[Discussion] Good Doctor

oh god... just watched two episodes but i'm a huge faaaan! it's quit good!

ylisse wrote: I loved the pilot episode, such a heartwarming back story. Joo Won's character is adorable! I think the former title Green Scalpel was way more fitting, I wonder why it had been changed. I hope the plot will incline more on the heartwarming side and not more on the institutional conflicts. Medical infos are interesting but I want the plot to have an emotional impact too.

Yeah green scalpel was much better as a title. Definitely original, compared to good doctor.
There just was a good doctor drama last year... Its called "The Good Doctor aka FAITH"
You know, the one with time travelling and Lee Min Ho...

By the way, the medical stuff is pretty dumb in all KDramas so I wouldn't focus on it...but since I started on it I might as well ...
I'm getting my MD in two years, so I get very irritated when medical shows show something doctors never do. Like doing resuscitation on a person who is alert with eyes open and looking...ahem..at a 30 degree angle to the chest (Yeah, thats going to generate a lot of force...*sarcasm*. Example: Emily Owens MD.) Korean dramas do so many dumb things in medical shows I am probably going to be immune to it soon. Althought I can't say much about the surgeries in this drama because I haven't seen or learned about any yet.
But I feel like if you make a medical show, you should defnitely have an MD to consult so you don't embarass yourself. Which I assume they don't do. So they end up doing stupid things on screen... Like confusing heart attack with cardiac arrest (That happens a LOT)

Can't think of any dumb stuff in the first two episodes yet, but trust me, it will happen. I'm watching this for Joo Won, so I will ignore everything thats going on and just focus on him <3

LoraFrosty wrote: Yeah green scalpel was much better as a title. Definitely original, compared to good doctor.
There just was a good doctor drama last year... Its called "The Good Doctor aka FAITH"
You know, the one with time travelling and Lee Min Ho...

By the way, the medical stuff is pretty dumb in all KDramas so I wouldn't focus on it...but since I started on it I might as well ...
I'm getting my MD in two years, so I get very irritated when medical shows show something doctors never do. Like doing resuscitation on a person who is alert with eyes open and looking...ahem..at a 30 degree angle to the chest (Yeah, thats going to generate a lot of force...*sarcasm*. Example: Emily Owens MD.) Korean dramas do so many dumb things in medical shows I am probably going to be immune to it soon. Althought I can't say much about the surgeries in this drama because I haven't seen or learned about any yet.
But I feel like if you make a medical show, you should defnitely have an MD to consult so you don't embarass yourself. Which I assume they don't do. So they end up doing stupid things on screen... Like confusing heart attack with cardiac arrest (That happens a LOT)

Can't think of any dumb stuff in the first two episodes yet, but trust me, it will happen. I'm watching this for Joo Won, so I will ignore everything thats going on and just focus on him <3

Yep, I noticed the title is the same with that of Faith, and Green Scalpel sounds more unique and fitting to the story so it should've been the title.

LOL on the rant, I haven't seen that much medical dramas and specifically, err - I think Faith is the only medical drama that I completed??.LOL,, therefore I cannot agree or add more to that. Medical dramas were usually not my priority in selecting something to watch, unless of course there's more that a medical drama could offer. Like this one. And there's Joo Won in here, so I cannot miss it. As for medical stuff, I will not focus much on this as Joo Won's role and character interaction is more interesting to discover. For a med-drama, the story is not episodic, which is good.

I thought this might help us understand a bit about autism and Savant syndrome. The link enumerates 10 Most Fascinating Savants. At #10 is Daniel Tammet, who is a high functioning autistic savant. His prodigious skill is Math and calculations and what sets him apart from other savants is that he can describe what he sees in his head when he calculates. He describes the numbers not as figures but as images. He is a record holder for reciting the pi's 22,500+ decimal places from memory and he describes it as drawing the numbers from a landscape.

10 Most Fascinating Savants in the World

Daniel Tammet - The Boy with the Incredible Brain (Part One of Five)

arirang covers Good Doctor presscon

nytwp wrote: Are there any other interviews with Joo Won available yet where he talks about the drama and how he prepared for the role? I mean he mentioned that he didn't have a particular role model, but how did he prepare? Since I work with autists, I'm superinterested in this drama and his performance and how the whole subject is handled in general. :D And that boy who plays the young Shi On, omg. South Korea really has some incredibly talented child actors.

Here's an article I've read. Link below:
http://twodaysonenight.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/1861/



Isnt he adorable?

english is often not the fansubbers 1st language. translation is a tricky thing. the korean word for "cured" might also be used for "treated" sort of like how you hear korean people say "Wae?" (why) in situations where american speakers would say "what".