"If it can be treated one second earlier, the heart might start beating again. If there is one extra helicopter, another life in danger may be saved. If one more life can be saved, the Japanese medical community may regain trust. There are more lives in this country that can be saved."
The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.
The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.
The two are similar in that -- Night Drama is about Japan's emergency medical care system, which suffers from a severe labor shortage. Overtime work per doctor in emergency medical care rises, with a need for more experienced doctors being the cause of the problem. Emergency medical care at night is worse than during the daytime. The Hakuoukai Asahi Kaihin Hospital, a hospital branch of the Hakuoukai Group, takes steps to reform the emergency medical care system by creating a night doctor system, which is looked down upon by their daytime counterparts for taking all kinds of cases, especially the ones that no other hospital wants and therefore creating issues for the day time doctors at least that's how they see it. Cutbacks and hate from different angles start to threaten the night system. Still, teamwork and dedication, under the steadfast leadership of their supervisor, begin to turn things around.
