Thu, Apr 20, 2006
An elderly patient is being treated with an experimental drug that nonetheless offers little hope. The doctors are being feted by the pharmaceutical salespersons. They go golfing. Miki joins her man as a nurse. Ryu is mentoring a young doctor who performs his first independent surgery. The hospital at first refuses admit a foreigner without insurance until Rytu steps in.
Thu, May 18, 2006
The Batista surgery is underway. This is the innovative and pioneering moment everyone has been waiting for and for which Asada was brought in. A cadre of nurses and doctors is working on the patient and a larger group is observing the surgery. The patient's son and brother are outside sweating and worried. It all hinges on this.
Thu, Apr 13, 2006
To get ahead and perform the Batista operation an ambitious young assistant professor needs a unrepentant and expelled surgeon's expertise. The shameless former doctor is in debt and indulging in easy women somewhere in Japan. The young assistant uses her charm and feminine wiles to recruit the former doctor to the university hospital. There are multiple rivalries and agenda confluencing at the hospital. The hospital has a reputation for receiving terminal or hopeless patients.
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
Meishin is not the hospital it used to be. It is time for new management and a veteran takes over. She begins to recruit talent and manages to recruit several ace surgeons back to the hospital. part of the plan is education, part of it is taking on difficult procedures. A team needs to be put together. The regulatory environment has changed and there are new possibilities.