AKA: Dragon Medical Team /
Dragon Team
Genre: Medical
Episodes: 11
Broadcast period: 2006-Apr to
2006-Jun
Cast: Sakaguchi Kenji,
Inamori Izumi, Mizukawa Asami and Koike Teppei.
After spending some
years in refugee camps as a MSAP doctor Asada Ryutaro (Sakaguchi Kenji) returns
to Japan and lives life drinking and doing nothing. Having given up on
medicine, Asada who was once known as a genius surgeon, he cannot seem to find
a purpose in his life, until he meets Kato Akira (Inamori Izumi). Kato had
heard about him when she was in MSAP herself and had witnessed one of his
surgeries, so she had decided to bring him to Meishii University hospital and
make him the head of the Batista team, so she can start writing her thesis
about the surgery.
Interested Asada
decides to go and see the hospital for himself, but is repulsed by the system
the hospital is having. Patients without insurance are turned down, patients
with hard surgeries are moved to other hospitals, drugs with severe side
effects are used on dying patients, and no matter whether or not the patient is
to die, no one is allowed to defy the people above them.
With the persuasion
and constant reminder that he will be the one deciding his Batista team, Asada
agrees and the battle for the Team Dragon starts…
Another franchise for
me, and yes I love them.
I have to say I liked
it more than I expected and I think that is because of the visual of the
surgeries. Kind of makes me believe that they are actually doing real surgery,
and they are making me understand how and why as well. Though I found it funny
that a ‘yankee-ish’ character was a genius doctor, I was surprised to see that
I liked it a lot. But this drama has made me realize one thing: I do not want
to get sick, in any way. Even if I do understand that the idea is a group of
doctors fighting for their patients against the money driven hospitals, I feel
bad knowing that there actually are patients who are not treated due to the
lack of success rate.
On the other hand I
love how the team is made, and how good they are together, even if it is a bit preposterous
to have a “super team” like that.
All in all I enjoyed
it, and I think you should give it a shot if you haven’t got anything on your
plate.
☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars
♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of hearts
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