Incho Senkyo

[Machine Translation] Tento University Hospital, the top national university hospital. The director of the hospital, Satoru Utsuzo, died a mysterious death. Behind the official announcement that the cause of death was "sudden death due to an irregular heartbeat," there are whispers of suicide, accident, and even murder. An election for a new hospital director is soon to be held at the hospital. The candidates are the four deputy directors. Kyoichi Tokutomi, a professor of cardiology, is a cardiologist who is not afraid to talk about the "hierarchy of organs. Atsuro Ohkoji, a professor of gastroenterological surgery who is a prodigy in surgery but hates internal medicine to the extreme. Prof. Yosuke Domeki, a professor of ophthalmology, who makes 40% of the hospital's revenue by performing surgeries on a large number of cataract patients. Who among the four deputy directors will take the director's seat? In the midst of the election campaign, the police, suspicious of the death of Director Utsuzo, begin to move in....

国立大学病院の最高峰、天都大学医学部付属病院。その病院長・宇津々覚が謎の死を遂げる。「死因は不整脈による突然死」という公式発表の裏では自殺説、事故説、さらに謀殺説がささやかれていた。新しい病院長を選ぶべく院長選挙が近く病院内で開かれる。候補者は4人の副院長たち。「臓器のヒエラルキー」を口にして憚らない心臓至上主義の循環器内科教授・徳富恭一。手術の腕は天才的だが極端な内科嫌いの消化器外科教授・大小路篤郎。白内障患者を盛大に集め手術し病院の収益の4割を上げる眼科教授・百目鬼洋右。古い体制の改革を訴え言いにくいこともバンバン発言する若き整形外科教授・鴨下徹。4人の副院長の中で院長の座に就くのは誰か?まさに選挙運動の真っ盛り、宇津々院長の死に疑問を持った警察が動き出した...。