📚68【Don't Hesitate, Female Surgeon】Rei Hesitates No More 1160
Don't Hesitate, Female Surgeon (Don't Cry, Intern ⑦)
Yujiro Nakayama (Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1980, graduated from Kagoshima University School of Medicine, works as a surgeon at Shonan Tobu General Hospital)
Gentosha Bunko 283 pages
First edition December 5, 2024
Is it not okay for a woman to be a surgeon?
More than love, more than marriage, I want to improve my surgical skills...
A moving story about the popular character Rei Sato
Rei Sato is a 31-year-old female surgeon. She is so obsessed with improving her surgical skills that she would rather do that than meet her boyfriend, and she doesn't find her grueling days painful. Meanwhile, Rei is assigned as the attending physician for a male patient. He is the brilliant surgeon she admired when she was a rookie. His diagnosis was stage 4 rectal cancer— The 7th installment of the series where an active surgeon realistically depicts the front lines of life, the story of Ryuji Amano's reliable senior, the beautiful and cool Rei Sato.
The "Don't Cry, Intern" series is a growth story about young surgeon Ryuji Amano.
It is not in chronological order; the volumes progress from intern → rookie surgeon → mid-career surgeon → medical student → remote island dispatched doctor, I believe.
Sorry, I haven't read them all...
This book is positioned as a spin-off.
The book begins on the first day Ryuji Amano remained in the surgery department after his internship.
The protagonist, Rei Sato, is 31 years old, four years ahead of Ryuji Amano, and in her fifth year as a surgeon (seventh year since becoming a doctor).
She loves surgery, wants to do more surgery, and wants to become even better at surgery.
Rei chooses to build her career as a surgeon rather than accompany her high-spec boyfriend of 10 years, Harumi Shibuya (an astronomer), to the United States.
Her parents (her father is a surgeon and vice-director of another hospital) hope for her to marry and have children.
One day, the patient Rei is assigned to as the attending physician is Shinnosuke Togai, the senior doctor who mentored her during her internship, whom she admired as a surgeon, respected as a person, and secretly fell in love with.
While hospitalized, Togai teaches her, "The most important thing for a surgeon is not to improve surgical technique, but to truly face the patient."
Interspersed with episodes from Rei's time as an intern and rookie, the assignment of a junior even younger than Ryuji Amano (a slightly unconventional woman; surely a volume with her as the protagonist will be written), and her father collapsing from a cerebral infarction.
All of these are episodes that satisfy readers who want to know Rei deeply.
And then, being called to the hospital room by the dying Shinnosuke Togai, on the last night with him while he is still conscious...
There are quite a few medical novels written by doctors, and I don't dislike them.
The themes are also quite varied, such as medical malpractice, life-prolonging treatment, internal (academic) factions, or collusion with pharmaceutical companies.
This book is more on the refreshing side.
There is no dark, muddy feeling.
As an aside, we don't say "male surgeon," but we still say "female surgeon," don't we?
Does that mean surgery is a male domain?
Rei herself touches on this a little in the book.
Surgery, human relationships within the hospital, conflicts with patients, family, and romance are all important elements that make up Rei.
Along with Rei's parents, I feel like cheering for Rei's future growth and happiness.
May 27, 2025
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