SUMMARY: This is a TV series running on NBC which premiered in 2018 and currently has 3 seasons available, 2 of which are on Netflix and all three are on Youtube (for $). From wikipedia:
New Amsterdam follows Dr. Max Goodwin as he becomes the medical director of one of the United States' oldest public hospitals, aiming to reform the neglected facility by tearing up its bureaucracy to provide exceptional care to patients.
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Okay, so I'm not American. I come from a land of socialized medicine, and admittedly I love how ham-fisted and heavy-handed it is about SO MANY ISSUES in American medical care. There are episodes where they seriously consider defrauding insurance companies because patients need treatments! There is an episode where they break into the hospital with better equipment to do a specialized surgery! There's an episode where a character says that RACISM is why his patient is sick, and demands that an insurance company recognize it! It's totally wild.
I also love a lot of the minor characters, from Iggy Frome (the psychiatrist who struggles with his self-esteem), to Vijay Kapoor (the neurologist trying to figure out, too late, how to be human), to Lauren Bloom (the ER doctor with an addiction issue). The show is super feel-good, and if you like medical dramas, I'd definitely recommend it.
WHERE I CAN FIND IT: Netflix and YouTube.
I AM ASKING FOR... ER shenanigans with Lauren Bloom, Casey Acosta, and Camila Candelario. I am into a Lauren/Casey ship, because Casey is always there for her and fixes her errors in the worst of her addiction days, but I'd also be into diving in depth into either Casey or Candelario, because even if they are super minor characters, they both have lines indicating that they're military vets because Casey references being in Iraq and Candelario references being in Afghanistan. I want to see more of that aspect of them both!
New Amsterdam (TV Series)
SUMMARY: This is a TV series running on NBC which premiered in 2018 and currently has 3 seasons available, 2 of which are on Netflix and all three are on Youtube (for $). From wikipedia:
New Amsterdam follows Dr. Max Goodwin as he becomes the medical director of one of the United States' oldest public hospitals, aiming to reform the neglected facility by tearing up its bureaucracy to provide exceptional care to patients.
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Okay, so I'm not American. I come from a land of socialized medicine, and admittedly I love how ham-fisted and heavy-handed it is about SO MANY ISSUES in American medical care. There are episodes where they seriously consider defrauding insurance companies because patients need treatments! There is an episode where they break into the hospital with better equipment to do a specialized surgery! There's an episode where a character says that RACISM is why his patient is sick, and demands that an insurance company recognize it! It's totally wild.
I also love a lot of the minor characters, from Iggy Frome (the psychiatrist who struggles with his self-esteem), to Vijay Kapoor (the neurologist trying to figure out, too late, how to be human), to Lauren Bloom (the ER doctor with an addiction issue). The show is super feel-good, and if you like medical dramas, I'd definitely recommend it.
WHERE I CAN FIND IT: Netflix and YouTube.
I AM ASKING FOR... ER shenanigans with Lauren Bloom, Casey Acosta, and Camila Candelario. I am into a Lauren/Casey ship, because Casey is always there for her and fixes her errors in the worst of her addiction days, but I'd also be into diving in depth into either Casey or Candelario, because even if they are super minor characters, they both have lines indicating that they're military vets because Casey references being in Iraq and Candelario references being in Afghanistan. I want to see more of that aspect of them both!