仁华医院副院长武明训即将接任院长。赴美出差途中，顺道去拜访老同学，美国著名的心脏外科医生钟立行，不料却正遇上钟立行的妹妹车祸死亡。钟立行不能接受身为医生却无法救活妹妹的残酷现实而心理崩溃，武明训借机将钟立行带回国,一是帮他散心,二是希望能说动他回仁华就职,帮他建立仁华医院心脏外科的声誉,增加他就任院长的砝码。然而，钟立行的到来却在医院引起一连串的震动——他精湛的医术，专业的作风，对医生职业清教徒般的虔诚，让全院上下都被他吸引，也在武明训的妻子，麻醉科主任江一丹心中激起涟漪。 医院接二连三出事，是管理疏忽，是技术失误，还是无力回天的医学局限？武明训与钟立行产生严重分歧。二人都是充满理想与献身精神的医生，但却不得不在理想与现实中艰难跋涉。最后，他们终于找回了希波克拉底誓言给予的崇高责任，以及“医者仁心”的职业信仰。 （英语）Renhua Hospital Vice President Wu MingXun will soon take over the post of president. During a business trip to the United States, he visits his former schoolmate Zhong Lixing, a famous cardiothoracic surgeon in the US. Zhong Lixing’s sister was just killed in a car accident, but Zhong Lixing couldn’t accept the cruel fact that, even being a doctor, he couldn’t have saved her sister and feels like mentally breaking down. Wu Mingxun takes the chance to ask Zhong Lixing to come back to China. On the one hand, he wants to help Zhong Lixing relieve his sadness. On the other hand, he wants to persuade him to work at Renhua Hospital so as to help him build the reputation of the cardiac surgery department and add a boost to his succession to the president. However, Zhong Lixing’s arrival causes a series of stirs at the hospital. His superb medical skills, professionalism and Puritan dedication to the medical field make him so attractive at the hospital, and also cause a ripple in the heart of Wu Mingxun’s wife Jiang Yidan, Director of the Anesthesiology Department. Medical malpractices happen one after another at the hospital. Were these caused by negligence in management, or technical errors, or inability to reverse medical limitations? Wu Mingxun disagrees with Zhong Lixing in many aspects. Both are dedicated doctors bearing ideals, but they have to balance ideals and reality. Finally, they reassume the lofty responsibilities given by Hippocratic Oath and regain the professional belief as doctors.