7.7/1023 votes#1 - Between Hope and Despair
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/19/2019
Second year resident Kang Si Young working as a part-time doctor in prison. Meanwhile, former doctor Cha Yo Han, now a prisoner helps prisoners who are in need of medical treatments.
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- 8.2/1023 votes
#2 - Between Hope and Despair: part 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/19/2019
Inmate 5353 is known as a hypochondriac, but former doctor Cha Yo-Han does not believe so. Shi Young's mother and uncle try to talk her out of leaving for Madagascar. She wants to stay, but will she?
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- 8.3/1023 votes
#3 - 0.00001% Hope: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/20/2019
Inmate 5353's symptoms over the last few weeks, when stacked together form a diagnosis of a disease that only 0.00001% of the population has. Since the disease is hereditary, the doctors try to find a family member.
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- 8.0/1020 votes
#4 - 0.00001% Hope: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/20/2019
Park Jung BO, patient 5353, disappeared from his room after suffering a seizure that required him to be uncuffed. In a department meeting Min Tae Kyung as head of the anesthesiology department proposes to reinstate her daughter Shi Young.
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- 8.2/1019 votes
#5 - 21g, The Weight of the Soul
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/26/2019
Cha Yo Han has been reinstated as a doctor and the minister of health recommended him to the Hanse Hospital. A famous MMA fighter comes looses his vision during a fight and Yo Han helps him. The next day he's at the hospital.
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- 8.3/1019 votes
#6 - World Without Pain
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/26/2019
The condition of MMA fighter Joo Hyung Woo gets worse. He stops breathing, but despite a DNR, Yo Han intubates him. Shi-young hears from Chae Eun-Jeong that the Yo Han's euthanasia patient of three years ago, wanted to live.
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- 8.6/1017 votes
#7 - Secrets and Lies
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/27/2019
While Joo Hyung Woo is still unconscious his lawyer requests a hearing with the hospital board about his DNR. His wife agrees, but his father does not and the law does not recognize a DNR without an incurable disease.
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- 8.6/1016 votes
#8 - Understanding Someone
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/27/2019
After the long day Shi-young is invited by her uncle for dinner and drinks. Not knowing Yo Han is now her supervisor, he has invited him to join. Lee Yoo Joon and Kang Mi Rae appear to be living in the same apartment building.
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- 8.6/1015 votes
#9 - 21g, The Weight of the Soul: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/2/2019
Shi-young's father is in cardiac arrest after being in a coma for a year. It stirs up a lot of emotions in the Kang family owned hospital. The MMA fighter has thanked Doctor Yo Han in an interview and the next day the clinic is flooded.
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- 8.6/1015 votes
#10 - Foreboding on a Crisp Afternoon
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/2/2019
The pain clinic, flooded with people, has two opposite and rare cases: CPRS and CIPA. Constant pain and no pain at all. Proscecutor Son Suk Ki visits the hospital, apparently for Yo Han, yet his conversation is with Shi-young.
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- 8.6/1013 votes
#11 - A World without Pain: part 1
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/3/2019
The prosecutor and nurse Chae Eun Jung discuss the possible euthanasia that could be happening at the hospital that Yo Han is now working at. Lee Ki Suk seems to be cured from CIPA. Choi Seung Won has a herniated disc in his spine.
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- 8.7/1014 votes
#12 - A World without Pain: part 2
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/3/2019
Lee Ki Suk does not want his phantom pains cured, as he will loose all touch senses again, but Yo Han shows manages to convince him. Shi-young learns that patient's stories can be of tremendous help in finding a diagnosis.
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- 8.1/1014 votes
#13 - Secrets and Lies: part 1
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 8/9/2019
Yoo Joon shares his story about his sick father, who was on a death bed for ten years, with Mi Rae. Shi-young discovers Yo Han's secret and he asks her if she can handle it. He shows her how he lives and why she is not allowed to worry.
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- 8.3/1015 votes
#14 - Secrets and Lies: part 2
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 8/9/2019
A shuttle bus full of patients arrives at the hospital. One patient is coughs a lot, has a 39.5 fever and complained about vomiting. This after just minutes before a warning came in about the deadly and highly contagious Nipah virus.
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- 9.0/1016 votes
#15 - To Understand Someone: part 1
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/10/2019
Yo Han wants to help the diagnostic process, but no one is allowed in the quarantined area. Until a mother of child with pediatric diabetes is worried about her daughter, since she hasn't had any food since breakfast.
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- 8.1/1014 votes
#16 - To Understand Someone: part 2
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 8/10/2019
Yi Moon calls a press conference to boast about Yo Han's miracle diagnosis, but it backfires as journalists start to ask about the euthanasia case. Prosecutor Son joins a group that talks about facing death and assisted suicide.
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- 8.6/1012 votes
#17 - Terminal, Incurable: part 1
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 8/16/2019
A journalist in contact with Chae Eun Jeong brings up the euthanasia case at the press conference. Lawyer Han Myeong-oh steps in and tells them to focus on the current events. The entire department of pain medicine gets all new equipment.
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- 8.2/1013 votes
#18 - Terminal, Incurable: part 2
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 8/16/2019
What Yo Han thought was just a temporary loss of balance has now developed into auditory distress and dizzy spells. He falls down the stairs several times, before Shi-young finds him and gets him away from the nosy reporter.
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- 8.6/1013 votes
#19 - Foreboding on a Crisp Afternoon: part 1
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/17/2019
Shi-young takes over the presentation and the audience is impressed. Yo Han realizes he needs her help and is ready to accept it. The prosecutor is nosing around the conference figuring out how the company Zinmu Rijund ties into all this.
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- 8.5/1014 votes
#20 - Foreboding on a Crisp Afternoon: part 2
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/17/2019
Shi-young picks up Yo Han to bring him to work, but instead he asks her to take him to his doctor: the results are in. The pain medicine team grants Yoo Ri Hye a wish and after some hesitation, she decides she wants to see her son.
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- 8.0/1014 votes
#21 - Consolation: part 1
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/23/2019
Yo Han is the number one suspect for the assisted suicide attempt and both the detective and the prosecutor are the same as from three years ago. Yoo Joon is shocked but doesn't believe Yo Han would be that stupid.
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- 9.1/1018 votes
#22 - Consolation: part 2
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/23/2019
Despite the DNR Yo Han tries to save Yoo Ri Hye. Only Mi Rae is willing to help him. Shi-young finds Min Sung, Ri Hye's son as he's run away from home to see his mom. The prosecutor investigates the security footage.
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- 8.6/1013 votes
#23 - Schrödinger's Cat: part 1
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 8/24/2019
Prosecutor Son Suk Ki receives his first chemo therapy treatment for stomach cancer. His investigator calls to show him a video showing a terminal cancer patient's euthanasia. Shi-young and Yo Han visit Park Yung Bo at his job as barista.
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- 8.8/1014 votes
#24 - Schrödinger's Cat: part 2
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 8/24/2019
When Cha Yo Han comes out of the hospital for his check up, prosecutor Son Suk Ki is brought in on the ambulance in terrible pain. Lee Ki Suk is back, but this time his prognosis is not good and he gets worse rather fast.
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- 8.5/1013 votes
#25 - The Promise to Try: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 8/30/2019
Seok Ki asks Yo Han how he can understand his patient's pain when he is a CIPA patient who can't feel any pain. Gi Seok opens his eyes, and he can answer Yo Han's question by blinking his eyes. Meanwhile, Eun Jeong exposes Yo Han's secret by writing it on the hospital's bulletin board.
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The Best Episodes of Doctor John Season 1
Every episode of Doctor John Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor John Season 1!
Cha Yo-Han—an arrogant but genius doctor of anesthesiology—and Kang Shi-Young—a smart, warm resident of anesthesiology—work together to help people with mysterious cases of acute or...
Genre:Drama
Network:SBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Between Hope and Despair" is the best rated episode of "Doctor John" season 1. It scored 7.7/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/19/2019. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Between Hope and Despair: part 2".