Drama: Doctor-X; Romaji: Dokuta-X Gekai Daimon Michiko; Japanese: ドクターX ～外科医・大門. Rio Uchida cast in NTV drama 'Mukai no Bazuru Kazoku'.

Japanese drama with some touches of comedy about a brilliant female freelance surgeon who as the introductry narration explains, hates authority, groups, and constraints. She is not a very smpathetic character. But as someone asks earlier on, if you had to have surgery performed on you, would you prefer someone who knew what they were doing, or someone with the right things to say. The series gives what I assume is a true insight into the political infighting, and fight for power that goes on in large city hospitals. It also exposes the incompetence of some doctors, and such things as gratuties, and patients with the pull being given priority over others. To me though the real heroine of the series is not Ryoko Yonekura as the lead character, but Yuki Uchida as another female doctor.

Product Title: Doctor X ~ Gekai Daimon Michiko (DVD) Also known as: ドクターX / Doctor-X Artist Name: Yonekura Ryoko Tanaka Kei Uchida Yuki Katsumura Masanobu Language: Japanese Subtitles: Indonesian Episode: 8 Other Information: 3 Disc Genre: (medical) Director: Tamura Naoki (田村直己), Matsuda Hidetomo Screenwriters: Nakazono Miho, Takei Aya (武井彩), Hayashi Makoto (林誠人), Terada Toshio Synopsis Daimon Michiko (Yonekura Ryoko) is a 37-year-old surgeon and is part of a questionable ‘doctor placement service’ that has her wander from hospital to another. She 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.

There are rumors that she once had to leave the medical world due to money problems and a medical error, but nobody knows anything for sure.