Doctor-X Season 5 ~ Gekai Daimon Michiko

It has been a year since the downfall of Hiruma Shigekatsu who had engaged in dirty hospital politics. Talented freelance surgeon Daimon Michiko boards a regular route bus to an open-air hot spring bath with a stunning view. However, while the bus is travelling on a road over a mountain pass, the driver Kurumada Kazuhisa loses consciousness and suffers cardiac arrest. Michiko hastily stops the bus and is tries to resuscitate him but there is no response. With the help of a “mysterious woman” who happened to pass by, the man is transported to a hospital run by one doctor at the foot of the mountain. This doctor is the surgeon Morimoto Hikaru who admired Michiko and bolted out of the medical department. Michiko makes Morimoto her assistant and administers speedy emergency medical treatment. But surgery for Kurumada’s complete recovery is impossible in a small hospital with no operating theatre. Michiko says she will operate on him again soon and leaves the hospital. Meanwhile, Totei University Hospital enters a new era with its first female hospital director Shimura Madoka who presses forward with big reforms to clean up the medical department. Michiko shows up at this hospital for some reason. In fact, Madoka is the woman whom she met the other day. Madoka has judged that the best course of action is to perform the surgery at Totei University Hospital which is equipped with modern facilities. She has transferred Kurumada to the hospital and even decided to hire Michiko. The day of Kurumada’s pre-surgery conference soon arrives. However, it is not clear what Madoka is thinking as she removes Michiko as the operating surgeon and instead announces that she has asked Professor Jichael Mackson, an international expert in cardiac surgery in the US, to operate remotely through robot-assisted surgery. Then, a famous journalist collapses in front of Michiko at a tonkatsu restaurant which she visited and he is brought to Totei University Hospital. But this beckons a terrible situation … … Meanwhile powerful persons in the hospital start working behind the scenes in an attempt to restore the unchecked powers and “black tower” which controlled the hierarchical society to recapture their own “profits”. While Hiruma acts suspiciously, talented freelance surgeon Daimon Michiko fights the organisation head-on.

Synopsis: JDrama Weblog