Doctor John (의사요한)

Step away right now.

From my trainee.

Are you happy now?

Or should I step further away?

All right. I'll see you there.

I have to go now.

See you around.

Dr. Kang.

Only a half success and only a half failure.

Have you ever said that to me?

It's a success because I did bring you a prison sentence.

But it's a failure...

because you got only 3 years instead of 10 years that I asked for.

So? I've already served my sentence.

What can I do now?

Time doesn't erase your criminal record.

Only society's forgiveness can.

I never asked for society's forgiveness for what I did.

I only asked for society's agreement.

Which you failed to get.

Because you got convicted.

What do you want from me?

Disqualification? Dismissal?

No way.

I have no rights to make that happen to you.

Then what? Do you want to wait until I perform euthanasia again...

so that you can catch me and take my doctor's gown off?

- No. - Then what is it that you want?

There's only one thing I want.

That you don't do anything.

Please don't do anything.

Why?

I'm scared of you.

- You're scared of me? - Yes.

A public prosecutor...

fears an ex-convict doctor like me?

Why would that be?

Well, I have no clue.

Murder not based on a sudden impulse...

but a firm belief.

And a person who puts his belief above the law.

That kind of person contaminates the people around him.

Especially, people who are still in training...

and haven't fully developed their own opinions yet.

In their eyes,

you sacrifice and dedicate yourself until you bleed to death.

You're a martyr...

to them.

So please don't do anything.

Anything at all.

See you again, Dr. Cha.

I don't care.

Your opinions...

and judgments about me don't matter to me.

What matters to me...

What matters to me...

is not what kind of doctor I am to you.

It's what kind of doctor I am to my patients.

Am I a doctor who kills or saves?

I'll leave that judgment to my patients, not you.

Let me give you a piece of advice.

A doctor...

can't be a deity.

He can only be the Grim Reaper.

Hello.

How did it go? What did Prosecutor Son say?

Does he want to fight? Are we fighting again?

That's not it. Let's talk tomorrow.

Okay. By the way, I have another piece of news.

- What is it? - I know a producer...

at the broadcasting station that interviewed Joo Hyung Woo.

He called me and said he wanted to interview you.

Would you be okay with being on TV?

Are you doing this as a prosecutor?

- Or as... - It's as a prosecutor...

- that I'm doing this. - I don't think so.

(An incoming call from Chae Eun Jeong)

- Hello. - Prosecutor Son, it's me.

- Did you meet him? - Yes, I just did.

How was he?

Is he still the same?

I'll tell you in person.

Okay. I have something to tell you anyway.

Han Myung Oh.

A lawyer at Seoul Hanse Medical Center's legal team.

As you may know, he volunteered to defend Cha Yo Han...

in the Yoon Seong Kyu case.

Min Tae Kyung.

Chief of Anesthesiology at Seoul Hanse Medical Center.

She insisted on hiring Cha Yo Han...

despite the hospital's opposition.

But the thing is, no matter how hard I look,

she doesn't seem to have any personal relation...

to Cha Yo Han.

Then why did she insist on hiring him so strongly?

We might find the reason here.

Kang Yi Soo. Chairman of Seoul Hanse Medical Center.

Min Tae Kyung's husband.

He went into a coma after an accident.

He is receiving life-prolonging treatment on a ventilator.

What...

would he be feeling right now?

What are you two doing here?

We were talking about how your dad would be feeling right now.

Are you thinking the same as my sister?

I don't like it.

When you don't like something,

don't you even try to understand it?

A doctor's decision has nothing to do with whether you like it or not.

In that sense,

I think Si Young is at least trying.

Hello?

Hey, Dr. Cha. It's me, Si Young.

- Where are you? - Pardon?

Where are you right now?

So their daughter is...

Kang Si Young, a resident in Anesthesiology?

Yes, that's right.

And right now, she's Cha Yo Han's trainee?

Yes.

It's just like the Postma case.

"Postma"?

(Andries Postma: A Dutch doctor who euthanized his mother)

Andries Postma? The Dutch doctor?

She's a doctor, but she's also the patient's daughter.

If she decides to end her father's life-prolonging treatment...

and leaves him to die,

that could become the Korean version of the Postma case.

You mean if someone makes it seem that way...

and uses the media to form a public sentiment?

Could this really be a coincidence?

If it's not, there needs to be a definite connection.

They're not from the same school, and they're not...

acquainted to each other in any kind of way.

But there must be some kind of a connection.

Why did that prosecutor want to meet you?

To scare me.

He wanted to make sure I'll never do the same thing again.

What if...

And I hope it'll never happen.

But what if...

you're faced with the same kind of patient...

Would I make the same choice?

Yes.

Do you know what people asked me the most after that incident?

They asked me...

if I killed that patient not because I thought it was the best for him...

but because I wanted to feel at ease and free myself from that patient.

Do you even care what's best for him?

Are you sure it's not because you want to feel at ease?

There were many reasons why I decided to let him go.

But I could definitely tell people that I didn't do it for myself.

If I'm put in the same situation, and I decide to make...

a different choice,

then that won't be seen as my belief.

It'll just be an impulsive murder.

I'm sorry.

I guess that was a stupid question.

Can I also make a stupid hypothesis?

If, by any chance,

you have to consider ending your father's life-prolonging treatment,

and if you actually decide to end it,

you'll start hearing the same thing.

They'll say you did it just to feel at ease.

And they'll add one more thing to that.

They'll criticize you for giving up on your own father.

You need to find an answer.

You need to find your own answer to those questions...

so that no one will ever be able...

to criticize you again.

I'll find it. I'll try hard to find...

my own answer.

And I know this may sound out of line.

But you should also show people who you really are.

I want more people to find out...

what kind of a doctor you really are.

Go on.

Drive safely.

- We can do it! - We can do it!

Hello.

Take a picture of that one.

It's not like that.

Come on!

We're going to begin the shoot.

The reason people come to the Pain Management Center...

is obviously because they want to get rid of their pain, right?

There's a famous quote that says,

"The history of man is the history of pain."

People are born with pain, and they eventually die in pain.

And they fight with pain throughout their entire lives.

My gosh, he looks amazing on camera, and he talks so eloquently.

It's like he was born to be on TV.

What are you writing?

Gi Seok's mother was really excited about this.

She thinks it's a great opportunity to tell the world about his illness.

Concentrate.

Then let me ask you a question.

What's your definition of pain?

I think pain is...

how our body tries to communicate with us.