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Peritoneal pseudomyxoma.

His wife died.

I couldn't save the person most precious to me.

When that happened, Doctor Kousuke Sagara ... died.

I would like the surgeon ... to be Moriyama sensei.

Let's make a clean sweep of it ... Moriyama sensei.

OK!

- Good morning, Moriyama sensei. - Oh, good morning.

- Good morning. - Yes, morning.

- Good morning, Moriyama sensei. - Yes, morning.

- Good morning. - Morning!

- Moriyama sensei. - Yes, morning!

Good morning.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

Good morning.

We have a new product coming out. I thought it important that you be the first one I tell about it.

- Why me first? - Why?

You've been glued to Sagara sensei recently.

Well, I have to get the new doctor to remember me.

But you, Moriyama sensei ... are famous now.

I'm ...

Famous ... ?

Every hospital I go to, they ask about you.

"What kind of person is Moriyama sensei?"

Tell me ...

- Why do they talk about me? - Because of your successful peritoneal pseudomyxoma operation, of course.

Really?

- That's why? - But you know what I've always thought?

That you ... are a top doctor.

- Top doctor ... ? - That's right, Moriyama sensei.

I've finished with Ishiyama-san in 420.

- Ami-chan. Get Togawa-san ready for being admitted. - OK.

I'm going on my rounds now.

- I'm going on my rounds too. - Thanks.

- What's up!? - You OK!?

Nonomura-san! Your chest? Your chest hurts?

Sagara here.

- We've got an ambulance call. - Yes, what is it?

Male, 53, in extreme abdominal pain.

98 ... All right.

An ambulance is coming. Anyone who's free take care of it.

Wha? Someone who's free? Is anyone free?

- I'll go. - I appreciate it.

Here.

- We've got an ambulance coming. - Again!? Ohhh, dammit!

We're here, Nonomura-san.

- You're at the hospital now, Nonomura-san. - We're taking you to the examination room.

- Stretcher coming through. - Ow! God dammit! That hurts!

Shun ...

Shun, are you OK?

Why now at such an important time? Pull it together!

- Shun Natsuki. Your next. - OK. Come on, let's go.

It hurts ... !

- When did it start hurting? - About a month ago.

Does it hurt now?

- A little. - OK, I'm going to feel your stomach.

Bend your knees, please.

Ow! Owww!

At the first hospital we went to, they thought it might be stress from studying.

- The next one said it was an infection. - Oww!

- Inflammation of the gallbladder? - I believe it's inflammation caused by anomalous arrangement of the pancreaticobiliary duct.

The patient is ...

Shun Natsuki.

He's a 14 year old boy.

- 14 ... - First he'll be treated with medication to reduce the inflammation but ...

Thinking about the future ...

It's better to operate now.

I'd like you to do it ... Moriyama sensei.

Ever since that peritoneal pseudomyxoma operation everyone treats me with a completely different attitude.

Are you sure you don't want Sagara sensei to perform this one?

The surgeons have decided to work as a team to handle operations, right? So now I don't have any reason to pick and choose my surgeons.

OK ...

If you would, please.

Team ...

Sagara's the only one who said anything about that.

Oh brother ...

- An ulcer? - That's right.

It's progressed quite far.

You must have been in pain for quite a while, Nonomura-san.

I'm going to take your blood pressure now.

Well ... my only choice was to deal with the pain.

I don't have any money to see a doctor.

I believe it is best that ...

Shun-kun be operated on.

An operation?

37.4 degrees.

We'll wait for the test results, but at the latest, we'll operate at the beginning of next week.

How long will he be hospitalized?

Let's see ...

About ... a month.

A month?

To start with ... I think it's best that you're hospitalized for a while for treatment.

Hospitalized?

I told you I don't have any money.

The change in my wallet is all I've got.

Really?

That's everything?

Sensei ...

I don't want him missing too much school.

The curriculum progresses quite quickly at the junior high school he attends.

A private university prep school, huh?

- Yes. - Kyomei Junior High.

- Kyomei!? - Really?

That's pretty incredible.

Uhm ...

What about your family, Nonomura-san?

I haven't seen them for five years.

I left them.

You left?

What's his address?

- There's no record yet. - I ain't got no home.

I always sleep at the construction site.

I sleep outside when I've got no money.

Outside?

That means ... Shun-kun is ...

That means Nonomura-san is ...

One of the elite.

Homeless.

- Homeless!? - Homeless!?

What!?

Why do I have to pay his medical bills?

But ... Nonomura-san ...

Five years ago he abandoned us!

- I understand that, but ... - What's she saying?

- Did he give you this number? - Well ... yes, he did.

What is he thinking!?

- Does he have any idea how much we've suffered through!? - I understand your situation very well. But, Nonomura-san ...

- Hello? - Yes?

There's no way we're paying my father's medical bills.

- Don't ever call this number again. - Oh, you're his son? Well, now ...

I can't talk to them at all.

What happens in this kind of case?

Well, when the patient is unable to pay ... we consult with the ... city welfare office, right?

First, the patient must apply for welfare benefits, and if that's accepted, the government pays the medical bills.

I don't think we can count on that happening.

- Nonomura-san isn't completely alone. - He still has family.

Impossible. There's no way those people are going to pay.

You should have heard the son just now. He told me, "Don't ever call again!"

His son said that?

So you mean that the hospital will have to pay for everything?

- Even if he has to have surgery? - I can't believe this!

- What did we accept a homeless person for? - It wasn't me!

It was you, Sagara sensei!

As for the medical bills ...

Yes? The medical bills ... ?

I guess our only choice is to get the family to pay. You'll have to be very persistent, sir.

You must be kidding ... !?

Go ahead.

Hey, hey!

You know, I think Sagara sensei should pay for this one, don't you? He's the one who accepted the patient.

Shall we take it out of his salary?

The administrative director hates me again ...

Is it OK to leave Nonomura-san and Shun Natsuki together?

Huh?

Well, Shun's still a junior high school boy ...

What do you mean?

Apparently his parents told the head nurse they wanted to change his room.

What's with that?

They don't want him with a homeless person?

I wouldn't like it either, being with someone who abandoned his family.

You didn't look like you didn't like it. You took care of him with a smile.

Well that because ... that's my job.

Miyabe-kun.

You've ...

Really changed.

That's not what we're talking about now.

- I'm talking about Shun-kun and Nonomura... - There was a man who left his home in the countryside to come to the city to work hard for his family.

- Huh? - But, the one time he tried gambling ...

He lost everything he had saved, and even went into debt.

He felt he couldn't face his family, and didn't want to bring them shame ...

So ... then he became homeless.

Wha?

That was an old guy I met last year.

This guy ... He was fishing from a levee in Haneda.

He'd take the fish he caught ... and cook and eat them.

There's not a person out there that wants to become homeless.

As for the room ...

There's no reason to change it.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

What are you grinning about?

Natsuki?

It's him! It's Natsuki!

- Yo, dude! - Hey, you're alive.

- Hey, man. You look just fine. - Yeah.

- Here, this is for you. Take it. It's, like, from the whole class. -Thanks.

I've never been in a hospital room before.

- Don't you think ... hospitals smell funny? - Yeah.

This guy keeps sayin' the same thing.

- And he's supposed to become a doctor. - Hey, remember I'm gonna be one too.

- Hey, Natsuki. Where are you sick? - You look totally healthy.

- Uh ... It's my stomach ... - What's it called, your illness?

- Are they gonna operate? - No way!

- Really? - Shaddap!

This is a hosptial.

Keep quiet ... you brats.

Let's go.

See ya later, Natsuki

- Bye. - Bye.

- What's with that old dude? - Jerk!

- Why's Natsuki with that guy? - How should I know?

- That guy looked pretty stupid too. - Yeah.

[Road to Tokyo University]

They haven't changed at all, those Kyomei students.

They've always been a charmless lot.

I attended Kyomei too. Six years I went, through junior and senior high.

You boys are only 14 or 15, but I bet you feel like you've already won in life.

But even once you've graduated from Kyomei, you have no idea what life will bring you.

You could end up like me.

There's no way a guy like you is a Kyomei graduate.

Ohh, Kyomei! Kyomei!

My alma mater.

We're the ones who'll build a bright future.

- Uhm, excuse me. - Oh, an IV? Go ahead.

I'm here to give you your IV.

Let me check your pulse, Nonomura-san.

Were you just singing Kyomei's school song?

First time I've sung it in 36 years.

I hate that song.

Let me check your stomach now.

I know a lot of other doctors who are Kyomei alumni.

Kyomei grads that become doctors are the most despicable of the lot.

I see.

Change my room, sensei.

With all those brats coming in here, it's too noisy.

That's impossible.

The head nurse told me that all the other rooms are full.

- Huh? - Sorry, but you'll have to be satisfied with this room, Nonomura-san.

Bye, Shun-kun.

- You're kidding! - Nonomura-san's Kyomei alumni!?

Kyomei's an incredible private school!

How on earth did a Kyomei graduate become homeless?

- They usually become bureaucrats or doctors, right? - That's right. They go to Tokyo University or a medical university.

That's why I was so surprised.

- That means Nonomura-san is Shun-kun's sempai. - That's right. Oh, brother ...

I wouldn't want such a lowlife sempai like that.

But ... Nonomura-san was the one who's unhappy.

He said, "I can't stand those noisy brats. Change my room."

Usually it'd be the other way around. Shun-kun would want out, right?

- Yeah ... but Sagara sensei said he couldn't change. - Why?

There aren't any beds.

- Yes there are! - I know.

I don't understand that doctor at all.

You know, sometimes Sagara sensei can be all smiles, but be really cold.

Right? ... Don't you agree, Sachi?

We're talking about Sagara sensei!

Ohh ... yeah ... There's some things I don't understand about that doctor.

- Good morning. - Would you please quit calling.

- My apologies. I'd like to talk to you about your father's medical bill ... - That loser's not my father! I've told you that already!

Uh, could I speak to your mother ... ?

They're not cooperating.

I wish Sagara sensei would make these calls.

Sagaraaa!

Akihito Nonomura's ulcer is quite deep, and could perforate the stomach wall at any time.

After observing his response to treatment for three days, I've decided it's best to operate.

It's scheduled for the beginning of next week.

- Here you go, sensei. - Thanks.

It will be at the same time as Shun Natsuki's operation, but since it's not so difficult, you can have whatever surgeons you need, Moriyama sensei.

- I don't need much help. This operation isn't a big deal either. - I see.

What's Shun-kun's condition now?

What about your operation plan?

Do I really have to explain as well?

The surgeons need to share information about their patients, right?

- That only applies to Sagara sensei. - The director has said so too.

And to ... involve me as well.

- I know it's troublesome, but this is for the benefit of the patients. - There it is! Yes! For the patients!

- Did I say something strange? - No, not really.

- Shouldn't we be thinking of the patients first? - Well of course we should.

I completely agree that hospitals are for the patients. But making the patient king goes too far.

- Making the patient king? - The nurses are already getting fed up.

- They say they're too busy. - That's right. It's because Sagara sensei keeps letting in emergency patients.

- But we've still got empty beds. - Even so, they can't keep up.

Then we just need to ask the administrative director to hire more nurses.

But if the number of nurses isn't the problem ...

Then maybe they just aren't skilled enough ... or ...

They're not taking their work seriously.

- Huh? - Are you sure you want to say that, sensei?

All the nurses will hate you.

I should have expected that from you!

Such an idealist.

An idealist, huh?

Yes, and the way you take such good care of a homeless person.

Nonomura-san is the kind of patient we need to reach out to.

- Are you saying that it doesn't matter whether he's homeless or not? - No.

We should because of the very fact he is homeless.

What?

Doctors are not meant to treat just the illness.

The doctor must learn about their patient's lifestyle and surroundings ...

Then treat them after accepting their life and who they are.

Accept the patient's life and who they are?

- Right. - What are you talking about?

- That's not a doctor's job. - No way! No way! No way!

No, this is amazing! You think that way too, don't you, Minagawa sensei?

- I think the patient's lifestyle ... - Sagara sensei said accept their life and who they are!

That way of thinking ...

I don't even give this much of a damn for.

A surgeon's job is to heal through surgery.

There's no reason whatsoever to get involved in the patient's life.

If everyone were forced to do as Sagara sensei said, the hospital's entire staff would become exhausted.

We're all just flesh and blood.

That's all we are.

- Sagara sensei means that ... psychological awareness ... - No, it's OK.

Hm, you may just be right, Moriyama sensei.

What I'm saying ...

Might be too idealistic.

Or more like ...

Irrational!

Idealist.

OK, let's go.

- You're right. - I've got rounds too.

- You've got outpatient duty, Takaizumi sensei? - That's right.

- I don't think ... what you're saying is wrong, sensei. - Would you like ...

- Some baumkuchen, Minagawa sensei? - Huh?

I got it at the local convenience store. It's incredibly delicious.

It's nice and soft. Very soft. Here you go.

- Sensei ... - I ...

- I don't think anything I said was wrong either. - Then why did you say that?

Well, if I continued to argue with them, they'd just end up more entrenched in their opinion.

The most important thing is not winning an argument.

All I want is for them to eventually change their minds.

But ... what we should do now ...

I'll have to think about it.

Yum! Delicious. Very soft. Go ahead, eat.

Crushed him!

Cheers!

Yeah, we whooped him! Whatta crushing blow by Moriyama sensei!

Did you get a load of the look on Sagara's face?

That's what you call running with your tail between your legs!

- He was about to cry! - He was totally blown away!

- You blew him outta the water! - Take that!

- He'll never talk big again. The fool! - Let's toast again!

Cheers!

What's wrong? You in pain?

It hurts! Owww!!

Hang in there!

Someone! Hurry up and get in here!

- What's wrong? - This boy's in pain! Get in here now!

- Sensei! - Shun-kun, what's wrong? Where's it hurt?

- My stomach. - Let me feel it.

Why's he in pain?

- That Moriyama guy screwed up his diagnosis, didn't he? - Be quite, please.

- If he screwed up I'll sue you! - Shut up! Butt out!

- Owwwww! - Sorry. That hurt, didn't it?

This is a stomach spasm.

- Get some morphine. - Yessir.

- It'll be all right. I'll give you something to kill the pain. - Thanks ...

The pain is from a stomach spasm.

It's not related to Shun-kun's illness.

I see.

There's no need to worry.

You can go back to sleep now, Nonomura-san.

Christ! That's why I wanted to change rooms!

Good morning. This is Dogami General Hospital ...

Yes, Momoi from Dogami General Hospital ...

Sorry for bothering you.

Your operation will be from 10 a.m. tomorrow morning.

For this operation we'll be using this endoscope, so we won't need to cut you open.

I can't pay for this.

As for payment, our staff is contacting your family.

They'll never pay.

I abandoned them.

Well ... if that's the case, then the hospital will pay.

- Why would you do that? - Because hospitals are for healing people.

We cannot abandon someone who's sick.

OK, Nonomura-san ...

- I'd like to look at your stomach. - Please lie down here.

OK, Shun-kun's surgery will be at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

- You'll be anesthetized, so the surgery won't hurt at all. - OK.

Will it really be a month before he can be released?

- I want him to miss as little school as possible. - Oh, you mentioned that before.

If he doesn't keep up, he might not get into the high school.

- They'd do that in junior high!? - Kyoumei sure must be tough.

But his health is most important.

- Yes ... I understand that. - Let him recuperate until he's completely healed.

All right.

OK, we're through.

I'll tie this.

Nonomura-san ...

What was your job?

You had regular work before you left, right?

I worked at a trading company.

- A trading company? - After graduating from Kyomei ...

I went to Tokyo University ...

Tokyo University ...

I joined the company ... that was the most popular with students then ...

And married my boss's daughter.

Things went well until I was past 40.

But ...

When I entered into management, the stress really built up.

I bawled out my son when he failed to get into Kyomei ...

And I became like an outcast ... in my own family.

Then one day, I just couldn't make myself go to work.

Then ... I couldn't bring myself to go home either ...

So I ran away.

You've read about it in the weeklies.

Articles about elite company managers becoming homeless.

I never thought that would someday be me.

Elite, huh ... ?

But ...

After running away, I felt so much better.

So, it's been five years already ...

Talk about easy living.

I threw absolutely everything away.

I don't care if I die a beggar's death.

- How's a doctor supposed to respond to that? - Even if you operate, it won't change a thing.

Nonomura-san ...

As a doctor ...

I have an obligation to make you better.

But ... even if the patient is healthy, if he's not happy, it's all pointless.

I mean ...

You said you threw away everything, but that's a complete lie, Nonomura-san.

A person who's living an easy life ... would never get an ulcer like this.

And ...

Not wanting to be in the same room with Shun-kun, that's because ...

He reminds you of your own son.

The operation ...

Well be performed as scheduled.

- I'm going to get back to work now. - I'll take care of payment.

I'll show you to the administrative office.

Are your friends coming to visit you?

No, they don't.

Some guys came just out of social obligation.

It's OK, though.

I don't like school anyway.

You're in Kyomei.

You're lucky to be there, so don't waste it.

OK.

Your operation is tomorrow ... so get to sleep early tonight.

Can't I stay in the hospital forever?

You don't like studying that much?

I want to become ... an entomologist.

- An entomologist? - Yeah, like Fabre.

[Fabre's Book of Insects]

Oh ... insects.

But Dad says ...

Japan's going to be ... facing tough times ...

So he wants me to get into a good university ... and become a financial success.

A financial success, huh?

Your father's right.

You'll never make a living studying insects.

Then ... why don't you become a doctor?

You've got to be smart to become one, and everyone respects you.

What's with you?

Oh!

Are you on night duty?

Are you kidding?

I'm going home now anyway.

- I've got surgery tomorrow morning. - Oh, that's right.

- You were getting ready for Shun-kun's surgery. - It is surgery on a child, after all.

I'm glad I asked you to do it, Moriyama sensei.

- What? - Of course.

Shun-kun's from Kyomei Junior High.

Boy's like that can be precocious.

You know, they tend to look down on others.

But ... he wouldn't do that to you, Moriyama sensei.

Why not?

Well ... he probably feels an affinity toward you.

Kids can tell right away what kind of person you are just from looking at you.

Of course they can.

He's probably got some troubles too.

You ought to try to help him out?

He'd surely be happy if you did.

I don't have the time for that kind of thing.

How right you are.

Sorry about that.

OK, good night.

Good night.

Is that really so?

You asleep?

I'm askin' if you're asleep?

Yes, I am.

Your operation's tomorrow, right?

Me too.

After the surgery ... we'll be in different rooms.

Bet you're glad.

Actually ...

I ...

Had a son about your age.

Back then ...

When I left, he was your age.

But now ...

He's 19.

Now ...

He must despise me.

He probably can't believe his own dad was such a weak person.

Probably doesn't even want to remember me.

Did you become homeless ...

Because you were weak?

Then ...

I might become homeless too.

Like you said, even if you graduate from Kyomei, you have no idea what life will bring you.

Fool!

You're much too young to be talking like that!

You're still in junior high!

- Your future holds so many possibilities. - I can't stand the competition!

Who said you have to compete!

I believed that life was one big competition.

That's why I became like this.

You ... you're much better than those simple punk classmates of yours.

There's no reason to compare yourself with those losers.

But ...

You've got to study hard.

No matter what you become ...

It's going to help you.

You shouldn't study for your parents. You've gotta do it for yourself.

Listen good!

Don't you dare ...

Become like me.

This is Momoi from Dogami General Hospital. Sorry to leave another message, but ...

Akihito Nonomura's operation will be performed at 10 a.m. tomorrow ...

Uhm ... I will call back again later. Good-bye.

Let's go home.

OK, Shun-kun. Time to get into the wheelchair.

OK ...

Can you get in OK?

Watch your feet.

- I'm ready. - OK, let's go.

Where would you like to wait?

After the surgery, we won't be coming back to this room.

- If possible, we'd like to wait outside the operating room. - No problem.

OK, Shun-kun, let's go with your parents to the operating room.

OK ...

Wait!

It'll be OK.

The surgery will go well.

It'll be fine.

Your's too, sir.

Thanks.

Good-bye.

See you.

Let's go.

Good-bye, sir.

Good bye.

Doctor!

Pay attention ... and don't you dare make any mistakes.

Naturally!

Who the hell does he think I am.

Good morning. How are you, Nonomura-sa? Did you sleep well last night?

Yeah.

- The surgery will be performed as scheduled, at 10 a.m. - Could you please take your temperature?

Shun-kun's already gone.

Yeah.

It's finally quiet around here.

Do you really think so?

Sensei, you're only my doctor. Just butt out of my business ...

Are you a visitor?

Masaya ...

Are you Masaya?

Guess it's hard to tell.

Five years ago ... I was in junior high.

The administrative director ...

Momoi-san, I think it is, kept calling over and over.

I wanted to tell him to just leave us alone.

But ...

You know ...

You are ...

My father, after all.

I've come to pay his medical bills.

- Masaya. - But Mom's still very angry ...

So I'm the only one here for your surgery.

Thank you, Masaya-kun.

Thank you very, very much.

OK ...

The operation is at 10. We've got to go get ready.

Miyabe-kun.

Yes sir.

I'll come for you at 9:30.

You've really grown, son.

Well ...

I'm a university student now.

You're attending university?

I got a scholarship ...

And entered university.

I'm sorry ...

Masaya ...

I'm sorry, Masaya ...

Forget about it.

- I'm sorry. - Forget it, Dad.

I'm sorry.

Now ... now I want you to think only about this operation.

OK?

Dad ...

I'm sorry ...

Did ... did you tell the administrative director to call the family ...

Because you thought the son would come?

No, I never imagined that.

Family is everything.

There's only so much that we can do.

You're right.

Shun-kun ...

There's no reason to be afraid of this surgery.

I'm an excellent doctor ... so it will go well for sure.

OK.

Once you're better ...

You're going back to school.

You can aim to become an entomologist ...

But ...

You've got to study.

You're lucky to be in Kyomei.

Studying ...

Isn't for your parents.

You should do it for yourself.

I was told the same thing yesterday.

- Who said it? - Nonomura-san.

Nonomura?

- You mean the homeless guy? - Thanks for the advice.

Put him under now.

Yessir.

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