Sun’s doctor
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By akumatat
- Sun’s doctor
- Created: Apr 1, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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When Sun gets to the hospital she is told that her regular doctor was away at a conference. I think that her replacement is a plant to try to get Sun to reveal info about the rest of the people on the island.
First of all I’m not a doctor , but I have been present for all three of my kids births. As I was watching this some of the things the doctor said and did kinda seemed a little off to me. 1. Only with one of my kids did my wifes actual doctor get to deliver the baby. The other two times it was whoever was on call and they did not know us from anbody else. Never once did they vocally assume I was the father, or that my wife was even married. Sun’s “doctor ” asked if there was anyone they could contact , her husband, or her parents. It was kinda like he was trying to get her to say something about Jin or try to get her to flub her story.
All he did was feel the side of her stomach and then told her that the baby was in distress. We had a few complications with our last to children and it took more than that to come to the conclusion that something was wrong.
He then tells her that they are going to have to do a c-section because the medication makes a natural birth impossible and they have to get her to surgery immediately . Then, all of a sudden, she just has the baby with no problem.
It just doesn’t seem right to me that a doctor would behave that way. To me it seemed like he really wasn’t a doctor that he didn’t know what he was talking about. At the least he may have been a doctor but not an OBGYN. Just alittle out there thinking , but could the “pain medication” have actually been some kind of truth serum? So, that’s it. i hope all of you have some things to say about this. Maybe there are actually some baby doctors on here that can set me straight. Also keep in mind that we did not have our kids in Korea and that I’m only speakin from experience in the U.S. They might do things differently over there. Enjoy!
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sun Kwon | 3.2, 2.16, 1.6, 2.5, 1.17, 3.18, 4.12, 4.7 | 298 |
Ehhhhmmmm. I think you may be over thinking the doctor thing. The dialogue was constructed to maintain the idea that Jin’s flashback was an actual flash forward happening at the same time, and to iron out any problem that Sun’s doctor would know that Jin, the father, was not ‘alive’ we are told it’s a different doctor.
No biggie just a quick fix plotline drive.
And you have to be asked specific questions for truth serum to do its job and I really don’t think the doctor did that, did he?
Possible, but for a doctor to tell you that it is impossible to have the kid naturally and that you are gonna have to a c-section and then you immediately have the kid with no problems at all, that just doesn’t happen. As for the truth serum, that was somethin that just popped into my head while I was writing that. I didn’t even think there was a real truth serum , just somethin made up for movies and tv. thanks for the feedback though, I really appreciate it.
I hear what your saying about the c-section, natural birth thing. But let’s just say I’ve been to a few islands where crippled people don;t begin to walk and there isn’t smoke monsters that can kill you on them If you catch ma drift………… hee-hee.
I think this is an interesting post. I agree that the doc was acting funny. What do you think there is to that? +1
I do agree that there is something fishy with the doctor that delivered Sun’s baby. Why else would the writters put in the fact that Sun’s regular doctor was away? If it was no big deal, then why even make mention of it in the dialogue? I think the new doctor is definitely a plant, but we have no additional information to go on to determine who planted the doctor or why. I’m sure we will find out someday, just like everything else.
+1 for trying to explain this, it has been a question on my mind since I saw it.
i agree that the doctor was actually a bit weird but i had never thought that much about it. Im not a doctor so i don’t have a clue about it really but +1 cos its an interesting theory.
not sure about the truth serum though…
Since it appears that Widmore’s people know that the Losties are on the island, maybe he is somebody working for Abaddon. He did ask Hurley if they were still alive on the island, so to me it seems like the doctor could be working with him to get to the bottom of the story that the Oceanic 6 are telling. Yes, I’m aware that Abaddon was the one that picked the crew for the mission for Widmore , but that doesn’t mean that he was privy to all the info that Widmore knew.
The whole scene was weird. If sun need a c-section, should deffo would not have been able to have the baby without something life threatening to one or both.
I also found Sun’s doctor to be suspicious… his quick diagnosis of the baby’s distress, his insistence on a c-section, then his immediate retraction and quick delivery of the baby. But I think it’s most likely as ZeeeC17 said… the dialogue and drama of the scene was intentional so as to force the viewer to believe Jin was also having a flashfoward.
You may be on to something, but only time will tell.
the doctor never said the pain medication would make a natural birth impossible, only that it would make it very difficult. even still, i did find the whole scene to be very suspicious
I thought there was something fishy going on, too.
Im with you. I know for a fact there are no pain relief medications that would be given during pregnancy that would make natural labour difficult. That made me immediately ask what medication is she on?
It was all very odd, if you are knowledgable about childbirth.
really good idea +1 It’s the little things that make Lost so much fun to theorise.
You are bang on in your first line. We can speculate that the doctor using the c-section term so loosely is un-doctor like but the fact the writers make it clear that Suns real doctor is “away at a conference” seems the most significant. Why would they need to say that if we weren’t supposed to question his authenticity?
Not 100% on the truth serum but he is shady man.
he was Korean …. what do you expect? ;)
Good theorizing akumatat. You pointed out a lot of odd details in the scene that I wasn’t paying attention to. Probably because Sun was screaming so much :) +1
I think Sun’s regular doctor being away was an important point so that it could allow the new doctor to ask about a possible husband (Sun’s regular doctor would be aware he was dead).
His actions about needing to take a c-section, however, mere seconds before the baby popped out are hard to reconcile. He was either a terrible doctor, or the confusion around the pregnancy was supposed to corroborate what a strange and painful delivery it was (thus accounting for Sun’s lapse in remembering that Jin was dead).
The truth serum thing was a little out there, but put out there none the less. I can’t remember who wrote the theory, but I agree with them that being messed up on pain medication is not going make you forget that somebody is dead . I also agree that it would be easier for you to forget that you are suppose to be continuing a lie. I really appreciate all the comments guys, it’s awesome
When I first heard the doctor tell Sun that her regular doctor was away and that he was filling, my first thought was that Ben was going to enter the delivery room and steal the baby. However, I do agree with Angelo and the more ocham’s razor-like explanations.
On the other hand, I would also like to point out that not only was the doctor a shady character, but so was the random guy loitering outside the delivery room…who was he?…a Mr. Paik goon?
I’m going to post a theory on this-I posted one a while back but it needs revising. I think the reason for the dr. switch is because of the injection, and what originally got me thinking is that I didn’t think they could give you anything for the pain right before you gave birth, which she did. I thought once you were past a certain point of labor, you just had to deal with the pain. I haven’t had any kids yet, so I don’t know!
kselvog- You’re right that you cannot give a woman giving birth an epidural after her cervix is dilated passed a certain point. I guess you think the doctor gave Sun a “vaccine” similar to the one that Ethan gave Claire…if only we saw Sun’s doctor with one of Ethan’s giant uterus poking needles in the delivery room.
It is true that after a certain point you can’t have an epidural or pain medication , my wife still bitches about not getting it when we had our kids. I never thought about the vaccine.
Wow!great theory and comments. If the baby being conceived on the island has caused the need for injections of vaccine it could make Sun realize she must get back to the island also in the future. Just a thought.
made for good tv, even if the realistic part wasn’t so real, I mean it’s like ER I have never been to an ER where doctors are running around yelling “stat” but it makes pretty good television.