The Hippocratic Crush

Third-year basic surgical trainee FAN TSE-YU is on her way to Mercy Hospital on her first day of placement, during which she gets stuck in a traffic jam caused by a car crash. Primary school boy TO TZE-LAM is injured in the crash, but is saved by final-year higher trainee in Neurosurgery CHEUNG YAT-KIN who happens to pass by. Having finished their medical studies in the Faculty of Medicine, YEUNG PUI-CHUNG and his classmates start their housemanship in Mercy Hospital. YU, CHUNG, TONG HON-PONG and HUNG MEI-SUET report for duty at the Neurosurgery Department and start to visit various wards in the company of KIN. KIN and YU are impressed with SUET’s venipuncture techniques while CHUNG is so careless that he has caused the patient to suffer a great deal all through the process. YU thinks that KIN is being too harsh with CHUNG and has a very bad impression of him……

YU meets an enthusiastic nurse called HOI-KI, through whom she gets to know KIN’s mother WONG SIU-ANG, who is working at the hospital as a cleaner. Male nurse LUI SIU-YIK is outraged at being called “male mistress” and picks an argument with the patient. Matron TO KA-MAN turns up suddenly and blames YIK for amending the duty schedule and being absent from work without any permission, but YIK explains that he needs to look after his son and is left no other options. KIN asks CHUNG to do the follow-up at the admission ward but CHUNG is so lazy that he has only spent a little time inputting data into the computer, for which he gets rebuked again by KIN. KIN goes downstairs to pick up his younger brother YAT-HONG, who is paralyzed and seated in the wheelchair. The brothers get along well and their closeness is well evidenced through their causal chat along the way……

YU learns from a few nurses that someone is urinating in the public area of the hospital, following which she sees Principal CHAN peeing somewhere nearby. While discussing Principal CHAN’s brain tumor operation, everyone believes that MAN is highly unlikely to select KIN as his first assistant. Realizing that SUET has been so aloof recently, YU tries to have a word with her in a bid to clear her misunderstanding but SUET… SUET goes to her grandmother’s birthday banquet with her parents HUNG KWOK-WAI and SZE YUK-LAN, during which her grandmother means to mention LAN’s ex-husband NGOK and gives WAI the cold shoulder. CHUNG goes to practice fencing at the gymnasium, where he meets HONG and befriends him. MAN demotes KIN as his second assistant in order to humiliate him. The news has soon spread around the hospital and everyone who knows KIN feels sympathy for him……

Mutated H5N1 is discovered in Hong Kong and everybody in the healthcare sector is very nervous. Doctor YEUNG PUI-CHUNG adores his good friend Doctor KAN CHING-CHING but CHING-CHING suddenly resigned last year. Two of his good friends persuade him to let go but PUI-CHUNG continues to buy daily commodities for CHING-CHING. The patient Grandma HA TUNG-MUI starts a quarrel with Doctor HUNG MEI-SUET for MEI-SUET takes away her chocolates before surgery. Doctor CHEUNG YAT-KIN helps her to settle the problem. On the wedding day of male head nurse LUI SIU-YIK and female head nurse TO KA-MAN, YAT-KIN and his pregnant wife Doctor FAN TZE-YU agreed to go together but YAT-KIN forgets to bring their gift. TZE-YU's younger sister MEI-SUET picks her up instead. Pathology consultant doctor LOK MAN-SAN reveals in a media interview that a tourist called Mr WONG is believed to be infected with the mutated H5N1……

MAN-SAN, his cousin MONICA and his good friend MOYUNG WAI open a coffee shop together. MOYUNG WAI persuades MAN-SAN to treat his illness as early as possible but MAN-SAN doesn't take it seriously. MAN-SAN discovers that his patient's tumor cell is in its 2nd phase already. Deputy consultant doctor CHONG BOK-MAN suggests him to perform an operation for the patient and he assigns MEI-SUET to be his immediate assistant. PUI-CHUNG, SHUI-WAH and two other friends join singles party together. The girls laugh at them and they are upset. MEI-SUET and BING-CHAN visit YAT-KIN to try his mother SIU-ANG's homemade soup. TZE-YU receives an urgent call from the hospital and YAT-KIN accompanies her to go back. CHIN-YEE looks for MONICA at the coffee shop. MOYUNG WAI and MAN-SAN reveal that MONICA is not in Hong Kong. HIU-TUNG returns from Australia and she works as a volunteer in the hospital. She believes that PUI-CHUNG's girlfriend is living abroad……

When TZE-YU sends the patient to the operation room, she suddenly falls down because of serious body pain. YAT-KIN worries that her disease is coming back. A man called CHAN KA-KWOK is sent to the hospital after an injury. When his girlfriend TONG MEI-BO is quarreling with him, KA-KWOK suddenly collapses. After giving birth to a baby, the doctor discovers a shadow in Mrs WONG's lung and she needs to have antibiotic injection. A group of new staffs arrive and BING-CHAN teaches them to know each other more with games. When MEI-SUET is having dinner with BING-CHAN, she teaches TZE-TING to sew the wound through online video call. PUI-CHUNG brings HEI-YAN to the rest room. He finds HIU-TUNG and SIU-ANG studying the recipes. He suggests HEI-YAN to learn cooking as well in order to become a real woman but HEI-YAN teases him in return. MEI-SUET asks TZE-TING to learn more from SHUI-WAH and TZE-TUNG is worried……