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The 25 Best Medical Shows, Ranked
Medical TV shows can lean into melodrama or comedy or mystery. There are as many terrible ones as there are genre-defining ones.
Grey’s Anatomy said, “Let’s take one of the best characters we’ve got from our earliest seasons and dunk that woman in even more melodrama.” That’s how Kate Walsh’s fabulous neonatal surgeon Dr. Addison Montgomery winds up making the move from Seattle to the Oceanside Wellness Group, a co-op private practice in Los Angeles. Created by David E. Kelley, fresh off of hits like L.A. Law and Picket Fences, Chicago Hope has all the trappings that have since been deemed medical-drama tropes: an arrogant surgeon (Mandy Patinkin’s Dr. Jeffrey Geiger), an ER doc who doesn’t play by the rules (Peter Berg’s Dr. Billy Kronk), doctors having to save the lives of their colleagues. Iconic characters like Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards), Doug Ross (George Clooney), Peter Benton (Eriq La Salle), Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies), and John Carter (Noah Wyle) set the standard for TV doctors and nurses who do great work but make mistakes both professionally and personally.
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