| Medical Drama |
Article Index for Medical |
Website Links For Medical |
Information AboutMedical Drama |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT MEDICAL DRAMA | |
| medical television series | |
| television genres | |
|
A medical drama is a Television Drama in which events center upon a Hospital , an ambulance staff, or any medical environment. In the United States , most medical dramas are 1-hour in length, and more often than not are set in a hospital. Most current medical dramas go beyond the events pertaining to the characters' jobs and portray some aspects of their personal lives. For example, a typical medical drama might have a storyline in which two doctors fall in love. Popular medical dramas include ''E.R.'' , ''House'' , '' St. Elsewhere '', '' Grey's Anatomy '', '' Scrubs '' and '' Nip/Tuck ''. '', chap. 31: "One of the most vivid examples of the tactile quality of the TV image occurs in medical experience. In closed-circuit instruction in surgery, medical students from the first reported a strange effect-that they seemed not to be watching an operation, but performing it. They felt that they were holding the scalpel. Thus the TV image, in fostering a passion for depth involvement in every aspect of experience, creates an obsession with bodily welfare. The sudden emergence of the TV medico and the hospital ward as a program to rival the western is perfectly natural. It would be possible to list a dozen untried kinds of programs that would prove immediately popular for the same reasons. Tom Dooley and his epic of Medicare for the backward society was a natural outgrowth of the first TV decade." HISTORY '' Dr. Kildare '', which first aired in 1961, is generally considered to be the first medical drama. The show was a success, and soon medical dramas were a common phenomenon. The BBC series '' Dr. Finlay's Casebook '' (1962-1971) is an early example of another common variant of the genre in which a medical practice is used as a focus for stories detailing the life of a (usually small) community. The long running Australian series '' A Country Practice '' (1981-1993) is a later example of this sub-genre.
LIST OF TV MEDICAL DRAMAS United States/Canada
United Kingdom
Australia/New Zealand
REFERENCES |
|
|