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Plot Summary:
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:
Plot tags: medical drama
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Angels in White (2018)
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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
Duration:
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:
Plot tags: medical drama
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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:
Plot tags: medical drama
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Syndrome (2012)
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Syndrome is a 2012 South Korean medical drama series, starring Han Hye-jin, Song Chang-eui and Park Gun-hyung. It is set in the world of neurosurgery where a medical student finds herself in a love triangle with two fellow doctors. The television series aired on jTBC from February 13 to April 17, 2012 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: medical drama
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Brain (2011)
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Brain is a 2011 South Korean medical drama, starring Shin Ha-kyun, Choi Jung-won, Jung Jin-young and Jo Dong-hyuk. The series revolves around a top neurosurgeon who is obsessed with success and dreams of becoming the hospital director, then finds himself embroiled in professional rivalries and an unexpected romance. The series received positive reviews, particularly for Shin Ha-kyun's performance. It aired on KBS2 from November 14, 2011 to January 17, 2012 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: medical drama
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The Doctors (1963)
Plot Summary:
The Doctors is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC Daytime from April 1, 1963, to December 31, 1982. There were 5280 episodes produced, with the 5000th episode airing in November 1981. The series was set in Hope Memorial Hospital in the fictional "Madison," located somewhere in New England.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: soap opera, informative, medical drama
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Interns (2018)
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Following sanitary measures, the doctors holding the internal medicine service at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital find themselves confined to their homes for 48 hours. Three inexperienced interns and a medical examiner, who do not yet know each other, will have to work together to manage the service and the patients alone. But the quarantine continues.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 50 min
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ER Doctors (2017)
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It tells the story between He Jianyi, the head doctor of the emergency department and Jiang Xiaoqi, a young PH.D advisor who just returned from America. At first, the two are wary of each other, but they come to understand each other and rescue not only patients side by side but also themselves in the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctors (2010)
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The drama depicts the difficult decisions and moving human stories that take place daily in the OB-GYN department, focusing in particular on Seo Hye Young, a talented and determined obstetrician who has just transferred from the prestigious Seoul base to the branch hospital. Her straightforward manner of handling her professional life is in contrast with her love life, which is marred by her relationship with a married man. This becomes even moreentangled when she meets Lee Sang Shik, the chief of NICU, and her long-time friend Wang Jae Suk also shows his interest.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Blood (2015)
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This drama tells the story of a vampire, Park Ji-sang who works as a doctor in a hospital. Yoo Ri-ta is a hotshot heiress doctor, a star physician at the hospital and the niece of the board’s chairman. She’s snooty and cold, but highly capable, and accustomed to being the golden girl. Lee Jae-wook is their chief, an outwardly gentle, inwardly ambitious man who will prove to be their biggest adversary.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, romantic, scenic, medical drama
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D-Day (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a natural disaster strikes Seoul, a team of medical doctors and emergency personnel struggle to deal with its aftermath.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, suspense, disturbing, touching, bleak, medical drama
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Maternal (2023)
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Maryam, a Paediatric Registrar, Catherine, a General and Trauma Surgeon, and Helen, a Registrar in Acute Medicine, each attempt to balance their increasingly demanding jobs in post-pandemic frontline medicine with their lives as new mothers.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min
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Nurse (1981)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags: medical drama
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Top Knife (2020)
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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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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
Plot tags: medical drama
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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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Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969)
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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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Based on the real life and achievements of Dr. Kathy Magliato, this unique character-driven medical drama follows Dr. Alex Panttiere, an outspoken world-renowned heart-transplant surgeon and one of the few women in her field. Stubborn and fearless, Alex always operates on her own terms. Watch as she revels in a racy personal life, manages the daily demands of skeptical faculty and dutiful interns, and pushes the boundaries of medical science to impressive new heights.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, exciting, tense, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Surgeons (2017)
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Renhe Hospital nurse Zhang Shumei is forced to resign after being suspected of accidentally killing a patient. Zhang Shumei’s 4 year old daughter is abducted, and she herself dies in a car accident a couple of years later. 30 years later, Zhang Shumei’s son Zhuang Shu returns to the hospital as a surgeon who is intent on unraveling the secret behind his family’s misfortune.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: medical drama, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sklifosovsky (2012)
Plot Summary:
A series centered around a fictional hospital staff, and inspired by the name of a Moldovan surgeon - Nikolay Sklifosovsky.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, touching, romantic, realistic, medical drama
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Medical Top Team (2013)
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The medical drama focuses on the lives of doctors and nurses who are members of an elite medical team from the fictional Gwang Hae University Hospital.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: medical drama, sincere, captivating, political
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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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Good Doctor (2013)
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As a child, Park Shi On was sent to a specialized care center, where he discovered genius capacities for his autism. Coupled with an exceptional memory and keen spatial skills, the young savant eventually entered pediatric residency, where he developed into a promising surgeon. However, his mental and emotional development seems to have stopped at 10-years-old, which makes for incredible conflicts in and out of the O.R., especially with the hotheaded surgeon Kim Do Han. Despite warm hearted and fair colleagues like Cha Yoon Seo and Han Jin Wook , it’s a fierce and competitive adult world. One cannot simply tell Shi On to “grow up.”.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, medical drama, romantic drama
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Emergency Couple (2014)
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Medical school student, Chang Min, and a dietitian, Jin Hee, fall in love and marry despite his family's strong opposition. When Chang Min marries Jin Hee, he gives up his medical internship to become a pharmaceutical salesman despite the fact that the rest of his family are successful doctors. Their married life is miserable as Chang Min's family looks down on Jin Hee and Chang Min begins to treat her poorly. They finally divorce and go their separate ways until they are suddenly reunited as interns working at the same hospital. Will this couple's tumultuous feelings for each other be rekindled?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, medical drama, touching, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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New Heart (2007)
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Cardiac surgery is one of the most demanding and difficult forms of surgery, and it's not as lucrative as other medical careers, so when Lee Eun Seung and Nam Hye Suk are the only applicants to apply for a residency, they are accepted easily. Dr. Choi Kang Gook, the new head of Cardiovascular Surgery, has his doubts. Eun Seung has always dreamed of becoming a great cardiac specialist, but as an orphan coming from a small-town medical school, his skills are basic. Hye Suk, on the other hand, graduated from an elite medical school with top marks, but possesses an inflexible personality. Gradually, as they work together, a mutual respect dawns, and Eun Seung begins to be attracted to Hye Suk. But things get complicated when famous actor Lee Dong Gwon is admitted to the hospital, who has a romantic past with Hye Suk and aims to win her heart once more.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: medical drama, romantic, captivating
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Baby Fever (2022)
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When a fertility doctor drunkenly inseminates herself with her ex-boyfriend's sperm, she scrambles to explain her pregnancy — and win back her lost love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, medical drama
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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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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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Grey's Anatomy (2005)
Plot Summary:
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 333000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: medical drama, sentimental, sincere, captivating, erotic, cliffhanger, inspirational, bloody, entertaining, dramatic
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The Night Shift (2014)
Plot Summary:
The stories of the men and women who work the overnight shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital. They are an irreverent and special breed, particularly adrenaline junkie T.C. Callahan.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: medical drama, realistic, tense, humorous, semi serious