Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

Name: Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Released: 2012-10-18
Cast: Ryoko Yonekura, Yuki Uchida, Kenichi Endo, Ittoku Kishibe, Toshiyuki Nishida

Original title: ドクターX ～外科医・大門未知子～

2012 –2021
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Ended
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TV-14

★ 7.5 TMDB Rating · 31 votes

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.

Seasons: 7
Episodes: 69
Episode length: ~46m
First aired: Oct 18, 2012
Networks: tv asahi
Original language: Japanese
Origin: Japan

Cast of Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

Ryoko Yonekura
Michiko Daimon
Yuki Uchida
Hiromi Jonouchi
Kenichi Endo
Takashi Ebina
Ittoku Kishibe
Akira Kanbara
Toshiyuki Nishida
Shigekatsu Hiruma
Kosuke Suzuki
Mamoru Hara
Masanobu Katsumura
Hideki Kaji
Mio Imada
Masako Ooma
Mansai Nomura
Ryutaro Hachisuka
Kazutoyo Koyabu
Tadashi Kuwagata
Kaoru Sugita
Choko Mikuni
Hayate Ichinose
Ryohei Arikawa

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Seasons

Specials

Jul 3, 2016

1 episode
Season 1

Oct 18, 2012

8 episodes

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wandering from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of the said program to fill the empty spots, at least temporarily. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude.
Season 2

Oct 17, 2013

9 episodes

The story continues with Michiko still working as a freelance doctor at the Teito University Hospital.
Season 3

Oct 9, 2014

11 episodes

Freelance surgeon Daimon Michiko gets embroiled in an escalating struggle for supremacy between the factions of Totei University Hospital and Saikyo University Hospital, which represent Japan’s east and west at the National Medical Care Centre, the most technologically advanced hospital in the country.
Season 4

Oct 13, 2016

11 episodes

Daimon returns in the fourth season to the Totei University Hospital. Shigekatsu Hiruma serves as the primary adversary for Daimon.
Season 5

Oct 12, 2017

10 episodes

It has been a year since the downfall of Hiruma Shigekatsu, who had engaged in dirty hospital politics. Teito Medical University Hospital enters a new era with its first female hospital director. She touts “Patients first” and presses forward with big reforms to clean up the medical department. However, powerful persons in the hospital start working behind the scenes in an attempt to restore the unchecked powers and “black tower”, which controlled the hierarchical society to recapture their own “profits”. While Hiruma acts suspiciously, talented freelance surgeon Daimon Michiko fights the organisation head-on.
Season 6

Oct 17, 2019

10 episodes

Totei University Hospital has built a massive deficit. Investor Nicholas Tange, whose nickname is Vulture, comes up with a turnaround plan for the hospital. His plan implements restructuring and cost-cutting. By Nicholas Tange’s request, Michiko Daimon begins to work at the Totei University Hospital again.
Season 7

Oct 14, 2021

10 episodes

A worldwide pandemic causes the medical system to collapse across the world, including Japan. Under this very difficult situation, the best university hospital in Japan, Totei University Hospital, makes the decision to focus on infectious disease and internal treatments, while postponing any noncritical scheduled surgeries. The hospital also faces a power struggle, while dealing with the infectious disease crisis. No matter what, Daimon Michiko goes her way as a surgeon.