The 19th new specialty, "patient care," was created in a hospital with 18 specialists in pathology, obstetrics, and radiology. That is the general practitioner. Takino, a woman doctor in her third year, yearns to be a doctor who can "cure anything" as she sees in the story, but she is troubled by the gap between ideal and reality in a doctor's system that requires doctors to master their respective specialties in subdivided areas of expertise. Then, a general practitioner named Tokushige appears in front of Takino!
