Gintama 36 (Jump Comics)

[Machine Translation] We are not talking about doctors. I am talking about people. Kazuto Kurihara is an internist at Honjo Hospital in Shinshu, a "24/7/365" hospital in Japan, and a great admirer of Soseki Natsume. He gets through each day with the devoted support of his photographer wife, Haru, his dependable colleagues, and the pleasant residents of his lodgings, "Ontakeso. Then, Kazuto receives an invitation from the medical office of his alma mater. He is offered a choice: to work with as many patients as possible at a hospital that is chronically short of doctors, or to study cutting-edge medicine at the university hospital of his alma mater, Shinano University. What Kazuto chose was to continue at Honjo Hospital ("God's Chart"). In the new year, a new doctor, Tatsuya Shindo, arrived at the internal medicine ward of Honjo Hospital from a hospital in Tokyo. He was an alumnus of Shinano University, along with Kazuto and Jiro Sunayama, a surgeon. While Kazutome is pleased to have Shindo, once called the "conscience of the medical school," Sunayama has a subtle reaction to his arrival. Contrary to his expectations immediately after his arrival, Shindo's behavior as a doctor was unimaginable from his former self. Meanwhile, Honjo Hospital is hit by a severe earthquake.

医師の話ではない。人間の話をしているのだ。栗原一止は夏目漱石を敬愛し、信州の「24時間、365日対応」の本庄病院で働く内科医である。写真家の妻・ハルの献身的な支えや、頼りになる同僚、下宿先「御嶽荘」の愉快な住人たちに力をもらい、日々を乗り切っている。そんな一止に、母校の医局からの誘いがかかる。医師が慢性的に不足しているこの病院で一人でも多くの患者と向き合うか、母校・信濃大学の大学病院で最先端の医療を学ぶか。一止が選択したのは、本庄病院での続投だった (『神様のカルテ』)。新年度、本庄病院の内科病棟に新任の医師・進藤辰也が東京の病院から着任してきた。彼は一止、そして外科の砂山次郎と信濃大学の同窓であった。かつて"医学部の良心"と呼ばれた進藤の加入を喜ぶ一止に対し、砂山は微妙な反応をする。赴任直後の期待とは裏腹に、進藤の医師としての行動は、かつてのその姿からは想像もできないものだった。そんななか、本庄病院に激震が走る。