Nagai Akira

Dr. Katou is an ambitious woman who seeks to revolutionize the corrupt and inefficient Japanese medical system from within by becoming a professor in a teaching hospital. She enlists a maverick surgeon, Dr. Asada Ryuutarou, to help her with research that would catapult her to a professorship should they succeed and publish. However, Asada's refusal to conform to the system soon threatens to destroy not only her plans but her entire career. Katou is prepared to do anything, including going along with the system, in order to achieve her end goal, but she begins to question whether she has gone too far as Asada's actions bring many of the system's shortcomings to light.Award: Won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 2005.Medical Supervisor: Yoshinuma Mie

Kenichi Furuya is a newly graduated doctor who has just passed the National Medical Examination after completing six years of studies at the university medical school. He and four of his classmates are scheduled to undergo a two-year internship at St. Antonio's Hospital in Yokohama to become full-fledged doctors. 　While Furuya is taking a nap in the resident's room after dropping off Suzuki, the drunken head of the internal medicine department, at the resident's welcome party, a group of injured bikers are brought in. Furuya is also summoned to the emergency room and told to stitch up a laceration on a young man. Furuya is flustered and frightened by his first big job, but when he somehow finishes the sutures, he realizes that he can manage it. Furuya faces the various illnesses and problems of his patients, and with the help of his colleagues, he gradually discovers the path he should take as a doctor.