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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.
{{examples|Examples of Medical dramas:}}
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* ''[[All Saints]]''
* ''[[All Saints]]''
* ''[[Becker (TV)|Becker]]''
* ''[[Becker]]''
* ''[[Chicago Hope (TV)|Chicago Hope]]''
* ''[[Chicago Hope]]''
* ''[[A Country Practice]]''
* ''[[A Country Practice]]''
* ''[[Doc Martin]]''
* ''[[Doc Martin]]''
* ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]''
* ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]''
* ''[[Series/Dr Kildare|Dr Kildare]]''
* ''[[Series/Dr Kildare|Dr Kildare]]''
* ''[[Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman]]''
* ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]''
* ''[[ER (TV)|ER]]''
* ''[[ER]]''
* ''Everwood''
* ''Everwood''
* ''[[The Flying Doctors]]''
* ''[[The Flying Doctors]]''
* ''General Hospital''
* ''General Hospital''
* ''GP''
* ''GP''
* ''[[Greys Anatomy]]''
* ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]''
* ''[[House (TV)|House]]''
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''
* ''[[M*A*S*H (TV)|Mash]]''
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]''
* ''Medivac''
* ''Medivac''
* ''Offspring''
* ''Offspring''
* ''[[Quincy ME]]''
* ''[[Quincy, M.E.]]''
* ''[[Private Practice]]''
* ''[[Private Practice]]''
* ''[[Series/Providence|Providence]]''
* ''[[Providence]]''
* ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]''
* ''[[Scrubs]]''
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=== Medical dramas tend to use these tropes: ===



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{{tropelist|Medical dramas tend to use these tropes}}
'''Tropes:'''
'''Tropes:'''


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Related to:
Related to:
* [[Artistic License Medicine]]
* [[You Fail Your Medical Boards Forever]]
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* [[Easy Sex Change]]
* [[Easy Sex Change]]
* [[Good Doc Bad Doc]]
* [[Good Doc Bad Doc]]
* [[Grey's Anatomy Emergency Medical Response]]
* [[Hollywood Emergency Medical Response]]
* [[Hollywood Science]]
* [[Hollywood Science]]
* [[Hospital Gurney Scene]]
* [[Hospital Gurney Scene]]
* [[Hospital Paradiso]]
* [[Hospital Paradiso]]
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]
* [[Instant Drama Just Add Tracheotomy]]
* [[Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy]]
* [[Instant Emergency Response]]
* [[Instant Emergency Response]]
* [[Instant Sedation]]
* [[Instant Sedation]]
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* [[Patient of the Week]]
* [[Patient of the Week]]
* [[Ruptured Appendix]]
* [[Ruptured Appendix]]
* [[Select Stitch At The Survival Menu]]
* [[Shot to the Heart]]
* [[Shot to The Heart]]
* [[Soap Opera Disease]]
* [[Soap Opera Disease]]
* [[Suck Out the Poison]]
* [[Suck Out the Poison]]
* [[Surgeons Can Do Autopsies If They Want]]
* [[Surgeons Can Do Autopsies If They Want]]
* [[Tap On the Head]]
* [[Tap on the Head]]
* [[Televisually-Transmitted Disease]]
* [[Televisually-Transmitted Disease]]
* [[We Have to Get The Bullet Out]]
* [[We Have to Get the Bullet Out]]
* [[Worst Aid]]
* [[Worst Aid]]
* [[You Did Everything You Could]]
* [[You Did Everything You Could]]


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[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Fiction]]
[[Category:Fiction]]
[[Category:Show Genres]]
[[Category:Show Genres]]
[[Category:index]]
[[Category:Index]]
[[Category:Medical Drama]]

Latest revision as of 16:52, 21 August 2023

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:


Medical dramas tend to use these tropes

Tropes: