Code Blue (TV series)

is a Japanese television drama centering on lives of medical staff in an emergency medical service unit using a helicopter. It was aired on Fuji TV at 10:00 pm every Thursday from July 3, 2008 till September 12, 2008.

Cast

*Tomohisa Yamashita as Kōsaku Aizawa
*Yui Aragaki as Megumi Shiraishi
*Erika Toda as Mihoko Hiyama
*Yōsuke Asari as Kazuo Fujikawa
*Kiyoshi Kodama as Yoshiaki Tadokoro (Emergency Unit Chief, special appearance)
*Manami Higa as Haruka Saejima (nurse)
*Masanobu Katsumura as Tadashi Morimoto (flight doctor)
*Ryō as Mitsui Kanna (flight doctor)
*Toshirō Yanagiba as Shūji Kuroda (flight doctor)
*Susumu Terajima as Hisashi Kaji (pilot)
*Tetta Sugimoto as Akira Saijo (brain surgeon)
*Shinji Hiwatashi as Yasuyuki Anzai

Guests

Umika Kawashima as Miki Kuriyama (episode 1)

List of episodes

Episode 1: Decision

The episode starts off with four young doctors coming to the Shōyō University North Hospital Emergency and Critical Care Center as fellow residents who aim to become flight doctors. Among the four, Shiraishi received the first chance to get on the helicopter, and the team was soon called up to scramble to a scene where a young man caused a motorcycle accident and was in critical condition.

When the team arrived, however, Shiraishi was unable to promptly react to the condition of the man, nearly allowing cardiac arrest. Kuroda took over the role of the leading doctor and this crushed Shiraishi’s confidence. Meanwhile, instead of participating in operation, Hiyama unhappily received the order to contact family members of a 73-year-old woman who fell off from the third floor of her apartment building. After contacting family members, she learned that the woman’s sons were unwilling to visit her.

Outraged by this, Hiyama kept calling the patient’s relatives, looking for someone who is willing to visit the patient. In the end, a nice of the woman visited the hospital and thanked Hiyama for contacted her. After Shiraishi’s disappointment, Kuroda ordered Aizawa, who showed earlier calmness and skills required of the helicopter doctor, to get on the chopper.

Unlike Shiraishi, Aizawa calmly handled the assignment of rescuing a 19-year-old man’s life by cutting off the man’s arm that was squeezed in a pressing machine. Fujikawa, who was assigned to take care of Kuriyma, found out the girl’s suffering as a patient who needs to go through dialysis as part of her daily routine. [ [http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/codeblue/story/01.html] ]

Episode 2: Responsibility

An old woman who came to the emergency room the previous night was found lying on the floor of a restroom of the hospital. She was treated by Aizawa and simply sent back home, for she only had the problem of tooth pain. Kuroda decided to have Aizawa off the team for his irresponsible treatment of the patient and put Hiyama on instead.

Meantime, Shiraishi became in charge of a woman who came to the ER with a broken nose. The condition of her injury, her insistence that she fell down stairs, and her boyfriend’s extreme concern about her all pointed to the possibility of the violence caused by her boyfriend. When Shiraishi confronted the couple, she was told that the girl begged the boyfriend to break her nose, for she was suffering Body dysmorphic disorder and disliked her nose. She told Shiraishi that she felt relieved when her nose was crashed. Shiraishi pushed her to receive a reconstruction operation, but the girl rejected it. Without knowing what to do, Shiraishi asked what should be done to Saejima, who was the same age but working as a nurse. When Saejima tried to answer in usual, respectful language, which all nurses use when talking to doctors, Shiraishi told her to talk more like equals because they were the same age. Having heard this, Saejima suddenly in harsh language criticized her inability and indecisiveness and that she didn’t want to work for her. This abrupt change in Saejima's attitude further confused Shiraishi. Later, when the patient rejected her suggestion again, she snapped and threw all of her frustrations at her. This somehow changed the patient’s attitude and she agreed to go through the operation.

Before long, an emergency call came in and the team headed for a grocery market where a pregnant woman was bleeding. At the scene, however, Hiyama fell into panic when she found out that a boy who hit the woman on a bike also was in critical condition. Unable to assume the normal role as a doctor, Mitsui asked for a replacement. Aizawa scrambled to the scene and successfully saved the woman. Crushed, Hiyama came back by herself and told Shiraishi that she was trying to run away from the patient.

Hiyama took charge of a young man who turned out to have a quirky fondness of enjoy putting on a bra. When his brain needed to be scanned by fMRI, it became clear that he has claustrophobia. Hiyama first tried to treat the phobia by practicing him by putting him into a bathroom, but this attempt failed. In the end, however, Hiyama let him wear a bra, and this enabled him to overcome the patient’s problem. [ [http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/codeblue/story/02.html] ]

Episode 3: Emergency

Episode 4: Mother's Love

Episode 5: The Past

Episode 6: Unconditional Love

Episode 7: Confession

Episode 8: Unavoidable Decision

Episode 9: Broken Bond

Episode 10: Wavering Heart

Final Episode: Life and Death

External links

* [http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/codeblue/index.html Official website]
* [http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Code_Blue Drama Wiki of Code Blue]

References