The Trauma Code – Heroes on Name: Episodes 1-8 (Sequence Evaluation)
by SailorJumun
Joo Ji-hoon is right here to save lots of the day, whether or not you prefer it or not. And very like his character, medical motion comedy The Trauma Code – Heroes on Name doesn’t maintain again. We’re thrown into the on a regular basis lives of a trauma crew who work with probably the most severe of accidents, making for an intense (and surprisingly heartwarming) journey.
NOTE: This evaluate incorporates spoilers, so proceed with warning.
SERIES REVIEW
If the common medical drama makes you squeamish, then this present is certainly not for you. We’re coping with trauma like gushing stab wounds, protruding objects, and it’s all proven in graphic element. It’s virtually at a horror film stage, with the quantity of blood there’s, however that appears to be the intention — it provides us the sensation that we’re being thrown into the sector ourselves, stumbling alongside.
Then there’s physician BAEK KANG-HYUK (Joo Ji-hoon), who fairly actually leaps into motion within the very first scene. He’s motorcycling by means of a battle zone, dodging explosions and automobiles flipping by means of the air, to ship antibiotics to a hospital. It’s an epic character introduction, telling us immediately the lengths he’s prepared to go to assist others.
Kang-hyuk is transferred to Hanguk Nationwide College Hospital, the place the earlier trauma specialist collapsed from being overworked. The trauma crew right here is mainly nonexistent, with different departments having to pitch in each time there’s an emergency. The upper-ups are too involved about saving cash to supply the mandatory assets, they usually’re irritated to must welcome this “god-like” physician.
Kang-hyuk misses his personal welcome ceremony to take care of a trauma affected person, appalled that the one particular person in cost for the time being is a skittish colorectal mentee named YANG JAE-WON (Choo Younger-woo). It’s clear that this younger physician doesn’t actually know what he’s doing, however there’s one thing about him that Kang-hyuk likes, so Kang-hyuk takes him into surgical procedure to help.
Kang-hyuk is a typical genius surgeon, who is aware of precisely what’s mistaken and precisely what to do. Regardless of this being an enormous medical drama cliché, his cool and unhesitating nature is reasonably spectacular. Jae-won appears on the man like he’s some mystical being, and it’s fairly endearing.
After a profitable surgical procedure, Jae-won is horrified to appreciate that Kang-hyuk isn’t achieved with him but. He’s dragged right into a helicopter to get to a affected person on web site and, petrified of heights, is panicking all the time. However once more, Kang-hyuk handles the scenario completely. He takes issues to the acute when nobody else will — cursing out instructions and fast-ropping down the freaking helicopter.
Kang-hyuk begins forming his trauma heart crew, after all beginning with Jae-won, saying he preferred how Jae-won would dash on the point out of an emergency. At first, Jae-won isn’t certain if he desires to desert his mentor — the top of basic surgical procedure HAN YOO-RIM (Yoon Kyung-ho) — however he can’t resist this golden alternative.
Additionally becoming a member of the crew are nurse CHUN YOUNG-MI (Ha Younger) and anesthesiologist PARK KYUNG-WON (Jung Jae-kwang). Younger-mi is skilled and grounded, nicknamed “Gangster” for initially mistaking Kang-hyuk as a gangster due to his tattoo. (It’s higher than Jae-won’s nickname, “Anus.”) And whereas Kyung-won appears succesful too, the hospital director CHOI JO-EUN (Kim Eui-sung) has him act as a mole.
The crew falls right into a chaotic routine of working, performing surgical procedure, getting sprayed with blood, advert infinitum. They barely have time to eat or sleep, and to make issues worse, they nonetheless have higher-ups like physician Yoo-rim and chief HONG JAE-HOON (Kim Received-hae) giving them a tough time. However Jae-won factors out that they have to maintain working, as a result of taking a break might price somebody’s life.
It’s inside the chaos that we get some large character moments, like when Yoo-rim’s daughter is rolled in as a trauma affected person. Yoo-rim doesn’t belief Kang-hyuk’s judgement, afraid Kang-hyuk will kill his daughter simply to spite him. On prime of that, Jae-won is mates with the daughter and struggles to maintain it collectively throughout surgical procedure. Kang-hyuk, together with the opposite crew members, stay skilled and because of this, the daughter survives. It’s an actual get up name for Yoo-rim — he now sees the significance of the trauma heart. (Form of unhappy that it took one thing private to appreciate this, however whatevs.)
The crew is steadily incomes the respect of their co-workers and, because of the media, most of the people, however Director Choi and Chief Hong are nonetheless adamant on eliminating Kang-hyuk. They floor the helicopter that the crew has been utilizing, insisting that they “comply with the principles,” and due to this, the crew is unable to get to a affected person in time. Chief Hong then encourages the affected person’s household to sue Kang-hyuk for malpractice. Fortunately, our no-nonsense trauma surgeon calls Chief Hong out in a press convention, demanding to understand how lengthy their sufferers must endure attributable to price range restraints.
The final word take a look at arrives when a Korean navy captain is brutally shot in South Sudan. Kang-hyuk and his crew are despatched there to save lots of him, they usually know that everybody’s watching, ready for them to make a mistake. The crew isn’t used to battle circumstances, however it’s one thing that Kang-hyuk could be very acquainted with.
It seems that Kang-hyuk was a medic for an elite navy group referred to as the Black Wings — a secret he’s stored from the higher-ups, because it’s not a superb search for a physician to have been used as a lethal weapon. His connection to the Black Wings, nonetheless, will get the crew a protected house to function on the captain. And once they return to South Korea with mentioned captain, Kang-hyuk’s historical past with the Black Wings is seen as a hero’s story.
Whereas the crew was in South Sudan, Yoo-rim was left answerable for the trauma heart. He’s achieved his finest, however… nicely, he’s no motion hero. He cowers in worry on the web site of a constructing hearth, and Kang-hyuk has to swoop in to save lots of the day. That’s, till Kang-hyuk is caught in an explosion and will get steel lodged in his stomach.
I couldn’t assist laughing at the truth that whilst Kang-hyuk was getting woozy from his wound, he was nonetheless barking orders. On the hospital, he trusts Jae-won to make the choices as lead surgeon. It’s quite a bit for Jae-won to shoulder, particularly since he’s choked on this place earlier than, however he desires to make his mentor proud. And he does.
Kang-hyuk’s surgical procedure is successful, and Kang-hyuk rewards Jae-won by calling him by his title (reasonably than his nickname) for the primary time. The connection between these two has been enjoyable, with Kang-hyuk appearing like an aggravated proprietor attempting to coach his too-jumpy pet, and I beloved seeing it flourish. There’s mutual belief and respect there, and I admire that Kang-hyuk gave Jae-won his confidence.
Now, Kang-hyuk goes all-out and asking Director Choi to take his division extra severely — beginning with a helicopter. Pissed off, Director Choi desires to know why Kang-hyuk insists on doing this to their hospital of all locations. For as soon as, Kang-hyuk’s face softens. He explains that when he was younger, his late father was in a automotive accident and the one hospital that might take him was Hanguk Nationwide.
My coronary heart clenched as I noticed the place Kang-hyuk was going with this. He reveals that there was one physician who wouldn’t hand over on attempting to resuscitate his father, even when hope was lengthy gone. And that physician was Director Choi — he’s the rationale why Kang-hyuk wished to be a trauma surgeon within the first place. It’s fairly exhausting to disclaim Kang-hyuk after that. Director Choi approves of Kang-hyuk’s request, and the trauma crew will get their very own helicopter. In fact, as quickly as they get it, they instantly have an emergency and have to leap in.
Phew. Lastly, I can breathe. The Trauma Code delivered on all of the motion, taking us from a busy emergency room all the best way to South Sudan. There have been undoubtedly quieter moments, the place we received to see the characters and their blossoming friendships, and that allowed for some a lot wanted humor. Jae-won was a hilarious beginner, Younger-mi was a fantastic mama bear nurse, and pouty Yoo-rim even got here round to being a significant ally. Joo Ji-hoon’s character was somewhat too good for me, making the storyline predictable, however on the finish of the day, he nonetheless felt human. And to me, it’s that humanity that makes these medical doctors superheroes.
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