Quote Originally Posted by David75 View Post
I'm not sure as to why/how that manga came to be. Is it possible that the flaming of medical care in Japan is in fact real?
I also understand Asada is a rare breed among geniuses. But I find it strange other doctors have so low skills (maybe there's a normal one, the one that trained on rats when young). Ok the scenario needs some contrast. But here I think it's really too much.
It was written by a real doctor, so I'm pretty sure the issues are real. There are a lot of issues involved with privatized health care and how the Japanese have structured their organization, which includes how they are trained. The inexperienced Japanese doctors are strongly contrasted with American ones, who have shown to have more experience because of greater surgeries.

Then there are the hurdles in the OR, with surprises, anomalies and everything happening at the last time when you have to improvise. Heck, Asada even decides he would do stuff prior to the operation, but without even telling his team.
That's definitely story dynamics to keep it interesting.