Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor - Recommendations

• Vol: 9; Ch: 70
• 2007 - 2010

"Will you donate your kidney to me?" Continuing from where the previous series left off, Saitou Eijirou prepares for his final internship in the urology department. Hypocrisies from the Japanese medical world, Japanese society, Japanese culture, and the human mind all swirl together as Saitou finds out what it truly means to perform an organ transplant.

• Vol: 6; Ch: 66
• 2010 - 2011

Three years ago, Katsumi Yu headed to Africa for a volunteer project as a doctor. However, soon after, a civil war erupted and he was captured by a guerilla group who was desperate for a doctor to treat the injured. He quits being a doctor soon thereafter and gets a tattoo of Lucifer on his right arm as a reminder of his past crimes. Although Yu returns to Japan, he spends his days drinking. After a night of drunken brawls, he wakes up in a clinic run by Dr. Minatono. This shady looking clinic takes in all patients, even those without insurance and those who can’t pay at all, but still maintains state of the art equipment. It turns out Dr. Minatono deals with clients, such as the mob, who are unable to go to regular hospitals due to legal reasons and in exchange receives exorbitant amounts of money to help keep the clinic up and running. At first, Yu rejects the job offer from Dr. Minatono, but situations keep coming up that keep him busy in the surgery room.

• Vol: 24+; Ch: 102+
• 2014 - ?

Kishi Keiichirou is a pathologist who advises doctors on their diagnoses and whose judgement is widely accepted. Though an eccentric that few people can stand to associate personally, Kishi is passionate about the lives of his patients and a genius at his job.

• Vol: 13; Ch: 127
• 2002 - 2006

Saito Eijirou is a newly established intern doctor, who is forced to take on a second night job at another, much smaller hospital because of the extremely low pay he receives. As he bounces between the two different hospitals, he is forced to dig deeper and deeper into Japan's largely corrupted medical society and starts to question even his own initial believes, as he asks himself just what being a doctor means.

• Vol: 3+; Ch: 15+
• 2019 - ?

• Vol: 25; Ch: 210
• 2002 - 2011

Dr. Katou is an ambitious woman who seeks to revolutionize the corrupt and inefficient Japanese medical system from within by becoming a professor in a teaching hospital. She enlists a maverick surgeon, Dr. Asada Ryuutarou, to help her with research that would catapult her to a professorship should they succeed and publish. However, Asada's refusal to conform to the system soon threatens to destroy not only her plans but her entire career. Katou is prepared to do anything, including going along with the system, in order to achieve her end goal, but she begins to question whether she has gone too far as Asada's actions bring many of the system's shortcomings to light.

• Vol: 25
• 1973 - 1983

Black Jack is a man with god-like surgical skills. Little is known about this mysterious, unlicensed physician aside from his immense talent, which is legendary amongst the medical community; but should you require the services of this genius, you must be prepared for a hefty price tag! Though he often appears to have the demeanour of a businessman more than a doctor, Black Jack is not entirely cold-hearted; and with the help of his assistant Pinoko, he will do all in his power to save his patients, no matter how obscure, difficult or unknown the ailment. However, even a man of science like Black Jack can be surprised by the medical mysteries that nature throws at him, and sometimes even by the sheer tenacity of human nature itself.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 32
• 2016 - 2017

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2008

January 3, 2011. ER doctor Matsuoka Tsuyoshi examines a patient presenting influenza symptoms. The next day, the patient dies from multiple-organ failure, followed by others who had shown the same symptoms. As the death toll rises, even the high-tech Japanese are at a loss over how to check the further spread of the deadly virus

• Vol: 16; Ch: 136
• 2011 - 2019

During the 1960s the famous rogue doctor Black Jack was still a medical student.