Yasuo Ueda was born in Nagasaki in 1951 and has worked at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital for over 30 years. He says that hibakusha make up around 30 percent of the hospital's patients. His parents were hibakusha, and he talks about their experiences, including being examined by researchers from the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC). He talks about his visit to Brazil to treat hibakusha there. He relays how they spoke about their difficulties in receiving help and financial assistance for their medical care. He also talks about Japanese patients' perceptions of their illnesses in relation to the bomb. He continues discussing his impressions of hibakusha patients and his time working with hibakusha in Brazil. He also talks about his feelings concerning nuclear weapons. As a diabetes specialist, he deals with many patients who aren't hibakusha, and he talks about the future of the Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital and research into second-generation hibakusha. He discusses how working at the hospital has changed in the past 30 years.
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