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To get ahead and perform the Batista operation an ambitious young assistant professor needs a unrepentant and expelled surgeon's expertise. The shameless former doctor is in debt and indulging in easy women somewhere in Japan. The young assistant uses her charm and feminine wiles to recruit the former doctor to the university hospital. There are multiple rivalries and agenda confluencing at the hospital. The hospital has a reputation for receiving terminal or hopeless patients.

The vote is looming and all sides are scheming. A little boy needs surgery, but his situation and physiology is complicated so the head of the department would not allow the surgery to proceed. The boy's parents are angry especially after his life being saved at the hospital already once. A doctor becomes a snitch and another a betrayer.

The last-minute surgery is proceeding and a few untried and untested procedures are being deployed. The rest of the hospital is watching. The surgical team has a surprise at hand because it was not allowed to do the normal pre-op examination. This puts the life of an infant boy in further jeopardy. A second emergency occurs at the hospital.

The foreign corporate types have taken over the hospital and are executing on their expansion plans. This plan has nothing to do with patient welfare however. An old patient is labelled 'a whiner' and becomes the point of contention between Doctor Asada and the bureaucracy. They deliberately split the team so they can divide and conquer.

Team dragon is taking shape and is comprised of three people now, although Ryu is helping out at the emergency department as well. A doctor cannot officially tend to his hospitalized daughter - per the institution's policy - but that does not stop him from making decisions regarding her health. A surprise and sudden field operation is required.

The young doctor is invited to join team dragon, but he has not officially accepted. he comes across a girl with a gush to her head. She is able to be discharged with a minimum of a fuss. In the meanwhile, multiple arrivals at the emergency department make the ward quite busy. The doctors review their files in order to take the best course of action. It leads to an inconvenient discovery.

With the team almost complete the assistant professor puts one more member to the test operating on a patient. The assistant professor has two patients to choose from for the pioneering Batista procedure. One is a teenage girl with better chances who has sic months to live and the other is the former head nurse who has three months left.

The Batista surgery is underway. This is the innovative and pioneering moment everyone has been waiting for and for which Asada was brought in. A cadre of nurses and doctors is working on the patient and a larger group is observing the surgery. The patient's son and brother are outside sweating and worried. It all hinges on this.

There is lots of hand wringing and regret with the Batista team betrayed and its achievement ignored by the press and medical community. The North Japan rivals had brought in foreign help. One relationship is swept under the rug, especially since it is at an end, but another comes to light. This leads to movement within the departments and a reckoning for all involved.

More background of the conspiracy against the Meishin hospital comes to light even if two of the doctors are in near drunken state. The timing of the operations are not coincidental. The North is trying to grab all the patients it can. A waitress serving them is shot twice and on the floor. The waitress is near death and so the customers are doing their best to help her.

Having been stabbed in the back by Professor Noguchi the Batista team proceeds with its second operation under the watchful eyes of the new professorship candidate. There is another person watching as well however and she proposes a more democratic way of electing the new professor. A boy and his parents believe the Batista team and entrust the child's life to the surgeons. The team discovers that he was at North Japan hospital previously. They also discover that North Japan has been operating on patients needlessly.

Team dragon has been apart for some time and the head surgeon has been in New York City in USA. Noguchi is back from Thailand in a new role managing risk and, naturally, not welcomed by the team members. A woman with a dangerous situation is looking for a remedy, but there is only one person who can be entrusted with the operation.

Meishin is not the hospital it used to be. It is time for new management and a veteran takes over. She begins to recruit talent and manages to recruit several ace surgeons back to the hospital. part of the plan is education, part of it is taking on difficult procedures. A team needs to be put together. The regulatory environment has changed and there are new possibilities.

An elderly patient is being treated with an experimental drug that nonetheless offers little hope. The doctors are being feted by the pharmaceutical salespersons. They go golfing. Miki joins her man as a nurse. Ryu is mentoring a young doctor who performs his first independent surgery. The hospital at first refuses admit a foreigner without insurance until Rytu steps in.

One of the two teenage patients transferred to the hospital is the daughter of the Minister Of Health affording the hospital the opportunity to impress the man. This is the same minister whose favour is being sought. Unfortuanetly, the girl becomes a tool in the ploy for money. A member of the hospital's staff is addicted to chocolate. There is no limit to the administrator's greed.

The Batista team is split with half of it sent to a sister hospital to fail. The old patient is not coincidentally sent here when the original operating hospital refuses to admit him. There is a shortage of qualified personnel here however. What is more, a surprise awaits the surgeon and his team when the surgery commences. The anesthesiologist is hot for men.

The patient flees to the hospital of choice when her minder is not looking. She is the love child of the Minister Of Health so he is not happy about it. To make matters more complicated she is not in good shape and requires immediate surgery, but with her blood type being D the hospital is in a bind.

He is unhappy with the decision when he is not part of the surgical team and subsequently commits a medical error while operating on an elderly patient who wanted a different doctor to begin with. The patient needs a second surgery as a result, but then there is a typhoon which causes a blackout at the hospital. Things become worse with the emergency back-up sources running out of power.

An old patient is back and coincidentally meeting with the doctor who performed an early surgery for the family. Tis time it is the patient's mother who has cancer and has been referred to this hospital. The doctor, however, is a drunkard and is bound to disappoint the patient. This leads to derision and a punch in the face,

A new patient is admitted to the hospital and comes face-to-face with someone he had not seen in a long time. It turns out that the person will ave a hand in restoring what she was complicit in. A moment of redemption is almost disrupted by the father who is also a lawyer specializing in medical cases. The scheming corporate minion is being stabbed in the back herself.

The official inspection day for Meishin is drawing near, but the director is not well. This is to be his day of triumph, but he cannot allow anything to get in his way. Another doctor at the hospital suspects something. meanwhile, a young patient in need of a transplant is admitted to the sister hospital. There is alack of organs in Japan.

A young patient is in need of a heart transplant, but donors are scarce and even more so at that age. The boy has never run, played or been what every normal boy is. His mother and brother are by his side. He falls ill and is in need of immediate liver operation. In the meanwhile an older patient is also waiting at the hospital.

The surgeon is determined to take care of his young patient; however, what he is about to do is prohibited. Will he be turfed from the profession? he does not care. A heart is on its way, but the road is blocked and the clock is ticking. A special taxi service is procured. The hospital administrator is proceeding with his corporate scheming.

The Meishin Hospital is looking for international accreditation by IMA. This involves a live demonstration of the principles of management and patient care by international experts. The problem is that the surgery team does not have any worthwhile patients for this purpose. All patients are being routed by cardiology to the new 'black' team.