Vol.1: JAPANESE EDITION (bilingual version)
📘 Discover the Japanese Edition of "Who Diagnosed You?" with Bilingual Support
The Japanese edition of Who Diagnosed You? Vol.1 offers deeper analysis of Japan’s healthcare system—especially in Part 2, which is only partially included in the English version.
If you can read Japanese, you may find richer structural insights in the original.
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If you can’t—don’t worry. A bilingual edition is on its way, designed for English readers too.
🔷 readers who do not understand Japanese at all:
🔹 The bilingual edition will help readers understand the essence of the Japanese edition in English.
🔧 Currently under preparation.
💡 Please note: The bilingual edition is a summarized version, designed to convey the essentials of the Japanese original in a concise, accessible format.
📖 A Visual Glimpse of the Japanese Edition
Here’s a quick visual preview from the Japanese edition of Who Diagnosed You?
It shows how non-physicians may gradually take on physician-like roles under ambiguous institutional frameworks.
Layer 1: Support Role
Dentists are allowed to assist physicians in drafting pathology reports—but only under supervision.
Layer 2: Functional Imitation
Some dentists begin to influence or guide the diagnostic process—effectively acting as diagnosticians, despite lacking accountability.
Layer 3: Social Assimilation
By mimicking credentials (e.g., writing “MD” in publications), they come to resemble true physicians.
At this point, the figure begins to resemble what we later define as a shadow MD—
a non-physician who appears to be a doctor through explicit credential misrepresentation and prolonged influence.
🔹 This diagram illustrates how, by functionally acting as a physician in Layer 2, the shadow MD reaches its fully developed form.