If anything, Code Blue is a wonderful show. This is one of the fastest shows this year that I've ever cleared... I started Episode 1 last Tuesday? And I just finished watching Episode 8 this morning. My goodness... But it's a very real thing. And as I watch the intern doctors go about struggling with balancing their lives with their fears and the situations around them, I can't help but think that it resonates so much with life and also, the responsibilities of being a teacher.
Just a description of what Code Blue is all about. Yamashita Tomohisa (Yamapi) plays Kosaku Aizawa. A calm, emotionless intern who is the most stable of the interns. Aragaki Yui plays Megumi Shiraishi: a gentle, endearing intern who is the most knowledgeable. Erika Toda plays Mihoko Miyama: a more headstrong woman, but with soft spots for her patients. Asari Yousuke plays Kazuo Fujikawa: a hyperactive, bumbling intern who strikes good relationships with his patients. Higa Manami plays Saejima Haruka: a flight nurse who is methodological, but carries many bad hurts. These 5 are the main people in the drama, with other seasoned doctors like Dr. Mitsui, Dr. Kuroda and Dr. Takashi who try to make their keep. They are all doctors at Shohoku University Hospital as Emergency Medical Service staff. They are trained to be emergency helicopter doctors, activated by a call, and shipped off to the location by a helicopter, and they have to react on the spot. There is no time for emotions, no time for pauses, and no room for mistakes.
And it isn't easy. They start off as rivals for the various positions, but through Shiraishi's gentle nature, starts to draw the team together to function together as one. As the struggles of living up to the demands of an emergency stat team grow, so do the emotions of each member, as they have to deal with differing situations: death, mistakes, emotions and disappointments. And it is weird, because I can tear at almost every episode, so this show somewhat touches a nerve within me. And i wondered what it was.
I realised that they are very much like how a teacher should be. We have minimal room for error, we work long hours, and there is hardly time for pauses in between. The biggest difference between doctors, nurses and teachers? While medical personnel determine life or death in a split second or a moment, teachers determine life or death across the years. While medical personnel deal with physical life, teachers deal with the inner life: choices, character, values. Similar, yet different, eh?
And that somehow led me to think about Philippians 1:21 - "To die is gain, and to live is Christ". Yesterday at our weekly Monday Prayer Point, we covered Galatians 2, and in Galatians 2:19-20, it says:
"For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
-Galatians 2:19-20
-Galatians 2:19-20
It is quite an apt reminder for the current series of "Extreme Discipleship" by the church pastors, and I can't help but think that it is very much like how the interns go about in Code Blue. I read before that the road of spiritual leadership is one of solitude, but not of loneliness- Solitude because we are the only ones who walk this particular path, but not lonely, because God is with us.
Sure, each of the interns have to go through their own difficulties, and that is something that they themselves can only solve. But that doesn't mean that they are alone. The team rallies around each other, supports one another, and I know, for me, I have the Lord. So I guess, as the tears fall down my cheeks, I realise that I am not crying solely because the scenes are touching. I cry because I resonate and understand what they go through.
It is not an easy journey, but in the midst of suffering, that's when we see God's heartbeat. =)
Sure, each of the interns have to go through their own difficulties, and that is something that they themselves can only solve. But that doesn't mean that they are alone. The team rallies around each other, supports one another, and I know, for me, I have the Lord. So I guess, as the tears fall down my cheeks, I realise that I am not crying solely because the scenes are touching. I cry because I resonate and understand what they go through.
It is not an easy journey, but in the midst of suffering, that's when we see God's heartbeat. =)