Doctor G – ドクターG

最近のテレビ番組でとても良いと思うのが「ドクターG」だ。4名の若手医師が患者の症状から病名を推理し、それについて出題者の経験豊富なドクターが討論するという硬派の番組なのだが、なかなか面白いし、好評とも言われている。総合診療医という定義がスポットライトを浴びるのは、背景にますます専門化する医療と絶対的医師不足という現実があってのことで、良い面だけを強調できないかも知れないが、その役割は医療とは何かという基本スタンスをしっかり捉え直す意味でも大きいと思う。僕の会社でもめざすのはスペシャリストかジェネラリストかという議論がありました。この番組は残念ながら今月で終了とのこと。こういう番組を増殖させてこそ、メディアは社会的責任を果たしているわけで、ねじを巻き直しての復活を願う。


NHK’s “Doctor G” is an exceptionally distinguished program in the recent television. The patient’s symptoms are presented to 4 young doctors who begin their logical approach to define the name of the illness, and the experienced Doctor G who posed this question assists and discusses with them to arrive at the final decision.
Because the medical treatment gets more and more specialized while the shortage of doctors continues to be serious, the accessibility to general doctors is even more vital today. The concept of general doctor might be a practical remedy to the problem providing us the opportunity to consider the fundamental aspect of what the doctor offers to patients although we cannot exaggerate only the good side of it.
I recall in my company, we used to discuss whether we should focus on the specialists or the generalists.
Unfortunately, the program ends by September. This kind of programs is good evidence of how the media could serve to function with responsibility to the pubic, and I hope it comes back with some more enhancements.