The Resident - My favorite medical show! (StEeM eXcLuSiVe)

Grey's Anatomy, Chicago Med, ER, New Amsterdam, The Resident... there are so many medical shows out there dealing with life in hospitals, living as a doctor, and with all the crazy events happening in hospitals. I have been watching many of these, but currently, my favorite is The Resident.

The Resident shows us what life is like as residents at Chastain Memorial in Atlanta (USA). It feels quite overwhelming to see the responsibility given to the residents, and also seeing how much they know (that early). But, it is interesting to see what life is like at a hospital, and this also touches a topic seldom mentioned in such TV series... the economy behind running the hospital. Chastain Memorial always has to deal with financial issues, leading to questions such as:

• Can we treat patients for free?
• Should we treat a patient with a good insurance before the one with a poor or no insurance at all?
• How hospitals uses medicines based on how much they are paid by the producers of the medicine to use it.

These are just some of the financial questions we meet and see in the show. I like this fact, and in the second season, it is turning even more interesting when the leader of the hotel starts a cooperation with someone he should have been more careful with!

Just like in other medical shows, we join the doctors in the OR to see them operating on their patients, and of course, we also see them in their private lives as they try to make things go around.

The show is focusing on the character of Conrad, a very wise and smart doctor who now teaches the new residents. It is stunning to see the way he speaks to the leadership of the hospital (I doubt many new doctors would dare to speak like that to the management), but in this series, it is somehow accepted. We follow Conrads love life, the residents he teach, and with time, also learn more about the family of Conrad.

Morality in the hospital

This is also an interesting topic that is touched in the series.

• Should the doctor immediately report a pilot who is having trouble with drinking?
• Should Conrad break the rules (something that might cause him his job) in order to look into files he is not allowed to look at, because he is suspecting that a drug is having a bad effect on patients?
• Is Conrad allowed to give extra drugs to a patient in order to make him talk, so that a person kept captive can be found?

There are some moral issues discussed in the show that makes this more than just a typical doctor series, but also a show that will make you think and make up your own opinion on issues such as the ones mentioned here.

I should also mention that in larger part of the second season this all turns more exciting as we almost take part in an investigation and investigative work, and that is something I like a lot about The Resident. It is much more than just the normal medical series, as it adds more angles to the work than I am used to from other similar shows.

All in all...

I can warmly recommend The Resident to anyone in love with this gender of TV series.