Iryu

aka Team Medical Dragon.

I just finished both series of this show and it's fantastic! Love the ost, the cast, the plot and not to mention the extremely cute Sakaguchi Kenji who is Asada Ryutaro (not much acting, just a straight face).

The 1st series was about this extremely talented heart surgeon, Ryutaro, who was asked to help out with an extremely difficult operation - Batista. In order to perform this operation, he needed the best operation team. So he solicted a talented nurse, a naive intern doctor, a stubborn doctor who specialise in internal medicine, a trouble making anesthesian and together they helped many patients who were 'abandoned' by the hospital (the hospital rejects patients who are dying because they see no pt in saving them and it lowers their mortality rate).

2nd series followed the same style as the 1st, even the OST was similar as the 1st. New characters were added because hospitals are now facing restructuring and patients who are dying and can't pay are left to die. Ryutaro who is transferred to a new hospital have to put together a new team and as usual it was a challenging uphill task.

The surgical procedures are pretty gory for me, but I learnt much medical terms too. I guess in reality, things never go so smoothly in a surgery. But I'm glad no one die on the operating table for this show, because I'm sick of shows with unhappy endings.

The show's underlying meaning is teamwork. In the past, the only time I find myself working in a team, except school days when we have to do project. Even at work, though I belonged to some dept, I did not consider myself working in a team. Instead we were more like individuals tasked with different activities and we just cared about completing our own segment. In some ways it feels that the working world is a selfish place where people fight for own 'survival' even if it means the demise of another. It's an awful feeling and a vicious cycle.

It's easier to find a group of friends to have fun, than to gather a team to work towards a common goal. Because play is always better than work and we are a lazy bunch. I may not be rich, but I have a much precious asset and that's my team of Hana peers who strive for the same things I do.

Like Ryutaro, I want to put together my team of talents. Target 37 people.