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The [[Medical Drama|series]] follows Dr. Asada Ryutaro, a Japanese heart surgeon who spent years working for an NGO in war-torn countries. He catches the eye of Dr. Kato Akira, another cardiac surgeon who works by-the-book even in a war zone in the middle of nowhere. Years later, when Kato is working on a thesis about a promising new surgical procedure called "Batista", Kato enlists Asada to head up her star surgical team. Asada, however, lacks any faith or investment in the Japanese university medical system and only reluctantly agrees to work for Kato.

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=== The series provides examples of: ===

* [[Anti Role Model]]: Asada describes himself as such.

* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Akira Nagai, the original creator of the story, passed away in 2004.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] : One of the main themes of the show is how Japanese university medicine is caught in a stranglehold relationship with pharmaceuticals companies and medical device manufacturers.

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: The Batista operation, after a fashion. Since it's about operating on a beating heart, it is incredibly dangerous, easy to botch and in fact has a high mortality rate.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: Dr. Kihara.

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Ijyuuin

* [[Dr. Jerk]] : Several. Kato is a [[Defrosting Ice Queen|borderline case]].

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]] : Arase extricates exorbitant amounts of money for his services only to literally piss it all away on alcohol {{spoiler|to drown his guilt over being involved in a drug trial that resulted in numerous patient deaths}}.

* [[Face Heel Turn]] : Faked handily by {{spoiler|Ijuuin}} to secure a reliable line of information from Kirishima on the hospital's dicey political situation long enough for the Batista team to execute the third procedure.

* [[Freudian Excuse]] : Kirishima is all but unredeemable now, but when he was a toddler {{spoiler|his mother threw herself to her death from a roof right in front of him}}.

* [[Hard Work Montage]] : Done to show the team practicing for their third, highly unusual Batista case.

* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Miki, literally. It even gave her trouble in her [[Backstory]], [[Squick|with her brother]].

* [[Hidden Depths]] : Arase's [[Backstory]] reveals the reason for his drinking and drug abuse.

* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Miki and Dr. Kato.