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Plot Summary:
For most physicians, the Hippocratic oath is sacred. But for one Chicago doctor, who is indebted to the mafia, saving lives isn’t her only concern. The Mob Doctor is a fast-paced medical drama focusing on a young female surgeon caught between two worlds as she juggles her promising medical career with her family’s debt to Chicago’s Southside mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, emotional, realistic, medical drama
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Complications (2015)
Plot Summary:
John Ellis, a disillusioned suburban ER doctor, who finds his existence transformed when he intervenes in a drive-by shooting, saving a young boy's life and killing one of his attackers. When he learns the boy is still marked for death he finds himself compelled to save him at any cost and discovers that his life and his outlook on medicine may never be the same.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Doctor X (2012)
Plot Summary:
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, medical drama, tense
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Chicago Hope (1994)
Plot Summary:
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, medical drama, touching, serious, talky, clever, realistic, neurotic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Presidio Med (2002)
Plot Summary:
Presidio Med is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 2002, to January 2003. The series centers on a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic, 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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Doctors (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: medical drama, touching, captivating, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera
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MDs (2002)
Plot Summary:
Medicine could be a lucrative business if it weren't for all those sick people. So goes the motto of the mega-sized, mega-frugal HMO that runs Mission General Hospital in San Francisco, where two renegade doctors bend the rules and find the loopholes in a constant quest to treat their patients. Together, they practice medicine with a take-no-prisoners attitude and don't-take-no-for-an-answer tactics.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic, medical drama
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Three Rivers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three Rivers is an American television medical drama that debuted on CBS on October 4, 2009, starring Alex O'Loughlin in the role of an infamous transplant surgeon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On November 30, 2009, after just eight episodes of the season had aired, CBS announced that Three Rivers had been pulled from their schedule with no plans to have it returned, and the series was later officially cancelled. However, the series later returned to the network on June 5, 2010 to burn off the remaining unaired episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful, medical drama, contemplative
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Saving Hope (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid, in a state of shock. As the staff of Hope-Zion races to save lives, comatose Dr. Harris wanders the halls of Hope-Zee in "spirit" form, not sure if he's a ghost or a figment of his own imagination.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, medical drama, touching, serious, sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating, dramatic
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Miami Medical (2010)
Plot Summary:
Miami Medical is a medical drama television series created by Jeffrey Lieber. It follows the professional and private lives of a team of trauma surgeons. The series was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Bros. Television. It premiered on CBS on April 2, 2010. In May 2010, CBS announced that the series had been canceled, with the final episode airing on July 2, 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, realistic, fast
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Mercy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mercy is a medical drama which aired on NBC from September 23, 2009 to May 12, 2010. The series initially aired on Wednesday nights at 8/7c, as part of the 2009 fall season, but was pushed back to 9/8c in April. On October 23, 2009, Mercy was picked up for a full twenty-two-episode first season. On May 14, 2010, NBC announced that Mercy had been cancelled and would not return for a second season due to low ratings.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy, fast
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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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Extreme Measures (1996)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The trail leads Luthan to the door of the eminent surgeon Dr Lawrence Myrick (Gene Hackman), but Luthan soon finds himself under in danger from people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, sexy, serious, scary, psychological, bleak, medical drama, detective
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St. Elsewhere (1982)
Plot Summary:
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital who gave interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time; both series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines. St. Elsewhere was filmed at CBS/MTM Studios, which was known as CBS/Fox Studios when the show began; coincidentally, 20th Century Fox wound up acquiring the rights to the series when it bought MTM Enterprises in the 1990s. Known for its combination of gritty, realistic drama and moments of black comedy, St. Elsewhere gained a small yet loyal following over its 6-season, 137-episode run; the series also found a strong audience in Nielsen's 18-49 age demographic, a young demo later known for a young, affluent audience that TV advertisers are eager to reach. The series also earned critical acclaim during its run, earning 13 Emmy Awards for its writing, acting, and directing. St. Elsewhere was ranked #20 on TV Guide's 2002 list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.", with the magazine also selecting it as the best drama series of the 1980s in a 1993 issue.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, realistic, serious, witty, talky, bad ending, dark comedy, clever, captivating, surprise ending
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Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
Plot Summary:
Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, retro, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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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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Strong Medicine (2000)
Plot Summary:
The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, 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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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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Quincy M.E. (1976)
Plot Summary:
Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC. It stars Jack Klugman in the title role, a Los Angeles County medical examiner. Inspired by the book Where Death Delights by Marshall Houts, a former FBI agent, the show also resembled the earlier Canadian television series Wojeck, broadcast by CBC Television. John Vernon, who played the Wojeck title role, later guest starred in the third-season episode "Requiem For The Living". Quincy's character is loosely modelled on Los Angeles' "Coroner to the Stars" Thomas Noguchi. The first half of the first season of Quincy was broadcast as 90-minute telefilms as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie rotation in the fall of 1976 alongside Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan. The series proved popular enough that midway through the 1976–1977 season, Quincy was spun off into its own weekly one-hour series. The Mystery Movie format was discontinued in the spring of 1977. In 1978, writers Tony Lawrence and Lou Shaw received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the second-season episode "...The Thighbone's Connected to the Knee Bone...". Many of the episodes used the same actors for different roles in various episodes. For example, an actor who plays a crooked Navy captain also plays a ballistics expert in several of the later episodes. Using a small "pool" of actors was a common production trait of many Glen A. Larson TV programs. Before becoming a regular cast member as Quincy's girlfriend-wife Dr. Emily Hanover in the 1982-1983 season, Anita Gillette had portrayed Quincy's deceased first wife Helen Quincy in a flashback in a 1979 episode "Promises to Keep".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, medical drama, retro, sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful, vintage
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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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Coma (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young medical student discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table. Remake of Coma 1978.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, medical horror, realistic
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Diagnosis Murder (1993)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, exciting, humorous, suspense, medical drama, thrilling
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Chicago Med (2015)
Plot Summary:
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in the pulse-pounding pandemonium of the emergency room.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: medical drama, exciting, sincere, captivating, tense, serious, realistic, sentimental
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The Resident (2018)
Plot Summary:
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, compassionate, tense, thought provoking
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Medical Investigation (2004)
Plot Summary:
Medical Investigation was an American medical drama television series that began September 9, 2004, on NBC. It ran for 20 one-hour episodes before being cancelled in 2005. The series was co-produced by Paramount Network Television and NBC Universal Television Studio The former controls North American distribution rights, while the latter distributes outside North America. The series featured the cases of an elite team of medical experts of the National Institutes of Health who investigate unusual public-health crises, such as sudden outbreaks of serious and mysterious diseases. In actuality, medical investigative duties in the United States are normally the responsibility of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health departments, while the NIH is primarily a disease-research and -theory organization. The series existed in the same television universe as Third Watch and, by extension ER. A special two-part crossover event aired on February 18, 2005, establishing the television-universe connection by featuring the Third Watch and Medical Investigation teams working together in MI's Episode 17: "Half Life" and Third Watch's Episode 16 of the sixth season: "In the Family Way". The story was about a series of Marburg virus cases in New York.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, detective
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Rush (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dr. William Rush is not your average on-call doctor. He's not attached to any hospital, he's highly discreet no matter what the ailment as long as the client can pay his cash-only premium and the doctor can party with the best of them. He has no desire to change his life or how he lives it, until an old flame and his conscience begin to stir things up.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, entertaining
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Monroe (2011)
Plot Summary:
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
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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
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The Americans (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, dramatic, sexy, neo noir, political, dark