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A series focusing on the practice of medicine in a hospital setting. |
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. |
Like the [[Police Procedural]] or [[Law Procedural]], these are vehicles for short stories. |
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* ''[[All Saints]]'' |
* ''[[All Saints]]'' |
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* ''[[Becker]]'' |
* ''[[Becker]]'' |
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* ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'' |
* ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'' |
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* ''[[Series/Dr Kildare|Dr Kildare]]'' |
* ''[[Series/Dr Kildare|Dr Kildare]]'' |
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* ''[[Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman]]'' |
* ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]'' |
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* ''[[ER]]'' |
* ''[[ER]]'' |
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* ''Everwood'' |
* ''Everwood'' |
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* ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' |
* ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' |
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* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' |
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' |
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* ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]'' |
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' |
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* ''Medivac'' |
* ''Medivac'' |
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* ''Offspring'' |
* ''Offspring'' |
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* ''[[Quincy |
* ''[[Quincy, M.E.]]'' |
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* ''[[Private Practice]]'' |
* ''[[Private Practice]]'' |
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* ''[[Providence]]'' |
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* ''[[Scrubs]]'' |
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' |
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'''Tropes:''' |
'''Tropes:''' |
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Related to: |
Related to: |
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* [[Artistic License Medicine]] |
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* [[You Fail Your Medical Boards Forever]] |
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* [[Easy Sex Change]] |
* [[Easy Sex Change]] |
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* [[Good Doc Bad Doc]] |
* [[Good Doc Bad Doc]] |
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* [[Hollywood Emergency Medical Response]] |
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* [[Hollywood Science]] |
* [[Hollywood Science]] |
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* [[Hospital Gurney Scene]] |
* [[Hospital Gurney Scene]] |
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* [[Hospital Paradiso]] |
* [[Hospital Paradiso]] |
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* [[Incurable Cough of Death]] |
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]] |
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* [[Instant Drama Just Add Tracheotomy]] |
* [[Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy]] |
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* [[Instant Emergency Response]] |
* [[Instant Emergency Response]] |
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* [[Instant Sedation]] |
* [[Instant Sedation]] |
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{{reflist}} |
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[[Category:Fiction]] |
[[Category:Fiction]] |
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[[Category:Show Genres]] |
[[Category:Show Genres]] |
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Latest revision as of 16:52, 21 August 2023
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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