I am a literary giant in Japan

Before resolving that annoying medical lawsuit, Goro Zaizen was successfully elected as an alternate member of the Tokyo Medical Society by relying on his superb skills and strong connections.

Shuji Rima did not take this seriously, believing that as a researcher in the medical system, he should devote all his energy to research and learning, only then would he be worthy of the white coat.

Chasing after such empty fame, fortune and power is meaningless and superficial.

In the distorted values ​​of later generations, most people would think that Shuji Satoma is a pure idealist, or to put it more bluntly, a "saint saint" and "great and glorious".

But the reason why "White Tower" has become a classic of popular literature that has been circulated for decades is that it makes such a person who is almost impossible to exist come alive.

When reading the novel, most readers will feel disgusted by Shuji Satoma's inflexibility, ignorance of good and evil, and his extremely stubborn and pedantic so-called "scholarly" thinking.

But when we see that he was willing to go against the pressure from the top management of Naniwa University Hospital and go against Director Ukai, Goro Zaizen and others in order to testify for the patient's family and to ensure that the deceased gets the respect they deserve.

Even though he was exiled, misunderstood by his wife, ridiculed by everyone, and even had no chance of returning to the laboratory he longed for, he still resolutely decided to do so.

At this moment, his personal charm as a doctor was fully demonstrated.

When a person can truly practice everything he wants in his heart and abandon all worldly concepts, his image must be great and real.

Of course, Goro Zaizen in the novel would not pay attention to Shuji Satoma's advice.

He has been successfully elected as a full professor and is just waiting for Professor Dong to retire. Once this matter is over, he will be able to visit patients in a majestic manner like Professor Dong.

The following plot is the most exciting and climax of the court debate in the whole book.

When reading this, Toshiyuki Karasawa had a strong sense of déjà vu again.

I really doubt whether Mr. Kitagawa has the ability to predict the future, as he even wrote the court segments that he didn't get to observe so similarly.

In the novel, Goro Zaizen and Naniwa University Hospital are not as gentle as Toshiyuki Karasawa and the University of Tokyo Hospital.

In order to make the family of the victim Sasaki surrender, Goro's father-in-law Zaizen once again used his money ability and connections to force the Sasaki family's shop to close.

They use everything they have to force the families of the deceased to surrender, otherwise these poor people will suffer for the rest of their lives.

It seems that all the efforts of Shuji Rima, the patient's family and lawyer Sekiguchi are about to go to waste.

At the critical moment, Zaizen's subordinates Yanagihara and Egawa suddenly appeared in court to testify and overturned the false testimony they had previously made for Zaizen.

Goro Zaizen, who was abandoned by his friends and relatives, didn't know why he suddenly fell into this situation.

The reason why Yanagihara and Egawa were willing to overturn their confessions and testify in court was, on the one hand, because they felt guilty and could not accept the grief of the relatives of the deceased, and on the other hand, because during their days working in the First Surgery Department, they continued to endure the oppression and neglect of Goro Zaizen, which accumulated resentment in their hearts.

The most crucial thing is that after the incident was exposed, Goro Zaizen's first reaction was to let them take the blame, and he privately used his power to transfer the two to a local hospital.

This was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

After reading this, Tang Ze Minxing sighed.

Because this is the most common thing in university affiliated hospitals nowadays.

Those in higher positions (professors, associate professors) can manipulate those in lower positions (ordinary medical staff, interns) at will, and can decide their life or death with just a word.

This feeling of being superior and the power that comes easily to one's fingertips will inevitably gradually blind the eyes of those in power.

When you don't need to consider the other person's thoughts, you will subconsciously not treat the other person as a human being.

Even Goro Zaizen, who came from a low-income family, was like this, let alone Toshihiko Karasawa, who had a smooth life all the way.

Aren’t those “Yanagi” and “Egawa” from the First Surgery Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Tokyo University of Technology also being treated like this by him?

The only difference between him and Goro Zaizen is that in his medical lawsuit, "Yanagihara" and "Egawa" cannot interfere and cannot testify in court.

If they had this opportunity, would they really not take advantage of a full professor like me when I'm down?
Toshiyuki Karasawa finally realized the good intentions that Mr. Kitagawa had for him.

"I hope that in the future you can take a different path from Goro Zaizen."

This is not only advice, but also teaching and guidance to him!
After sorting out his complicated feelings, Tang Ze Minxing continued reading.

He was eager to know what would happen next and wanted to see what Goro Zaizen could do in the face of this situation.

Should he accept his fate and wait for death, or rise up in resistance, or bow to the higher authorities such as Ukai Honbu.

"'Professor, what do you think of today's verdict?' the reporters asked in unison.

Zaizen looked down at the reporters and said, "What a pity! Recently, medical negligence has attracted a lot of attention from the society. If this kind of judgment continues, many doctors will not dare to give up and actively treat patients in the future."

Medical treatment itself is inherently risky to a certain extent, and doctors would never make mistakes maliciously.

The case of gastric cardia cancer metastasizing to the lungs in this case is extremely rare. Such a difficult case would still be subject to medical malpractice. If we had known this, why would we have bothered with diagnosis and treatment in the first place?

This trend will hinder medical progress and is definitely not a good thing for either patients or doctors.

Moreover, what kind of reason is it to say that professors at national universities should be subject to more stringent scrutiny?

Does a professor have to be "miraculous"?

It is too demanding to measure medical negligence only against the average performance of doctors.

No matter how you look at it, I absolutely cannot believe this verdict!'

Cai Qian shouted loudly in front of the group of reporters.

Satomi, Sekiguchi, Ryoe and the others turned to look at Zaizen.

Seeing this, Zaizen said in a louder voice: "That's right! If this continues, the entire medical community will adopt the attitude of 'less is worse than more', and the medical community will shrink and stagnate! I have decided to sue the Supreme Court!"

His arguments were so convincing that many reporters from newspapers rushed out of the court in order to publish the news that "Professor Zaizen lost the case and intended to appeal to the Supreme Court" in the evening paper.

After the reporters left, the courtroom suddenly became quiet and empty. Cai Qian felt a surge of frustration and defeat in his heart, which then turned into a surge of indignation.

"Mr. Kono, Mr. Kunihira, what are you still standing there for? Hurry! Go and file an appeal immediately!"

Zaizen urged the lost Kono and Kunihei to stand up suddenly, but his body was shaky and he could not stand steadily.

"What's wrong with you, Goro?" Although his father-in-law supported him again, Zaizen still fell on the chair.

"Professor, what's wrong with you?" Associate Professor Kanai and Lecturer Tsukuda, who were standing behind Kono and Kunihira, stepped forward and helped Zaizen up from both sides.

But Zaizen was already pale and unconscious.

Jin Jing hurriedly took his pulse and checked his conjunctiva, and found that it was bloodless.

"Is it cerebral anemia?" He leaned over again to look.

"What's wrong with Zaizen-kun?" Satomi ran over.

After seeing off Sasaki Yoshie, Satomi turned back again, intending to discuss an appeal to the Supreme Court with Zaizen.

Kono, Kunihira, and Matata made a move to stop Satomi, but Satomi didn't care at all. He sat down next to the chair where Zaizen was lying and examined his bloodless eyelid conjunctiva. Suddenly, his face changed drastically: "Hurry up and do an esophageal X-ray. It has to be done!"

Satomi looked at Zaizen's pale face and said to Kanai and Tsukuda. "Zaizen Goro really didn't give in. Even though it has come to this, knowing that losing the case is a matter of time, he still wants to maintain his dignity and appeal to the Supreme Court."

The fingers of Tang Ze Toshiyuki that were holding the magazine had turned a little white.

Sweat soaked his back.

In the cold winter season, he just felt hot all over, as if he was Goro Zaizen, who stood firm in the face of injustice and public attacks.

But so what?
Even if he appeals to the Supreme Court, Goro Zaizen will still lose the case.

Failure is doomed.

How would Mr. Kitagawa write it?

Toshiyuki Karasawa continued to turn the pages and finally saw the title of the final chapter: "White Tower: A Fantasy Bubble Towering into the Sky".

Goro Zaizen, a famous cancer doctor and the king of esophageal cancer surgery, has actually been diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer!
The cancerous tumor was almost five centimeters in size, but he didn't notice it.

This shocked everyone in the First Surgery Department.

Only Goro Zaizen, who was lying on the hospital bed, knew that he had been lost in the fight for the position of full professor these days.

In fact, more than a month ago, Shuji Rima had reminded him to pay attention to his body and to check the condition of his esophagus.

At that time, Goro Zaizen just felt that Shuji Satoma was provoking him by actually bringing up such a topic in front of an esophageal cancer surgery expert!

Of course, he still felt that his condition was not serious and would not be a serious illness.

It was not until Director Ukai personally ordered the medical staff to replace Goro Zaizen's X-ray images that he became suspicious.

So that night, Goro Zaizen went alone to the local hospital where Sarimaka worked and asked Sarimaka to help him re-record the video.

Sarima, who also knew about Zaizen's situation, chose to conceal this fact, but was ruthlessly exposed by Zaizen.

After learning the truth, Zaizen did not choose to spend his last moments with his colleagues in the First Surgery Department or his father-in-law's family. Instead, he ran to find his lover, Hanamori Keiko, while he was still able to move.

This behavior may seem stupid and unreasonable in the eyes of others.

Tang Ze Toshiyuki, whose mouth twitched slightly, could understand Zaizen Goro's behavior very well.

Because if it were him, he would do the same.

There is only the White Tower fighting for power, and the father-in-law's family who only care about helping him fulfill his dreams. In fact, they don't understand Zaizen's heart at all.

There are only two people who can truly understand Zaizen.

One is his mortal enemy Shuji Satoma, and the other is his lover Keiko Hanamori.

"After getting off the car, walking on the buried land covered with red soil and climbing up the concrete breakwater, Keiko watched the waves at the mouth of the river washing over the banks of the Muzu River, and the wind with the smell of sea water blew across Keiko's collar.

She turned up the collar of her coat and headed toward the river mouth, thinking back to the two times she had been here with Caizen.

One time was when Zaizen was competing for the position of professor.

At that time, the red smoke from the steel mill's furnace seemed to burn the entire night sky like a blazing flame. The huge black shadow of the crane was reflected in the night sky. Zaizen stood there, looking at the night sky, and said firmly: "The probability of becoming a professor at a national university is only one in two hundred. In order to fight for that one in two hundred, I will do whatever it takes and fight to the end."

Another time was on the eve of the first trial. Zaizen was also standing on this embankment, and Keiko asked him: "What should I do if I lose the case?"

He replied: "I will rack my brains to find a theory that is not biased or contradictory in either medicine or morality. I will definitely win the case!"

At that time, he stared at it with his bright eyes, as if he wanted to challenge the vast ocean outside the river mouth.

Thinking of this, Keiko only hopes that Zaizen can fight the disease with all his strength and survive.

She longed for Zaizen, who possessed a strong spirit and body, to embrace her again.

The tide was rising at the river mouth, and Qingzi's heart was also filled with thoughts.

But when Caiqian found her, she said nothing. She just looked at the river bank calmly and watched the tide rise and fall.

She seemed to say something to him, but he didn't, there was only silence, silence, silence."

When reading this, Tang Ze Toshiyuki felt like he was about to suffocate.

The omnipotent Zaizen is about to fall.

This is more despairing than losing the case.

In the novel, not long after that, Zaizen fell into hepatic coma.

His death is approaching.

And it was at this time.

When the head of the company, Ukai, came to visit, he was yelled at by him, "Get lost, you have nothing to do here!"

He didn't care even though his wife shouted at him not to abandon him, or his father-in-law burst into tears and kept forcing him to compete for the position of full professor.

On his deathbed, Goro Zaizen was thinking about the new cancer hospital that was about to be built at Naniwa University Hospital.

He had already been designated as the director of the hospital and would be responsible for cancer research and treatment in the future.

But now, lying on the hospital bed, he can only listen to the roar of the machines and can no longer see the completion of the project with his own eyes.

At the last moment, he was begging Mr. Sasaki, who was misdiagnosed by him, to stay in his cancer hospital. He hoped that Saruma, who had always been against him, would be appointed as the full professor of the first internal medicine department of the hospital.
Zaizen died.

According to his will, the doctors at Naniwa University Hospital will dissect his body and carefully observe the diseased organs.

When seeing this ending, Toshiyuki Karasawa could no longer hold back his tears.

Qian Zai Goro died, but Tang Ze Toshiyuki survived.

"die."

This is Mr. Kitagawa's coldest answer.

But the ending of the novel "White Tower" is so heartwarming and shocking.

Mr. Kitagawa retained the last bit of dignity for Zaizen——

Let him die in his hospital bed instead of being mercilessly judged by the Supreme Court.

But he also had Zaizen express his remorse for the death.

All of this is Kitagawa's silent mockery of the white tower and his dissatisfaction with the fact that Japan's medical system is closer to the power system.

"I understand! Teacher Kitagawa! I will take a different path from Zaizen-kun and show you!" (End of this chapter)