A wise doctor's life and a surgeon's life

I like Jeon Mi-do, an actress in 'The Life of a Wise Doctor' (hereafter called Seuluisaeng).

I was able to comfort myself in the past by watching him grind coffee beans in the room, foaming it on filter paper, and pouring coffee in the tight routine, as if he didn't even have time to drink coffee.

Coincidentally, the specialist who advised the writer on neurosurgery is my direct junior.

He said he only consulted in the area of ​​neurosurgery.

It seems that the thoracic surgeon, surgeon, and obstetrician-gynecologist, who came out as colleagues, each received expert advice separately.

Even though it is 'essential medical care that is directly related to life', it has to be 3D (difficult, dirty, and dangerous), but it plays such a wonderful 'Cure Concerto' with surgeons who have been virtually neglected for at least 20 years, appealing only to a sense of duty as a doctor. Thank you to the producers who are doing it.

But the reality was different.

A sudden meeting on the 29th of the Korean Society of Neurosurgery (Chairman Woo-kyung Kim), the Korean Society of Surgery (Chairman Woo-yong Lee), the Korean Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (Chairman Woong-han Kim), the Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Chairman Pil-ryang Lee), and the Korean Urological Association (Chairman Sang-don Lee), etc. was not romantic.

At that meeting, a press release against the obligatory installation of CCTV in the operating room was announced.


Bad doctors in CCTV

In 2016, I met Lee Na-geum, who lost her 25-year-old son (the late Kwon Dae-hee) in front of the National Assembly.

Although he was a one-man protest with a small body, his will not to lose to anyone in the world was radiated from 10m away.

Even before the interview started, I realized.

That our society has done a great wrong to this woman and has not yet fully apologized.

I was shocked when I saw the CCTV of the operating room of the late Kwon Dae-hee that she sent me.



There is blood on the floor of the plastic surgery operating room.


Medical staff try to stop the patient's bleeding and even wipe the blood from the floor with a mop.


But they are all nursing assistants.

There is no doctor.


The patient is in a hurry due to excessive bleeding, and the nursing assistant is looking at the cell phone.

Kwon Dae-hee, 25 at the time of the patient in the video, died 49 days after surgery.


Another hospital's operating room CCTV shows a medical device salesperson instead of a doctor.

A 49-year-old man who underwent surgery at the hospital suffered damage to a major spinal nerve and was unable to pass urine and is now wearing a diaper.


▶ 49-year-old wearing a diaper after spinal surgery…

"There is no evidence of surrogacy surgery"



"If the CCTV case hadn't been reported, how would you have known that I was operated by someone other than a doctor?"



If you see a really bad doctor in the CCTV of the operating room that was released to the media, it is enough to understand the public's absolute support for the CCTV Act in the operating room.


"CCTV bill, I think it should be accepted" vs "By the way, reporter Cho"

I recently had lunch with two medical elders. In the remaining position of 'Less than 4', there was a surgeon who was meeting for the first time. The subject of the first meeting story had to be light, and I put the drama as the theme. He liked the drama much more than I did. TV, as well as Netflix, had a lot of drama. Then, by chance, the topic changed to CCTV in the operating room. I was not unaware of the side effects and limitations of the CCTV Act, but I said that it seemed like an issue that the medical community should accept. Then, he continued speaking as if he was determined.



“But, reporter Cho, me, I stopped watching dramas. I liked dramas so much that I had to watch them until late at night. One morning, I went into the operating room, and the patient’s surgery plan and the drama scene overlapped. So I stopped.”

Surgeons perform the operation in their head before surgery.

Even if I did it dozens of times the day before the surgery, I always do it right before entering the operating room, but the drama scene I watched the night before at that time seemed to interfere.

He says operating room CCTV could reduce the focus of surgery.

A junior professor of medicine who had consulted neurosurgery at Seuluisaeng had similar concerns.

When he was in his sophomore year of majoring, I took a full-time course with him, and he went to the bathroom quite often.

But I liked his habits.

Because he went in and out of the bathroom when he was about to undergo surgery on a high-risk brain tumor or brain hemorrhage.

Doctors participating in life-threatening surgeries, whether specialists or specialists, have only one mindset in common.

It is because you can intuit in the field when you were a major that the doctor does not save the patient, but only helps the patient recover on their own.

That is to say, 'I will make sure that nothing interferes with the operation I participated in'.

The tension of not making a mistake the size of a hair made him stop the drama he liked and make a ridiculous habit of going to the bathroom frequently before surgery.

But they are worried about the operating room CCTV bill.


the public's stern warning

Paradoxically, the concerns of very good doctors are growing about the CCTV installation method in the operating room made by patients who have suffered irreparable damage from bad doctors. There are even rumors in the medical world that bad doctors are installing CCTV first. All hospitals that killed a 25-year-old young man and made a 49-year-old man unable to urinate had installed CCTV in the operating room. Nevertheless, the public's stern warning that the medical industry is self-sufficient for not being able to purify the bad doctors on their own will have to be taken seriously.



Is it possible only in a drama like 'Sorrowful Life', where the medical community fully apologizes to the victims and the public for the concealment of medical malpractice and surrogate surgery, and the public trusts the medical industry again? I don't even want to see a scene where surgeons change their minds, saying, 'Since there is CCTV, let's be quick'.