Dear Patient (2020)
Original title: ディア・ペイシェント
Dear Patient is a 2020 Japanese-language drama series. It stars Shihori Kanjiya, Tetsushi Tanaka and Rin Takanashi.
Sasai Memorial Hospital has a good reputation for its sincere care for patients. However, holding up a strong policy of 'customer first' has put doctors into uneasy circumstance where they have to deal with 'monster patients,' unreasonable complainers. The drama depicts doctors' growth and struggle experienced in the severe situation of the present healthcare industry.
Cast
- Shihori Kanjiya as Mano Chiaki
- Tetsushi Tanaka as Zama Atsushi [Monster patient]
- Rin Takanashi as Mano Mari [Chiaki's sister]
- Yuki Uchida as Hamaguchi Yoko [Internist at Sasai Memorial Hospital]
- Kodai Asaka as Kaneda Naoki [Physician at Sasai Memorial Hospital]
- Kenta Hamano as Numata Shinya [General Secretary at Sasai Memorial Hospital]
- Takeshi Masu as Takamine Shuji [General Secretary at Sasai Memorial Hospital]
- Masaru Nagai as Kira Daisuke [Lecturer of Russian Martial Arts]
- Machiko Washio as Asanuma Chieko [Monster patient]
- Raita Ryu as Saionji Mitsutaka [Patient with dementia]
- Ken Ishiguro as Sasai Soichiro [CEO of Sasai Memorial Hospital]
- Mitsuru Hirata as Hasumi Isao [Security guard of Sasai Memorial Hospital]