Doctors (2016) Review

Intro 

Genre: Medical, Romance, Melodrama 

Battle

"...a truth that will not be punished by law, a truth that is based on conscience..

I have come this far for a sincere apology"

Have you wondered on how valuable a "sincere apology" is?

Some people take for granted on other people's pride just because they think that they are higher than them 

They refuse to admit their mistake and step on others as if nothing happened 

That is the worst  thing people can do to hide the fault and gaslight weaker people 

So everyone, this morality issue actually become the main reason why this drama exist

It becomes the bone of contention through out the story 

It's about a woman's fight for years in her life just to demand a "sincere apology" from a surgeon who'd operated her late grandma

Hye Jung (starring Park Shin Hye) went to medical school and make herself successfully entered a prestigious hospital (Gukil Medical Centre) just to investigate about her late-grandma's death due to surgical malpractice 10 years ago by Doctor Myeong Hoon 

She went thru everything to prove them wrong 

And this side of character portrays by main female lead make this drama worth watching 

It reminds me of Park Shin Hye fighting for her father in "Miracle in Cell no 7" 

But last time, she was a lawyer but this time as a Neurosurgeon 

This drama literally give me a new perspective on honesty, rectitude and ethic in daily life and in profession in particular 

Hye Jung's battle is not a joke

Series of her homework and investigation with the helps of Prof Hong eventually lead her to clues and truth 

She then finally found out that Doctor Myeong Hoon did a mistake and being neglectful in the operating theater while performing a surgery on her grandma that cause them lost her lives on the table!

It was approximately 10 years ago when it happened but his innocent reaction while announcing the death will be forever remembered by Hye Jung 

What happened at the end?

Did she successfully make him apologies sincerely at the end?

Kindly read until the ending part of my entry to figure it out ❤ 

Medical Theme (Neurology)

I really into medical kdrama cuz it's so refreshing and realistic 

Each kdrama has their own specification i.e. "Dr Stranger" focus on Thoracic area while "Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctors" is about woman and baby

"Romantic Teacher Kim" is emergency response/general surgery and

"Descendent of Sun" is more to rescue mission 

I discovered a Kdrama

starring Kim Nam Gil & Kim Ah Joong and I'm not sure if this kdrama is underrated but as for me, it's quite entertaining 

It's "Live Up To Your Name" and it's a medical, fantasy-romance genre specialize in acupuncture treatments

After all, no one can't surpass the legendary medical kdrama, "Hur Jun" which tell us about a life of Doctor Heo Jun who lives during Joseon era 

I wish I could watch all medical Kdrama cuz I found that Korean medical drama always appear one step ahead as the technicality is undeniably spectacular 

My watch list would be Hospital Playlist that is super hit at the moment, Hospital Ship and wish to finish Romantic Teacher Kim 1 & 2 as well as Dr John 

I finished reading Diagnosis I & II and it's super good 

I wish Malaysia can come out with a drama series, adaptation from these novels which written by Malaysian authors who were among Medical Practitioners itself 

I bet it will be sensational as these novels sequel hitting "best seller" in a row🥰 

Back to "Doctors",

this shows specializes in neurology where most of the scenes and cases in the entire episodes involve around "brain"

It's fascinating on how this drama tells us so many terms, illness and conditions that related to brain

As for me, the surgery scenes quite understandable and well performed by the actors 

The movement and the way the actors handling the medical equipment is sharp and skillful that makes me immersed into the scenes

Their acting looks real especially for Prof Hong and Dr Hye Jun when they are performing the surgery 

Super proficient and professional 

Audience can easily digest on what's happening, the cause, the procedure and implication 

I honestly think that this drama is not stressful to watch as the medical scenes seems less intense and far from dramatic elements 

It's rather straightforward in term of storyline with slight panic scenes & got several cliffhangers moments 

If I can say a word for this drama, it would probably..

"realistic"

This drama is realistic

What I mean is, the medical scenes has no extra-exceptional cases & no rare/genius role exist in this drama that makes me think.."ohh..okay this is simply nice and enjoyable"

Remember Lee Jong Suk (Dr Stranger) being a genius surgeon who operates patients with his rare "palm-hand scanning" ability? Bruhh..that was insane!

Or the intense scene when Seo Hyun Jin (Romantic Teacher Kim) stops the bleeding in artery with her fingers during the rod-concrete scenes? Phew!!

I barely see these nerve wracking moments in "Doctors" cuz most of the surgery that they performed are successful and less chaotic 

The line of actors are all great

Even though there is no genius role exist here, but this drama successfully exposed audiences with super skillful and expert surgeons in Neurosurgeon in a more realistic way which I can simply accepted 

I do loves all the medical scenes that this drama served as they show us something that we had never seen or never heard before 

Little did we know that every part of organ in our body are well connected and correlated to brain function 

I remember the scene of 2 kids with their single father (special appearance: Nam Koong Min)

The younger brother having difficulties to walk and often misses his steps and fall to the ground

Turn out, he suffered brain tumors medulloblastoma 

What makes it even worse is the older brother also suffer brain illness which is Gelastic Seizures 

That answered why he always laugh unnecessarily, peeing frequently and imbalance most of the time 

This literally shows that brain, which is the most sophisticated organ, indeed playing a major role for our body functionality entirely 

And I just learned that brain operation can be done whereby the patient is awake 

In episode 7, Prof Hong, Dr Hye Jun and Dr Jin Seo Woo perform surgery on a female Olympian archer while she is fully conscious and the outcome also can be seen right after the operation & that was extraordinary and unusual 

And there are so many other cases the encountered in neuro department which makes me think that this drama becomes one of remarkable medical kdrama which focus specifically on brain illness 

Melodrama

If anyone noticed, there's always a melodrama element exist in this show 

Every particular cases they've handled always involve side hidden story that eventually reveal at the end 

Dad-Son Love Story 

I personally think that those particular tear-jerking Nam Koong Min scene did steals the show 

The first appearance of him delivering food to the medical officers seems tricky and please don't get fooled on that intro scene

He comes with smile on his face with exciting music playing in background but no one having ideas on what situation he will soon encountered 

Having 2 adorable sons who call each other their "vitamin"

Yes ..happy vitamin

It clearly shows on their happy face that they did love each others 

The whole scene is super touching & pitiful 

The distressed and tension he encountered is well deliver by actor Koong Min 

He did everything that he could as a dad & even attempted suicide just to get insurance covered for his two son's hospital bills 😭

This case becomes an eye opener to Hye Jun as she was neglected by her father since she was a child and never believed in dad's love 

Alas! The tenderness of this dad-son love story makes her realize that dad's love do exists 😢 

Toxic love story 

Remember the scene whereby an unknown guy claim that he's the guardian of a female patient(cameo Han Hee Jin)? Everyone thought that he's a great husband who takes good care of her wife by staying on her side the whole days

But turns out he is her abuser who attacked her & leads her to an incident 

Her brain is damage and she is in coma

The truth revealed that he is actually her secret admire who turns into a psychopath after got rejected by his crush 

He even try to commit murder by strangling her neck

"Is this what you call love?", Hye Jung shouted after pushes him to the ground and luckily he then got caught 

It's so creepy on what we see in hospital as we never know what cause the incident and who is the actual culprit 

Someone can bring in the severe ill patients and masquerade themselves to look innocent but no one knows the truth behind it ~~

Character 

So guys..let's now continue with character part😃

Park Shin Hye (Hye Jung)

I honestly surprised seeing Park Shin Hye's performance in this drama 

To be frank, I don't really interested in her previous work which is "He's Beautiful" due to her stiff acting 😂 

Same as in "The Heirs" because of the weak side, and due to shabby  and cringe storyline 

I saw her in some scene in Heart String & Pinocchio but it still failed to made me hooked either 

But to be surprised, all of her works getting so much attention and this might also because of her large fanbase supporters

Park Shin Hye indeed has a very attractive character outside and loved by her fans 

After watching Doctors, I casually stalking her and get to know more about her

She is super friendly, talented and energetic off-camera 

She also catch so much eyes by her natural and fun personality in reality TV show

I bet you can simply fall in love with the goddess, Park Shin Hye 😍

Even though some people doesn't favor her acting, we can't deny that she is a great actress 

I found a well known Kdrama/Kmovie page said that she can't act & end up wasted the chances of getting paired with hot Male actors I.e. Hyun Bin, Kim Rae Won, Lee Jong Suk, Yoo Ah In etc.

But I personally think, she is not that bad and it was a very baseless conclusion haters can say about her 

As for me, she did well in Alive, The Calls and others works as well especially in "Doctors"

Yes indeed! 

I'm confident to say that Park Shin Hye literally twisted my expectations about her

In fact, she is excelled in her roles

so please don't get influenced by the haters who dislike her acting 

You just need to watch her closely and feel her immersion into her character then you will see her, shining on her own 💓

So who is Park Shin Hye in "Doctors"?

In Doctors, she kinda brings a new side of her

We can clearly see the stunning performance along the development of her character 

She was once a castaway who abandoned by her own dad

I can sense her rebellious side started to surround her when she glared rudely towards her dad in the van-scene 

It was sharp and I can obviously see her real hunger of love and freedom thru her stern poor eyes

It was precisely staged and super in love with this particular scene

Seeing her stony-heart drives me more and more pitiful towards Hye Jung 

She did lost interest in life and has zero reasons to start over

She already died inside tell yaaa!

I would like to give special credit to the very first episode as it successfully fetching me to continue, looking forward to what this drama is heading

It's kinda sentimental when it comes to Hye Jung's family story 

Everything about her during her teen age always sorrowful and heartbreaking 

Hye Jung's cries after her dad left did moved my heart 😭

So that is exactly what people feel, being ditched by the person 

whom they supposedly relied upon 

Well done for this sobby performance, Shin Hye 😢

Ungrateful brat & problematic teenager 

That could possibly the result of being treated like an outcast 

She was being rude towards people around her

Her teacher once yelled and said, "I guarantee you will end up behind bar within the next year!"

Yes she indeed arrested for causing arson(which not solely her fault)

Stealing stuff from gadget store and illegally entered pub and chased by police

Her 16 years old teen age seems miserable 

However, we can see Hye Jung started to taste sweetness of life with the help of her gradma 

Grandma's tenderness of love is really something that it can shaped a steel-heart person 

Hye Jung started to be more contented in her life and gradually changing to be a better person

But before this moment, Hong is already there in the picture 

Hong is the only one guy who seeing her life changing 

Every character that she portrayed always involves Hong in the scene 

Don't forget that Hong himself caught Hye Jung shoplifting 😆

Demotivated to hardworking girl

Cold hearted into a cheerful person 

Badass, hot tempered girl to become a sweet girl

Hong watched them all

He is indeed exists from the very beginning, seeing Hye Jung grown as a person 

Hye Jung's life suddenly turn 360° when her grandma dead

She then turn to completely different person after 10 years

We can see her charisma, strong, bold & determined young lady in her 30's 

No one expects, that one gangster, rebellious girl in class who comes from a broken family did make it till the end!

She is inspiring 

I watched "Doctors" when this drama is on-going airing 

It was 2016 and I can't deny that Hye Jung's character did giving me a slight motivation in my degree life 😂😂😂

It was fun to watch her grows and excels in her life 

Overall, I love Park Shin Hye in Doctors ❤ 

Kim Rae Won (Hong Ji Hong)

I see him in 2 movies but his character way different from Doctors 

I would like to confess that I did throw an instant crush towards Prof Hong's character after watching him in this drama 😆🤣

Matured, killing eye gaze 

These are the 2 strongest persona that inclined me towards Hong Ji Hong

This is probably the power of older Male lead that people have been crazily talking about 🤣

He is nearly 40 during filming "Doctors"

To track the record, Hong is Hye Jung's home room teacher 

He quits medic to become a teacher due to his personal trauma during his internship 

Hong indeed hiding a huge secret in his sleeve 

I'm not sure if man always being like that

To my surprised, Hong who always appears enthusiastic, spirited, energetic and appealing actually has his own dark story 

He is an orphan and being adopted by her foster dad who is a doctor 

Remember a toy he been carrying all the time? 

There is something behind that 

He did encountered a big lost during kid when he seeing his parents died tragically in front of his eyes 

That is why he can fully understands Hye Jung and already captured and sensed everything on her from the very beginning 

Hong carried a big responsibility on his back both when he is a teacher as well as a Doctor 

I need to admit that he did well in both of the roles 

We can see his charisma when he's handling cases in hospital 

and not to forgot, his strict but considerate homeroom teacher who take over student's disciplinary action 

He indeed becoming the most attractive teacher that students scared of yet always been look up to 

As a boyfriend, I personally think that Hong really catch my attention with his extremely natural acting

His charm and matured side always got me 💘

I had some hard time to fall in love with other main lead characters after I saw Hong Ji Hong😂

I started to realize that what girls want is just a man who can listen, care and understand them 

His character in "Doctors" is not constructed to be, "too good to be true" guy in illogical way but he instead appears realistic and simply natural 

He is indeed boyfriend material I guess 🤭🤾‍♀️

He didn't "try hard" to win Hye Jung's heart again

He just there, showing his sincere love and patiently waiting for Hye Jung's approval 

Hong Ji Hong undeniably a partner whom a girl can trust in and always make her girl becoming a better version of herself ❤ 

Romance 

In my view, Doctors is one of an excellent romance kdrama 

The love story between the main leads is soo natural, soft and beautiful 

There is no tragic incident happened that separate them apart except for the early episodes 

The goodbye scene feeling so finale when Hong run towards Hye Jung and Hye Jung ignored him by hoping on Soo Cheol's motorbike (played by Ji-soo)

And Hye Jung is nowhere to be seen after that

That marks the last time they meet each other 

Their love story then blooming again when they reunited during helicopter scene, 10 years later

It was super awkward and funny at the same time

"how are you?", Hye Jun asked

"do you have boyfriend?", Hong then replied with an unexpected question 

"No", Hye Jun answered awkwardly 

"are u married?"

"No"

"Then we are set", Hong said with naughty smile at the end and left Hye Jung dumbfounded 

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I found this scenes is super cute and eeeeasy 

What do u expect?

A dramatic proposal? Naahh

I didn't see it's coming 

Well done Prof Hong

You did very well 😂

We can tell by considering his age

He is obviously your Oppa standard yeah

He simply tells us that he got no time to play around and just hit the target while getting chances 👏😆 

Talking about the loveliness, Hong actually fallen for Hye Jun even when she was a teenager but Hye Jung's feelings is unsure 

Whether she also likes Hong back then or it just a sense of respect as a student towards a teacher ❤ 

To be brutally honest, 

I did feels that most of the romance scenes in this drama is quite predictable

The bicycle riding scene, back hugging, Hong  teaches Hye Jun handling claw machine, the rain dancing scene and even the scene when Hong saves Hye Jun from tripping off the chairs in the school laboratory 

It's all seems familiar 

But guess what, this drama indeed brings a special atmosphere for these scenes!

Might be because both Kim Rae Won & Park Shin Hye did it in their own natural way and might also because the OST played in background which hit differently! Oyeahh! I just love all those scenes 

Matured relationships 

I need to admit that their relationship is one of the best relationships that exist in Kdrama

Luckily, there is no one- sided love or anyone patronized the other partner between Hong and Hye Jung

They both just being so matured while handling their partner's behavior 

I really into this kind of relationship whereby sincerity and honesty take place before the other elements coming into the scene

There are no unnecessary jealousy moments, immature misunderstandings and groundless allegations taking over 

How they solved their insecurity and uncertainty towards each other is highly intriguing 

My favorite scene would be the one when they have small arguments that teared them apart for several days

Fortunately, they both got chance to meet occasionally when Hye Jung sends drunk In-Joo to her residence which is in the same area with Hong's

They awkwardly greet each other and Hong offered Hye Jung to come over 

She then politely declined and Hong innocently replied 

"Okay, then"

Hye Jung suddenly infuriated 

"Okay then???"

She then turned around and about to leave 

She actually don't wanna leave but at the same time try to avoid Hong 

However, deep in her heart, she wanted to clear everything 

Girl~ 😂😂😂 

Hong suddenly grabbed Hye Jun's wrist, stopped her and asked only a simple question.. 

"You want to go back, or you want to talk?" 

Hye Jun then melted, and surrendered at last 

She even confessed her guilt 

She thought that she was wronged, asking Hong to "change"  

Hong then confessed that he did missed Hye Jun all these times but refuse to reach Hye Jun first

He chuckles and said that he's been waiting for her calls

He even praised Hye Jun that she is good at figuring out her own mistakes 

And as simple as that, they then reconciled 

I found that, this matured ambience of relationship is simply captivating 

Can you believe that the short question asked by Hong could save thousand of arguments in relationship?

You want to avoid or solve?

Want to hold or settle it right now?

You want more time or we can discuss right here?

It's all start with one side who turns down the ego and speak up 

But most of the time, people tend to let the ego surpass their rationality that makes the argument breed and prolong by time 

Mutual Respect

Hong respect Hye Jun in all of her decisions 

He lets Hye Jun decide her mission and supports her to achieve her long time intention 

He once tried to control Hye Jung's decision-making regarding her rigid motive (seeking truth of her grandma's death) and also advises her about her coldness towards her dad

But then he realized that he was too fast to judge without knowing the whole view and taking lightly on Hye Jung's feelings 

But at the end, he soon realized and he's the one helping Hye Jung to investigate the truth and never brag about her dad again

Sometimes, we can see how someone wrongly take over her partner's life and control them

We actually don't have right to control someone's life

We either agree or disagree 

If we disagree, we could only voice it out but regardless our stands towards someone's decision, we still can't stop someone to pursue what they wanted because the fact is, we can't change someone 

We sometimes forgot that the first things to do as a partner is not deciding but understanding 

Without understanding, we unable to be right beside them thru out their life

We keep telling someone to stop doing that, don't hate them, etc.

But actually we never listen and having no idea on what they have been thru yet we claimed that we know everything even try to invade someone's territory 

Hong never exceed the limit

He just there, listening to her dreams and desire and he assists her to accomplish her mission

That what couples do

You don't overruled and command everything just to show your power because at the end of the day, a girl will eventually feels safe being around a man and wanting to be protected by that man

Hye Jung who is a self absorber and independent young lady suddenly turned to be less guarded and let Hong protects her and allows herself to be loved 

She respects him as a senior as well as her partner without being told to do so

That is what true love probably means❤ 

Octagon Love Story

In Doctors, we can see some triangle, or I can call it octagon love stories 😂

In Joo loves Hong but gives up at the end because Hong treat her as a friend

Jin Seo Woo(starring Lee Sung Kyung) also once love Hong but Hong just seeing her as a student 

She then falls in love with Jung Yoon Doo (Yung Kyung Sang) but Yoon Doo treat her as a junior and in fact, Yoon Doo once throw hate towards Hye Jung but then found himself slowly fallen for Hye Jung 

Both Seo Woo and Yoon Doo character is undeniably honest with each other

I'm quite surprised to see how sincere they are towards each other when it comes to personal feelings 😅 

This might also because of their profession which is in medical line when there is no time to be wasted for a trivial feeling issue 

They just saying what's in their head 

Seo Woo once said casually to Yoon Doo

"I hate you terribly"

Yoon Doo didn't seem shocked 

"But I love you so much"

"Why did you love me", he asked 

"I love you because you have so much things to offer

Guys who like me before like me because the things that I have but with you, I no need to worry", Seo Woo uttered fearlessly 

She probably done with people who taking advantage on her strength, that is why she keeps falling for people who having more than what she currently owns 

Yoon Doo then replied a sentence that left Seo Woo wondered... 🙃

"Is it a love or..............

I begin to pity over SEO Woo due to her character 

She might seem successful, fancy and rich

She has almost everything but deep inside she feel lacked in her life

She is not pure antagonist here but she just a girl who missing a true happiness 

I like Lee Sung Kyung in this drama and this is probably the most monotonous character of her among her filmography 

I honestly feel greedy to see her performing surgery an tasks as a doctor but this drama didn't show it much

But it's okay, I might see her again in Romantic Dr Kim later on 😍

I realise that Lee Sung Kyung indeed a versatile actress

She can be slight foe in "Doctors" but can appear humorous in "Weightlifting Fairy KBJ"

She also become bimbo in "Cheese in Trap" but cool police in"Miss & Ms.Cop"

I just enjoyed her acting ❤ 

Ending 

Let's move to the ending 

Character twist 

Seo Woo emotionally told her dad about Hye Jung's desire in life

Become a surgeon is not what she wanted so badly 

Hye Jung once shared her dreams when they are all teenagers 

What she wished the most was spending times with her grandma and helps her grandma running the restaurant happily 

Hye Jung once just wanted a simple yet meaningful life with her grandma 

That's it 

But her dad messed up everything 😭

Seo Woo confessed with full of  frustration 

I love how Seo Woo's moves when she finally confronts Hye Jung and get herself on knees just to beg Hye Jun perform the surgery and apologises on behalf of her dad 

That is the most daring side of Seo Woo and it was unexpected 

She lets her guard down this time and left everything behind and I believe that she finally free from her greedy attitude and slowly grew as a person towards a betterment She also date her colleagues 😁

See..we always looks for other people to fall for us but sometimes ignore the one who is constantly devoted towards us 

To love, or to be loved, you choose 😋 

Hye Jung's battle

I don't know how to express my satisfactory level regarding the ending as this shows makes her traps in a "catch-22" state whereby her long-time rival lastly becomes her own patient! 😓

I honestly unsatisfied at first but when I looked back on what's happening, I agree that Hye Jung did achieves her triumph

She then become an upper hand and saviour instead 

She finally made her most hated person, bow and thanks her for saving his life and that is huge!

From a girl full of rage to a grown up woman who freely lives in present 

To let past story gone is indeed a tough job

The rigid motive once driven her to seek the truth and justice for her loved ones but who knows, that same rigid motive also brought her to what she'd becoming right now 

After all, it's not about win or lose in the battle, but what she becomes thru out the process 

She already won from long time ago when the first time she intended to find out the truth 

She did pretty well along the journey

She killed 2 birds with 1 stone

Not only succeeded in her mission to reveal the truth but she also successfully becomes one of the best Neorosurgeon that everyone proud of!

She might encountered a "cursed" life back then 

Everything is miserable and it's like everything is taken from her one by one

But look at her now, keeps giving people new hopes to keep living with the help of her "magic" hand

This is a very precious lesson this drama can served 

Don't give up too early

Takes your time as much as you need to heal but remember, always come back stronger

The other side of world is too beautiful to be ignored ❤ 

Thanks for reading 💐

Credit: all Image source from imdb & SBS tv