The Hippocratic Crush II


The Hippocratic Crush II, also known by its Chinese title On Call 36 Hours II is a 2013 Hong Kong television medical drama series produced by Poon Ka-tak and TVB. The drama follows the lives of young housemen, residents, and their mentors working in Mercy Hospital, a fictional hospital set in Hong Kong.

Synopsis

The Hippocratic Crush II immediately follows off from The Hippocratic Crush, following the lives of doctors, new and old, facing the patients and challenges that unfold before them.
Cheung Yat Kin and Fan Chi Yu are now happily married to each other but life ahead is not easy for them. They have to face new obstacles together if they are to keep their relationship growing strong. Chi Yu finds herself pregnant but her intramedullary spinal cord tumour relapsed to which makes her unfit to continue with the pregnancy. However, she insists on carrying on with the pregnancy and this causes certain disputes between the couple. Though this does not mean that Yat Kin loves Chi Yu any less; he just can’t bear watching her suffer so he offers to carry some of her burdens.
Chi Yu’s illness causes her to eventually relent to getting an abortion, as well as making her incompetent to perform surgery on patients. This is a huge blow to her as well as Yat Kin. His mother also falls sick which added pressure on him, causing him to develop an anxiety disorder and stomach ulcer from chronic indomethacin use. However, with Yat Kin by her side, Chi Yu isn’t ready to give up yet; she wants to help Yat Kin to stand strong again. So she decides to switch afresh, switching from cardiology to pathology, learning under the disciplinary of Man Sang who helps her to regain her strength. In addition, Chi Yu believes that she could remain a pathologist if she were later required to use a wheelchair.
Yat Kin finds it difficult to accept the new challenges in his life, however, as he watches his friends and fellow subordinates, Mei Suet and Pui Chung grow to become independent, capable and experienced doctors, he learns that he must first protect himself before he can protect others. Will he be able to do this and protect those whom he loves and cares about? What is the true meaning behind being a doctor? It is merely about saving about patients? What about the doctors themselves?
The challenges that he has to face with Chi Yu on top of his stubborn personality takes a toll on his relationship with newly transferred pathology specialist, Lok Man Sang. The two are constantly at each other’s throat with differing opinions and their approach with medicine which creates further tension between the two doctors. Lokman gets involved with fellow internal medicine doctor, Heung Chin Yi, who happens to be twenty years younger than him.
Man Sang and Chin Yi have a very different view of love. Lokman is a widowed man with a young daughter Yannis while Chin Yi is left having to take care of her runaway boyfriend's son. Through mutual understanding and hardships, the two grow to love each other despite their age difference. Chin Yi was looking for her boyfriend, who was hired by Monica to do renovation work on Lokman's cafe and was with Monica when he died in a traffic accident in mainland China. Chin Yi was also the school classmate of the daughter of Neurosurgery Chief Dr. Lam, Che Che.
Lokman and David grew up together and with Monica run a cafe. Lokman has CML leukemia. David suddenly needs brain surgery. David enters in a relationship with Yannis' aunt/de facto step-mother.
Meanwhile, Chi Yu’s sister, neurosurgeon Hong Mei Suet also has her own challenges to face as she finally becomes a doctor in her own right. However, that is not the only challenge in her life. Her relationship with her orthopaedic surgeon boyfriend Lau Ping Chan heads on the rocks as their relationship turns into a love triangle.
Fresh Cardiosurgeon, Yeung Pui Chung undergoes his own journey to become a better doctor. As his career picks up, he finds himself in a love triangle with his crush in Australia Ching Ching, training doctor Chung Tsz Ting and Che Hiu Tung, 26 year old a social worker volunteer, who suffers from a chronic illness, brainstem glioma, partially resected at age 16 with a life expectancy of 3 to 10 years. Che Che was a school classmate of Heung Chin Yi and daughter of Dr. Lam, the chief of Neurosurgery and Dr. Cheung Yat Kin's boss. Che Che eventually develops symptoms of brainstem glioma growth, including double vision and facial paralysis.

Cast

  • Lawrence Ng as Dr. Lokman Lok Man Sang, new head of pathology, co-owner of Another House Cafe, has leukemia
  • Kenneth Ma as Dr. Cheung Yat Kin, neurosurgery consultant, husband of Fan Chi Yu
  • Tavia Yeung as Dr. Fan Chi Yu, pathology, formerly cardiothoracic surgery consultant, wife of Cheung Yak Kin
  • Mandy Wong as Dr. Hung Mei Suet, neurosurgery associate consultant, younger sister of Fan Chi Yu, girlfriend of Benjamin
  • Him Law as Dr. Yeung Pui Chung, cardiothoracic surgery associate consultant
  • Tracy Chu as Dr. Heung Chin Yi, internal medicine associate consultant, took care of ex-boyfriend's son, knew Monica, her parents were editors for Moon Suen Man Yuet
  • Eliza Sam as Che Hiu Tung, hospital volunteer, daughter of Dr. Lam, grew up as schoolmates and friends with Dr. Heung Chin Yee, brain stem glioma since age 16
  • Louisa So as Moon Suen Man Yuet, author, sister-in-law of Lokman, cared for Yannis
  • Benjamin Yuen as Dr. Benjamin Lau Ping Chan, orthopaedics consultant, boyfriend of Hung Mei Suet
  • Jerry Ku as David Mo Yong Wai, co-owner of Another House Cafe, one of few surviving rich heirs of a family
  • Crystal Li as Dr. Chung Tsz-ting, houseman
  • Derek Kok as Lui Siu Yik, nurse, husband of To Ka Man
  • Paisley Wu as To Ka Man, chief nurse, wife of Lui Siu Yik
  • Elkie Chong as Yannis Suen Hei Yan, estranged young daughter of Lokman
  • Ben Wong as Dr. John Chong Pok Man, Chief of Service & neurosurgery consultant
  • Marcus Kwok as Dr. Tong Hon Pong, neurosurgery consultant
  • Tse Cheuk Yin as Dr. Andy Law On Dik
  • Gigi Wong as Wong Siu Un, mother of Cheung Yat Kin
  • Grace Wong as Amber Ling Kwan, former medical school, now street dancer
  • 唐子輝 as Kok Fan Sing, small boy and son of Fai, Heung Chin Yi's boyfriend