The Hippocratic Crush II

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.