Doctor John

July 19, 2019

Cha Yo-han (Ji Sung), the only anesthesiologist who can feel no pain, is the medical director of a prison's palliative care unit after serving time for euthanasia. Resident Kang Si-young (Lee Se-young) is assigned to his unit. Asan Medical Centre establishes the hospital world.

July 19, 2019

The palliative care unit's approach to pain management — Yo-han's unconventional methods — is established.

July 26, 2019

The prison exterior and its role in Yo-han's story — his time served and what it taught him about pain and ethics.

July 26, 2019

Si-young's medical education within Yo-han's unit — learning to see pain as a whole-patient problem rather than a symptom to suppress.

August 2, 2019

The drama's central ethical question — when does the relief of suffering justify what the law forbids — stated most directly.

August 2, 2019

Yo-han's inability to feel pain as both his greatest professional gift and his most personal loss.

August 9, 2019

Palliative care cases that carry the drama's emotional weight — each patient's specific pain a portrait of a particular human situation.

August 9, 2019

Their professional relationship developing into mutual recognition.

August 16, 2019

The full story of Yo-han's euthanasia case and what he actually did — and why.

August 16, 2019

The finale. Ji Sung's controlled, intelligent performance as a man whose greatest professional skill is his inability to feel what his patients feel — a drama about empathy without sentimentality.