Another week, another routine pre-operative seminar, with the large conference room filled with doctors from both internal medicine and surgery.
As an associate professor, Chen Yu had the closest seat to the front for a surgeon. Although Michiko Daimon was a freelance doctor, she also had to attend such conferences like the pre-operative seminar, albeit seated in a farther position at the back.
The weekly pre-operative seminars were a common system in Japan's hospitals, where resident doctors from various departments reported on their typical cases. They presented their treatment plans for discussion among all doctors, crafting contingency strategies for a variety of potentialities encountered during the healing process and discussing their viability.
