[Machine Translation] Kazuto Kurihara is a twenty-nine-year-old internist who works at a 24-hour, 365-day hospital in Shinshu, Japan, and is not good at being sad. There is always a shortage of doctors at his workplace, and it is not unusual for him to work 40 hours straight. As his days go round and round, he receives an invitation from the medical department of his alma mater, Shinano University. If he returned to the university, he would be able to learn cutting-edge medicine. However, he wants to be a doctor who works for patients who are about to die, and who cannot be treated at a university hospital.... An unexpected gift from an elderly cancer patient, Ms. Azumi, pushes the back of the troubled Ichiho. The long-awaited paperback edition of this bestseller, which won second place in the 2010 Honya Taisho (Bookstore Grand Prize) and brought warm tears to the hearts of the whole of Japan.