Team Medical Dragon
Iryu - Team Medical Dragon (Japanese医 龙Team Medical Dragon ) is a medical series of the genre his manga of the publisher Shogakukan, which was published in Big Comic Superior magazine. The idea came from Akira Nagai, who served until his death as an author. From his death until then responsible only for the drawings Taro Nogizaka took over this activity. The series won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award and has been translated into French.
Iryu Team Medical Dragon is by the talented heart surgeon Ryutaro Asada, who at Meishin University Hospital (明 真 大学 医学 部), a team of doctors puts together, thus allowing for the surgical technique of the Batista operation.
Action
Dr. Akira Katō, deputy professor of cardiac surgery at the University Hospital Meishin is forced by her supervisor Professor Takeo Noguchi to the hospital, especially cardiology to give the gift of glory, that he was appointed hospital director. They would be appointed in turn by him to his successor as senior professor. The chance of promotion incites the ambitious Katō on to embark on a search for the talented surgeon Dr. Ryutaro Asada, they met after her work as a doctor without borders and there for emergency surgery, where she is watching his skill looks.
She finds him withdrawn in northern Japan again and convince him to come to the University Hospital. It represents only the condition on to be able to set up his own team there and that his beloved Miki Nakahara, who is a nurse, with may to the hospital. He pushes with his unconventional nature and methods with little enthusiasm in the hospital and is quite often with many professors in the dispute, as they want unlike Dr. Asada only make profit and give them the welfare of the patient 's care.
Asada will find it quickly looking for other team members when freshman Dr. Noboru Ijuin, which is regarded as untalented. Little by the internist Dr. Fujiyoshi Keishi and the anesthesiologist Dr. Monji Arase joining the team. Asada, Katō, Miki and the above three operating several patients who suffer from an enlarged heart, after Batista method. Although the patients survive and the hospital is famous, yet Prof. Noguchi for Hospital chief passed over for the appointment, and the team led by Dr. Asada has to endure the whims of the professor.
Private discrepancies and attempts by envious colleagues at the hospital, the team very long to withstand, but it comes later in the manga more and more at a fraction and the interpersonal relationships of the individual protagonists are increasingly becoming the focus, other than at the beginning, where the operations were in the foreground.
Backgrounds for the emergence
The inventor and responsible to his death for the action Akira Nagai had been himself an internist, so the presentation is given very detailed and truthful. In the form of the manga Nagai criticized the conditions of the Japanese health care system.
" On the basis of the surgeon Ryutaro Asada, who is brought in as an outsider in a university hospital to build a team for a Batista - heart surgery, criticized Team Medical Dragon ' vehemently the states of the Japanese health care system. Corrupt doctors, rigid hierarchies, training without practical experience, ignoring the patient's needs and much more are denounced here. "
Award for the Manga
- 50th Shogakukan Manga Award in the category " General"
TV Series
Fuji TV produced based on the manga a TV series ( drama ). The first season of 11 episodes aired from 13 April to 29 June 2006. The second Iryu - Team Medical Dragon 2 with the same number of episodes took place from 11 October to 20 December 2007 Three years later, a new season -. Iryu - Team Medical Dragon 3 - commissioned, this time with 10 episodes of 14 October. was shown to 16 December 2010. The first season reached ratings of up to 17.2%, the second up to 21.0 %, while the third season started with 16.4%.
In November 2013 a fourth season for January 2014 has been announced.