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Article: New medical dramas in a post-ER world.(Entertainment)
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- Sunday Tribune (South Africa)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Given how miserable the experience of being a hospital patient is - we seem to have an inordinate appetite for watching it happen to other people. Hospital dramas and melodramas have been a staple of television since Richard Chamberlain started checking pulses as Dr Kildare back in the Kennedy era. Grey's Anatomy is just the latest show to lather up this well-formulated medicated soap mixture of accident, illness and romance.
For many aficionados of the genre, ABC's Seattle-based Grey's Anatomy has almost seamlessly supplanted arguably the greatest medical saga of them all, ER, the NBC series that gave us George Clooney and which ended this April after 15 ...