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Herr Dr. Tenma is the first episode of the anime.
Summary[]
Dr. Kenzo Tenma disobeys orders to operate on a wealthy donor, following his conscience to operate on a small boy named Johan instead.
Synopsis[]
The episode opens with a passage taken from the Book of Revelations of the Christian bible: "AND I SAW A BEAST RISING OUT OF THE SEA HAVING TEN HORNS AND SEVEN HEADS. AND ON ITS HORNS WERE TEN DIADEMS. AND ON ITS HEADS WERE BLASPHEMOUS NAMES. AND THE DRAGON GAVE IT HIS POWER AND HIS THRONE AND GREAT AUTHORITY. THEY WORSHIPPED THE DRAGON FOR HE HAD GIVEN AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST. AND THEY WORSHIPPED THE BEAST SAYING: WH0 IS LIKE THE BEAST AND WHO CAN FIGHT AGAINST IT? - REVELATIONS 13 1-4 NRSV".
Dr. Kenzo Tenma exits the operation room after operating on a famous opera singer when he is praised by his colleagues for his surgical talent. Tenma responds humbly to their flattery and he is told to rest. As soon as the other doctors leave, Tenma spots a crying Turkish woman with a child. The child approaches his mother and asks for his father's whereabouts, but the woman continues to cry.
It is 1986 in Germany. Tenma's fiancée, Eva Heinemann, surprises him in his sleep. Having woken up, Tenma faces the television, where a news channel reports about the Lieberts' escape from East Germany. The Liebert family is comprised of Michael Liebert, his wife, and their twins. Eva notices that her father, Dr. Udo Heinemann, is holding a press conference on television about F. Rosenbach, the opera singer who Tenma operated on and saved from death. Tenma is upset that Udo is taking all the credit to himself, but Eva asserts that it is only because he has Tenma on his team that he is able to gain such praise and that he completely appreciates his hard work. Tenma later regrets his thoughts, remembering that it is only because of Udo that he can work in Germany, since it was him who brought him from Japan. Eva assures Tenma that if he sticks with her father, he will eventually become the Chief of Surgery, then the Chief Director.
On another day, Dr. Tenma is operating next to Dr. Becker, a friend, when Dr. Becker helps Tenma realize that, regardless of his bright future, he is being used by the director to gain appraise only for himself. He adds that hospitals, like any other institution, are ruled by politics and money. As they part, Tenma walks past the Turkish lady and her son as she looks at him with contempt. Asking him if he is Dr. Tenma, she demands he give her back her husband, who had passed away after failing to get surgery from Tenma in replacement for F. Rosenbach's emergency operation. The mother and her son cry as they beg Tenma to bring the man back to life.
Sometime later, Tenma meets Eva at a restaurant for dinner, shaken by earlier's occurrences. Eva notices that he is not listening to her and asks if anything happened. Tenma admits the cause of his distress, saying that he had checked the records earlier and learned that Dr. Becker was the surgeon in the Turkish man's operation; if only he had operated on him instead of Dr. Becker, the man could have been saved. Tenma tries to convince himself that he is not responsible for the man's death because he was merely following orders from the director. He asks Eva if he is guilty, and she affirms that he is not, telling him that people's lives were not created equally.
At the Liebert household, the police arrive after being called by next-door neighbors, who had heard gunshots coming from the residence. When the authorities break in, they notice that the two Liebert adults have been massacred. They find one of their children, the daughter, standing in shock above her twin brother's body, severely injured. Dr. Tenma is called to operate him.
On the way to the hospital, Tenma finds Eva's handkerchief on the front seat and remembers that same night when he left Eva in her mansion. He was standing with Eva outside the door and later apologized to her father, Udo Heinemann, who was in the front door, about bringing her home late. Udo assured him that there was nothing to apologize for since she was his fiancé and invited them in for tea. Inside his study, Udo asked Tenma if he had already notified his parents about the wedding date. He said that he had, but his father would probably not make it since he runs a small hospital back in Japan and could not afford the time to come to Germany. Udo believed it would be the perfect time for his father to take a trip since they would be covering the expenses, then later told Tenma that he would be cancelling his research. Udo explained that he had been invited to a medical convention as a guest speaker and wanted Tenma to write his manuscript. Tenma was not given the chance to respond as Udo then spoke about the controversy surrounding Rosenbach's operation over the Turkish man, and that the protests have dissipated after having found no mistakes in their procedures. Udo believed that being a doctor was not charity and asked Tenma to assert that their priority was to progress as medical scholars rather than save lives. Back at the present, Tenma nearly crashes his car after daydreaming.
Tenma arrives at the hospital and asks for the patient, and he is told that he is inside. He looks at the patient and is told that he is in severe condition. Tenma asks for his x-rays and CT scans, then approaches the Lieberts' daughter, who is in a state of psychological shock and can only mutter "kill." A nurse approaches to inform that the scans are ready.
When the doctors look through the scans, they realize that it will be a complex operation. Suddenly, Dr. Becker arrives when he is supposed to be on duty elsewhere.
As they get ready for the operation, Dr. Oppenheimer informs Dr. Tenma that he is expected in another operation room. Earlier, Mayor Roedecker suffered a severe blood cloth and is currently being transported via helicopter to the hospital. Tenma refuses to work on the operation in defense for the boy's first arrival. However, Dr. Oppenheimer hands him the phone, saying that he has been sent an order from the Director. Via call, Udo asks Tenma to operate on the mayor and that he will send Drs. Boyer and Einsen to aid him in the operation. Tenma refuses again, but Udo tells him he will send Dr. Becker to operate on the boy. Tenma argues that his operation is too difficult for Dr. Becker, but not to him. Udo replies that the mayor has promised the hospital a generous increase on the next review of medical facilities if he were saved, then hangs the phone.
Drs. Boyer and Eisen arrive and get ready to operate on the mayor with Tenma. However, Tenma remembers Udo and Eva professing their preposterous ethics and the Turkish woman and her son. With this, Tenma enters the boy's operation room and leaves the mayor to Boyer and Eisen. Tenma begins the operation on the boy.
Elsewhere, in the young girl's room, she mutters "kill."
Characters[]
- Kenzo Tenma
- Johan Liebert
- Anna Liebert
- Eva Heinemann
- Udo Heinemann
- Dr. Becker
- Dr. Oppenheimer
- Dr. Boyer
- Dr. Eisen
- Mr. Liebert
- Mrs. Liebert
- Turkish lady
- Turkish boy
- Turkish man (mentioned)
- F. Rosenbach (mentioned)
- Mayor Roedecker (mentioned)
- 2 unnamed doctors
- 3 unnamed nurses