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Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire

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    Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 5 Episode 10 - Episode 10
    8.8/10(13 votes)

    #1 - Episode 10

    S5:E10

    Michiko, the freelance surgeon who never fails to save a life put in her hands, collapses. Meanwhile, the chairman of the elite Japan Doctors Club is diagnosed with esophagus cancer. His condition is serious, and Michiko is the only one who can successfully operate on him. Will she be able to save his life?! And will her own life be saved?! Michiko Daimon’s final operation is about to start. (c)TVAsahi

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  2. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 6 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    8.5/10(14 votes)

    #2 - Episode 1

    S6:E1

    Michiko stumbles upon a remote house and befriends a Japanese Brazilian man. Troubled Totei University Hospital announces a foreign investment fund.

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  3. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 3 Episode 11 - LAST OPE
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #3 - LAST OPE

    S3:E11

    Akira Kanbara passes out while working and does not return to the agency office. He avoids his favorite pupil, freelance surgeon Michiko Daimon. National Advanced Medical President Yoshihito Tendo's dream of establishing the Japan Medical Industry Association comes true. The new association will be able to provide the most advanced medical care. It will control all resources and funding.

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  4. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 4 Episode 10 - OPE.10
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #4 - OPE.10

    S4:E10

    Freelance surgeon Michiko Daimon is visiting a shrine when she notices something surprising. Toutei University Hospital Chief Surgeon Takeshi Saionji is buying a safe delivery charm for a pregnant woman that looks nothing like his wife! Michiko is suspicious. Did he not learn anything from his last affair?

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  5. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 6 Episode 10 - Episode 10
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #5 - Episode 10

    S6:E10

    Michiko promises a young pianist that she'll cure him and that he'll still be able to perform. But after surgery, his fingers don’t respond so well.

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  6. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 2 Episode 4 - OPE.4
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #6 - OPE.4

    S2:E4

    Ginza club Nakazono hostess Rumiko Shijo visits Teito Medical University Hospital to see the Director of Surgery, Shigekatsu Hiruma. Rumiko has connections to people in politics, show business, sports, and medicine. She helped Hiruma rise through the ranks with her background as an empress of Ginza. There are rumors she might be working behind the scenes for the next chief professor selections.

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  7. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 2 Episode 8 - OPE.8
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #7 - OPE.8

    S2:E8

    Michiko Daimon was fired from Teito University Hospital and sent to the Teito University Hospital's Takamatsu No. 24 Satellite. Hideki Kaji also works at this hospital. He used to be the top surgeon at the Third Teito University Hospital, but was reassigned to a rural location because of Michiko. At the hospital, Michiko meets a young patient with a malignant form of myofibroblastoma.

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  8. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 2 Episode 9 - LAST OPE.
    8.2/10(17 votes)

    #8 - LAST OPE.

    S2:E9

    Michiko Daimon is allowed to perform surgery on Kurumi Murata, who has a malignant myofibroblastoma, at the main Teito University Hospital Ⅲ. Cancer cells have unfortunately spread to multiple organs. Michiko plans to perform Japan’s first multi-organ ex-vivo resection by removing six organs – the stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver, large intestines, and small intestines.

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  9. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 3 Episode 3 - OPE.3
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #9 - OPE.3

    S3:E3

    The National Advanced Medical Care Center is home to a nursing department with the nickname, the Shogun’s harem. Head Nurse Junko Shiraki is feared by the doctors. But recently, the doctors have been critical of the nurses and Junko has been frustrated by a drop in ethics. Some nurses are quitting from exhaustion because of freelance surgeon Michiko Daimon’s need to constantly operate on patients.

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  10. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 5 Episode 1 - OPE.1
    8.2/10(19 votes)

    #10 - OPE.1

    S5:E1

    A year since the fall of the corrupt Director Hiruma, Totei University Hospital has a new director, its first-ever female, who has started to clean up the system with her “patients first” policy. The hospital’s power players conspire to revive the shady hierarchy to regain their perks and absolute authority. Once again, Michiko cuts into the hospital now facing a major turning point. (c)TV Asahi

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  11. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 5 Episode 3 - OPE.3
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #11 - OPE.3

    S5:E3

    The director of Totei University Kindergarten collapses with lung adenocarcinoma. Michiko and the deputy chief surgeon fight over the surgery. The deputy wins, and Michiko is assigned to be his first assistant. But the narcissistic deputy is infuriated by the thought of working in the OR with a “part-timer like her.” Then Director Hiruma whispers his plot in the deputy’s ear. (c)TV Asahi

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  12. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 6 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #12 - Episode 2

    S6:E2

    Two patients need a liver donor: an arrogant CEO, and a poor young man. But there is only one available donor who is known to them both.

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  13. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 6 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #13 - Episode 5

    S6:E5

    A lecture by honorary Nursing Confederation president Mihara is pulled for being out of touch. The staff later discovers she’s suffering from a tumor.

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  14. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 2 Episode 5 - OPE.5
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #14 - OPE.5

    S2:E5

    A world-known surgeon from Massachusetts International University Hospital, Mitsuhiko Kusakabe, returns to Japan with an invitation from the Director of Surgery, Shigekatsu Hiruma. Hiruma is planning to hold a public surgery with Kusakabe. He is hoping to increase the value of his stock by showing off his connection to the famous doctor.

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  15. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 3 Episode 1 - OPE.1
    8.1/10(18 votes)

    #15 - OPE.1

    S3:E1

    Michiko Daimon is visiting an island in the South. She sees passengers that suffered injuries during a luxury cruise ship accident. She also sees Ryonosuke Busujima, the former director of the Teito University Hospital Ⅲ! Busujima is in hypovolemic shock. Michiko helps and notices something strange. Days later, Busujima is admitted to the National Advanced Medical Care Center with a cardiac tumor.

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  16. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 4 Episode 11 - LAST OPE.
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #16 - LAST OPE.

    S4:E11

    Freelance anesthesiologist Hiromi Jonouchi collapses. She had been hiding her advanced pancreatic cancer! Michiko Daimon wants to save fellow colleague Hiromi and offers to be her surgeon. But even with Michiko’s skills, complete removal of Hiromi’s cancer is impossible. Hiromi turns down Michiko’s offer. She is prepared to die and the only thing she wants to do now is save money for her daughter.

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  17. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 5 Episode 2 - OPE.2
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    #17 - OPE.2

    S5:E2

    Michiko Daimon, a doctor, meets a woman holding her stomach and losing consciousness. The lady is the mother of Ito, a colleague, and has an extremely rare type of advanced gallbladder cancer. Although Ito was nominated as surgeon, his mother refuses surgery, and Ito doesn’t try to change her mind. Michiko strongly wishes to save her life and somehow try to get her consent of surgery. (c)TV Asahi

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  18. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 5 Episode 4 - OPE.4
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #18 - OPE.4

    S5:E4

    The daughter of the Chairman of Japan Doctors Club is diagnosed with liver cancer. Her fiancée is Dr. Morimoto, a surgeon at Totei University Hospital. She insists on having him as the surgeon. But he isn’t confident and appoints Michiko as his assistant.

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  19. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 5 Episode 5 - OPE.5
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    #19 - OPE.5

    S5:E5

    During a match against the world's strongest Shogi robot,a young Shogi prodigy suffers from disturbed consciousness. Totei University Hospital is requested to remove his brain tumor with Hippocrates,a cutting-edge medical AI. Determined not to fail such a case,Director Hiruma appoints Michiko as the lead surgeon. Michiko,who explicitly declines at first,sees a certain vision in her mind. (c)TVAsahi

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  20. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 5 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Episode 8

    S5:E8

    A former secretary to a minister, who accused a hospital of illegal dealings, is diagnosed with an advanced cancer. A rookie surgeon Nishiyama wants to challenge the operation, but Michiko is appointed. But when it is found out the accused is a friend of the Chairman of Japan Doctors Club, Michiko is fired. Dr. Nishiyama reveals his hidden thoughts to Michiko and takes an incredible action. (c)TVAsahi

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  21. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 6 Episode 9 - Episode 9
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #21 - Episode 9

    S6:E9

    A much-loved rock star is admitted to Totei. His condition requires a complex procedure, which for personal reasons, Michiko is all too familiar with.

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  22. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 1 Episode 7 - OPE.7
    8.0/10(20 votes)

    #22 - OPE.7

    S1:E7

    Surgery II Chief Surgeon Takashi Torii has been hiding his bile duct cancer. Michiko Daimon advises him to get treatment right away, but he refuses to acknowledge his cancer to her. He spends his time writing the paper he plans to present at an international conference. A young doctor, Ikuya Hijikata, is set to join the ranks. Torii is prepared to do whatever it takes to defend his title.

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  23. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 1 Episode 8 - LAST OPE.
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    #23 - LAST OPE.

    S1:E8

    Michiko Daimon takes back Surgery II Chief Surgeon Takashi Torii’s bile duct cancer surgery from Professor Ikuya Hijikata. Hospital Director Ryonosuke Busujima is livid. Tsuyoshi Teshigawara, chief professor from the main Teito University Hospital, enters the viewing room and questions why a freelance doctor is performing the surgery, instead of Hijikata, the star doctor from the main hospital.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 7 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #24 - Episode 1

    S7:E1

    A politician asks Michiko to perform a routine surgery for her, but when her condition deteriorates rapidly, Michiko must rush to operate in time.

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  25. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon Season 7 Episode 10 - Episode 10
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #25 - Episode 10

    S7:E10

    The hospital tumbles into chaos at the announcement of a new virus. Despite the new safety measures, Michiko still demands to operate on Hachisuka.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Episode 10" is the best rated episode of "Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon". It scored 8.8/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/14/2017. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 1".