Prayers In The Emergency Room
病室で念仏を唱えないでください
An emergency room physician in a hospital is also a Buddhist monk who, as the hospital's chaplain, provides both medical and spiritual healing to its patients.
Where to Watch Prayers In The Emergency Room • 病室で念仏を唱えないでください
10 Episodes
- Episode 2
E2Episode 2Teruyuki and his ambulance team are dispatched to the river to rescue a teenager from drowning. While giving CPR to the victim, Teruyuki notices a second boy nearby watching them, but the boy runs away before Teruyuki can speak to him. The incident forces Teruyuki to revisit a traumatic event from his own childhood, thirty years before. - Episode 3E3
Episode 3An accident victim Teruyuki helped rescue disappears from hospital. Concerned about the man’s distressed state, he consults Ryoko, another emergency doctor, but is criticized for overstepping his role as a paramedic. Not long afterward, the victim of a suicide attempt is brought in and it turns out to be the same man. - Episode 4E4
Episode 4Teruyuki thanks his ambulance team for the success of the emergency operation they performed. But then he finds out that the team is not happy with his policy of welcoming any patient in need. Not long after that, a man who fell down the stairs is brought in. He is severely injured and urgently needs to have an operation, but his wife and daughter are against it... - Episode 5E5
Episode 5A girl suffering abuse at the hands of her adoptive father dies after being rushed to hospital. Outraged, Teruyuki strikes the girl’s abuser and is arrested and put on indefinite administrative leave. Later he is called to the deathbed of his master’s close friend but struggles with feelings of helplessness as both a doctor and a priest. - Episode 6E6
Episode 6The calm of the ER is suddenly broken when two men, rescued from a collapsed building, are brought in unconscious. Then, to everyone’s surprise, the hospital’s plastic surgeon, Dr. Aida, arrives in an ambulance as well! Amidst the chaos of the ER, Ryoko is astonished when she walks into the room where one of the men is being treated… - Episode 7E7
Episode 7A woman named Ayuko is brought to the ER unconscious. On her, the staff finds a note that reads: “I have terminal breast cancer—Do not resuscitate me.” When she regains consciousness, Teruyuki visits her in his role as chaplain and the two form a bond. The next thing he knows, Teruyuki is taking her out on a date! - Episode 9E9
Episode 9Dr. Hamada performs cardiovascular surgery on a three-year-old girl. But when her condition takes a sudden turn for the worse, Teruyuki responds to save her life. Although Hamada performs a successful emergency operation, when news of his prior mistake leaks out, investors withdraw their funding for the hospital’s planned children’s heart center. - Episode 10E10
Episode 10The emergency center team rushes to the scene of a mass stabbing, where they find a female victim lying unconscious, her young daughter frantically calling to her. The perpetrator is also taken to hospital and Teruyuki prepares to operate. But the victim’s daughter angrily confronts him, saying, “Why are you going to save that monster!”
