A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save human lives. The Great White Tower is the title of a representative novel by Toyoko Yamazaki that depicts the hidden side of the medical world and the dignity of human life, thus shocking and moving many readers, marking a milestone in medical dramas. A dense human drama develops starting with the first half, which depicts the tragicomic circumstances arising from human ambition in the selection of professors, and proceeding to the second half, which inquires into the dignity of human life through a medical court case involving a malpractice suit.
Japanese study overview
Shiroi Kyotou (2003) is a Japanese drama of 179,018 characters, with 7,098 unique words and 1,521 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,098 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 先生teacher×829
- 教授professor×646
- 財前Saimae×644
- 君you×323
- 言うto say×309
- 思うto think×306
- 僕I×284
- 里見Satomi×260
- 患者patient×256
- 君Mr×252
- 東east×251
- 佐々木Sasaki×149
- 五郎Itsuo×108
- 鵜飼Ukai×101
- 浪速Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)×100
- 菊川Kikukawa×98
- 柳原Yagihara×90
- 助教授assistant professor×69
- 術後postoperative×50
- 医局medical office (esp. in a hospital)×49