Official Website
www.ktv.jp/raden
Broadcast
Tuesdays, 10.00 – 10.54 p.m. from 7 January 2014
Station
Fuji TV
Story
One day, Taguchi Kohei, an outpatient doctor at Tojo University Hospital’s Department of Psychosomatic Medicine who listens to complaints of general malaise, is dispatched to the district general hospital Hekisuiin under an order from hospital director Takashina Kenta. Hekisuiin is engaged in end-of-life care which gives relief to pain and bolsters quality of life for patients who have no hope of recovery through active life-sustaining treatments. The Sakuranomiya family runs Hekisuiin and hospital director Sakuranomiya Iwao concurrently serves as the police’s medical officer. He accepts all postmortem examinations on dead bodies in the vicinity when the cause of death is unknown. Sakuranomiya along with his two daughters Sayuri and Sumire have gained patients’ immense trust, and Hekisuiin has become an indispensable hospital to the townspeople. When Taguchi arrives at Hekisuiin, he is met by Sakuranomiya’s eldest daughter Sayuri, a palliative care doctor at the hospital, and her younger sister Sumire, a gynaecologist. In addition, Shiratori Keisuke is also here in a white doctor’s coat. He has assumed the guise of a dermatologist to hide his identity as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare bureaucrat. Tagushi is surprised. Shiratori has infiltrated the hospital with some ulterior motive. He is accosted by the radiologist Tachibana Zenji who has not visited Hekisuiin in a long while. Tachibana, who is going to meet the Sakuranomiya clan now, tells Shiratori, “What is going on at this hospital is a serious crime,” and the two of them agree to meet later. However, Tachibana does not show up at the appointed time. Finding this strange, Shiratori checks up on Tachibana and discovers an unexpected fact. The harsh realities of the sloppy district hospital system to determine cause of death and palliative care gradually become apparent, as well as the mysterious disappearance of Tachibana who was about to expose a secret of the Sakuranomiya clan … …
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