Team Medical Dragon

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Team Medical Dragon
医龍-Team Medical Dragon- (Iryū -Team Medical Dragon-)
Genre	Drama
Manga
Author	Akira Nagai Taro Nogizaka
Publisher	Shogakukan
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Big Comic Superior
Original run	November 1, 2002 – ongoing
Volumes	16

Team Medical Dragon (医龍-Team Medical Dragon-, Iryū -Team Medical Dragon-^?) is a seinen manga about Japanese medical care written by Akira Nagai and drawn by Taro Nogizaka, under medical supervision by Mie Yoshinuma. It has been adapted into the television drama Iryu, and Iryu 2.

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Team Medical Dragon has been serialized in Big Comic Superior since 2002. It received the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 2005.^[1] The story uses a cast of characters and focuses on many problems prevalent in medical care, such as human error, anticancer agent treatment, hospital infections, and a troubled health care system.

Akira Nagai, the original creator of the story, was a successful doctor and medical journalist. He passed away from complications resulting from liver cancer on July 7, 2004.^{[citation needed]}