Doctor Slump ((exclusive)) Jun 2026

A brilliant anesthesiologist who suffers from severe burnout and depression after years of relentless work and mistreatment by her superiors.

An incredibly hardworking anesthesiologist who suffers from severe burnout and depression due to toxic workplace conditions and relentless pressure. Doctor Slump

is a 2024 South Korean medical rom-com that follows two former high school rivals who reunite at the lowest points of their respective careers and eventually find healing through each other. Show Overview Release Date: March 17, 2024. Platform: Available for streaming on Netflix and JTBC . Format: 16-episode limited series. A brilliant anesthesiologist who suffers from severe burnout

It says: You don’t have to be productive to be worthy. Rest is not weakness. Show Overview Release Date: March 17, 2024

In training, you celebrate your first central line, your first delivery, your first code save. In practice, the 500th central line is just a task. The thrives on the absence of novelty. The brain, starved of the dopamine hit that comes from learning, atrophies into routine.

The rooftop setting serves as a metaphor for their current state: they are at the top physically (the penthouse), but they are "in the slumps" mentally. It is only when they stop looking at the skyline of success and start looking at each other that they begin to recover.