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A series focusing on the practice of medicine in a hospital setting.
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Like the [[Police Procedural]] or [[Law Procedural]], these are vehicles for short stories.
{{examples|
* ''[[All Saints]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[A Country Practice]]''
* ''[[Doc Martin]]''
* ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]''
* ''[[Series/Dr Kildare|Dr Kildare]]''
* ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]''
* ''[[
* ''Everwood''
* ''[[The Flying Doctors]]''
* ''General Hospital''
* ''GP''
* ''[[
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''
* ''[[M*A*S*H (
* ''Medivac''
* ''Offspring''
* ''[[Quincy,
* ''[[Private Practice]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[
=== Medical dramas tend to use these tropes: ===▼
'''Tropes:'''
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Related to:
* [[Artistic License Medicine]]
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* [[Easy Sex Change]]
* [[Good Doc Bad Doc]]
* [[
* [[Hollywood Science]]
* [[Hospital Gurney Scene]]
* [[Hospital Paradiso]]
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]
* [[Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy]]
* [[Instant Emergency Response]]
* [[Instant Sedation]]
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* [[Patient of the Week]]
* [[Ruptured Appendix]]
* [[
* [[Soap Opera Disease]]
* [[Suck Out the Poison]]
* [[Surgeons Can Do Autopsies If They Want]]
* [[Tap
* [[Televisually-Transmitted Disease]]
* [[We Have to Get
* [[Worst Aid]]
* [[You Did Everything You Could]]
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[[Category:Fiction]]
[[Category:Show Genres]]
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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.
Examples of Medical Dramas include:
- 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, M.E.
- Private Practice
- Providence
- Scrubs
Medical dramas tend to use these tropes
Tropes:
Related to:
- 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
- Hollywood 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