Say Hello to Black Jack 14

Say Hello to Black Jack, Volume 2, Chapter 14 (pp. 129~148)


<129>
=How...?

=How...
=Could something like this happen...!?


<130>
#14: Trust


<131>
=That patient came in too late.
[x2]=SPLASH

=Yes, the Heart-Lung Machine wasn't working too well today,
[x2]=SPLASH
=And the patient didn't have the strongest blood vessels in the first place.

GRUCK

=Anyone would be dead after having their heart stopped so many times...
=That patient died because you weren't skilled enough...

=Isn't that right, professor...?


<132>
=Patients with serious heart disease are bound to die anyways.
[bubble]NUDGE
=They should be grateful that I even chose to take up the manual labor that is surgery.

WHACK

=Cut it out!!//What do you think you're doing, Kita!!

=20 years ago—
=I lost all hope in Japanese medicine, and flew overseas—


<133>
=K Hospital in Australia.
=I began my training as a cardiac surgeon under the guidance of Professor M, a world-renowned authority on heart surgery.

=H-H-Harro—
=M-Mai n-name is Saburo Kita...

=I can do this...
=I'm going to bring real medicine back to Japan...!


<134>
=HUFF//HUFF
=HUFF

=First one here.
=I'm going to go around and check up on the patients!!

=G-Good morning!!
=CLACK


<135>
=How are you, Grandma?
=Huh? You're feeling strange?

=Then let's take a look at your blood pressure.

=Professor M...//Are you always the first one to come here?

=I hold the highest position in this hospital.
=So I arrive earliest to take care of my patients.

=This place is different...!!
=I can learn something here...!!


<136>
=5 days a week. For every waking moment of the day...
=Surgery was the only thing I did, each and every day.

=I couldn't speak English very well.

=So I could offer no excuses for my own inexperience.

=I just had to keep coming to terms with myself.


<137>
=How can I go quicker...?

=How can I suture more accurately...?

=How...?
=How!?

=Alright—
=Say Cheese.

CLICK
=It was right around then that I started taking the pictures.


<138>
=If trust has not been established between the doctor and the patient...
=The smile appears somewhat awkward...

=But if a true relationship of trust has been established...
=The patient breaks out in the best of smiles.

=Maybe I was so willing to come to terms with myself...
=Because I really wanted to see those smiles...


<139>
=Trust...

=Trust...
[x2]CLICK


<140>
[x2]KNOCK

CLACK

=You are Mr. Miyamura...?

=You must be Dr. Kita...


<141>
CLICK

=Where did Dr. Saito go...?

=He went back home...

=Because I kept being selfish saying,//"It has to be Dr. Kita..."


<142>
=Why...
=Are you putting so much trust in me...?

=Well, you're the doctor that Dr. Saito trusts...
=And I trust Dr. Saito...

=I'm not worthy of such trust...
=Dr. Tori is more capable than I am now...


<143>
=I believe...
=Dr. Saito went home because he felt the same way...

=Because...
=I want to see Mr. Miyamura smile!!


<144>
Trudging through the rainy back-streets...
I'm the wandering guitar player...

Pardon me,
I'm just a drifting bird with nothing but a guitar on my back.

=Yes...
=A man who's given up his scalpel once is no longer worthy of anyone's trust...


<145>
=CLANG
=CLO—NG

Trudging through—
The rainy back-streets—

I'm—
The wandering—

Guitar—
Player—

<147>
=What are you doing...?

=PARDON MEEEE

=What are you doing—!!?

=Please...
=Do the operation.

=I-
=I'm...


<148>
=I'm gonna keep nagging you—!!