![]() ![]() I may have cut back on my doctor’s visits over the years, but after a recent rewatch of all 8 seasons of House MD cured, or at least drastically reduced, my girlfriend’s squeamishness at on-screen injuries and surgeries, New Amsterdam on Netflix seemed like an easy choice for our next binge watch. Even when I moved into a house with five other guys after university, Sunday evenings were exclusively booked for ER, not for football or GAA, to the agreement of almost everyone. ![]() From watching with my family at home to sitting beside my medical student flatmate in university, as he checked that weeks patient’s symptoms against his medical dictionary. For years, new episodes were an unmissable part of my life. I definitely visited BBC’s Casualty a couple of times over its 35 year history(!), but it was Michael Crichton’s ER that really won me over, with it’s high production values and perfect mix of the personal and the professional. Aussie medical drama A Country Practice indoctrinated me at a young age as it was always on in the background on Irish and UK television, although I may have just been interested in the Wombat. But there is so much here to like, even to love, that it makes my problems with the show all the more maddening.ĭespite never having completed a single episode of Grey’s Anatomy (sorry!) I have a long history of watching, and more importantly, enjoying medical dramas. Then I could easily remove it from my regular watch list. ![]() It might be easier if the show, the first two seasons of which are available on Netflix, was completely terrible. The third season of NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam wrapped up last week, after providing another 14 episodes of quality medical drama while simultaneously driving me absolutely nuts. ![]()
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