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Plot Summary:
DMAT, the acronym for the “Disaster Medical Assistance Team”, was first established in 2004. For the past 10 years, the team has been providing on-site emergency assistance at disaster-hit areas. Yakumo Hibiki was an surgeon at the Arisukawa General Hospital’s Emergency Unit, but due to a mistake involving his sister Haruko, he has since been transferred to the internal medicine unit. One day, the hospital Director, Dr. Isesaki Katsuichi, requests for Hibiki to move to DMAT. His childhood friend, Nurse Yoshioka Rin, encourages him to take up the role, but upon joining the team, Hibiki finds his new colleagues aloof and a little eccentric. His first assignment is to a pile-up accident in a road tunnel, and he finds himself working against time to provide medical treatment to those who require immediate attention.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Rumi Kizaki enrols in a nursing program because she failed to enter a university. However, she does not want to become a nurse because she believes that she will not make a good nurse. While Rumi ponders over what to do, she continues her training in nursing. Along the way, Rumi meets new people and discovers new things about herself.
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Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: medical drama
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Jejoongwon (2010)
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Jejoongwon is the first modern hospital in Korea established in the Joseon era in 1885. Baek Do Yang is a nobleman who gives up his status to enter its ranks. Hwang Jung is a butcher's son who becomes a physician, while Seok Ran enters Jejoongwon as an interpreter but takes on medical training to become a doctor.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Maternity Ward (2005)
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A chief-commander gynaecologist and a young and lovely team of professionals: obstetricians, neonatal doctors, paediatricians, nurses: they all have different histories, they cross their lives in this small, forgotten hospital. Together they will succeed in making it a jewel of efficiency and humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration:
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Truth of Zero (2014)
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Maou Matsumoto is a new forensic medical examiner who returns in Japan after studying in USA. Mao only interest is her work and the autopsies she performs.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Rescue Special Ops (2009)
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Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program is produced by Southern Star Group with the assistance of Screen Australia and the New South Wales Government. This drama series focuses on a team of experienced professional paramedics who specialise in rescue operations. It premiered on Sunday 2 August 2009, and the season finale of the first season aired on Sunday 25 October. A second season screened from 28 June 2010. The third and final season consisting of 22 episodes screened from 30 May 2011. The Nine Network has confirmed it will not be renewing Rescue Special Ops for a fourth season.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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The Hippocratic Crush II (2014)
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Neurosurgeon Cheung Yat-Kin marries fellow doctor Fan Tze-Yu and the two are happily living together, expecting their first child. However, when Tze-Yu is diagnosed with a tumour, her pregnancy becomes medically unsafe and, much to her dismay, Yat Kin doesn't want her to go through with childbirth. This causes a dangerous rift between the two, one that love alone can't bridge. But before the once-happy couple can focus on their marital problems, Yat-Kin also has to contend with pathology specialist Lok Man-Sang, a new arrival to the hospital who simply cannot go without disagreeing with Yat-Kin, and who also gets involved with Heung Chin-Yi, an internal medicine doctor nearly 20 years his junior with her own heartbreak to deal with. Between an unwanted power struggle, the slow disintegration of their marriage, and the small matter of saving lives, Yat-Kin and Tze-Yu have to figure out how to bring their flat-lining marriage-and love-back to the operating table.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
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Good Doctor (2018)
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Minato Shindo has savant syndrome. His memory is amazing, but he has difficulty communicating with other people. When Minato was little, he dreamed of becoming a doctor. He met Doctor Akira Shiga and he wanted to become a pediatric surgeon. Akira was surprised by the 7-year-old's memory of the human organs and he decided to support Minato in achieving his dream. Eventually, Minato graduated from medical school and passed the national exam for medical practitioners. Now, Akira works as a director at a large hospital. He suggests to Minato to work in the pediatric surgery department at the hospital where he works.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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The 3rd Hospital (2012)
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The 3rd Hospital is a 2012 South Korean medical drama, starring Kim Seung-woo, Oh Ji-ho, Kim Min-jung and Sooyoung of Girls' Generation. It centers on the conflicts between Western and Eastern medicine and the rivalry between two brothers who espouse them. It aired on cable channel tvN from September 5 to November 8, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Inconceivable is an American primetime television medical drama, which was broadcast on NBC. The program premiered on September 23, 2005. The show revolved around the professional and personal lives of those who work at the Family Options Fertility Clinic. The clinic is run by its co-founders along with their new partner. The staff includes an attorney, a nurse, office manager and a medical technician. The series was created by Oliver Goldstick and Marco Pennette. Goldstick and Pennette also serve as executive producers as do Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin. The show was a Touchstone Television and Tollin/Robbins production. It was one of the few shows produced by the former not to air on ABC in recent years. Only two episodes aired before the series was canceled.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Psychos (1999)
Plot Summary:
Psychos is a six-part drama, set in the psychiatric ward of a Glasgow hospital, that aired on Channel 4 from May 6 to June 10, 1999.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Shortland Street (1992)
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Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera centering around the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 5000 episodes and 20 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in New Zealand. The show was originally screened as five half-hour episodes each week and initially receiving mixed reviews on its premiere. After its launch it dropped in ratings and would have been cancelled if TVNZ had not ordered a year's worth of episodes in advance. By early 1993, the show's rating picked up and TVNZ renewed the production. Today, it is one of New Zealand's highest-rated shows, frequently making AGB Nielsen Media Research's top 5 programmes of the week.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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A Taste of Honey (2011)
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Naoko, who is a medical student falls in love for the first time for her uncle, Masato. She gets admitted into a prestigious medical school in Tokyo to get closer to him. There, she meets Aya, the daughter of the hospital's director and also a talented researcher at the school. Aya is also Masato's girlfriend. Aya feels insecure when Naoko meets Masato again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Emergency Center (2014)
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A Serbian remake of the classic medical TV series 'ER'.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration:
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Always and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the hectic everyday lives of the doctors and nurses running the Accident and Emergency department of the large, busy city hospital, St. Victor's. The series has never been released commercially on VHS or DVD.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Nurse (1981)
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Nurse is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from April 2, 1981 to May 1982. Series star Michael Learned won an Emmy in 1982 for her role on the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Top Knife (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 60 min
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Behind the White Tower (2007)
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Based on renowned Japanese novelist Yamazaki Toyoko's representative work Shiroi Kyotō, the drama brings viewers deep into the political inner workings of the medical field by taking a satirical look at malpractice and power plays at a university hospital, and contrasting the paths and personalities of two doctors.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
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The Holy Monsters (2012)
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The drama has Okada playing the part of Shiba Kengo, a pure-hearted young surgeon who is dedicated to his work. He gets transferred from a prestigious university hospital to a financially troubled hospital, but there he meets a capable and cool-headed chief nurse named Kasugai Yuka (Nakatani), who teaches him the reality of the medical world. The pure Kengo must face various obstacles and challenges as he tears off the “masks” of respected professionals – doctors, nurses, and educators – and uncovers their true natures.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Bodies (2004)
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Bodies is an award-winning British television medical drama produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Created by Jed Mercurio, the series began in 2004 and is based on his book Bodies. In December 2009, The Times ranked Bodies in 9th place in its list of "Shows of the Decade". The Guardian has ranked the series among "The Greatest Television Dramas of All-Time".
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Nightingales (US) (1989)
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Nightingales is an American medical drama television series that aired on NBC from January 21, 1989 to April 26, 1989. The series, produced by Aaron Spelling Productions, follows the stories of Christine Broderick, a supervisor of student nurses, portrayed by Suzanne Pleshette, and her five nursing students: Sam, Bridget, Yolanda, Becky, and Allyson. Other hospital personnel include Christine's love interest, Dr. Paul Petrillo; the head nurse, Lenore Ritt; and the chief of staff, Dr. Garrett Braden. The series was developed from a pilot television movie, also titled Nightingales, that was directed by Mimi Leder and originally aired in June 1988. Field, Walters, Swanson, Bennett, and Jennifer Rhodes are the only members of the cast to appear in both the film and the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Dr. STORKS (2015)
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The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his ambition to be an ob-gyn. He hopes to be able to deliver every baby to this world, congratulating them on the gift of life given to their little bodies. (Source: TBS).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: medical drama, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Black Pean (2018)
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Seishiro Tokai (Kazunari Ninomiya) works as a surgeon at a university hospital. He possesses excellent technique with suture and carries a surgery success rate of 100%. Due to his arrogant attitude and personality, he comes into conflict with those around him. A new doctor tries to introduce the latest medical device for surgery, which doesn't need a surgeon's hand. Seishiro Tokai is skeptical of the device. He faces the university hospital administration and reveals corruption and hidden past behind the medical device.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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The Great White Tower (2003)
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A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save human lives. The Great White Tower is the title of a representative novel by Toyoko Yamazaki that depicts the hidden side of the medical world and the dignity of human life, thus shocking and moving many readers, marking a milestone in medical dramas. A dense human drama develops starting with the first half, which depicts the tragicomic circumstances arising from human ambition in the selection of professors, and proceeding to the second half, which inquires into the dignity of human life through a medical court case involving a malpractice suit.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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Medical Center (1969)
Plot Summary:
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, retro, vintage
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Pure Genius (2016)
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A young Silicon Valley tech-titan enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, new school approach to medicine.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, captivating, exciting, thought provoking, touching, disturbing
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Cutter to Houston (1983)
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Cutter to Houston is an American medical drama starring Shelley Hack, Jim Metzler, and Alec Baldwin that aired on CBS on Saturday night from October 1 to December 31, 1983 at 8 p.m Eastern time. The series was created by Sandor Stern.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Code Black (2015)
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Inspired by the award-winning documentary, this medical drama is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation where the extraordinary staff confront a challenged system in order to protect their ideals and the patients who need them the most.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: medical drama, suspense, touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental
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Monroe (2011)
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Monroe is a British medical drama television series created and written by Peter Bowker and produced by Mammoth Screen for the ITV network. The series follows a neurosurgeon named Gabriel Monroe, played by James Nesbitt. The six-part series was commissioned by ITV as one of a number of replacements for its long-running police drama series The Bill, which was cancelled in 2010. Filming on Monroe began in Leeds in September 2010, with production based in the old Leeds Girls' High School in Headingley. The first episode was broadcast on ITV on 10 March 2011 to strong ratings. A second series was commissioned in July 2011 and will begin production in 2012. On 14 November 2012, it was announced that ITV had cancelled Monroe due to low viewing figures.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, serious, emotional, realistic, witty, talky, fast