Doctor Cha Episode 6 Recap and Review: JTBC’s new Korean drama series, also known as 닥터 차정숙, stars Uhm Jung-hwa, Kim Byung-chul, Min Wook-hyuk, Myung Se-bin, Song Ji-ho, Jo A-ram, Baek Joo-hee, Park Jun-Keum, Kim Mi-kyung, Lee Seo-yoon, So A-rin, Park Chul-min, Kimg Byung-choon, Lim Hyoung-soo and Kim Yea-eun, alongside other cast members.
This Korean Drama series is directed by Kim Dae-Jin and written by Jung Yeo-Rang. Doctor Cha Episode 6 runs for 62 minutes. This series shows the protagonist making a drastic lifestyle change. After putting a pause on her medical resident career to become a homemaker, Cha Jeong-suk decides to start her training all over again when her husband, a chief surgeon and professor at the university hospital, cheats on her. In this episode, Jeong-suk has to climb back to survival after her boss kicks her off the medical rounds.
Doctor Cha Episode 6 Recap
Last episode, we saw Jeong-suk get a major donation for the hospital, but it didn’t stop her from being put under scrutiny for the prisoner escape. But the police officers taking care of the prisoner let her know that she has been put under an executive order to allow her to go home. Except this prisoner has no home to go to or any family to rely on. Cha Jeong-suk has been trusted to find this person in the prisoner’s family.
To do that, she asks Mi-hee for help. Now Mi-hee is too lazy to really do this and knows that she won’t be getting anything out of exploring this dead end, so she tries to tamp it down. However, when Roy Kim shows up and strikes up a conversation with the duo, Mi-hee cuts a deal with Jeong-suk allowing them to spend more time together in exchange for her finding this prisoner’s family.
After some research, Jeong-suk discovers that the daughter is a doctor who has her own practice. When she goes there, the situation becomes too uncomfortable, but eventually, the truth comes to light, and there is some closure for the daughter. When the prisoner and her daughter finally reconcile, it is one of the most defining experiences of both their lives and the prisoner does understand why the daughter did what she did.
However, In-ho is unhappy this whole thing has happened in the first place. He just wants Jeong-suk to quit. Even Seung-hi has been pestering him to do something about it because they cannot stand each other in the same workspace. And now that In-ho has determined that she has to leave, he has been making things even more difficult for her. After she made a mistake during her rounds, he shunned her and asked her not to attend any more rounds. Furthermore, he started taking away her patients.
Jeong-suk has had enough. She wants to know why her husband keeps undermining her authority at work and keeps her from doing her job. This was his way of dealing with all incompetent people, and she could not believe that excuse because he really did want her to quit. The only relief at the hospital is Roy Kim, who has been running into her all the time, but in this instance, he has spotted In-ho and Seung-hi together in a way that surely tells him that they’re together.
He even warns In-ho that if the man doesn’t come clean with his wife, he’ll reveal everything to her. Obviously not taking these words seriously, In-ho continues his meetings with Seung-hi. Meanwhile, Roy Kim takes this opportunity to become good friends with Jeong-suk. The two even decide to meet to run together. She also gets Mi-hee, who plays the dumb card, to get Roy Kim to stay back with them. Eventually, she relents and tells her friend Jeong-suk that their runner friend might actually like the resident. Jeong-suk is flabbergasted and deems it unbelievable.
Mi-hee nods knowingly and asks Roy Kim if they could all go for lunch together, but he has plans. Jeong-suk has other important matters at the hospital too, including figuring out what this patient is going through. Even though In-ho has sidelined her, she still shows up and does her best. Like being there at this resident-wide conference where they discuss what this patient may be going through based on the CT scans and the biopsies.
While In-ho thinks this is cancer, Jeong-suk thinks it’s an abscess. The two make a deal that if she is right, then she can do her job properly, getting all her patients and joining them on rounds. If she is wrong, she will quit the hospital altogether. In-ho can literally see the image of her walking out, which gives him too much happiness. Immediately prepping for a surgical biopsy, he walks into the operating room with gusto, hoping to be proven right.
As he probes further, he realises it is actually an abscess, and Jeong-suk is right. Jung-min comes into the common room to notify his mother about it, and she cannot contain her excitement. This means she can finally work on her patients and not be babysat like some child who doesn’t know what to do. Even the senior resident starts respecting her after an incident reveals that Jeong-suk actually has some great instincts but is rusty from a lack of practice.
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Even though Jeong-suk has been winning at work, the bracelet has been bugging her. Especially after she sees Seung-hi’s daughter and is reminded of the indoor golf-infidelity conversation. When she gets home, she is ruminating about all this and decides to break into a run to clear her mind. When she accidentally trips on an uneven surface, Roy Kim is there to catch her, and he is here to tell her something very important.
Doctor Cha Episode 6 Review
Once again, the cliffhanger strikes at the best time. The anticipation has truly reached enough heights to get audiences to wait and see what comes next. This writer was correct in assuming that the last episode was a filler because this episode dropped bangers on bangers. The humour was back to its prime, and the acting has been improving with each episode.
The show does a brilliant job of striking a balance between some serious themes while also bringing it back to wholesome humour. The premise becomes its own character, a living, breathing organism contributing to the plot heavily. Especially with I-rang’s art school reveal, it becomes clear who the real villain in the show is and the subtle ways it is expressed.
Doctor Cha Episode 6 is currently streaming on Netflix. Do you think Jeong-suk will find out about her husband’s infidelity in the next episode? Let us know in the comments below.