On the night of February 7 last year, a 65-year-old security guard, Kwon Soon-sang, collapsed at work when he suddenly lost consciousness. The life-and-death struggle began in an ambulance and continued in the emergency room of Gachon University Gil Medical Center, where a team of emergency medicine professors, including Heo Kyu-jin and Yoo Jae-jin, performed CPR three times to bring him back to life. After successfully reviving his heartbeat, further urgent treatments such as intubation and monitoring followed, allowing Kwon to survive the first critical phase.

However, the calm was short-lived; follow-up tests revealed that the cause of his cardiac arrest was an acute myocardial infarction due to blocked blood vessels supplying the heart, leading to muscle necrosis. Dr. Park Cheol-hyun, a cardiac surgeon, performed a highly complex surgery known as off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery, reconnecting blood vessels to Kwon's still-beating heart, marking the second miracle in his medical journey. Unfortunately, Kwon’s challenges didn’t end there, as during his recovery, he was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer.

Despite his frustration with the relentless setbacks, Kwon benefited from the hospital’s multidisciplinary collaboration, which initiated 25 sessions of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, successfully reducing the cancerous mass. In July last year, Dr. Lee Won-seok performed laparoscopic surgery, which turned out to be a significant success, as final pathology tests showed that the cancer had downgraded from stage 3 to stage 1. Kwon, after a grueling year-long battle, expressed his gratitude, feeling as if he had been reborn three times thanks to the medical staff. Dr. Lee emphasized that this case exemplifies the importance of rapid response and close cooperation among different medical departments in the emergency setting.