Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

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…

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

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.

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

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…

Totei University Hospital faces a severe financial crisis, having accumulated a massive deficit. To address this, investor Nicholas Tange—nicknamed "Vulture"—initiates a drastic restructuring and cost-cutting plan.