Following the burgeoning career of Dr Touma, an on-the-rise medical professional who makes an interesting decision to take up a job at a small regional hospital instead of with a larger team in the city, The Lone Scalpel looks at a risky situation, and a dilemma about what is right and wrong.
Following the burgeoning career of Dr Touma, an on-the-rise medical professional who makes an interesting decision to take up a job at a small regional hospital instead of with a larger team in the city, The Lone Scalpel looks at a risky situation, and a dilemma about what is right and wrong.
Faced with a dying Mayor – whose support for the local hospital brought Dr Touma into town, but whose jovial spirit has all but killed his liver – and a brain-dead patient, whose perfect organs could save the Mayor’s life, Dr Touma must make a decision between what is right by the law and by his conscience. (Current Japanese law forbid transplants from brain-dead patients).
Told through the eyes of Dr Touma’s theatre nurse’s diary recollections, The Lone Scalpel is a sensitive look at a very delicate situation – an impressive medical drama that deals with the often every-day decisions of real doctors.
Tracing the history and motivations of Dr Touma’s career, viewers are given a touching account of human motivations and the beauty of raw emotion. It is a contentious drama that leaves little time for mistakes or second guesses – just thinking with your heart.
