperate desire.
I believe it won't happen if the patent is transferred to the multinational pharmaceutical company.
All we need to do now is to succeed in commercializing it safely.
Doctor Hyeon, let's just think about that.
Gi Ho, did you prepare the ECMO?
Ah, the ECMO? (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
The trial patients are the ones who have cardiac insufficiency or failure.
To prepare for any emergency situation, prepare the ECMO.
Yes, sir!
ECMO removes blood and artificially removes the carbon dioxide and rexoygenates the blood cells
The success of our stem cell treatment commercialization depends on the patients' safety.
I'm requesting of you.
How is the patient's condition?
The complications that we worried...
Is it an infection?
Yes, Dr. Lee Young Oh is personally checking on the patient.
Doctor!
It's a cardiac failure caused by stress. ECMO... I need the ECMO.
ECMO?!
If we only have the ECMO, we can stall time.
ECMO? Where can I possibly obtain that at this time?
There's only 3 of them at our medical center. Ah!
One is inside the VIP ward.
And I'm aware that one went into the ICU this morning.
Ah, the cardio-thoracic surgery department should have one.
Doctor Hyeon Seok Joo is in charge.
Hey! Where is my gown?
That will be difficult.
What is the problem?
We have a heart failure patient in the commercialization team as well.
He is the patient for whom we don't know when and what will happen.
Because of a patient for whom you don't know when and what will happen,
I must let go of a patient that's in front of my eyes, is that what you are saying?
There is only one ECMO. And for the patients, it is their only lifeline.
The patients in commercialization team are not having their own private lives.
They are the patients whom all the media pays attention to.
- Doctor Yang. - Yes.
Right now, you will move the ECMO.
Yang Seong Eun!
If something were to happen to this patient, our regeneration research team...
Our blood shed tears will disappear like bubbles in one moment.
Doctor Hyeon Seok Joo,
For the first and last time,
I am requesting this of you.
I... must save him.
No, there is no possibility with that patient.
The ECMO will only extend that time.
The criteria for choosing your patients, isn't it probability of survival?
For a patient whose probability isn't even 10%,
I can't let you have the ECMO.
Doctor...
- Yang Seong Eun. - Yes.
Did you not hear me? Asking you to move it?
Yes.
Ah, I don't know! I don't know...!
Hey!
Are you saying this side of you is a good physician?
- Is the ECMO running well? - Yes.
Jo In Ha, that'll extend the time.
I am keeping my promise.
So, you must also keep the promise.
He is trying to use the ECMO for a patient who has no possibility of survival.
This isn't like Dr. Lee's normal behavior. He is obsessed with his patient.
This is an expensive medical device.
There is a hospital regulation that we must use it for patients that have a certain possibility of survival.
The ECMO is most needed for the regeneration commercialization team.
Doctor Oh, let's meet right now.
So, your decision...
I've decided to accept it.
Your offer, the research team, the patent.
To partner with your company.
You want to keep the secret about your son, Lee Young Oh a secret forever.
You eventually chose your son.
That child... he's becoming whole now.
He's become closer to a normal person.
My long training has finally started to bear fruit.
Epi. Epi!
100 joules.
Doctor Lee, call the patient's guardian. It's difficult for this patient.
The guardian is in labor right now.
200 joules.
Charge.
Doc.. Doctor, Doctor...
Is that possible?
His heart stopped though...
Look here, I... I am keeping my promise.
So are you going to keep your promise?
Stop... it now.
Don't give up.
You must live. You got to try it.
Didn't you say you wanted to see the child?
You need to meet the child. l'll make it happen.
Now... let's live.
200 joules!
Stop.
You didn't choose Doctor Lee Young Oh.
As expected, you just want to protect yourself, Lee Geon Myeong.
Just like that day, 25 years ago.
What are you saying?
To you, Dr. Lee Young Oh,
is a patient on a life sustaining device okay as long as he breathes?
You became a doctor who is far superior than ordinary doctors?
Do you understand now?
Why I earnestly opposed a monster like you
becoming a doctor?
What are you saying? Tell me now.
The one who made Lee Young Oh a monster
is you.
But there's something you don't know.
You didn't make any mistakes during the surgery on that day.
What?
If there was a mistake, it was me who did it.
What are you saying right now?
Isn't it funny?
You didn't fail your surgery
but you still created a monster.
Director!
You said you knew about it.
You said you had seen Dr. Lee Young Oh's CT films in his young age, right?
Yes. What about it?
Where are they? When was it?
- Director, what's going on--- Tell me now!
In the small countryside town where I used to work and you used to work as well,
I saw them at the medical records room of Hyun Sung branch.
The hospital where you adopted Dr. Lee.[Neurosurgery Department, Lee Young Oh (8 years old)]
Was he normal back then?
I'm asking if my child was really normal after the surgery?!
I told you before.
If medical technology would have been as advanced as today,
the mistake that happened to Dr. Lee Young Oh wouldn't have occurred.
Yes, I remember that.
I was wrong.
I realized it while seeing Dr Lee Geon Myeong who has remained the same all these years.
Since that day, everything that happened to him
is not because of the medical technology.
It was the human desire.
Greed, selfishness, shame, and fear.
Now... what will happen to Director Lee Geon Myeong and Dr. Lee Young Oh?
I'm not sure.
What's important to us is the fact that
Director Lee Geon Myeong made it for us to manage the regenerative medicine research team, don't you think?
[True medicine, living out the merit of saving livesProfessor Lee Geon Myeong]
Due to damage in the frontal lobe and the amygdala in the limbic system of brain that controls emotions...
I'm asking if my child was really normal after the surgery?!
Stop...
I... I am keeping my promise.
Didn't you say you wanted to see the child?
You need to meet the child. l'll make it happen.
I thought you'd be here.
This is a good place to hide for both us.
Kim Min Jae! Who am I?
No matter how hard I try,
I can't help the situation. Am I a monster?
The monster that is imprisoned inside of me forever,
and have no other choice but to live like that?
You told you know me the best.
Answer me, Kim Min Jae.
Please answer me.
You... are not a monster, Lee Young Oh.
You... are a victim of a medical malpractice.
What are you saying?
Or... a victim of abuse that started under the name of the perfect education
and that has been stealthy, lasting, and obstinate.
That is you.
The best neurology surgeon in the nation, Dr Lee Geon Myeong,
In order to keep his reputation,
the fact that he didn't want it to be revealed to the world,
his failure...
That's you, Lee Young Oh.
Doctor Lee. Doctor Lee...
[Feeling of being glad]
It's an agreement... it's like a signal.
He touches his neck. Let's look at it again.
When people feel anxious...
You're different from normal people.
Quietly... just breathe and live.
Without being discovered.
Starting from today, his guardian will be me.
I'll make that my life's purpose.
I thought about it a lot on my way home.
But I still don't know the answer.
Father, just what kind of expression do I need to show at times like this?
The savior who saved my life. My only family.
The teacher who taught me about the world.
My father who is like that is actually...
the real monster who raised me as a monster. When I realized that,
just what the heck kind of expression do I need to show?
You never taught me about this kind of difficult emotion, Father.
I...
Any more...
I don't want to live as your failure.