Healing Hands: Season 3

The staff at Yan Oi Hospital take a different view on lives as well as personal values after the SARS outbreak. CHING CHI MEI PAUL is performing a brain operation on a patient who is suffering from Parkinson’s disease. As the operation is conducted when the patient is conscious, TSANG SUK KEI BETSY, an O & G (Obstetrics & Gynecology) intern, is present so as to learn from PAUL. Her superior, MAN ON SAN ANSON, is unhappy for her absence from her post without official. A & E (Accident & Emergency)

YIN’s elder brother, HO CHI WANG ALAN, points the finger at PAUL. A friend of PAUL’s, TAM YUNG MING EDMOND, happens to know FRANCES as well. PAUL asks EDMOND to give him a helping hand and ask FRANCES if YIN has killed herself. Nevertheless, EDMOND refuses to help him. HEUNG CHUNG YAN CHRIS, an A & E doctor, has a very bad impression on PAUL because he cut off his relationship with YIN on the very day she had an abortion. PAUL is puzzled about YIN’s death and would like to contact her boyfriend,

PAUL takes HENRY to see the old horse that he keeps. He tells HENRY why he bought it; HENRY can understand how he feels. GRACE is eager to find a man whom she can marry. CHRIS is her target. BETSY fails to keep a watchful eye on a girl, who is suspected to have been ill-treated, as told by HENRY. As a result, she is given a good telling-off. MC has lost many patients because of the lawsuit. MC mistakes that YEUNG has stolen PHOEBE’s computer and sold it. He apologizes to YEUNG when he learns abo

A woman, whose name is AH LING, takes her son to the A & E room. HENRY later knows that her husband is none other than HO TAK KWONG, an old friend of his. KWONG shows his concern for PAUL. As a token of gratitude, GRACE invites CHRIS, who has saved her life, to a dinner. To her disappointment, CHRIS brings ANSON along. He asks GRACE, whose family runs a furniture shop, for discounts. In order to pry into their lives, she grasps the opportunity to visit their place. ANSON sees through her intenti

DEREK feels that other people do not show respect to his professional opinion. He vents his anger on PAUL. PAUL has to stay for more observation and treatment. He lists out all his symptoms and gives it to ANGUS with his brain scan result for research. PAUL goes for physiotherapy. It happens that DEREK is the therapist in charge and PAUL finds his attitude towards him strange. Confident that her being younger than ANSON is an advantage, GRACE decides to take away CHRIS from ANSON. HENRY has hurt

BETSY thanks HENRY for teaching her and for his patience as well. HENRY notices the scars her wrist. CHRIS asks ANSON out but she cannot make it. Hearing their conversation, GRACE makes up an excuse and asks CHRIS to send her home. She also takes photos of CHRIS being with her in the same car. ANSON has discovered the photos. CHRIS tries hard to explain. As a result, he is given a verbal warning by ANSON for covering this up. MC tells EDMOND off for failing to persuade a patient of his to testif

FRANCES finds on a dead body some ointment which does not belong to the deceased. CHIU, the suspect, does not have any record of skin disease either. A man named KAM HO MAN is rushed to the A & E. BETSY suspects that the man is abusing pubic resources. On seeing this, HENRY leads BETSY into telling him her story about the scar on her wrist. He further tells her that she should know better now about the duty of a doctor. MAN yells and demands to leave, yet he changes his mind as soon as he sees B

MC goes back to Yan Oi Hospital to work. A patient, Grandma HUNG, wants to go home so that she can take care of her old companion, Uncle LUK, who suffers from senile dementia. She demands to be discharged. MC therefore contacts the social worker attached to the hospital. CHRIS listens to the advice of his female colleagues and proposes to ANSON, only to be told that he is not mature enough to get married yet. PHOEBE says that it is selfish for MC to give up his clinic. He retorts with her scanda

PAUL is on the roof when he receives a call from FRANCES. He gives up his thought of taking his life. PAUL has left his cell phone on the roof. FRANCES deduces that HENRY was trying to do something foolish when she called. She is even more worried when she sees that PAUL has become bad-tempered. YEUNG shows allergic reaction. As he refuses to speak, MC tells him to list out things that may cause the allergy. BETSY is queried whether she has check her patient’s medical history before she treated

PAUL takes a long leave so that he can go for psychological counseling and cognitive behavior therapy. By using the poker game that he has learnt, he tells FRANCES not to blame herself for disclosing YIN’s life before she died. ANSON suspects that Mrs. HUNG suffers from prenatal depression. An idea occurs to her when she knows that Mrs. Hung is a loyal reader of HENRY, who has a column on a paper. MC expresses to TY his difficulty in communicating with YEUNG. While TY gives him a few words of co

Seeing that TY has a very good impression on HENRY, BETSY dresses up to attend an appointment with HENRY. They are having a good chat when he sees MAN. BETSY pulls a long face when HENRY wants to go after MAN. HENRY does not have a clue why her attitude has changed so suddenly. HENRY tells PAUL about this, only to be laughed at. PAUL screws up his courage to attend a meeting with TY regarding the complaints. AMY, a social worker attached to the hospital, is under huge pressure because of PAUL’s

KWONG witnesses a motorcycle accident and goes up to help. PAUL, who is still on leave, is called back to hospital for an operation. Still lacks confidence in himself, he asks ANGUS to perform the operation. The driver of the motor is guilty about his girlfriend’s injury. KWONG gives him a few words of consolations with his own experience. ANSON tries to investigate the medical history of VIVIAN but fails. GRACE comes to know that BOSCO is dating ANSON. She tells CHRIS in no time; CHRIS feels un

MC finds it odd to find some grains of sand in YEUNG’s shoes, but he is so busy that he cannot look into it. PAUL decides to perform an operation on PHOEBE’s good friend. PHOEBE, however, declines his kindness, with the reason that he has mental illness. The conversation is overheard by MC, who gives PHOEBE a lesson. JAN, a friend of HENRY’s, is sent to hospital because of a burnt. Thinking that her boyfriend has neglected her, JAN cries on HENRY’s shoulder. SARAH, who sees this, mistakes that t

MC has just had an operation. SARAH takes care of YEUNG for him, but the boy gives her the cold shoulder. ANSON is such a workaholic that she cuts short her honeymoon for work. EDMOND sees KIT being extorted money by his two injurious friends, TAI KAU and SAI DIN, and goes to his help. EDMOND and KIT go to a bar, where PAUL says that he can find KIT a job. BETSY is interested in HENRY’s love life. SARAH tells FRANCES how she appreciates EDMOND for he takes care of his late friend’s younger broth

SARAH looks at HENRY in a different light when she hears other praising his care for his ex-girlfriend and when she knows that he does voluntary work for a home for the aged. HENRY slips at the old people’s home. UNCLE HO, who lives there, laughs at him and everybody starts to laugh at him, too. EDMOND learns that KIT has been ill and absent from work for a week. He goes to visit KIT, only to discover that he is playing with his bad companions. EDMOND flies into a fit of rage. He takes KIT to wo

SUM goes to the hospital, claiming that he has had a fight with his wife. FRANCES is suspicious about what he says after checking his injuries and taking his and his wife’s body tissue. She has also found a white hair on EDMOND’s head. She suspects that it belongs to the murderer. FRANCES learns from ANSON that SUM’s wife is two month pregnant. Coupled with the chemical substance found on the white hair, FRANCES is sure that SUM is the murder. Unfortunately, the body tissue has already been dama

FRANCES has been suffering from insomnia. She keeps herself busy with all kinds of activities. SARAH worries a lot about her. ANSON has been very irritable recently. She therefore suspects that she is pregnant. She is relieved later to find that it is only a false alarm. BETSY goes to do voluntary work with HENRY and has completely forgotten that she should be playing squash with ANUGS. DEREK is annoyed. BETSY is unhappy to see MAN at the home for the aged. FRANCES meets PAUL in the bowling alle

TY points out that MAN suffers from brain pathological change, which explains his silly speech and behavior. He advises MAN to stay for treatment. MAN, nevertheless, insists to leave, and claims that fools have fortune and that it is good that he can play instruments again. MAN teaches YEUNG to play the flute. This reminds BETSY of something in the past. YEUNG comes to MC’s office and finds that the door is locked. He knocks at the window violently, but MC remains motionless. YEUNG gets into a p

MC and other Yan Oi staff go to the pub for a chill out. When it is time for home, both MC and HENRY offer to give SARAH a lift. It turns out that PAUL drives MC home in the end. MC confesses that he likes SARAH in the car. HENRY and SARAH bump into FRANCES, who is packing up in EDMOND’s house. They go up to give her a hand. HANG is going back to Singapore. She entrusts HONG, a paralyzed patient who has just been referred from a sanatorium, to SARAH. FRANCES is well adapted to her new job as a p

ANSON finds out when PO leads such a frugal life and why she pays so much attention to the exchange rate of the Australian dollars. HANG fixes HONG’s computer for him. SARAH therefore learns by chance that HONG has been affected by the article that HENRY wrote and wanted to end his life. BETSY, who is late for the professional examination, decides not to show up at all. HENRY gives her a good telling off. As requested by SARAH, HENRY tells HONG the reason when he wrote that article. HENRY also f

ANSON decides to conduct a more accurate test for the unborn baby, to which CHRIS feels uneasy. PHOEBE and HENRY attend a TV talk, during which they have an argument over HONG’s case. HENRY dislikes PHOEBE even more after this. PAUL, nevertheless, thinks that she is just being frankly and that she sticks to her own stance. LUK has swallowed some moisture-proof beads by mistake. HUNG worries that he will have another heart attack. SARAH discovers the tattoo on HONG’s body. She wishes that his ex-

On top of apologizing to SARAH, MC also explains the cancellation. SARAH comforts YEUNG, seeing the he has difficulty in handling his relationship with his mum. Martha would like to take YEUNG back to the USA for further study; MC refuses her request abruptly. HENRY knows that NELSON, who is a physician, is courting FRANCES. Without asking FRANCES first, he stops NELSON from going further. SARAH is choosing a gift for YEUNG when she comes across Martha. She gives tells Martha what kind of toys Y

CHRIS hopes that he could have a say in deciding whether to keep the baby or not. He is frustrated that ANSON is rather indifferent to his complaint. HENRY advises CHRIS to trust ANSON’s professionalism; CHRIS retorts with some very bad words. PAUL sees ANGUS going for a medical check up. ANGUS has no choice but to tell him his problem. PHOEBE visits PAUL in his place. She seems very interested in KWONG’s story. HENRY provokes PHOEBE to anger and she leaves right away. PAUL is helpless. CHRIS ha

GRACE and DEREK go to the movie. He receives a call, telling him that ANGUS has blacked out at home. Fortunately, DEREK’s mother sees this and rushes him to hospital before it is too late. DEREK is unhappy to know that ANGUS has quite his job for his health. YEUNG invites SARAH home for dinner. MC is busy with work and so cannot go home to cook. YEUNG uses up his pocket money to buy something for the dinner, after which he has to walk home. MAN offers to help him cook when he sees how helpless h

KWONG has a traffic accident and is sent to hospital. Not until then does he know that he has chronic kidney failure. A patient named Albert, despite his old age, is very lustful. He is interested in SARAH when he sees how much she appreciates his red wine, which not many people do. Albert can see that HENRY likes SARAH. He points to HENRY that he is no match to SARAH. HENRY is angry. SARAH has dinner with MC and YEUNG. During the dinner, she advises MC not to fight with MARTHA in court for YEUN

FRANCES and PAUL decide not deceive themselves. They propose to split up with NELSON and PHOEBE respectively. MC does not think that he stands a chance of wining his son’s custody. SARAH comforts him. Although MARTHA knows it very well that YEUNG is very close to MC, she stills believes that her relationship with YEUNG will improve. MC reproaches her for not respecting YEUNG’s own will. BETSY has made an erroneous diagnosis and is reprimanded by MC. BETSY believes that MC, who has been troubled

KAREN confirms that she has contracted the venereal disease from CHEUNG, her husband. She forgives him nevertheless for the sake of their son though her heart aches. Her heart is broken later when she discovers that her husband is messes around with women again. The relationship of YEUNG and Martha has improved. MC feels a sense of loss. CHRIS is inspired by some disabled athletes and their families. He decides not to escape from reality by playing computer games anymore. YEUNG is suspected to h

FRANCES, who has been traveling for a while, has returned to Hong Kong. ANSON is not feeling well. Nevertheless, she insists on delivering a woman’s baby. As a result, she loses her own child. This comes as a big blow to CHRIS. KAREN decides to divorce CHEUNG and immerses herself in work. After meeting with a bone cancer patient of SARAH’s, PAUL has a new light in life and decides to go out with FRANCES. BETSY reports duty at the Cardiac Department. MC tests her with some questions, and is dissa