Scene 49 Time / Night Setting / Living Room of Lin Xiuling's Villa, Suburbs of Shanghai City
Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua
△ In the villa living room, Yang Wenhua is playing the classical guitar. Xiuling brings over a plate of fruit, cut pineapple and Irwin mangoes.
Lin Xiuling: Have some fruit. They came from my family's home in Tainan.
△ Xiuling hands him a bamboo fork. Wenhua puts down the guitar.
Yang Wenhua: You can even buy seasonal Taiwanese fruit here?
Lin Xiuling: Of course! As long as you're willing to spend more money. By the way, at noon you personally promised Miss Hu that you would operate on her yourself. I was very touched by your kindness, but...
Yang Wenhua: But what?
Lin Xiuling: I'm worried that the patient will talk about it afterward.
Yang Wenhua: (smiling) I understand your concern. I have never planned to settle down in Shanghai. I won't become your competitor.
Lin Xiuling: What are you thinking? I'm worried that if this matter gets out, you may violate the local medical regulations. In the future, when you come to Shanghai, the medical authorities may pursue your legal responsibility.
Yang Wenhua: Xiuling, you are truly overthinking it! In front of Miss Hu, in order to persuade her, I deliberately said that. Actually, I intend for you to perform the operation yourself. I will guide you from the side. You will operate personally and accumulate experience, and in the future you will be able to handle this kind of difficult case.
Lin Xiuling: (smiling) So you had considered things more thoroughly than I did, and you saw even further ahead.
Yang Wenhua: Once the patient has been anesthetized, I will leave the operating room and guide you from the side through the video system.
Lin Xiuling: (confused) You could stay in the operating room and guide me. Wouldn't that be even better?
Yang Wenhua: No. I cannot let you have any psychological dependence. That would affect your on-the-spot judgment and adaptability.
Lin Xiuling: Alright then. Come, eat some fruit.
Scene 50 Time / Day Setting / Fudan Hospital Oncology Consultation Room, Plastic Surgery Office, Medical Inspection Bureau Office Characters / Hu Meimei, Zhang Lihua, Nurse, Zhao Xiaodong
△ Inside the oncology consultation room of Fudan Hospital, Doctor Zhang Lihua points at the X-ray film with a laser pointer.
Zhang Lihua: Miss Hu, based on this X-ray film, my preliminary judgment is that there is indeed a tumor growing in your breast, and it has already partially spread locally. Once the biopsy report comes out, we will be able to confirm it.
Hu Meimei: (with a worried expression) Why is what you're saying exactly the same as what that Doctor Lin Xiuling said? Then wouldn't my marriage plans just…
Zhang Lihua: When something abnormal appears in your body, it is reminding you to treat yourself well first. I think that after your fiancé learns about your illness, he should be able to understand you. If it is confirmed to be a malignant tumor, you must actively undergo treatment.
Hu Meimei: Doctor, may I ask, after treatment, is there any chance for my condition to recover?
Zhang Lihua: Miss Hu, if by “recover” you mean that your breast can retain its original appearance and function, regarding this part, I can only say that we must first make an evaluation.
Hu Meimei: You know Doctor Lin Xiuling, right?
Zhang Lihua: I do know her! Although I am not very familiar with her, she has a good reputation in the field of plastic medicine.
Hu Meimei: Doctor Lin promised that she would ask her senior, a doctor surnamed Yang, to perform the surgery for me.
Zhang Lihua: A doctor surnamed Yang? It should be Yang Wenhua, right? I have heard his lectures. He comes from Taiwan, and the new techniques he developed are extremely advanced.
Hu Meimei: Hearing you say that makes me feel much more at ease.
Zhang Lihua: (suspiciously) But this Doctor Yang does not have a local practice license here. How can he perform surgery on you? Wait a moment, I will ask the supervisor of our related department.
△ Zhang Lihua leaves his seat, walks to the corner, picks up the telephone receiver, and dials the surgery department. The person who answers the phone is the attending physician Zhao Xiaodong.
Zhang Lihua: Senior Xiaodong, I would like to ask you something…
Zhang Lihua: I understand. Thank you, Senior. I will truthfully tell the patient.
Zhang Lihua: Why is that? Oh, alright, I understand what you mean.
△ Zhang Lihua returns to his seat.
Zhang Lihua: Miss Hu, when the test report comes out in a couple of days, please come to the hospital to collect your medical records and give them to Doctor Lin Xiuling. After that, Doctor Lin will continue your treatment.
▲ The camera cuts to the plastic surgery office.
△ In front of the desk, Zhao Xiaodong leans back diagonally against his chair, looking at the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window, a strange smile appearing on his face.
Zhao Xiaodong: (talking to himself) My opportunity has come! Yang Wenhua, you dare to show off your skills on my turf—I’ll let you know who the real boss here is…
△ Zhao Xiaodong picks up the telephone receiver on the desk and makes a call.
Zhao Xiaodong: Medical Inspection Bureau? I’m looking for Director Cao.
Operator: Please wait a moment, I’ll transfer your call. Director Cao, line one.
Cao Ming: This is Cao Ming.
Zhao Xiaodong: Brother Cao, this is Guo Xiaodong, attending surgeon at Fudan Hospital.
Cao Ming: Little Guo! Our bureau chief thinks very highly of the international medical seminar your hospital has been holding recently!
Zhao Xiaodong: I want to report an illegal medical practice by an unlicensed doctor. Please bring people to inspect it.
Cao Ming: Oh? There is actually an unlicensed doctor operating in my territory? Tell me the information of the person involved, and the time and place.
▲ The camera shifts to the Medical Prosecutor’s Office, Medical Inspection Division, Director Cao Ming’s office.
△ Director Cao takes the ballpoint pen out of his pocket and writes down the information.
Cao Ming: Mm, tell me the information of the person involved, and the time and place.
Cao Ming: Mm, alright. I will personally lead the team to arrest them…
Scene 51 Time / Day Setting / Qingxiu Jiaren Aesthetic Medical Clinic, Commercial District, Shanghai Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua, Zhang Dongmei (reception nurse), Hu Meimei, Cao Ming, Li Xiong, Medical Inspection Team Members
△ Cao Ming leads the medical inspection team members into Lin Xiuling’s aesthetic medical clinic.
Cao Ming: (showing his identification) Medical Inspection Bureau. We received a report that your clinic has an unlicensed doctor performing surgery on patients.
Zhang Dongmei: Please wait a moment. I’ll inform the director.
△ Just as Zhang Dongmei picks up the telephone receiver, Cao Ming presses down on the phone.
Cao Ming: Are you trying to tip someone off?
Cao Ming: Li Xiong, stay outside and keep watch. The rest of you, come in with me and search.
Li Xiong: Yes, Director.
△ Li Xiong uses his body to block Zhang Dongmei.
Zhang Dongmei: You cannot barge in. A surgery is in progress inside.
△ Cao Ming leads three subordinates and charges straight into the operating room.
△ The door of the operating room is suddenly pushed open. Inside, Lin Xiuling and the nurse look at the four people who have burst in.
Cao Ming: Where is that unlicensed doctor?
Lin Xiuling: (taking off her mask and angrily demanding) Who are you people? Why are you barging into the operating room?
△ Lin Xiuling alertly turns off the video system.
Cao Ming: Where is Yang Wenhua, that unlicensed doctor from Taiwan? Where did you hide him? Our Medical Inspection Bureau received a report saying that your clinic is harboring an unlicensed doctor to perform surgery on patients.
Lin Xiuling: (coldly sneering) The operating room is only this big. Which one of your honorable official eyes sees an unlicensed doctor?
△ Cao Ming looks around the operating room. Aside from the two female nurses, there is indeed no fourth person.
Cao Ming: (awkwardly, forcing a smile) Perhaps the information was wrong. Sorry for disturbing you. Team, withdraw.
Lin Xiuling: (rebuking) Wait a minute! Did you consider that barging into an operating room could cause the patient to suffer a bacterial infection because of you?
Cao Ming: (stubbornly arguing) We are carrying out official duties according to the law. Doctor Lin, please be understanding.
Lin Xiuling: If the patient develops a bacterial infection because of this, I will definitely file a complaint with your bureau chief.
Cao Ming: (in a cold, hard tone) Do as you please. Team, withdraw.
△ Cao Ming’s face turns livid. He waves his hand and leads his three subordinates away.
Scene 52 Time / Day Setting / Lin Xiuling’s Office, Qingxiu Jiaren Aesthetic Medical Clinic Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua
△ Inside Lin Xiuling’s office, Yang Wenhua is sitting in front of the desk. Lin Xiuling and Zhang Dongmei walk in.
Lin Xiuling: Just now a group of people from the Medical Inspection Bureau barged into the operating room. It was really outrageous.
Yang Wenhua: It was indeed outrageous. Even if they are trying to catch an unlicensed doctor, they should not barge into an operating room.
Lin Xiuling: After all, this isn’t Taiwan. The officials here really dare to act recklessly! Fortunately, you were not at the scene at the time.
Yang Wenhua: (smiling) Aside from this unexpected little incident, the entire surgery process was very perfect.
Lin Xiuling: Mm, Senior, I really need to learn from your courage and carefulness. However, afterward I am going to ask Zhao Xiaodong about this clearly. As for who would do this kind of informing, other than him, I cannot think of a second person.
Yang Wenhua: Oh? Even if Zhao Xiaodong personally admits that he was the one who reported it, what could you do to him? It is better to resolve enmity than to deepen it.
Lin Xiuling: (thinking for a moment) From now on, I will have to be on guard against Zhao Xiaodong.
Yang Wenhua: You must manage the follow-up well and avoid the patient developing a hospital-acquired infection.
Lin Xiuling: I will. Wenhua, are you in a hurry to go back?
Yang Wenhua: Yes. I should go back earlier. The work at the hospital cannot keep burdening Su Junsheng all the time.
Lin Xiuling: Su Junsheng? A junior from two classes below me. He is very eager to learn! You and he will definitely get along well. Later, accompany me to have a meal. Consider it a farewell dinner for you.
Scene 53 Time / Day Setting / A Restaurant in the Commercial District of Shanghai Characters / Lin Xiuling, Yang Wenhua, Customers, Waiter
△ In a corner of the restaurant, Lin Xiuling and Yang Wenhua are seated, eating set meals.
Lin Xiuling: Wenhua, from you, I have learned many things that I could not learn in school before, for example, the doctor-patient relationship.
Yang Wenhua: The ancients said, “A doctor’s heart is like that of a parent.” Actually, the doctor-patient relationship is not as complicated as people imagine. If we are willing to make the patient’s health our foremost priority, communication between both sides will become smooth.
Lin Xiuling: You are right, Wenhua. Doctors cannot make money against their conscience, without caring whether patients live or die in the future.
△ Lin Xiuling takes an envelope out of her handbag.
Lin Xiuling: (pushing it in front of Wenhua) A Citibank check in U.S. dollars. Miss Hu gave this extra. I think this money is what you deserve to take.
Yang Wenhua: (pushing it back in front of Xiuling) I am not lacking money, but you can donate this money to charity.
Lin Xiuling: Alright then. I will donate it in your name.
Yang Wenhua: Actually, my life is very simple. Every month, from my salary, I only keep a small portion for living expenses. Most of it I transfer to health clinics in remote rural areas, to support regional medical care.
Lin Xiuling: (moved) Wenhua, in front of you, I feel that I am covered in the stench of fame and profit.
Yang Wenhua: (smiling) As long as you have the heart for it, you can do it too, Xiuling.
Lin Xiuling: (V.O.) A man like Wenhua is truly worth cherishing.
Scene 54 Time / Day Setting / Registration Counter of Qingxiu Jiaren Aesthetic Medical Clinic, Lin Xiuling’s Office Characters / Lin Xiuling, Zhao Xiaodong, Zhang Dongmei
△ Zhao Xiaodong arrives at the registration counter holding a bouquet of flowers.
Zhao Xiaodong: Is Doctor Lin here?
Zhang Dongmei: Please wait a moment, Doctor Zhao.
△ Zhang Dongmei picks up the receiver and presses the intercom line.
Zhang Dongmei: Boss, Doctor Zhao wants to see you.
Lin Xiuling: Tell him that I’m busy and don’t want to see him.
Zhang Dongmei: Doctor Zhao, our boss says she does not want to see you.
△ Just as Zhang Dongmei finishes speaking, Zhao Xiaodong walks directly toward the office and pushes the door open.
Lin Xiuling: (raising her head, looking displeased) I dislike uninvited guests.
Zhao Xiaodong: What? Are you still angry with me?
Lin Xiuling: (looking down at the computer) You know perfectly well.
△ Zhao Xiaodong places the bouquet of flowers on the desk.
Zhao Xiaodong: (pretending to be innocent) Just because I said a few things at the event where Yang Wenhua presented his paper?
Lin Xiuling: (coldly) Don’t interfere with my work.
Zhao Xiaodong: Xiuling, please answer me. In your heart, what exactly do I count as?
Lin Xiuling: (looking up at him) In the past, I regarded you as a good friend, but from now on, I regard you as a stranger.
Zhao Xiaodong: (surprised, giving a bitter smile) One Yang Wenhua was actually enough to completely change our relationship. That really surprises me!
Lin Xiuling: (coldly sneering) What surprises me is that in order to attack Wenhua, you could actually be so unscrupulous!
Zhao Xiaodong: (pretending not to understand, leaning his upper body closer) You say that I was unscrupulous, attacking Yang Wenhua?
Lin Xiuling: (coldly) Stop pretending to be innocent with me. You know perfectly well what you have done.
Zhao Xiaodong: Fine then! I was the one who went to report it to the Medical Inspection Bureau. There is no room for sand in the eyes of a lover, and Yang Wenhua is that damn irritating grain of sand!
Lin Xiuling: (displeased) Doctor Zhao, mind your wording. I am still busy. Please do not disturb my work! Please leave.
Zhao Xiaodong: (angry, pointing at Xiuling’s face) Well done! You’re driving me away?
Lin Xiuling: (angry, folding her arms across her chest) Yes, Great Doctor Zhao.
Zhao Xiaodong: (forcing a smile) Xiuling, after you calm down, I’ll apologize to you again.
△ Zhao Xiaodong wisely turns around and leaves.
△ Lin Xiuling picks up the bouquet of flowers on the desk and casually throws it into the trash can, then sits back down in her seat, sulking.
Scene 55 Time / Morning Setting / Surgery Department Duty Room, Guanghua Hospital, Taitung Characters / Yang Wenhua, Su Junsheng, Guo Xinmei
△ Inside the duty room of the surgery department, Yang Wenhua, Su Junsheng, and Guo Xinmei are discussing the surgical treatment of a liver cancer patient. Su Junsheng uses magnetic strips to attach two X-ray films onto the projection screen.
Su Junsheng: Judging from this image, on the patient’s right hepatic lobe, the liver cancer has already partially spread. In addition to removing one-third of the hepatic lobe, the spread tissue can simultaneously be removed with electrocautery and a laser knife, reducing the postoperative recurrence rate.
Yang Wenhua: Since the patient’s condition originated from hepatitis C, the liver function itself has already weakened. My view is that after removing the cancerous tumor with a laser knife, we should also use electrocautery on the blood vessels in the affected area to cut off the supply chain of nutrients to the cancer cells. We should not rashly remove the hepatic lobe. We should use long-acting interferon combined with Ribavirin to improve the treatment effect for hepatitis C. Only by saving the liver itself can we treat the root of the problem.
Su Junsheng: (thinking for a moment) Senior, but in this way it will be very difficult to prevent the cancer cells from recurring and metastasizing.
Yang Wenhua: By effectively lowering the amount of hepatitis C virus in the liver, we can suppress the recurrence and metastasis of the liver cancer cells.
Guo Xinmei: (smiling) Brother Wenhua, your way of thinking is indeed more comprehensive. It has really opened my eyes.
Su Junsheng: (smiling and nodding) Alright! Senior, you’ve convinced me.
Yang Wenhua: I’ll leave this case for the two of you to perform the surgery.
Su Junsheng: Alright! Senior. Xinmei, can you do it?
Guo Xinmei: (confidently, making an OK gesture) Yes.
Scene 56 Time / Morning Setting / Surgery Department Operating Room, Guanghua Hospital; Observation Room Characters / Yang Wenhua, Su Junsheng, Guo Xinmei, Nurse
△ Inside the operating room, Su Junsheng, Guo Xinmei, and three nurses are performing a liver cancer tumor removal surgery.
△ Separated by the glass, in the observation room, Yang Wenhua watches the live monitor screen and guides the two of them in real time through the microphone.
Yang Wenhua: When separating the cancerous tumor, use the electrosurgical knife to stop the bleeding immediately, then use electrocautery on the capillaries.
△ From the cut-open hepatic lobe, Su Junsheng clamps out two blood-covered cancerous tumors and places them on a ceramic tray beside him.
△ Guo Xinmei immediately picks up a piece of hemostatic cotton with forceps to absorb the fresh blood.
△ Guo Xinmei hands the electrosurgical knife to Su Junsheng, and Junsheng then uses it to cauterize the surrounding blood vessels.
Yang Wenhua: That’s it. There is still one tumor below the right hepatic lobe. It must be dealt with together.
▲ The camera switches.
△ The green light outside the operating room lights up. The nurse pushes open the door, and Su Junsheng and Guo Xinmei walk out one after another.
△ Several family members of the patient crowd forward.
△ Yang Wenhua comes out from the side door, raises his right hand toward Junsheng and Xinmei in a V-sign, then turns around gracefully and leaves.
