Ghost Doctor (고스트 닥터)

Oh. I'll go ahead, then.

Are you off to see your girlfriend?

We have a date.

Take care. - Bye.

Dad.

Darn it.

Dad.

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.

I wondered hundreds of times.

That day, what if I'd made a different choice?

Would I not have lost her?

That day, if I hadn't stopped them.

Would I have become a different doctor from now?

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?

If I had let go of the bed then,

would my life have been easier?

Dad, no!

What about me?

Will this choice...

change my life?

I have no choice.

I can't let go.

I just can't let go.

I felt the same way.

I couldn't let go.

I remember up to that. Just up to that.

Page Professor Min.

I'll hold on as long as I can.

This way.

Hurry.

Ko Seung Tak. What are you doing?

Should we send away a dying patient?

Not in my hospital.

He has an abdominal aortic aneurysm.

What do you think you can do?

What should I do?

He's bleeding badly.

He won't last until Professor Min arrives.

I don't remember what happened afterward.

It's as if I blacked out after drinking too much.

I will begin.

Gauze.

That much is the same.

I'm always a lunatic in the OR.

What's going on? Isn't this Chief Ban's surgery?

It was scheduled in Chief Ban's name.

He'll be here.

Brother. Help me out as best you can.

Brace yourself.

What? Yes, okay...

Shall we try to keep him going until the chief arrives?

I black out.

Like I slept really well.

Stop! Are you out of your mind?

Step away!

The death rate for a ruptured abdominal aorta is 50 percent.

For each extra hour, the death rate increases by one percent.

This man's intestines might already be necrotic.

If we wait any longer, not even surgery will save him.

Suction.

Suction.

Kim Jae Won, suction!

Oh, suction.

This is OR 8. Send someone, anyone!

Suction. - We need help!

Another intern or even an undergraduate!

Gauze.

Retractor.

Suction.

Deep inside.

I found it. Vascular clamp.

I got it.

The BP's stabilizing.

What do you think you're doing?

Put on a gown and help me.

Hold this.

Pull yourself together!

His BP's dropping!

Wait.

Be careful not to touch the vascular clamp.

I'll be careful.

Watch out for the vascular clamp.

Don't touch it.

I think we got it.

You did it. You saved him.

You saved him.

You lunatic.

Then one moment, I woke up.

When I came to,

I'd become a lunatic.

Professor Lee!

What happened?

This intern saved the patient's life.

At the time,

I was afraid.

Are you not afraid?

Did I pull it off again?

I can't keep acing surgeries like this.

Gosh.

You're crazy.

Well, I'm beginning to see this must be how it feels.

This must be the taste of being a doctor.

Look. The patient is alive.

Was Seung Tak eight years old back then?

I thought it was just a passing phase.

I guess it hasn't quite passed since then.

Or did it come back recently?

What are you...

implying right now?

Come on. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

Yes. I can see you.

I thought it was a temporary side effect from the accident.

And ever since he started working at the hospital,

I kept seeing something odd.

And I wasn't the only one who saw that.

So I looked into this through a friend who studied in the US.

And I found out...

something interesting which I wasn't expecting.

When Seung Tak was in the US,

we all thought he skipped classes and was just goofing around.

But he kept going to hospitals.

And he only saw neurosurgeons and psychiatrists.

I figured it out then. He was trying everything he could...

to fix this on his own.

I guess you didn't know that much.

That means Grandfather doesn't know either.

Han Seung Won. - Gosh.

I see.

I feel so bad for Seung Tak.

It looked like he was trying his best...

to get on the good side of Grandfather these days.

But the thing is,

we deal with people's lives here.

And he happens to be...

a doctor.

What do you mean?

What did Ko Seung Tak do?

He came into the ER with a ruptured aortic aneurysm in his abdomen.

We wanted to transfer him out...

because all the professors weren't available.

But Seung Tak pushed for the surgery and took him to the OR.

He made Jae Won book the OR under Chief Ban's name.

And he assisted too.

He just finished operating on Lee Ji Woo.

And this surgery wasn't exactly a walk in the park either.

And this isn't his first time either.

Maybe, something really is up with him.

What's wrong? - What?

No. It's nothing.

Where's Ko Seung Tak right now?

So...

to sum up your story,

I wasn't the only one?

You're doing what was done to you all those years ago.

This isn't something to pass on.

You didn't have to put it like that.

Right. You could already see ghosts.

I bet nothing really scares you.

But you're not curious...

about how Intern Cha became an excellent surgeon?

What's the point? It's not like I'll do what you did.

I am curious how Intern Cha...

ended up becoming a mean professor like you.

But do you know the ghost that entered your body then?

I have no idea because I couldn't see ghosts.

Perhaps,

he was a talented surgeon just like me.

You were lucky.

What if it was the Jade Emperor or the child shaman?

Of course, I was.

What if it was a doctor who was only book-smart?

Just like you.

Was that the only time?

Or...

A few more times when I was a resident.

Some patients were turned away...

because there were no doctors to perform the surgery.

Just like the one today.

Ji Woo was one of them too.

Her parents weren't aware of her condition,

so surgery was delayed.

And she lost consciousness in the middle of the night...

and was brought into the ER.

Hello.

Let me see your palm.

This is magic candy.

Hold it tightly. Then it won't hurt.

That's when I promised her.

When she comes back...

for replacement surgery ten years later,