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For Your Consideration: The Pitt's medical drama on Max runs where ER, St. Elsewhere, and M*A*S*H walked
Before Max's unstoppable medical drama, three shows set the pace for what could be done on the small screen in the medical field
If there’s been a show that’s been quietly but doggedly dragging our attention more and more every single week recently, it’s Max’s The Pitt — a medical drama set in real time across one shift in an emergency room of a fictional hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Concentrating as much as anything on the emotional (and physical!) costs of working in such a constantly charged, dangerous environment, it feels like a smart and necessary update on the medical drama that has some pretty noticeable callbacks to what came before, which leaves you on the edge of your seat after every hour. Which made us think… hey. Why not fill what feels like an exceptionally long week’s wait between episodes by looking back at those shows that did come before? Friends, for your consideration: three of the best medical shows TV has ever offered.
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