Medical system

A medical system of displaying, on a monitor, desired character information on a subject image as a comment, the medical system comprising:

• an operation section provided with a touch panel which is a body separate from the monitor and formed by combining a display and a position input device;
• a first controller configured to perform observation control of the subject image, the first controller being connected to the operation section;
• a memory for storing comment group information corresponding to classifications of the comment in plurality;
• the first controller being configured to read out the comment group information from the memory and transmit/receive the comment group information to/from the operation section;
• and
• a second controller being provided in the operation section and connected to the first controller, the second controller being configured to transmit/receive the comment group information to/from the first controller to generate a plurality of button images in which comments are displayed according to the comment group information received by the second controller, and display the plurality of button images side by side on the touch panel,
• wherein the first controller being further configured to read out the comment on the touch panel received by the first controller from the memory, and display the comment on the subject image on the monitor,
• wherein the second controller being further configured to read out the comment group information and transmit the comment group information to the first controller and control transmission/reception of the comment group information according to a state of processing load of the first or second controller,
• wherein the comment is character information that includes at least alphanumeric characters or symbols,
• wherein the character information of the comment displayed on the subject image is equivalent to the character information of the comment selected from the plurality of button images, and
• wherein the second controller controls the display of the touch panel to display the plurality of button images including the character information, and when a user's instruction is inputted through the position input device of the touch panel by touching one of the plurality of button images to which the comment is given, the first controller controls the monitor to display the character information on the subject image in response to the user's input instruction.