[Book Review] Takao Amemiya's Medical Case Files [Complete Edition]

This book was released as a complete edition, featuring new writing based on the version published in September 2014.
I heard it had a reputation for being interesting, so I picked it up to see for myself.

Since it was written in 2014, I expected the stiff prose of a debut author, but because it was newly written, it was extremely easy to read.
Even though it was easy to read, for some reason, it took me a long time to finish.

I could read it smoothly, and even though it's a medical story, it wasn't difficult.
Yet, for some reason, I couldn't read it.
No, I could read it, but it just wouldn't progress.

When I thought about it carefully, I realized I was looking back to check the names of the characters and confirming where they were at that moment.
In other words, I was performing verification tasks.

I don't usually do that, so why was I doing it now?

I think it was precisely because it was interesting.
Perhaps the more interesting a work is, the more you want to check the details.
I never look back at works that don't suit me or that I can't get into.
I read with the mindset that if I just read the character names casually, it'll all connect later anyway.
Because of that, I read through those quickly.

But that wasn't the case this time.
I feel like this is the reason.
Moreover, I was reading every single line carefully.

Even so, why did I read it so carefully?

The beginning features a boy who starts saying there's a kappa.
I must have thought it was important to see how that would flow into the main story.
Because of that, I kept looking back at the names of the boys who appeared.

Hmm, Shunsuke and Kota, I see.

I confirmed that.
The scene unfolds and moves to the hospital.
Where did the kappa go? The story moves from the patient's symptoms to the diagnosis.
This part is interesting!

The disease names are by no means difficult.
However, generally, the diseases that appear in books are usually ones that sound difficult.
Yet here, we have things like vitamin A overdose or alcoholism.

Ah, that happens, doesn't it?
Huh, so that kind of thing can happen too.

That's what I think.
As I read on, I learned that if you take medicine with juice, it can lead to serious trouble depending on the substance.

Of course, I have general knowledge.
I've heard that taking medicine with juice can sometimes cause chemical reactions.
But it's common to just be lazy and take it with whatever is at hand.

However, I really thought I should be careful from now on.

Rather than using difficult diseases as a subject, it's more interesting to read about mistakes that anyone could make, like 'this happens, doesn't it?'
That's probably because it's easy to relate to my own life.

Moreover, the author is a practicing doctor.
There shouldn't be any lies in what is written.
Even if the story is fiction, I feel I can trust the medical aspects.

It's educational when they write about diseases close to our daily lives.
There are many other books in the Amemiya series, so I'm looking forward to the future.

Title: Takao Amemiya's Medical Case Files
Author: Mikito Chinen
Publisher: Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha Bunko

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