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A perspective on DOCTOR CHA from a mother, retired doctor, and connoisseur of medical dramas
The "mother, retired doctor, and connoisseur of medical dramas" is my mother, not me, but she isn't on MDL and her life experience means she has a much more interesting take on this drama than probably 90% of the people who have seen it, including me.
My mom spent almost 4 decades working in hospitals, managed care facilities, outpatient clinics, you name it. She also raised multiple kids! She gave birth to her first child during her residency. Mom has also watched every American medical show ever produced in its entirety from E.R. to SCRUBS to GREY'S ANATOMY.
She really loves DOCTOR CHA. First she says that the show got the technical/medical details right (hats off to not just the writer and actors but also the Netflix subtitler for nailing it). The depictions of pressures on doctors and residents, the messiness of their lives, the "old boys' network," and the ageism towards Cha Jeong-suk really resonated with her (my mother really felt that later on in her career).
Mom also appreciated how nobody in the drama was one-dimensional: Choi Seung-hee wasn't just some homewrecker, she was trying to "have it all" when that option wasn't available to her because of the man she got involved with, the society she lived in, or both. Roy Kim is not a straight-up hero, he has some of the same Main Character Syndrome as Seo In-ho and has to work on it. Seo In-ho is essentially the villain of the narrative but he's still a person, just a person who's 70-90% of everyone else's problems including his own because of his arrogance and poor choices. He's a pitiable and often laughable hot mess of a person - which comes across because of Kim Byung-chul's skills as a physical comedian (my mother found him very funny).
So what did mom think of the ending, which so many people didn't like? Well, in the end, Cha Jeong-suk is doing the work she wants to do. Her kids are thriving and she has a good relationship with them. She's in reasonably good health after an organ transplant and two brushes with death. My mom thought that was a pretty satisfying ending, all things considered.
My mom spent almost 4 decades working in hospitals, managed care facilities, outpatient clinics, you name it. She also raised multiple kids! She gave birth to her first child during her residency. Mom has also watched every American medical show ever produced in its entirety from E.R. to SCRUBS to GREY'S ANATOMY.
She really loves DOCTOR CHA. First she says that the show got the technical/medical details right (hats off to not just the writer and actors but also the Netflix subtitler for nailing it). The depictions of pressures on doctors and residents, the messiness of their lives, the "old boys' network," and the ageism towards Cha Jeong-suk really resonated with her (my mother really felt that later on in her career).
Mom also appreciated how nobody in the drama was one-dimensional: Choi Seung-hee wasn't just some homewrecker, she was trying to "have it all" when that option wasn't available to her because of the man she got involved with, the society she lived in, or both. Roy Kim is not a straight-up hero, he has some of the same Main Character Syndrome as Seo In-ho and has to work on it. Seo In-ho is essentially the villain of the narrative but he's still a person, just a person who's 70-90% of everyone else's problems including his own because of his arrogance and poor choices. He's a pitiable and often laughable hot mess of a person - which comes across because of Kim Byung-chul's skills as a physical comedian (my mother found him very funny).
So what did mom think of the ending, which so many people didn't like? Well, in the end, Cha Jeong-suk is doing the work she wants to do. Her kids are thriving and she has a good relationship with them. She's in reasonably good health after an organ transplant and two brushes with death. My mom thought that was a pretty satisfying ending, all things considered.
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