Hong Kong TV series or program
| The Hippocratic Crush II |
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| Also known as | On Call 36 Hours II |
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| On Call 36小時II |
| Genre | Medical drama |
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| Created by | Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited |
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| Written by | Shin Shu Mui 冼淑梅
Lee Hui Yee 李慧儀
Wong Siu Ching 黃秀清
Lau Chee Heng 劉芷恒
Leong Kin Bong 梁建邦
Wong Bin Yee 黃秉怡
Chum Kin Wai 譚劍偉
Yu Kar Kun 余家冠 |
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| Starring | Lawrence Ng
Kenneth Ma
Tavia Yeung
Mandy Wong
Him Law
Tracy Chu
Eliza Sam
Louisa So
Benjamin Yuen
Jerry Ku
Crystal Li
Derek Kok
Paisley Wu |
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| Theme music composer | Tang Chi-wai |
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| Opening theme | 續集 by Joey Yung (Sequel) |
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| Ending theme | 連續劇 by Joey Yung (Serial Drama) |
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| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
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| Original languages | Cantonese
some Mandarin and English |
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| No. of episodes | 30 |
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| Executive producer | Tommy Leung |
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| Producer | Poon Ka tak 潘嘉德 |
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| Production location | Hong Kong |
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| Editors | Lam Choong Bong 林忠邦
Tong Kin Ping 湯健萍 |
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| Camera setup | Multi camera |
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| Running time | 45 minutes (each) |
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| Production company | TVB |
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| Network | Jade
HD Jade |
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| Release | 4 November (2013-11-04) –
15 December 2013 (2013-12-15) |
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The Hippocratic Crush II, also known by its Chinese title On Call 36 Hours II (Chinese: On Call 36小時 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 (慈愛醫院), a fictional hospital set in Hong Kong.
Synopsis
The Hippocratic Crush II (a.k.a. On Call 36 Hours II) immediately follows off from The Hippocratic Crush (a.k.a. On Call 36 Hours), following the lives of doctors, new and old, facing the patients and challenges that unfold before them.
Cheung Yat Kin (Kenneth Ma) and Fan Chi Yu (Tavia Yeung) 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 (Motrin) 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 (Yu Jai) 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?[1]
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 (Lawrence Ng). 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 (Tracy Chu), 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 (Elkie Chong) while Chin Yi is left having to take care of her runaway (later revealed as deceased) 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 (played by Eliza Sam).
Lokman and David grew up together and with Monica (never shown) run a cafe. Lokman has CML leukemia. David suddenly needs brain surgery. David enters in a relationship with Yannis' aunt/defacto step-mother.
Meanwhile, Chi Yu’s sister, neurosurgeon Hong Mei Suet (Mandy Wong) 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 (Benjamin Yuen) heads on the rocks as their relationship turns into a love triangle.
Fresh Cardiosurgeon, Yeung Pui Chung (Him Law) 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 (Candy Chang, who appears in cameo), training doctor Chung Tsz Ting (Crystal Li) and Che Hiu Tung (Eliza Sam), 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 (Che Hiu Tung) was a school classmate of Heung Chin Yi (played by Tracy Chu) 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.
