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All we can do is help the patients
get better. We need the patients' cooperation too.
I told him not to forget the feeling he has now.
The desire to save people.
Suzu-san!
You're not alright!
Help me... I don't want to die yet.
- Date-san! - Move!
Why?
Keep the change.
Shimoda Sensei.
Date-san's wife is here.
Niimi Sensei's calling for you.
Shimoda Sensei.
Alright. I'll be back as soon as I can.
For the time being, you deal with her.
Associate Professor Nakajima. Professor Saeki's waiting for you.
Ah... Yes, thank you.
- Saeki Sensei. - What happened?
To upset the guest of honor.
That is... Date-san passed away.
- I see. - Since the presentation's already been made,
- I'm thinking I should go back. - You can't do that.
If you leave,
this event today will just be another party.
However...
All the doctors have taken their time to be here.
Take care of your business, Associate Professor Nakajima.
Nakajima Sensei, over here.
Konno-kun.
Let's talk in the other room.
Date-san...
Good morning.
Good morning. Where's Konno Sensei?
He didn't come home last night.
He said he was spending the night at the hospital.
Are you alright?
I'm fine now.
Just a minute.
Good morning.
- Sawamura Sensei. - What's the matter?
Date-san...passed away yesterday.
- Sawamura Sensei, do you have a minute? - Yes.
Sawamura Sensei.
You were looking at Date-san's medical record the other day, weren't you?
What's wrong, Sawamura Sensei?
Nothing.
Were you perhaps aware of the fact that
the pulmonary mycosis was in an advanced stage?
It takes approximately 2 years for aspergilloma to progress
to the point of causing acute bleeding in the lung.
Date-san was complaining of cough and fever since he started coming here as an outpatient.
Antibiotics hadn't been working either.
- Then... - Then?
It's a medical error... on Professor Saeki's part.
Diagnosis of pulmonary mycosis is difficult even for veteran doctors.
He was hospitalized for pneumonia. You can't say for sure that he misdiagnosed.
But if Professor Saeki had examined him properly before...
You'd better be careful about what you say.
Here's your lunch. From Suzu-san.
I have nothing to do with this.
Looks like you had a tough time yesterday.
His wife was quite upset...
We decided to explain to her at some other time.
What's going to happen?
It all depends on her course of action.
We'd better contact our attorney just in case.
Shimoda Sensei, can we start Enomoto-san
on regular meals now?
Shimoda-kun.
Oh...yes.
Are you alright? You look a little pale.
Take it easy if you're not feeling well, you hear?
If you're not paying attention, you might end up killing your patient.
Help me... I don't want to die yet.
Shimoda Sensei!
Are you alright?
It's my fault..
It's my fault that Date-san...
It wasn't your fault, Shimoda Sensei.
Yes. Thanks.
The next professor's conference is going to be fun.
And it's all thanks to your hard work.
I'm glad to hear that, but...
about the matter concerning Date-san...
If trouble should ensue, we'll just let the attorneys handle it.
It will be troublesome if it goes to court.
IF it does, right?
See you tomorrow.
Konno Sensei.
Shimoda-kun and Nakajima Sensei will be attending Date-san's wake, I heard.
Is that right.
What about Niimi Sensei?
I'm guessing he won't go.
Hello. Do you have a minute?
What is it?
Konno Sensei knows about Date-san.
- I see. - I think you should
warn him before it's too late.
And...
about Suzu-san too.
Tadaima.
Okaerinasai.
Sorry I couldn't come home last night.
You were busy, weren't you? Dinner will be ready soon.
Oh, you rented this for me.
"Miracle Doctor Naoko."
Can we watch it today?
I'm a little tired.
No hurry. Next time then.
Sorry.
That's okay. Let's go to bed early tonight.
It's not your fault, Shimoda Sensei.
Niimi Sensei, I'll go talk to Date-san.
Huh? Okay...
Tamura-san in Room 303 continues to have a slight fever.
Please keep your eye on the fever pattern.
That's it for the plan of the day.
Well, let's work hard again today.
- Konno Sensei. - Yes.
How's Suzu-san doing?
I don't think she's having any problems in particular.
- So she hasn't told you anything? - Huh?
Tell her to come to the hospital right away.
Without fail.
"Morishita Sensei wants you to come in for an examination.
Come as soon as you can."
Suzu.
Sorry to make you come suddenly.
Sensei...
Let's talk outside.
Tests indicate that her heart function has deteriorated even further.
Because of that, she's been having
intermittent attacks of dyspnea.*
- Attacks? - Yes.
We thought it would be best to monitor her progress here
and decided to have her hospitalized.
Sawamura Sensei and I will be her attending physicians.
Yuta-kun...Hadn't you noticed anything?
I'm sorry.
Why did this happen? Why...
- Morishita Sensei... - Stay beside her as much as you can.
Right now, I suggest
you just think about Suzu-san and your own patients.
Don't get yourself involved in anything else.
Thanks.
They're overreacting, hospitalizing me suddenly.
- But we can't have you overexerting yourself. - I'm not.
There's still a lot of things I want to do with Yuta-san.
I need to get out soon.
Yes, you'll have to get better soon.
Sawamura Sensei.
Konno Sensei, please sign off on this medical certificate.
Alright.
What?
Niimi Sensei, were you aware? Of Date-san's condition.
Shimoda Sensei.
So you were aware.
- What are you trying to say? - Wait.
- Say something! - Shimoda-kun!
You knew about it but kept your mouth shut!
Shimoda Sensei, calm down!
I noticed it...the day before he was tested.
Antibiotics didn't seem to be working, so
I checked his old x-rays. That's when...
It never occurred to you to check sooner?
He was admitted with a possibility of pneumonia.
What reason would I have to check so carefully?
What did you tell the patient and his family?
Evidently, it was negligence on Professor Saeki's part, wasn't it?
Then why...
Why are you asking the obvious, Konno Sensei?
What's the point in telling that to the patient at the point in time?
Treatment takes precedence over that.
But in the end, we couldn't save him.
I didn't want him to die either.
I wanted to save him too if I could.
But...
that being said, I'm not going to endanger my own position.
I can't get myself to
sacrifice myself for the patients like Konno Sensei.
Niimi Sensei...
I have my own life too.
I studied my butt off to get into medical school...
and finally got to be a doctor.
Isn't it normal to
want to go with the flow and succeed?
- But Date-san... - He's already dead!
Are you saying I should throw away my career
in consideration for a patient who died?
Tell me, Konno Sensei.
Am I that wrong?
Am I really
that wrong as a doctor to think like that?
Doctors...
can't make it on righteousness alone.
- All the residents? - Yes.
I think you or Nakajima Sensei should
take care of it before the situation gets worse.
- You've changed, Sawamura Sensei. - Pardon me?
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