The BEST episodes directed by Makoto Hayashi
#1 - Use your life for yourself
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 3 - Episode 1
Michiko Daimon is visiting an island in the South. She sees passengers that suffered injuries during a luxury cruise ship accident. She also sees Ryonosuke Busujima, the former director of the Teito University Hospital Ⅲ! Busujima is in hypovolemic shock. Michiko helps and notices something strange. Days later, Busujima is admitted to the National Advanced Medical Care Center with a cardiac tumor.
#2 - Because my hands are more perfect and reliable than robots
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 3 - Episode 2
Under Succeeding Presidentr Yoshihito Tendo, the National Advanced Medical Care Center abolishes the two tower system of East and West. The two groups are merged into a Strategically Integrated Surgical Department. But the division between East and West remain. They continue to look for opportunities to take the lead, however small.
#3 - ope.7
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 3 - Episode 7
Freelance Surgeon Michiko Daimon and Akira Kanbara are dancing at a night club. Suddenly, a loud man appears with a group of body-con gals! The club is overwhelmed with their dancing. Michiko and Akira are surprised by their performance. Soon after, one of the girls suffers a cardiac arrest. Michiko tries to jump in, but the loud man pushes her away and quickly provides first aid! Who is this man?
#4 - There is only one doctor for the patient. You are also a professional!
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 3 - Episode 9
Freelance surgeon Michiko Daimon is walking around town when she notices a photoshoot for a fashion magazine. Super model Maya Kokonoe is not amused when she sees that Michiko is wearing the same coat as her. But Michiko is more concerned about Maya cringing while striking a pose. Days later, the super model visits the National Advanced Medical Center and asks for Hideki Kaji by name!
#5 - There is no rooting or sickness in front of life
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 3 - Episode 3
The National Advanced Medical Care Center is home to a nursing department with the nickname, the Shogun's harem. Head Nurse Junko Shiraki is feared by the doctors. But recently, the doctors have been critical of the nurses and Junko has been frustrated by a drop in ethics. Some nurses are quitting from exhaustion because of freelance surgeon Michiko Daimon's need to constantly operate on patients.
#6 - It doesn't matter if the doctor wins or loses. It doesn't make sense if the patient doesn't win
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 3 - Episode 5
The power struggle between the Teito faction and Seikyo faction continues at the National Advanced Medical Center. Things are not going as planned for President Yoshihito Tendo. He is planning to choose either the East's Takashi Ebina or the West's Noboru Dangozaka as the next Chief of the Unified Surgery Department. An important governmental checks into the center with colon cancer.
#7 - I can't cut any more
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 3 - Episode 6
National Advanced Medical Center President Yoshihito Tendo wants to create a new organization, the Japan Medical Industry Association, at the national level. Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Takehiro Oizumi holds the key to the creation of the new organization and has a confidential request. He wants a patient to have a prolonged hospital visit, regardless of what his tests might say.
#8 - Resurrection!!!! Haken no Hinkaku Woman Who Doesn't Fail World Crossing Operation 20 Million
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 5 - Episode 1
A year since the fall of the corrupt Director Hiruma, Totei University Hospital has a new director, its first-ever female, who has started to clean up the system with her "patients first" policy. The hospital's power players conspire to revive the shady hierarchy to regain their perks and absolute authority. Once again, Michiko cuts into the hospital now facing a major turning point.
#9 - If successful, I will give you a notebook. That notebook full of secrets between the dragons ...
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 2 - Episode 4
Ginza club Nakazono hostess Rumiko Shijo visits Teito Medical University Hospital to see the Director of Surgery, Shigekatsu Hiruma. Rumiko has connections to people in politics, show business, sports, and medicine. She helped Hiruma rise through the ranks with her background as an empress of Ginza. There are rumors she might be working behind the scenes for the next chief professor selections.
#10 - Shall I cut it? I can cure it perfectly
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 3 - Episode 4
National Advanced Medical Center President Yoshihito Tendo makes an appearance on a television discussion program and says there was a need to establish a new organization at the national level that would have the ability to control all the medically-related issues currently distributed among multiple ministries and agencies. Journalist Hiroshi Yomo is against the idea of consolidating the power.
#11 - I used surgery for the election ... with the patient as a tool. Don't lick the surgery!
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 2 - Episode 7
The battle between Surgery and Internal Medicine intensifies. Shigekatsu Hiruma's candidate, Shinobu Kondo, becomes a professor. Takashi Ebina is skipped and Kondo is Hiruma's main pick for the next Department Head. But a surprising rival shows up. The former Department Head, Naoki Takano, who was transferred to Kanazawa by Hiruma, gets called back by Kazuyo Mabuchi.
#12 - Coup d'etat of your will!! Heart surgery without scalpel!?
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 4 - Episode 6
Toutei University Hospital Deputy Director Toko Kubo leads the other doctors in a coup to overthrow Shigekatsu Hiruma. The next day, Hiruma gathers the media for a press conference. The doctors are curious and fill the room. A professor John Starkey from the Harvard Medical School and Takashi Ebina from the National Advanced Medical Center are also at the press conference. What is Hiruma plotting?
#13 - There is no doctor who will not fail. Besides me
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 2 - Episode 5
A world-known surgeon from Massachusetts International University Hospital, Mitsuhiko Kusakabe, returns to Japan with an invitation from the Director of Surgery, Shigekatsu Hiruma. Hiruma is planning to hold a public surgery with Kusakabe. He is hoping to increase the value of his stock by showing off his connection to the famous doctor.
#14 - Poor village mayor vs sensible parliamentarian operation W will not fail
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 4 - Episode 2
Toutei University Hospital Director Shigekatsu Hiruma wants to improve the hospital's brand by selecting wealthy patients. An eighty-year-old man, Hideo Nioka, and his wife, Chiyoko, visit the hospital with a medical letter of introduction. Director of Internal Medicine Takayuki Kikawada offers to introduce them to a Satellite hospital because the couple seems to be financially insecure.
#15 - Faction fighting power harassment surgery will not fail!!
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 4 - Episode 5
A lower rank university hospital is in the spotlight because one of their papers was published in an American medical journal. Totei University Hospital Director Shigekatsu Hiruma is feeling bitter. He wants everyone to write papers. The doctors are pushed to surgeries without rest. The extra work excites freelance surgeon Michiko Daimon, but the other doctors and nurses are starting to get tired.
#16 - A life-threatening whistleblower!? The secret of the strongest mastermind...
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 5 - Episode 8
A former secretary to a minister,who accused a hospital of illegal dealings,is diagnosed with an advanced cancer. A rookie surgeon Nishiyama wants to challenge the operation,but Michiko is appointed. But when it is found out the accused is a friend of the Chairman of Japan Doctors Club,Michiko is fired. Dr. Nishiyama reveals his hidden thoughts to Michiko and takes an incredible action.
#17 - VS Kireru Professor!? Because the second opinion will not fail
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 5 - Episode 3
The director of Totei University Kindergarten collapses with lung adenocarcinoma. Michiko and the deputy chief surgeon fight over the surgery. The deputy wins, and Michiko is assigned to be his first assistant. But the narcissistic deputy is infuriated by the thought of working in the OR with a "part-timer like her." Then Director Hiruma whispers his plot in the deputy's ear
#18 - Diagnosis 1 second Artificial intelligence VS Wild intuition that does not fail!?
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon - Season 5 - Episode 5
During a match against the world's strongest Shogi robot,a young Shogi prodigy suffers from disturbed consciousness. Totei University Hospital is requested to remove his brain tumor with Hippocrates,a cutting-edge medical AI. Determined not to fail such a case,Director Hiruma appoints Michiko as the lead surgeon. Michiko,who explicitly declines at first,sees a certain vision in her mind.