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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