TV is an excellent source of knowledge and entertainment. From dramas that teach us about life to comedies that remind us that we’re all human, television shows have the power to shape how we see the world. With so many options, picking the perfect show for you can be challenging. I’ll list the top 20 TV shows about hospitals, so you don’t have to worry about that anymore. Some of these shows take place in the past, some are contemporary, but all are amazing.
1. ER
Michael Crichton, an author and physician created the American medical drama television series ER, which aired on NBC from 1994 to 2009 over a total of 331 episodes. The show centers on the lives of the medical professionals working in the emergency room at the fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
2. House
American television medical drama House debuted on the Fox network in 2004 and ran for eight seasons until 2012. Dr. Gregory House, played by Hugh Laurie, is the primary character of the television series. He runs a team of diagnosticians at the fictitious “University Hospital” in New Jersey. He is an eccentric, misanthropic medical genius. One of the most watched medical-related television shows ever is House MD, an eight-year-old comedy and drama.
3. SkyMed
SkyMed is a Canadian television medical drama series on CBC Television that premiered on July 10, 2022. The series is focused on the nurses and pilots who serve as first responders to local medical emergencies while employed for an air ambulance service in a rural part of northern Manitoba.
4. The Good Doctor
A cast of South Korean actors, including Joo Won, Moon Chae-won, Joo Sang-Wook, Kim Min-Seo, Chun Ho-jin, Kwak Do-won, and Ko Chang-Seok, appear in the 2013 television drama series The Good Doctor. From August through October 2013, it had 20 episodes and was broadcast on KBS2 every Monday and Tuesday at 21:55. The early working title was Green Scalpel.
5. Grey’s Anatomy
Grey’s Anatomy is a supernatural medical drama TV series that debuted on ABC in 2005. It portrays attending physicians’ personal and professional lives at Seattle Grace Hospital. After nine seasons on the air, “Grey’s Anatomy” is coming to a close as it is in August 2012 that the series would end with its 15th season.
6. M*A*S*H
The 1970 feature picture MASH served as the inspiration for Larry Gelbart’s American war comedy-drama M*A*S*H. (which was based on Richard Hooker’s 1968 novel of the same name). As the first original spin-off series from Richard Hooker’s 1968 book MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, the source for the 1970 motion picture, Larry Gelbart developed M*A*S*H. Several medical experts and support staff who arrived at the “4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital” During the Korean War at Uijeongbu, South Korea, are the main subject of CBS’s 20th Century Fox Television program.
7. New Amsterdam
Based on Eric Manheimer’s book Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital, the American television drama series New Amsterdam debuted in 2018 on NBC. Several actors, including Ryan Eggold, Freema Agyeman, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims, Anupam Kher, and Tyler Labine, appeared in the David Schulner-created series.
8. The Resident
On Fox, an American medical drama television program called The Resident debuted in 2018. It served as a midseason replacement for the 2017–18 television season. The series, which is based on Unaccountable by Marty Makary, focuses on the lives and occupations of the staff at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital while exploring the bureaucratic practices employed by the healthcare industry.
9. Chicago Med
Chicago Med is a 2016 midseason replacement for the American medical drama television series that debuted on NBC. The show focuses on a group of physicians and staff at the Chicago Medical Center and their relationships with the patients they treat. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider created the show and served as executive producers alongside Dick Wolf, Matt Olmstead, Danielle Gelber, Peter Jankowski, Derek Haas, and Michael Brandt.
10. Scrubs
Scrubs is an American comedy series created by Bill Lawrence that aired from 2001 to 2010 on NBC. The series follows employees’ lives in the fictional Sacred Heart teaching hospital.
Grey’s Anatomy is a supernatural medical drama television series that debuted on ABC in 2005. It portrays attending physicians’ personal and professional lives at Seattle Grace Hospital.
11. The Night Shift
From May 2014 through August 2017, NBC broadcast the American medical drama series The Night Shift. Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah are the show’s creators, and Brett Mahoney is the showrunner. Set in the fictional San Antonio Medical Center, it follows the lives of the overnight shift staffers. They work tirelessly to treat everything that comes through the Emergency Department doors.
12. Code Black
Michael Seitzman created the American medical drama television series Code Black, which debuted on CBS in September 2015. Based on a Ryan McGarry documentary, the television program takes place in the fictitious Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, California. A second, 13-episode season of the program was ordered on May 16, 2016, and it debuted in September of that same year. In November 2016, CBS added three more episodes to increase the total to 16.
13. St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama that originally ran on NBC from October 1982 to May 1988. Loosely based on the earlier movie “St. Elsewhere”, the series was created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey. It’s common knowledge that the series is among the finest dramas in American history and among the best television shows of all time.
14. Private Practice
ABC telecasts the American medical drama series Private Practice. The Shonda Rhimes-created series debuted in September 2007 and ran until its final episode aired in May 2013. The show revolves around the life of Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) as she undergoes her residency in family medicine at a private hospital in Los Angeles, California.
15. Chicago Hope
An American medical drama television program called Chicago Hope aired on NBC from September 1994 to May 2000. The show revolves around the fictional Chicago Hope Hospital staff and patients in Chicago, Illinois. The show’s lead character, Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, played by Mandy Patinkin, is a hotshot surgeon with emotional problems brought on by the mental illness of his wife (Kim Greist), who drowned their young boy.
16. Doogie Howser, M.D
American medical comedy-drama Doogie Howser, M.D. aired on ABC from September 1989 to March 1993. The show starred Neil Patrick Harris in the title role of a teenager who also happens to be a doctor.
17. Transplant
Joseph Kay produced the Canadian medical drama Transplant, which debuted on CTV in February 2020. Bashir “Bash” Hamed, a Syrian doctor who immigrated to Canada as a refugee during the Syrian Civil War, is the show’s main character. He is re-establishing his professional life as a medical resident in the emergency room at the fictional York Memorial Hospital in Toronto.
18. Nurses
Nurses are a Colombian medical drama television series by Ana María Pérez that aired on RCN Televisión from October 2019 to August 2022. The show focuses on the lives of numerous nurses, specifically highlighting Maria Clara González (Diana Hoyos), who must deal with the life of daily stress in the hospital where she works.
19. Saving Hope
Saving Hope is a Canadian medical drama series that premiered on the CTV Television Network and NBC in June 2012. The one-hour original drama centers on Dr. Alex Reid (Erica Durance), a crusading neurosurgeon who has an affair with her boss, Charles Harris (Michael Shanks). When Harris dies unexpectedly, Reid discovers he was a patient at Hope Zion Hospital in Toronto, Canada’s largest hospital.
20. Body of Proof
In the American medical/crime comedy-drama Body of Proof, aired on ABC from March 29, 2011, to May 28, 2013, Dana Delany portrayed medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt. ABC Studios and Christopher Murphey collaborated on the creation of the show. On May 10, 2013, ABC canceled the series after three seasons. Dana Delany plays Dr. Megan Hunt in the lead role of Body of Proof, an American medical drama television series produced by Matt Olmstead. Hunt is a neurosurgeon, a single mother to her son Noah (Billy Miller), and a strict superior to paramedic Detective Kate Reed (Amy Okocha). The series premiered on ABC in 2011. The series was canceled in 2012 after one season of thirteen episodes.
21. Grey’s Anatomy
The American medical drama television program Grey’s Anatomy debuted on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in March 2005 as a midseason replacement. The fourteen-season television series follows a group of surgical residents, fellows, and attendings who form ardent bonds with one another and the patients they care for.