Dr. Max Goodwin is brilliant, charming and the new medical director at America’s oldest public hospital in New York. He’s trying to tear down bureaucracy to provide exceptional care but the doctors and the staff are not so sure? This has been the same story before with other directors but no one else has delivered on their promises? The hospital is understaffed, underfunded and under appreciated. Max wants to breath new life into the old ways of the establishment. This hospital is the only place in the world capable of treating Ebola patients, prisoners from Rikers Island Prison and the president of the US if necessary.
In this show there is nonstop medical tension. Patients are coming in and their conditions are all stages of life and death. They are bloody at times, in pain, they die, are diagnosed with diseases and can be treated, others are diagnosed but the prognosis is not good, surgeries and injuries can be graphic and upsetting. On the opposite side, doctors flirt with each other, sometimes date, there are romantic complications and kissing. It is somewhat predictable, it has some soapiness and can be a bit tedious. There is strong advocacy for socialist medicine but how can there be free care and medicine for everyone? Who will pay the bill?? 2 1/2* (This series is so-so)
TV series, each episode 43 minutes, 5 seasons with Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Freema Agyeman, Jocko Sims, Tyler Labine, Anupam Kher, Alejandro Hernandez, Margot Bringham, Lisa O’Hare, Diedre Friel.
Note: Imdb 8.2* out of 10* with 14,916 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 34% with 32 critics 82% with 50 user ratings, Common Sense Media, Joyce Slaton, age 14+, 3* positive messages, 3* role models, 3*violence, 2*sex, 0 language, 0 consumerism, 0 drinking drugs & smoking, Amazon 4.7* out of 5* with 385 reviews, 5*, Metacritic 47 out of 100 with 14 critic reviews (positive 2, mixed 8, negative 4), 5.4 out of 10 with 7 user scores (positive 4, mixed 0, negative 3).
Special Note: This series is inspired by Bellevue Hospital in New York City and this hospital was established in 1736. Somewhat based on Dr. Eric Manheimer’s memoir Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Manheimer has been the medical Director of Bellevue Hospital for over 13 years and he is a Clinical Professor at the New York University School of Medicine. The overseer of the hospital is the Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC) of the city of New York.
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