Donoue General Hospital runs into a budget deficit, even though the doctors drive expensive imported cars and live an outlandish lifestyle. Office manager Momoi finds surgeon Kosuke Sagara (Ikki Sawamura) through a medical website. Kosuke Sagara arrives at the hospital and tells the director of the general hospital (Yoko Nogiwa) to decide on his pay after watching his work. Kosuke Sagara informs the hospital that he had previously quit his job at a university hospital and taken a year sabbatical
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Dojo General Hospital is suffering from chronic deficit management due to doctors who drive luxury foreign cars, have lost sight of their original purpose of “saving patients,” and think only of themselves. Then a surgeon came to the hospital. His name is Kosuke Sagara (Kazuki Sawamura). He had resigned from the university hospital where he had worked for 12 years, took a year off, and then returned to work.
Sagara (Kazuki Sawamura) successfully performs a difficult operation with brilliant hands soon after being transferred to his new post. However, despite his friendly smile, he is widely rumored within the hospital to be a money-grubber who takes advantage of patients to raise his annual salary. Then, Sagara proposes to Tamaki (Yoko Nogi), the director of the hospital, that the hospital proactively accept emergency patients at night. While Moriyama (Masanobu Takashima) and others,
Sagara (Kazuki Sawamura) approaches the unemployed Kazue (Ran Ito) by pretending to be a coincidence, while keeping secret the fact that he had worked behind her back and ruined her job offer. He proposes to Tamaki (Yoko Nogi) that they establish a new “General Medicine Department” and bring in Kazue as its head. One day, a woman visits the hospital. The name of the disease is “peritoneal pseudomyxoma. The disease was an intractable disease that affects only one in a million people.
One day, a man, Nonomura (Kazuyuki Asano), is brought to the hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain. At the same time, Shun (Jun Nishiyama), a junior high school student who feels pain in his abdomen, visits the hospital, and Kazue (Ran Ito) diagnoses him with gall bladder infection. The two are placed in the same room, but when Shun's mother learns that Nonomura is homeless, she appeals to have her son moved to another room.
One day, Sakaguchi, who has acute pancreatitis, is hospitalized for surgery. He works for an advertising agency and has a family of three: a wife and a high school daughter. His private room is crammed with flowers from his favorite restaurant, but his wife Takako seems to be taking it easy on him. Ami (Tomoka Kurokawa), who is in charge of Sakaguchi, suggests to his doctor Sasai that he should consider postoperative care instead of rushing him out of the hospital, but he brushes her off.
One day, Sagara (Kazuki Sawamura) performs a cholecystectomy on a patient named Yukino Hamaoka (Takako Kato). Itokawa (Taro Omiya), an editor of a medical journal, is watching with interest from the observation room. He was visiting Dojo General Hospital to help the magazine select the “100 Super Surgeons of Japan. Momoi (Takehiko Ono) and Tamaki (Yoko Nogi) are excited that if anyone is chosen, it will be a big publicity stunt for the hospital. Sagara recommends Itokawa, saying,
One day, Kotaro (Takeru Shibuya), a 10-year-old boy suffering from severe liver cirrhosis, is admitted to Dojo General Hospital. He has been treated at university hospitals, but none of them can help him. If his condition continues to progress, there is a strong possibility that his liver function will deteriorate and he will die. Sagara (Kazuki Sawamura) proposes a liver transplant operation, but Moriyama (Masanobu Takashima) and his colleagues vehemently oppose it.
Sagara (Kazuki Sawamura) discovers that he has stage 2 stomach cancer and asks Moriyama (Masanobu Takashima) to perform the surgery. Sagara trusts his life to Moriyama's skill, but Moriyama is conflicted about whether he should save Sagara or not. Moriyama is torn between saving Sagara or not. He feels that if Sagara is gone, Dojo General Hospital will be his own.