@ poorly patientThe Royal is one of my favorites. Difficult to get here in the US unless you have BritBox. I fancy myself being an unruly lad, and having Nurse Stella Davenport restrain me, pull down my trousers, and administer 6 of my school vaccinations in my naked bottom, followed by a rectal thermometer to show me she’s boss.
Never thought about it until now, but, it would have been hot to have Doogie Howser, M.D give me a physical exam! 2 14 year old boys, playing doctor for real!
My favorites, hands down, are the first six or seven seasons of ER, and Chicago Med up until Colin Donnell left.One I haven’t seen mentioned here is Off the Map. It was a short lived series (I think only 1 season) with Martin Henderson as a doctor practicing tropical medicine somewhere in the South American jungle. He and his residents (one of whom is Mamie Gummer, Meryl Streep’s dtr - she’s awesome in this) had some pretty wild stuff to dea with. I was skeptical when I saw the previews but came to love it and was bummed when it was cancelled. But … still not as good as early ER and Chicago Med.
Was and always has been St. Elsewhere. I know much of it was played for dark humor but, however frightening the notion may be, many scenes were spot on for life in a large teaching hospital. Finally, and however cheesy many considered it to be, I absolutely loved the final episode. One of the best ever!
My favourites were...Casualty,The Royal,Holby City,since discovering that TeleVision is the trigger for my migraines though, I no longer watch.
Medicine Balls, it was on in the late 90s. Scene in there where someone got a suppository and rectal temperature! Only ran one season.
My favorite was St. Elsewhere. The writing was terrific and many of the story lines seemed unique to me.
Mash, that was a GREAT show!!! Very funny and I still watch the reruns. Bet I've seen every episode at least 5 or more times. 😆
I am a fan of House. This show has lots of plain crazy stuff going on.I have seen some episodes of Quincy. Quincy is a medical examiner who is both a coroner and a medical detective. It looks like it was a fun show to watch. Quincy overreacts to everything, Sam another medical examiner, tries to keep him on the ground to no avail. It is just fun to watch.We have M*A*S*H on DVD. Good show. Always something going on. All the episodes are different. That must have been hard to do. My favourite episode has to be the one where Clinger tries flying away with a hang glider. No spoilers, but the look he is pulling off is priceless.I have watched Grey's Anatomy through a season, then lost track of what was going on. It turned into a quasi-soap opera, and I lost interest.
St. Elsewhere. They had one of the best Medical Advisors I've seen.I forgot about that one. I saw some episodes. It looked good. I wonder if it is still on some place? thanks @DocH2OFor almost two dollars an episode on Apple TV. No thanks. Way way too pricy.
Two great shows from the 70s were Marcus Welby, MD and Emergency! They were never shy about showing skin. There was one episode in Welby where a student collapsed in gym class. I do not remember what sport was being played, but it was either shirts vs. skins or they were all shirtless. Typical 1970s stuff. There were many scenes where male patients were escorted into the exam room by the nurse and told to remove their shirts.Same thing with Emergency - the firefighters were periodically in situations where they were injured or suffered from smoke inhalation in the rescues. They always ended up in the hospital being examined shirtless.