What is the secret of Doctor X?
The October 10 episode of the SBS Friday-Saturday drama "Doctor X: Mafia in White" (hereinafter "Doctor X") depicted Gye Soo-jung performing surgeries on two pancreatic cancer patients.
On this day, watching Do Yoon-shik take on the surgery of a VIP patient, Gye Soo-jung worried, "He won't be able to do it with his skill level."
And her prediction was correct. Do Yoon-shik was flustered by the patient's condition, which was more severe than expected, and called to halt the surgery.
At this, Boo Seung-kwon pressed him, "Professor Do, are you really going to close up as it is?" Do Yoon-shik replied, "Anything more than this will be too much of a burden on the patient." Ultimately, Boo Seung-kwon paged Gye Soo-jung, who was operating on another pancreatic cancer patient in Operating Room 5.
Without hesitation, Gye Soo-jung stated she would go right away to Operating Room 1, where the VIP patient was. Park Tae-kyung blocked her, asking how even Gye Soo-jung could prioritize the VIP patient. However, Gye Soo-jung headed straight to Operating Room 1 and took over the surgery from Do Yoon-shik.
Boo Seung-kwon and Bae Heung-gon, who had been watching the surgery in Operating Room 1, went to Operating Room 5. Bae Heung-gon could not hide his shock after belatedly realizing that Gye Soo-jung had completely finished the surgery in just one hour.
Do Yoon-shik became agitated upon seeing Gye Soo-jung proceed with a surgical method different from the one he had prepared. To this, Boo Seung-kwon urged, "Dr. Do Yoon-shik, follow Dr. Gye Soo-jung's surgical method. And Dr. Gye Soo-jung is not in this operating room."
Gye Soo-jung finished the surgery before clocking-off time and had other doctors handle the closing. Jang Hee-sook, who had been watching everything, drew attention by telling Boo Seung-kwon, "Since the surgeries are doubled today, the price is doubled too," promising to keep everything regarding the surgery strictly confidential.
After the surgery ended, Boo Seung-kwon visited Do Yoon-shik. He told Do Yoon-shik, "Yoon-shik, you thought of closing up first. You didn't think about trying to do anything more; you just thought of closing up. At that moment, you had already left the operating room."
To this, Do Yoon-shik sobbed, "No. I volunteered as an assistant and watched this surgery until the end. Do you know how miserable that is? That helplessness of not being able to overcome it with my own skill. Still, I stayed in the operating room until the end and endured. I will continue to do so. That is how I will carve out my place in this hospital and achieve what I dreamed of."
Gye Soo-jung had planned from the start to perform surgeries on both patients. Bae Heung-gon searched for information about Gye Soo-jung's unfamiliar surgical technique. Through an article, he found a record of Gye Soo-jung's surgical method that had been performed in Cuba seven years ago.
The patient at that time had undergone a successful surgery, but died two months later of an unknown cause. Although the primary surgeon's name was unknown, the pseudonym written on the chart was "Doctor X," and Gye Soo-jung was spotted in a group photo of doctors attached to the article, drawing attention.
Meanwhile, Boo Seung-kwon apologized to Gye Soo-jung for making an unreasonable request, advising her that she could not avoid failure forever. Gye Soo-jung turned away, responding, "Director, it seems you have already failed," raising curiosity about what developments will unfold next.
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