English Title: Big White Duel Chinese Title: 白色強人 Genre: Modern/Medical/Drama Producer: Marco Law Episodes: 25 Cast: Roger Kwok Kenneth Ma Natalie Tong Ali Lee Matthew Ho Kelly Cheung Synopsis: Hong Kong's healthcare reform is imperative. The radical reform plan is to privatize public hospitals and raise capital by means of public listing to maintain operations. The leading public hospital, "Marshall Paxton Hospital", has become a pilot for the reform. Dr YEUNG YAT-TO (Kwok Chun On), Deputy Hospital Chief Executive and Chief of Service (C.O.S.) of Neurosurgery, has made preparations for five years, seeking to turn the hospital into a medical empire that raises more than $10 billion. He is even looking to be the person-in-charge! Dr TONG MING (Kenneth Ma), C.O.S. of Cardio Thoracic Surgery, has a totally different ideology compared to YAT-TO’s. He has fought alongside his apprentice POON WAI-TAK (Matthew Ho) in accordance with the life-saving principle that is to hold human life above the healthcare system, but they are instead dragged into the power struggle initiated by Dr LUI CHUNG-HOK (David Chiang), CE of Marshal Paxton, who opposes the medical reform. YAT-TO, TONG MING, a cardiothoracic surgeon, CHING LOK-MAN (Ali Lee), an ER doctor, ZOE SO (Natalie Tong), and a neurosurgeon, LUI OI-LING (Kelly Cheung), etc. are a group of strong-willed people in white robes, but their opponents are not only diseases, but also human greed coupled with the lust driven by power…... Airing June 10th replacing My Commissioned Lover 婚姻合伙人
Seems like one of TVB higher budget drama. I didn't watch Another Era so it's been a while since I last saw Roger
roger wasted no time already bribing workers left and right in first ep is it me or its very common for him to play heel/villain now and days
What are all the acronyms they are throwing around? Some of which I think I heard are: CON - Chief of Neurology? MO - medical officer? AC - assistant/associate Chief? COS - Chief of Surgery CTS PAT - pre-admission testing? Holy crap they just keep piling them acronyms on.
CTS - Cardio Thoracic Surgeon/Surgery PAT - Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia CON - Consultant AC- Associate Consultant COS - Chief of service
I think this drama is worth our time. Consider big cast and bigger budget. Ironically most of the medical officers/doctors/nurses did previously act in similar roles before (different characteristics of coz).
except they dont wear eye protection when they are doing surgery lol and the anesthesia machines are actually up to date... they are all GE and datex ohmeda i work in the operating room and im in anesthesia and i can appreciate this show a lot the monitors with the vitals are just too fake they could put more details though..
episode 13 is a bit unreal...too fake especially how they cut the guy's chest open in a unsterile environment like that....infection is certain... she cuts the chest open and uses the retractor... after you cut chest open your suppose to use the bovie to burn through the tissue then use a saw and cut thru the sternum then use a retractor to open up the chest... they just cut and use retractor...clearly....no thought process....
Without doubt, a great TVB drama to watch. I'm an anaesthesiologist too. Sadly, we are always behind scene, our role never get appreciated in Hong Kong "medical drama".
I am liking this series so far, not so much on the medical side (not a knock) as I think the main goal and focus of the series is the debate between ethics and politics, both which I am loving so far. I don't exactly call anyone is assuming the "villain" role, but more of different point of views.
yes very true because i keep thinking roger kwok is evil but he comes back and does something good....then you figured kenneth might turn bad...but nope.. just both sides explaining why and they do a good job not keeping the audience confused...
i didnt get the name of the cardiac tumor... the english spoken by kenneth was awful.. he said atria something? i just couldnt hear
i was not aware that the show was only 25 episodes but overall i really enjoyed the entire concept of the show and was not disappointed with how they handled the whole issue with hospitals going public. I was however very disappointed with Kennis' ending. I know it's open ended but seriously it just was not necessary. I didn't feel it was a rushed ending for Ali, but it just felt like one of the generic "triangle love relationship so let's just kill off one of them"
Bumping an old thread but finally finished this drama. Like aznryu said, quite enjoyed the ethics vs politics No real villain in this show, and enjoyed it more than I thought. Dramas can be good without villains. That being said, I thought Roger would be the main villain, but most of the time it seemed like he cared more about lives than going private Natalie looking real good here, quite enjoyed her performance Crystal Fung doesnt seem like she has a big role here lol, almost like a slightly more screentime KLF Thank god that there's no loveline that really took over the drama Ali's ending i wonder if it was planned since she was frozen for a long time (unfrozen now i think) but i think she still got removed from the sequel lol. Perfect excuse to exclude her from the sequel I guess All in all, I enjoyed this drama more than Defected. Deserved the drama of the year.
Could someone provide me a link to download this series? Last time, I checked there was a link to Google Drive, and now that link seems gone.
Thank you for bumping! Bumping again, as I finished last week, and don't usually watch these hospital type series, but I figured why not since I was going to watch 2 for Nancy...And I'm happy that 2 is a straight continuation from 1. Agree with all that is above ^^^..Glad that Roger ended up being the good guy at the end of everything. As for Ali, obviously we know why she didn't make the sequel this time, but still a chance for her to join 3 if they do continue with this series...With that said let's make a discussion for 2! https://www.dramasian.com/threads/big-white-duel-2-ii.94329/#post-1123814
