Medical Drama

A series focusing on the practice of medicine in a hospital setting.

Provides an opportunity to educate the public on medical realities (e.g., initial misdiagnosis; correcting fallacies about well-known illnesses).

Like the Police Procedural or Law Procedural, these are vehicles for short stories.


 * All Saints
 * Becker
 * Chicago Hope
 * A Country Practice
 * Doc Martin
 * Doogie Howser, M.D.
 * Dr Kildare
 * Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
 * ER
 * Everwood
 * The Flying Doctors
 * General Hospital
 * GP
 * Grey's Anatomy
 * House
 * Mash
 * Medivac
 * Offspring
 * Quincy ME
 * Private Practice
 * Providence
 * Scrubs

Medical dramas tend to use these tropes:
Tropes:

Related to:
 * You Fail Your Medical Boards Forever


 * AB Negative
 * Afraid of Needles
 * As You Know
 * CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
 * Code Silver
 * Confess in Confidence
 * Convenient Coma
 * Dr. Jerk
 * Easy Sex Change
 * Good Doc Bad Doc
 * Grey's Anatomy Emergency Medical Response
 * Hollywood Science
 * Hospital Gurney Scene
 * Hospital Paradiso
 * Incurable Cough of Death
 * Instant Drama Just Add Tracheotomy
 * Instant Emergency Response
 * Instant Sedation
 * The Intern
 * It Never Gets Any Easier
 * Kiss of Life
 * Lethal Diagnosis
 * Magical Antibiotics
 * Magical Defibrillator
 * No Control Group
 * One of Our Own
 * Patient of the Week
 * Ruptured Appendix
 * Shot to the Heart
 * Soap Opera Disease
 * Suck Out the Poison
 * Surgeons Can Do Autopsies If They Want
 * Tap on the Head
 * Televisually-Transmitted Disease
 * We Have to Get the Bullet Out
 * Worst Aid
 * You Did Everything You Could