Doctor X 7 (Dokuta-X: Gekai Daimon Michiko /ドクターX～外科医・大門未知子～)

The test results are back!

It's positive.

No way!

-Hurry! -Right!

Saturation under 90%!

Michiko...

-Demon! -Dr. Daimon!

Dr. Daimon, hang in there!

Michiko!

This is the story of a maverick woman doctor.

THREE MONTHS EARLIER

MICHIKO DAIMON FREELANCE SURGEON

How cute! Very cute!

KEI ICHIKI RESPIRATORY SURGEON

Dr. Daimon!

What are you doing here?

The deputy prime minister's pulmonary embolism surgery

is in two hours!

You have to hurry!

I still have two hours.

-Want to feed them? -No, thanks.

It's fun.

They're so cute!

Excuse me.

Woah!

Get him away from that wiring!

Don't touch him!

This is bad. Cardiac arrest. He's in V-fib.

What will we do? There's no AED near here.

-Call an ambulance! -Right.

Sorry. I've lost all my strength.

You're hopeless, damn you!

I'm sorry.

NEW ZEALAND'S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

Dr. Daimon!

A message from the prime minister.

What?

That was really an amazing surgery. I learned a lot.

But that dropkick you did was a bit much.

You're not Tarzan.

It still hurts.

You're a bigger wimp than a lamb.

There's another call. It's from Tokyo.

Michiko!

At last, I've found you.

I looked all over for you!

Akira! Ben Casey! Long time no see.

Don't act so casual! I was worried about you.

I really thought you were in New York.

But you're in New Zealand?

You should come, too, Akira.

Quit joking around.

Get back here right now.

There's hardly any surgeries due to COVID.

My Doctor Referral Agency has gone deep into the red.

We need Michiko to make us some money. Right, Ben Casey?

BEN CASEY

2021.

The ravages of a once-in-a-century pandemic

have devastated the world's medical systems.

Meanwhile, with the prodigious might

of a cornered animal, Japan's medical universities

have firmly withstood the storm.

Oh, wow.

Our hospital is completely under the control of Internal Medicine.

It has been a while. I feel so out of place here now.

Director of Surgery Ebina.

Yes?

Don't be so pathetic.

Yes, sir. Sorry.

They're here. Branch Director, they're here.

Well... Director of Internal Medicine Hachisuka.

I thought an armored riot squad had burst in.

Branch Director Hiruma.

Branch Director Hiruma, that seat belongs to this hospital's leader,

Director of Internal Medicine Hachisuka.

Listen here.

Even before you became a doctor,

this has always been my place.

Only because we're in a crisis now,

this hospital has been put under the control of Internal Medicine.

But it's only a temporary situation.

I brought everyone in the Surgery Department here

from the branch hospital

to discuss what to do after the pandemic is under control.

Right!

You're spraying!

Microdroplets can fly more than two meters!

Please don't shout.

Transmission prevention measures by the surgeons are too lax.

How can you say that?

Besides being vaccinated twice,

we're scrupulously careful!

Director of Surgery Ebina,

as head of Surgery, you need to protest as well.

Yes, sir.

Listen.

When we surgeons perform surgery,

it's way more stressful than internists' work.

It's exhausting!

You internists don't have the right to complain about us!

Oh, sorry.

You people,

how far will you retreat?

In a 5-minute conversation, 3,000 droplets are released,

the same as in a single cough, and they turn into an aerosol.

Meetings will be held remotely for the foreseeable future.

Droplet-spreading "Yes, sirs" are prohibited!

They prohibited "Yes, sirs."

Who cares about that?

Hachisuka.

You've sure come a long way since you were my gopher.

You're called Acting Hospital Director,

but you're just Internal Medicine Director.

You're on the same level as Director of Surgery Ebina here.

That's way lower.

You've got COVID to thank.

Branch Director Hiruma,

that is a tactless remark.

What's tactless is your face.

It's so bland and unremarkable.

This is...

the last line of defense against the spread of the virus.

If by chance there was an outbreak at our hospital,

it would bring about a collapse of Japan's medical system.

Responsibility for that lies entirely with me!

What kind of bow is that?

The "Yes, sir" pose prevents droplets.

Dr. Hachisuka came up with it.

Is that right?

How overdramatic.

Instead of always calling us together,

from now on,

hold meetings remotely.

Oh, right.

Branch Director Hiruma.

I am concerned about your health, sir.

So from now on,

please perform your duties remotely from home.

Farewell,

Branch Director Hiruma.

What's wrong?

That riles me!

That really riles me!

The university hospital's once illustrious Surgery Department

was moved to the branch hospital.

The number of surgeries was greatly decreased...

and it was running in the red.

There's a great view of the Director's Office from here.

-Branch Director Hiruma. Excuse me. -Come in.

Allow me to disinfect your hands.

Thank you.

Thanks.

-Goodbye. -Bye.

-Branch Director Hiruma. -Yes?

Once the coronavirus trouble calms down, we'll be back in charge.

That's right!

We'll return to the main hospital and make them weep, Branch Director!

-Kaji! -Yes?

Enough of that "weep branch director"!

-Don't say it. -I didn't say it.

-Yes, he did. -Right.

-What? -You did.

No, I didn't.

Meanwhile,

this freelance maverick doctor...

who was never attached to any hospital returned.

This woman...

I'm back!

She hates groups,

she hates authorities,

and she hates constraints.

Oh, Ben Casey!

Her weapons are her specialty license and her skill

to work her way up.

-Surprise! -Surprise!

What a surprise!

-Welcome back! -Welcome back!

I'm back!

What? There's more of you.

-This is Ben Casey's son, Gannon. -Gannon.

Ben Casey's baby?

-That's right! -Right!

-Really? -Yes!

-Look at you. -How cute.

Michiko, thank goodness you made it back here alive.

Of course, I'm alive.

Since we couldn't contact you,

we thought you had caught the virus at a New York hospital.

Akira was so worried, he nearly died.

Sorry. I lost my cellphone.

Oh, you!

Welcome back from your two-week quarantine.

-I was so bored, I thought I would die. -Here.

Woah!

Due to COVID, patients can't get surgery,

so they're queued up and waiting.

-All right! -Come on.

First, let's have a drink!

-Okay. Cheers! -Cheers!