Based on the true story of Aizawa Hospital in Matsumoto City, Nagano, a hospital in crisis faces bankruptcy due to mismanagement and overwhelming debt. Enter Dr. Shuhei Arihara, who leaves a promising career in Tokyo to save his hometown's hospital. He is aided in his task by Ryosuke Kurashima, Deputy Chief of Shinkai Bank and Lending Division, in introducing reforms to save the hospital and prevent a bank-planned sale behind the scenes.
Japanese study overview
Byouin no Naoshikata: Doctor Arihara no Chousen is a Japanese drama of 98,547 characters, with 5,569 unique words and 1,364 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,569 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.
- 病院hospital×576
- 先生teacher×262
- 患者patient×189
- 院長director (of a hospital, institution, academy, etc.)×158
- 有原Arihara×137
- 私I×116
- 言うto say×114
- 思うto think×111
- 僕I×105
- 今now×101
- 銀行bank×93
- 医療medical treatment×85
- 事務長manager×79
- 倉嶋Kurashima×50
- 江口Ekuchi×35
- 開業医private clinician×32
- 地域医療community-based health care×32
- 修平Shuuhei×32
- 産科obstetrics×31
- 救命救急センターemergency and critical care centre (center)×28