Culture“I Couldn’t Bear Patients Screaming in Pain”: The Kind-Hearted Greats Who Fled the Operating Room and Abandoned Medicine

In the Meiji era, when women working in healthcare was uncommon, pioneers of modern Japanese nursing forged their own paths. The NHK morning drama “Kaze, Kaoru” depicts the struggles of pioneers such as Nagi Osheka, while also featuring people who graduated from nursing school but did not pursue medical work. Some celebrated figures likewise faced setbacks over the harshness of medicine and took new directions.

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