What is it that draws us to medical dramas?

Is it the sense of urgency whenever were hooked to watching doctors frantically try and save someones life?

Are the smokey romances that spark up between co-workers?

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The trend of medical dramas continues to be strong among viewers.

24’Trapper John, M.D.'

The show features high-stakes medical cases tailored with intriguing character journeys that add another layer of drama and suspense.

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Code Blackis a medical drama based onan award-winning documentaryof the same name.

Another criminally underrated drama,Critical, is not for the weak-stomached.

An adrenaline boost of a show,Criticalis a good, short watch that viewers can binge quite easily.

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Elsewhereshould be included in the chat.

Elsewherea groundbreaking medical seriesthat paved the way for many of the medical dramas that followed.

Thomas Elms and Kheon Clarke in ‘SkyMed.'

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Sean macnamara and christian troy sit at a desk during a patient consultation in Nip/Tuck.

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Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charles in Chicago Med Season 10.

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Royal Pains Cast

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Helen George, Megan Cusack, and Linda Bassett in Call the Midwife Season 13.

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Bonnie Somerville as Dr Christa Lorenson speaking to another doctor with Luiz Guzmán as Jesse Salander in Code Black

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A group of doctors around a patient in the E.R. for the show Code Black

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Grey’s Anatomy

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