Healing Hands II

Healing Hands II is a television series that was made by Hong Kong's television broadcast company TVB after Healing Hands’s success. It was directed by Jonathan Chik, mainly cast by Lawrence Ng, Bowie Lam, Ada Choi, Yoyo Mung, and Flora Chan. The series mainly describes a group of medical staff, including their attitude towards work and thought, which reflects on different medical cases. Through describing various stories about these medical staff, the TV series expresses the happiness and sadness, newborn and the past-away, the sympathy and the care in life. It was broadcast on November 20, 2000, in TVB Jade.

Synopsis

Healing Hands III

Following the success of Healing Hands I and II, Hong Kong's No.1 Television Channel, TVB, introduced Healing Hands III.

It starred the original casts of Healing Hands I: Lawrence Ng and Bowie Lam; and Healing Hands II: Moses Chan, Maggie Shiu and Raymond Cho along with new additions to the series, Melissa Ng, Bernice Liu and Gigi Lai. It aired in Hong Kong during (August - September 2005).

Plot

The storyline begins with the end of the Sars epidemic in Hong Kong and the accidental death of Lawrence Ng's (Paul) ex-girlfriend Yoyo Mung (Tracy). Lawrence begins a tailspin, but fortunately Gigi Lai (Frances) is always there to support him. Bowie Lam (Henry) appears at the beginning of Healing Hands 3 with a new girlfriend, having broken up with Flora Chan (Annie) between Healing Hands 2 and 3. However, he soon breaks up and despite initial bad impressions of Melissa Ng (Sarah), the two become friends. The drama follows the challenges that the characters face- including the medical obstacles faced by the doctors of Yan Oi hospital and the love life troubles that the various couples of the series overcome.

Healing Hands

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.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.

Healing Hands (song)

"Healing Hands" was the final Billboard Hot 100 hit single of the 1980s for Elton John, written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin and recorded on his million-selling 1989 album Sleeping with the Past. The single was released during the late-summer of 1989, and was a top-twenty hit in the US. It was paired as a double A-side single with "Sacrifice", which became Elton's first solo number 1 single in the UK. The song was inspired by the Four Tops song "Reach Out, I'll Be There". Produced by Chris Thomas, it was the first of three singles released from the album, with the follow-ups being "Sacrifice" and "Club at the End of the Street".

"Healing Hands" did moderately well as a single in the United States, climbing to #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart the week of October 21, 1989 (dislodging Madonna's "Cherish" from the #1 position). The song failed to make the UK Top 40 on its initial release, as did the follow-up, "Sacrifice". However, after Steve Wright of BBC Radio One added "Sacrifice" to his station's playlist, "Sacrifice" was re-released in the UK with "Healing Hands" as the flip side. The double A-side record topped the UK chart for five weeks starting June 23, 1990, becoming the first solo #1 UK hit of Elton John's career.