Sothy Yoeun

Sothy Yoeun, a character in the Open Heart series, is Elijah Greene's intern at Edenbrook Hospital during his second year. He makes his official appearance in Book 2, Chapter 2.

Appearance
Sothy has brown eyes, short curly black hair, and tan skin. His casual clothes consist of a red shirt with golden tree printed on the front over a gray long-sleeved shirt.

Personality
Sothy is young and passive. According to Elijah, Sothy is book-smart but doesn't appear to be confident in his medical abilities.

Book 2

 * Chapter 2: The Interns
 * Chapter 3: What's Done Is Done
 * Chapter 5: Influence
 * Chapter 6: Buying Time
 * Chapter 9: Undetected
 * Chapter 10: The Senator
 * Chapter 18: Inevitable
 * Chapter 20: Picking Sides (Determinant)

Book 3

 * Chapter 2: More Than Meets The Eye (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 4: Power Struggles (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 7: Team Players (Mentioned Determinant; Physical Appearance Determinant)

Elijah Greene
Elijah is the resident assigned to Sothy as the latter begins his intern year at Edenbrook Hospital. The two men bond over shared interests, such as comic books (of which Sothy appears to be a DC fan), to Elijah's delight. During their first meeting when Ines and Zaid talk to the group of residents and interns, Sothy accidentally trips over a wire, yanking out a ventilator's plug. This undoubtedly irritates Zaid as they scramble to plug it back in.

In Chapter 9, Elijah tells you that Sothy accidentally gave a patient 500mg of diphenhydramine. If you decide to help Elijah mentor his intern, you help Sothy work through a gastric lavage. He is hesitant at first but you can go through the steps with him. If you decide to stay out of it, Elijah performs the procedure himself and once again covers for Sothy.

In Chapter 10, whether or not you have taken the earlier premium scene, you overhear a conversation between them about Sothy's treatment of a patient with multiple sclerosis. He has told the patient he would be fine once he took the dimethyl fumarate. However, he forgot to mention to the patient that he has to take it twice a day for the rest of his life and that he needs to come back for regular physical therapy and mental health check ups. When Sothy asks if that is really important to be mentioned, Elijah starts questioning if he actually told the patient about his diagnosis. Sothy tells him he did but that he didn't go into details since he "assumed it was a mainstream enough disease."

If you did not take the premium scene, Elijah answers that it is fixable and that he will talk the patient through it. Elijah continues to fix Sothy's mistakes and does not push the responsibility back onto Sothy. If you took the premium scene, Elijah is firm and tells Sothy to go back and talk to the patient again and explain everything that he should have said. The only way to learn from his mistake is to fix it himself, and Sothy understands. In Chapter 18, when all the doctors take on their last patients, Sothy is confident and responsible. Elijah comments to you that even though he misses Sothy as a friend, he is happy that Sothy is becoming a better doctor.

If Elijah does not help Sothy become a better doctor during the latter's intern year (through the premium scene), Sothy is not employed with Edenbrook during Elijah's third year and does not become a second year resident with Esme, Gary, and Mitch.

If Sothy enters his second year residency, in Book 3, Chapter 7, if you decide to partner with him in the team-building exercise, you ask if he is going to come by to hang out with Elijah. He says that since Elijah is busy and works overtime at the lab, they hardly see each other. However, maybe in the summer when Elijah has less work, Sothy will be able to stop by and destroy him in every video game he owns.

Your Character
You only know Sothy through Elijah and what Elijah tells you what happens during their work shifts. In Chapter 6, Elijah tells you that he had to help Sothy draw a patient's blood because his first insertion had the patient's arm spurting like something from Evil Dead. You can try to tell Elijah that Sothy won't learn and/or that Sothy's his intern and not his friend, but Elijah disagrees with you about him.

In Chapter 9, you have the premium opportunity to help Elijah mentor his intern. If you do, you can administer tough love or a firm calm teaching, and walk him through the medical procedure. Afterwards, you give Elijah advice about Sothy. Even though Elijah wants to be friends with Sothy and they can be outside of work, first and foremost, Elijah is his mentor and his resident and Sothy won't learn to be a capable doctor on his own right if Elijah keeps putting out the fires for him. In Chapter 10, if you took the premium scene, after Sothy returns to the patient's room, you congratulate Elijah for putting his foot down. He is a little sad that Sothy may not be his friend any more, but at least, he'll be a better doctor.