What's the best medical TV programme?

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I love House, ER.
Not Casualty.
Ideally something with well researched medical dilemmas.

Bodies is definitely worth a watch.

Early Holby City. At the time, my sister was on a transplant ward (she spent the best part of a year as a patient - complications), and sometimes it was too realistic to watch.

The presence of Anton Meyer was another bonus.

Grey’s Anatomy.
The Good Doctor.
Amsterdam.

For a real life doc series- Diagnosis on Netflix is great.

House and Bodies

I didn't get on with The Good Doctor.

I think I watched a few episodes of Greys Anatomy when it first came out but it wasn't very medical!

Cardiac Arrest is on iPlayer, I watched that recently and liked it, it's quite old though from the 90s

I like 999 critical condition. Can be very visceral. And 24 hrs in a&e for the human stories. More so the early ones.

When Cardiac Arrest first came out, we all used to watch it in the doctors' mess. Essential viewing. I know people who can't watch it now as it gives them flashbacks.

I am old - and a doctor - I passed my 3rd year med school exam because of a rare condition I had seen on “ Trapper John MD” !
I also used live “St Elsewhere “ and “Casualty “
None of the new medical dramas live up to the old ones - apart from “Call the Midwife” and the amazing “Breathtaking” - when I thanked all- the-gods-that-may-be that I practice in New Zealand , not the UK.

Oh I'd forgotten about St Elsewhere!

Green Wing!

The first series of Cardiac Arrest was very accurate about the life of a junior doctor then, imo.
Unfortunately, it was watered down in the second series.

Transplant

Probably the two in terms of accuracy for me have been Cardiac Arrest and This Is Going To Hurt. Cardiac Arrest is very very accurate, thankfully working conditions have improved since the 90s but it still sums up what it is like working as a junior doctor more than 25 years later. This Is Going To Hurt is obviously dramatised but again at its core really feels accurate, and the actual medicine is pretty spot on two IMHO.

Oh and Breathtaking is good from what I’ve heard but I couldn’t actually finish it.

Honourable mention to Maternal on ITV, (unfortunately) very accurate and kind of a twist on the Bawa Garba case.

Operation Ouch!

i love all medical dramas and documentaries and have gleaned for too much layman’s medical knowledge from them 😆
i like GPs Behind Closed Doors. I wish my GP was like the doctors on that who actually give a shiny shit!

Code Black was fairly accurate but I've watched a number of 'reviews' or whatever they're called where a medical doctor will evaluate whether the show is accurate and close to reality or not and the one that keeps coming out on top is ER for accuracy of the medical procedures.

If you're looking for something old school, you could look at MAS*H.

I like Operation Ouch when I've seen it.
And GPs Behind Closed Doors shows the best of the NHS.

Bodies! Maternal on ITV was good also. Greys Anatomy is fantastic

There’s a programme on Netflix called Charite which is based on the true story of a German hospital. It covers vaccine breakthroughs in the 1880s and Nazi eugenic practices during WWII.

I remember enjoying Bramwell when it was released in the 1990s. Jemma Redgrave starred as the doctor who wasn’t allowed to be a surgeon because of her sex. The stories are drawn from documented cases in the late-Victorian era.

And The Knick, based very loosely on the New York’s Knickerbocker Hospital.

Definitely Bodies

Have watched all series of 24 Hours in A&E I think!

Surgeons at the edge of life (BBC) is fascinating (if a bit gory at times).

Don't miss "Bodies".
It was in the paper, the day that it was the drama Jed Mercurio was most proud of. He was a doctor though.

Another recommendation for bodies! I’ve watched new Amsterdam but only up to around halfway through season 4, apparently it goes downhill after that. On ITVX there’s Maternal which was OK, and then I started Malpractice as well but didn’t get into it as much.