Dr. Schumann
Dr. Schumann was a doctor who gave up a comfortable life in one of Germany's wealthy cities to serve a small, doctor-less town in the countryside.
Before the move, his career had been on a steady upward trajectory. He worked at a prestigious hospital, built a strong relationship with the director, published regularly, and married the director's daughter. By all accounts, he was doing everything right—building status, climbing the ladder, the whole conventional success story.
But that ambition came at a cost. So focused on advancement, he failed to notice his own wife's liver was deteriorating. By the time he realized what was happening, it was too late. She died, and the loss shattered his perspective entirely.
The experience forced him to confront what kind of doctor he actually wanted to be. All the papers and professional standing meant nothing if he couldn't see the people closest to him falling apart. He left the city after that, trading prestige for the chance to work directly with patients in a place where his presence actually mattered—where he could know his patients as people, not just cases to manage.
His story echoes what people often note about Tenma's expected path before everything changed: a talented doctor on the rise, married to the director's daughter, positioned perfectly for a successful institutional career. Except Schumann's wake-up call came through personal tragedy rather than a moral crisis.
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