Presentation by：Soki

Cast：Shu, Soki, Yurika, Dr. Watase (Guest)

Theme：Language Learning, Medicine

Difficulty：★★☆☆☆

Time：39min

Language：English

◆概要

今回はスペシャルゲストがDDDに登場しました。著名な救急医のDr. Wataseです。

Dr. Wataseは主にアメリカとイギリスで育ち、日本の医学部を卒業し、日本で5年を過ごした後、アメリカで救急医として13年間活躍してきました。

まずキャストたちがDr. Wataseに尋ねたのは、日本人が海外で臨床医としてのキャリアを歩む上で、語学スキルはどれくらい重要なのかということ。Dr. Wataseの考えは、少し意外で同時に深いものでした。

また、異なる国を渡り歩き、日米両方で救急医として活躍してきたことは、Dr. Wataseの世界観に大きな影響を持ったようです。多文化に触れ、複数の言語を話すDr. Wataseの懐の深さは、エピソード全体から感じることができます。

世界で活躍してきた第一線の臨床医とDDDキャストが出会った今回は、臨床医として海外でのキャリアを考える全ての方に聴いていただきたいエピソードです。

◆Description

“A first-year trainee doctor, dreaming of living in London": for 11 episodes, this has been Soki’s standard opening line. This episode is dedicated to Soki’s dream of living and working as a physician in London someday in the future.

This time, our show has been graced by a special guest. An emergency physician, Dr. Watase was born in the U.S., grew up all over the world, graduated from a Japanese medical school, and then returned to the U.S., where he worked as a doctor for 13 years.

The cast members began by asking him about how language skills factor into a doctor’s success when working in an English-speaking country. Dr. Watase’s insight was surprising, unique, and profound. Language skills, he states, are not the most important factor. What, then, matters most? Throughout the episode, he reveals his many insights gained from decades of living abroad.

One thing that became apparent through this recording was that Dr. Watase is - besides being a highly skilled and intelligent doctor - a man with great acceptance who truly embraces people’s diversity. It was clear that speaking two languages and having worked as a physician in various cultural contexts greatly affected his way of thinking.

To all of our listeners who are interested in working as physicians (or otherwise) abroad, we present to you this multi-cultural, bilingual, charismatic ER doctor: Dr. Taketo Watase.