Healing Hands

Healing Hands
妙手仁心

Title screen
Genre Modern Drama
Starring Lawrence Ng
Bowie Lam
Ada Choi
Flora Chan
Nick Cheung
Steven Ma
William So
Astrid Chan
Yoyo Mung
Moses Chan
Maggie Siu
Raymond Cho Wing Liem
Country of origin  Hong Kong
Language(s) Cantonese
No. of episodes 32
Production
Producer(s) Tang Tak Hei
Running time 45 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel TVB
Original run August 31, 1998 – October 10, 1998
Chronology
Followed by Healing Hands II (2000)
External links
Website

Healing Hands (妙手仁心) is a 1998 Hong Kong medical drama series that ran on TVB Jade. It focuses on the lives and loves of the doctors and nurses at the fictional Yan Oi Hospital in Hong Kong. It is noted for its realism in depicting medical situations, thanks to the help of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, who had loaned actual hospital equipment and facilities for filming. It can be considered the Hong Kong equivalent to the American television series ER, although its storyline are arguably mirrored in another American series, Grey's Anatomy.[1] Lawrence Ng is the main star of the show as neurosurgeon Dr. Paul Ching Chi Mei. The other main role is played by Bowie Lam, who plays Dr. Henry Lai Kwok Chu as an accident and emergency doctor who is best friends with Paul.

The series was considered controversial within Hong Kong during its original run, as it dealt with sensitive issues such as homosexuality and AIDS. This was regarded as one of the main factors as to why the Hospital Authority pulled its support after the series was aired.

The show was followed by two sequels, Healing Hands II (2000) and Healing Hands III (2005).

Contents

Cast

Leading stars

Recurring stars

Notes and references

  1. ^ LuNaR (2007-05-22). "Grey's Anatomy is a copy of TVB's Healing Hand?". Spcnet TV. http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showthread.php?p=758419. Retrieved 2007-12-08. 

External links

Awards and achievements
TVB Anniversary Awards
Preceded by
Old Time Budy		 Best Drama
1998		 Succeeded by
N/A
Before:
Rural Hero
- August 28		 TVB Jade Second line series 1998
Healing Hands
August 31 - October 9		 Next:
Burning Flame
October 12 -
Before:
None
 TVB Jade The Final Episode Special - Saturday at 21:30-23:30
Healing Hands
October 10		 Next:
None
First Line Series
A Tough Side of a Lady • A Place of One's Own • Dark Tales II • As Sure As Fate • The Duke of Mount Deer 1998 • Old Time Buddy - To Catch a Thief • Simple Ordinary • Web of Love • Journey to the West II • Moments of Endearment
Second Line Series
A Measure of Love • Secret of the Heart • Crimes of Passion • Armed Reaction • Rural Hero • Healing Hands • Burning Flame • Till When Do Us Part
Third Line Series
1997 ← 1998 → 1999

Old Time Buddy (1997) · Healing Hands (1998) · N/A (1999) N/A (2000) · N/A (2001) · N/A (2002) · N/A (2003) · War and Beauty (2004) · Wars of In-laws (2005) · La Femme Desperado (2006) · Heart of Greed (2007) · Moonlight Resonance (2008) · Rosy Business (2009) · Can't Buy Me Love (2010) · Lives of Omission (2011)