Dr. Storks Episode 9

Stresses of NICU and death of child patients

This episode was about preemies and the stresses of NICU staff. Also the death of Dr Shinmiya’s unconscious patient. He is in the middle of a C-section when he gets the notification about his patient. He continues to finish the emergency surgery because his first priority is the welfare of the new mother he is working on. He rushes to her room but arrives too late to say goodbye. The father eventually shows up, does a single bow and leaves. 6 years ago he lost his wife when this child was delivered. It was Dr Shinomiya that faithfully visited her every day for all that time. The child never once woke up or heard her father say her name, or anything at all to her. This broke Shinomiya who wanted to cure her and couldn’t and mourned that her father could not bear to deal with her. This was heartbreaking. One in NICU gave up her place to make room for emergency baby. This was so hard for the parents. The baby was so tiny with so many things that could happen. Here the ‘iron lady’ pulls a Shinomiya. She is not rude, but she overwhelms the parents with too many things. The father is too scared to even name the little boy and the mother feels it’s her fault. The mom does visit and names her son and the dr is determined to singlehandedly guard over him. She has left so many dinners and even in the middle of a proposal runs out for an emergency. Little Yosuke did not make it, but was held by his parents and shown love on his way to heaven. This broke the Iron Lady and she has a break down and leaves hospital. She feels personally responsible for not being able to heal him and can only keep apologizing. It is not clear if she will have the heart to return to work after this patient. She is an excellent Dr so I hope she makes it to the other side with her grief and guilt.

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