An ace doctor in a university hospital is wrongfully accused of a medical malpractice incident and gets ousted from the hospital. He then applies to work at a prison, where he plans to make personal connections with all the big shots in prison with the ultimate goal of getting revenge against the hospital that kicked him out.
Namkoong Min
Na Yi-Je
Kwon Na-ra
Han So-Geum
Kim Byong-chul
Sun Min-Sik
Choi Won-young
Lee Jae-Joon
Park Eun-seok
Lee Jae-Hwan
Lee Da-in
Lee Jae-In
Lee Min-young
Bok Hye-Soo
Lee Jun-hyeok
Ko Young-Cheol
Jang Hyun-sung
Jung Ui-Sik
Kang Shin-il
Kim Sang-Choon
Doctor Prisoner is a drama, crime series that first aired in 2019 exploring themes of prison, corruption, surgeon, revenge, hospital, lying. Created by Park Kye-ok, it stars Namkoong Min, Kwon Na-ra, Kim Byong-chul. An ace doctor in a university hospital is wrongfully accused of a medical malpractice incident and gets ousted from the hospital. He then applies to work at a prison, where he plans to make personal connections with all the big shots in prison with the ultimate goal of getting revenge against the hospital that kicked him out.
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