#dr becker

The hospital is a world of politics and power play. The environment is pretty cutthroat and to ascend in rank one gotta have whatever the top brass at the time sees fit plus a decent amount of skill in their practice.

The work itself is gruesome and a good chunk of the time one becomes desensitized to a lot of things. The coping mechanisms vary but it's a common joke in the med circles of some countries that most surgeons do so via drink. The other joke is that some doctors are womanizers. (All in good humour though).

Now, in the midst of such a heavy setting as Monster's, stood a gag character, a stereotype. A neurosurgeon — Which is a very complex field of medicine — who as sterotyped spends all of his free time drinking and screwing around. His gossipy nature is rather prominent.

Added to the gag — more like an extension of it —  is his lackluster (nonexistent) work ethics reflected in his unchanging rank. The man had the gall to arrive fashionably late to surgeries that are time sensitive while lacking the quick judgement (mid operation) to mitigate the damage. 

Though he still has passable skill enough to remain in his position.

He knows he has no way to further his career as none wants to considee using him — No skills to use per se— and he contents himself with his position as a doctor. The position he probably considered only for the prestige and appeal to eventual partners. It lets him live comfortably and joyfully.

He is a defeatist and a cynist — Wrapping it under realism — but aware if he wants to better his situation he needs effort. Effort that he deemed not viable for him so he stayed off the politics and on the nurse's skirts. He didn't make any pretenses about it, nor particularly hid it.

He is nowhere in the political game and his snobbish play and no work attitude is one of two ways to remain an outlier.

But that didn't stop him from dreaming and fantasising about being in a better position. A better rank, being in the director's inner circle and eventually wed his daughter Eva. Such a strong woman he always eyed. — Who considered him no more than a tardy slob to be ignored —. He wasn't impervious to her charms and fancied her.

And wouldn't you belive it! His fantasy and goal is right next to him! His colleague Dr Tenma. A genius young surgeon from overseas, favoured by the director and who stole his daughter's heart. He was living his dream and his genius made the contrast with his mediocre skills even more painfuly obvious.

But even so, Tenma was also a bit of an outlier. The other kind of outlier. The work and no play kind. Though he didn't like the suffocating power play inside the hospital. The power dynamics were a mess to make sense of and it would be nice to have a reprieve of that. And so they became friends.

They drank together sometimes and Tenma and he commiserated on their woes — Namely the director and his faction and work —  It could be that Tenma was amused and exasperated by his bluntness and antics — It was often said the japenese were pretty hard to read to read sometimes as social etiquette deemed somethings too rude to be voiced. It could also nice to have someone tell it to you when you're overdoing it with work.

Becker could have felt validated by such an amazing person treating him as an equal. Finally feeling that he wasn't all that bad if someone that impressive associated with him. And that he was more than the tardy nurse shagger 👀👀. Especially so since his friend got promoted rather quickly.

He always voiced it to Tenma that he was jealous of his skills and fortune — And higher rank—  without any attempts to hinder him or seek his downfall but merely teased him. the same time he also cautioned him that he is being used and to have a game plan and to grasp the opportunity he has with all he can.

But it all toppled down for his friend. He found it a bit unbecoming of such a skilled person to be treated as a resident even after all that. Then he shrugged it and yote the mendatory 'I told you so' but neverthless tried getting him laid aka what he deemed just the right solution and way to rebound.

He was glad he would be having a partner in the outlier with no ambition section.

And then direction changed due to a rather unfortunate event. The director's death. He never thought his daughter would cry as a human once the crown was taken off her head. — And what a well timed thing to say! Truly desensitized to death he is. —

His skills were enough for him to stay, even with a performance oriented director.

His friend got back in his position at the top. And when he arranged him so many dates he turned for work. He would have bagged them if it was for him. All of them at the same time.

And even Eva Heinemann still wanted to get back with Tenma! Even begged him, someone who she thought wasn't worth her time, to not let him see a woman! — And here he thought she finally took notice of him. Pity —

He still didn't grant Eva her wish. Even if indeed Tenma managed to botch up the date by his tardiness. Again. It's as if he is married to his job.

And then Tenma was on the run for a while for suspicious of murder of all things and then arrested. It wasn't something he reveled in. But he didn't think they could prove Tenma's innocence.

Though he missed his company and was saddened by his absence.