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Plot Summary:
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:
Plot tags: medical drama
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Hard to Say I Love You (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional high school teacher, currently on probation. Nishimura is Mizuno's best friend, whose boyfriend has been avoiding her since she discovered she was pregnant. Ichihara works at a magazine where he is being blackmailed into sexual favours by his chief editor. Park, on Twitter, takes on the persona of a doctor, when he is actually working at a company that sells medical equipment to disinterested doctors, and at the same time, trying to take care of his younger sister. This is a story about the blossoming friendship of five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to finding honesty with each other and with themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: shoujo
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Hatsukoi (2012)
Plot Summary:
Midori is a married woman with a happy home life, a child, and a job as a speech therapist. One day, Midori is diagnosed with liver cancer and finds herself face to face with her first love; a man whose betrayal had left her deeply scarred. They are forced to put their past aside and work together to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags:
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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)
Plot Summary:
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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The Good Karma Hospital (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of British-Asian junior doctor Ruby Walker who arrives at the run-down Good Karma Hospital to join a dedicated team of over-worked medics. Run by a gloriously eccentric Englishwoman, Lydia Fonseca, this under-funded but creatively resourceful cottage hospital is the beating heart of the local community. It’s much more than just a medical outpost - it’s a home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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A Taste of Honey (2011)
Plot Summary:
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:
Plot tags: medical drama
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Always and Everyone (1999)
Plot Summary:
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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Top Knife (2020)
Plot Summary:
Yoko Miyama works as a doctor at Touto Hospital. She specializes in brain aneurysms in the neurosurgery department. Yoko Miyama becomes involved with her colleagues, including Kengo Kuroiwa, Sachiko Kozukue, and Takuma Nishigoori. Meanwhile, she suffers from guilt for abandoning her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: medical drama
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Jozi-H (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jozi-H is a one-hour hospital drama series set in Johannesburg, South Africa, set in the Johannesburg General Hospital. It is a Canada-South Africa co-production. It first aired in Canada on CBC Television on 13 October 2006, and in South Africa on SABC3 in 2007. Producers are Morula Pictures and Inner City Films Inc.. The series was co-created by South Africans Mfundi Vundla and Karen Briner. Currently being shown on OH-TV, Sky Digital channel 199.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Behind the White Tower (2007)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags: medical drama
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The Holy Monsters (2012)
Plot Summary:
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:
Plot tags: medical drama
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Nightingales (US) (1989)
Plot Summary:
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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Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969)
Plot Summary:
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, medical drama, vintage
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Dr. STORKS (2015)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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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Hawthorne (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hawthorne is an hour-long medical drama on the TNT television network starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan. It premiered on June 16, 2009. On Thursday, September 16, 2010, it was announced that Hawthorne has been renewed for a third and final season consisting of 10 episodes. The third and final season of the show premiered on June 14, 2011. On September 2, 2011, it was announced that TNT had decided not to renew HawthoRNe, so the Season 3 finale, a cliffhanger, was the series finale.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere, serious, 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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Heartland (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Nathaniel Grant is a pioneering organ-transplant surgeon who takes risks that other doctors would not in order to save the lives of his patients. He works closely with his ex-wife, Kate Armstrong, an organ-donor coordinator with whom he has a volatile relationship. Grant's arrogance and willingness to perform risky procedures causes him to butt heads with the hospital administration. But his main focus is on his intense relationship with his job and his patients, often at the expense of his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: medical drama, captivating
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Dr. Kildare (1961)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, medical drama, freeze frame, vintage
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Miracle Doctor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ali was born in a provincial town and was rejected by his father for adoption. Ali with savant syndrome, who grew up in orphanages, graduated from the faculty of medicine with a first degree.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, serious, captivating, talky, medical drama, clever
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3 lbs (2006)
Plot Summary:
3 lbs is a drama that aired on CBS from November 14 to 28, 2006, replacing the cancelled series Smith. The show itself was then canceled three weeks later due to poor ratings. The title refers to the fact that the average human brain weighs approximately three pounds. The show follows the medical careers of prominent brain surgeon Doctor Douglas Hanson and his protégé, Jonathan Seger. The show was promoted as, "The next great medical drama." The theme song is "Calling All Angels" by Train. Eight episodes were made, and the five episodes that did not originally air in the United States are available on Amazon Unbox. The program filmed in New York City at the request of Tucci, who didn't want to be away from home to make the series. When the pilot was originally filmed Dylan McDermott played Dr. Doug Hanson, and Reiko Aylesworth played Dr. Adrienne Holland.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: medical drama, realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious
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Pure Genius (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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Monday Mornings (2013)
Plot Summary:
Monday Mornings was an American medical drama television series that ran on TNT from February 4 to April 8, 2013 and aired Mondays after Dallas. It is based on a novel of the same name by Sanjay Gupta. In May 2012, TNT placed a ten-episode order for the series. On May 10, 2013, Monday Mornings was canceled by TNT.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sincere, touching, emotional, medical drama
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Trauma Center (1983)
Plot Summary:
When a person is seriously injured in an accident, they often have only one hour to live. Dr. Michael "Cutter" Royce (James Naughton) leads a hospital's specialized emergency department that is designed to make maximum use of that one golden hour to save lives, a trauma center. However, even before that crack medical team can begin, it is the task of paramedics like John Six (Lou Ferrigno) and "Hatter" Pacelli (Alfie Wise) to rescue such victims and get them to the center within that hour. With all the emergencies that occur in their city, this medical team both in the field and in the hospital are challenged to the utmost.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Cutter to Houston (1983)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags: medical drama
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New Amsterdam (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Max Goodwin, the hospital's newest medical director, sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: medical drama, captivating, sincere, inspirational, disturbing, emotional
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Code Black (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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Young Doctors (2015)
Plot Summary:
The spin-off to the original series 'In aller Freundschaft' focuses on the young doctors in a fictional clinic in Erfurt.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: medical drama, psychological, clever, serious, captivating, emotional
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The Good Doctor (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young surgeon with Savant syndrome is recruited into the surgical unit of a prestigious hospital. The question will arise: can a person who doesn't have the ability to relate to people actually save their lives?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: medical drama, serious, clever, emotional, captivating, psychological, talky, inspirational, thought provoking, sad