Ghost Doctor (고스트 닥터)

- Dad, are you okay? - No other hospital will take him!

Where are we supposed to go then?

Please help us out. We have nowhere else to call!

No...

No...

Dad!

In life, there sometimes comes a time.

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

A time when you desperately call to the deities.

Darn it.

He's the ruptured abdominal aorta patient we called about.

I told you none of our surgeons are available.

You can't just barge in here with him.

He's in hypovolemic shock and his vitals are barely hanging on.

He'll die if he isn't operated on now.

There's nothing we can do.

Take him somewhere else.

- Dr. Ha. - Yes?

Send them away.

- Okay. Let's go. - Doctor.

Please help my dad.

Please.

Send them off.

If the deity's too busy to help,

you wish even for a ghost to help, you are that desperate.

He's leaving.

He can't!

Please reconsider.

If you send him away now, he might die on the road.

Are you out of your mind?

How dare an intern get in the way?

- Get him out of here now! - No!

Stop!

This is a hospital. We're doctors.

If we give up on a patient, who will...

You think you're a doctor, do you?

Then do you think you can...

operate on him?

Dad, no!

So what happened next?

Did the ghost save the patient?

Do you want to know? Well...

It's a secret.

No one in the world can hear about it.

Are there really ghosts like that in our world?

Of course there are. I bet there's one in this hospital.

Like a guardian deity that looks after the sick.

You know what that is, right?

You little patients can pretend...

ghost doctors are looking over you.

You should thank them. Say thanks.

What a joke!

There are no such good ghosts!

- Right! What a joke! - Right! What a joke!

How can a doctor be a ghost?

Ghosts aren't superheroes.

It's a joke!

- A darn joke! - Kids these days are twisted.

They don't take an adult's word for it.

If the living could take care of everything...

It would be a joke.

A darn joke.

Wow, gorgeous.

He didn't let me down.

Cardiothoracic surgeon Professor Cha Young Min.

What? He's a professor?

Right? You're surprised too?

You'd wonder why he became a doctor with those looks and physique.

That's not the only mysterious thing about him.

What is it?

What's the CPR time?

Hurry.

It took us 30 minutes to get here.

There was no witness. We don't know...

- when he went into arrest. - This way.

Go!

Send Dr. An and skip the ECMO.

Coming through.

Ready? One, two, three.

Pulse check.

Intubate.

Pass me 7.5mm.

Let's swap.

Ambu bag.

Get help.

Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Where's the ECMO team?

They said they'd be here.

Two hundred joules, charged. Clear!

Cleared.

Shock!

Rhythm check.

Compression.

Pulse check.

Where are you going? Oh Soo Jung.

Professor Cha Young Min!

A patient in the ER needs ECPR.

Can you come and take a look?

"Intern Oh"?

Let's discuss rank later. You must hurry...

An intern should cross the line when they know nothing at all.

That's fine. I was like that too.

That's an intern's privilege.

Watch out!

Sorry, Professor. There's no time.

Let's go.

What do you think you're doing?

There's no time, so listen up, Intern Oh.

One, I don't treat just any patient.

Why? Because I'm not just any doctor for any patient.

Two, I don't treat emergency cases.

Why? Because there are a few steps until they reach me.

Three, I don't treat such patients. What patients?

Patients like the man who just came in.

These hands are for those who have at least a one percent chance...

Watch out!

Darn it.

- If you have the time for this... - If you have the time for this!

You should return to the ER.

You must learn how to pronounce someone dead.

Now I must go and save people who can be saved.

What a crazy...

What's his name?

It's...

What's his name?

It's Shin Jung Woo.

Shin Jung Woo.

It's September 2, 9:31am.

I pronounce him dead.

Cha Young Min, that jerk.

Who?

Did you go after him?

Do you even know who he is?

He's just a scumbag doctor who looks good on the outside.

He's a what? Watch what you say.

He's the best of our best doctors,

and not even our hospital director can slight him.

You know,

he performed his first solo surgery when he was an intern...

and saved an emergency patient.

When he pulled that off, the entire hospital was stunned.

Afterward, when he was a resident, he did that again a few more times.

And right now, he saves every single patient he has.

Hey. People even say that he's possessed by a spirit.

What did you just say?

What? His solo surgery when he was an intern?

You can't believe it either, right?

He must've been around your age when he was an intern.

Hey. No matter how talented he is...

Not that. You said something about being possessed by a spirit.

That was just a metaphor.

His medical skills are so good that a spirit must be watching him.

You didn't think he was really possessed, right?

A 33-year-old female with Behcet's disease.

Due to aortic regurgitation, she had a Bentall procedure...

and three rounds of surgeries due to the inflammation.

Due to the aortic root pseudoaneurysm,

Professor Cha will be performing...

a quadrido Bentall procedure this afternoon.

A quadrido?

This is her 4th time? Not her 5th?

Well, this is her fifth surgery,

but technically, this is a do-over for the fourth surgery.

I'm sure you know, Professor Cha.

This disease has a high rate of recurrence.

So you must perform surgeries often.

After several surgeries,

adhesion is pretty bad. So everything gets stuck.

And when you cut open their chest, things rupture and all.

This surgery is very complicated and challenging.

Then why did you perform a complicated, challenging surgery?

Well, other doctors said they couldn't perform the surgery.

Then why don't you wrap up my surgery too?

- Excuse me, Professor Cha. - What?

The patient doesn't trust Chief Ban.

The patient insisted on getting a new doctor.

You leave me no choice. Get the surgery ready. Next.

A 70-year-old male.

He has diabetes and high blood pressure.

And two years ago, he had a stroke.

When he was undergoing exams for shortness of breath a month ago,

we found cardiac sarcoma.

Well, I got the request for this case.

And his son was wondering if I could perform the surgery.

So you'll perform it?

Gosh. I can't. How can I tackle that monster?

I was wondering if you could pull it off.

I can't perform this surgery.

Professor Cha.

Don't just turn it down. Can you at least think about it?

You know, for the sake of the son.

There's a high chance of the clot from his heart...

or a piece of tumor traveling up to his brain...

and worsening his stroke.

And he's likely to have a relapse...

after undergoing the incomplete resection.

Without the surgery, he can have a full year.

Unless he wants to shorten his father's life,