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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just watched this and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it (I loved St Elsewhere and ER, and assumed this would be a poor imitator). I really liked the hour by hour format, and foubd the show to feel more “real,” and therefore I found myself surprisingly emotional, than a lot of other medical dramas.

I agree with the posters who said that the show did a good job of integrating the memory of covid and how it does affected and/or still affects the medical staff, without making it all about that.  I also liked how many of the character background pieces were implied but not overt- Dr Abbott’s combat experience, Dr Roby’s relationship with Jesse, Dr Langdon’s kid on austism spectrum (I’m inferring that one).

Of course I could come up with critiques but overall I found this well done and enjoyable to watch.

A question for those with medical knowledge - [b]were the med students the only doctors who were there but did not necessarily have an interest in emergency medicine as their specialty, [/b]I guess I’m asking if they were there simply as one of many “required” rotations and the rest of the doctors had selected ER medicine as their specialty? I liked the (24 hr, haha) ark of Dr Mohan’s character, but wasn’t sure why she chose an ER residency in the first place. [/quote]

Senior medical students (4th year of medical school) would have made the deliberate choice to spend that time in the ED as opposed to somewhere else. It's like electives at university. They might or might not be intending to do emergency medicine in the long run, but they would have selected the ED for the extra time.

All the residents of various years (intern year and up) would be there in planning to become emergency medicine physicians.

The third year medical students would be the only ones who were assigned there without choice. That would be Javadi, in this case.

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The ED attendings: Robby/Rabinovitch (also chief of the department), Abbot, Shen
The 4th year senior ED residents: Langdon, Collins, Ellis
The 3rd year ED resident: Mohan
The 2nd year ED residents: McKay, King
The 1st year ED resident: Santos

The 4th year med student rotating through, who chose to do more ED time: Whittaker
The 3rd year med student rotating through, who is assigned as part of core curriculum: Javadi
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