History Series / TheResident

It stars Creator/MattCzuchry as the titular resident, Creator/EmilyVanCamp as the best nurse ever, Manish Dayal as a WideEyedIdealist intern, Creator/BruceGreenwood as a chief of surgery (and later [[spoiler: CEO]]) with an increasing propensity to commit medical errors, Creator/ShaunetteReneeWilson as a surgical resident [[NoSocialSkills with a brusque bedside manor]], and Creator/MalcolmJamalWarner as a crack cardiothoracic surgeon with "an ego the size of Texas."

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The main characters never want to turn away a patient regardless of their financial status. Now that the hospital is public, they're legally bound not to do so. However, that also means they face a crunched timetable for diagnosis and treatment of each patient which means a deterioration in care and many more patients.
* BlackmailBackfire: Played with in season 2 as [[spoiler: Lane Hunter pushes Bell to secretly help her make bail by threatening to release a tape of them in bed together. Once he does so, Bell thinks that's it only to find Lane expects him to testify on her behalf at the trial. Bell refuses to risk his reputation aiding her and tells her to just go right ahead and release the tape. Lane threatens to go into some of Bell's shady moves and risky surgeries but Bell just snorts on how, as much as they may dislike him, his staff despises Lane far more and "will back me before they support you." Subverted as Lane threatens Bell with the solicitation arrest he thought he had buried but that's ended when Lane is killed.]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe example as Bell is meeting with three candidates for a CEO position involving saline at the hospital. Marshall shows up and dryly notes how one doctor is being investigated for tax fraud; another claims to graduated with a BA from Harvard and a MBA from Wharton but actually attended college in Arizona; and the third has basically pushed his hospital to bankruptcy via his bad business. He tells the humiliated Bell to "stick with what you know" and let Marshall handle the actual business stuff.

* IllGirl: Lily Kendall in Season 1, Jessie Nevin and the Barnett brothers in Season 2, Adaku Eze in Season 3.

** A.J. Austin turns the BrutalHonesty UpToEleven--even ''Mina Okafor'' thinks he's too brusque.

* SecretlyWealthy: Conrad Hawkins is a Marine veteran, put himself through medical school, and has nothing but disdain for the rich, which makes it all the more surprising when we learn that he was born into a very wealthy family. When his father tried to buy Conrad's attention, he offered to give him [[UpToEleven a hospital]]. [[NoSell It didn't work]].

** As further karma, when [[[spoiler: Cain falls into a coma, he ends up being sent to the very hospice he had his own terminal patients exiled to in order to keep his "perfect" surgical record intact.]]
** Kim is finally fired after a season of causing trouble at the hospital and trying to get Conrad fired.

** QuoVadis rep Julian is happy to work for her boss, who boasts of their medical devices being top of the line and manufactured right in Atlanta to ensure their safety. When she goes to check on a facility, Julian sees the workers taking devices out of boxes from China and putting them right into new boxes to be "homemade" Quoa Vadis creations.

* SurgeonsCanDoAutopsiesIfTheyWant: Dr. Austin and Dr. Okafor perform an autopsy on a death they found suspicious, but since they're not authorized to perform one, they disguise it as an anatomy lesson and invite interns and residents to observe them.

* BabiesEverAfter: In the Season 4 finale, Nic and Conrad welcome their daughter Georgianna Grace Hawkins (shortened to GiGi) into the world.

** Quoa Vadis rep Julian is happy to work for her boss, who boasts of their medical devices being top of the line and manufactured right in Atlanta to ensure their safety. When she goes to check on a facility, Julian sees the workers taking devices out of boxes from China and putting them right into new boxes to be "homemade" Quoa Vadis creations.

* TimeSkip: One takes place in the middle of season 5, when Conrad's daughter GiGi is shown to have grown up from a newborn to a young child.

* DueToTheDead: After Simon, the eldest custodian working at Chastain, dies from complications of his illness, Dr. Bell honors him by cleaning the operating room all on his own.

* PullingTheThread: Devon Pradesh uncovers [[spoiler: the true nature of Lane Hunter's medical fraud]] when he discovers that "frequent flyer" hypochondriac Olivia Tan [[spoiler: has been getting chemotherapy for cancer she does not actually have.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Simon, the elderly custodian of Chastain, reveals to Conrad that back when Bell was a resident, he advocated for measures like forbidding from smoking in hospitals.

* OpenHeartDentistry: When in the Marines, Conrad would go above and beyond his remit as a combat medic to perform emergency surgery, despite being an internist at best. Justified in that he was a trained medic, had completed at least part of his medical training, and if he did nothing, people would definitely die, but if he intervened, they only might die. [[RealityEnsues His tendency to do this is a civilian hospital goes over far worse, leading to him being disciplined and sued.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** Late in season 2, Bell reveals to his assistant that the hospital's donations are down over 40%. When asked why, he dryly points out that [[spoiler: having one doctor discovered to be behind a massive cancer patient fraud who was then murdered]] and then [[spoiler: partnering with a company that was a massive scam selling inferior devices]] tended to scare away potential investors.
** Hawkins' decision to torture a murderous patient for information on a hostage comes back to bite his ass in a lawsuit brought by the victim. Only Pravesh's last-minute lie on Hawkins' behalf saves him.
** Hawkins lies on behalf of a patient who needs a liver transplant but tried to kill himself. When this lie is discovered, Hawkins is fired.
** The Covid-19 pandemic plays further havoc with the hospital finances as elective surgeries are virtually non-existent during the pandemic's peak and so hurts their bottom line. It also forces the surgeons like Bell to realize how out of their league they are on the front lines against a virus.
** Kim goes out of his way to get the hospital much-needed supplies for the pandemic. He still ends up being fired by the board with Conrad giving him props for that one move but nothing else. When Kim complains, Conrad points out one selfless act (which Kim had to be guilted/browbeaten into) doesn't make up for all the terrible stuff Kim has done which hurt the patients and put the hospital in that bad spot in the first place.
** Red Rock decides that after all those financial losses, it's best to just sell the hospital rather than pour more of their money into propping it up as "we don't throw good money at bad."
** Now that Chastain has gone public, the quality of their care will go down since they must treat everyone and can only spend so much time on each patient.

* BigStore: A variation as Julian's boss, Gordon, shows investors a lavish fully-staffed lab where his company does all their testing and research into creating their "home-made" devices. Later, when Julian goes to the "lab," she finds it completely cleaned out with just three guys sitting around. It's the final proof Julian needs to realize her company is one massive fraud scheme.

It stars Matt Czuchry as the titular resident, Creator/EmilyVanCamp as the best nurse ever, Manish Dayal as a WideEyedIdealist intern, Creator/BruceGreenwood as a chief of surgery (and later [[spoiler: CEO]]) with an increasing propensity to commit medical errors, Creator/ShaunetteReneeWilson as a surgical resident [[NoSocialSkills with a brusque bedside manor]], and Creator/MalcolmJamalWarner as a crack cardiothoracic surgeon with "an ego the size of Texas."

In the show's first season, Melina Kanakaredes played a sweet-talking oncologist with a dark side, and Creator/MerrinDungey played the hospital CEO.

** Cain realizes what harm he's unleashed on people and Chastain by covering up the outbreak of candida auris. Later on, his surgery on one of his former love interests goes wrong and she dies on his watch. After that, Cain's career is threatened by Kim. Kim isn't the only threat to his career however, as he's severely injured after being hit by a car and his lung is punctured after one of his interns chooses to operate without an attending surgeon and makes a mistake. After being in a coma for weeks, he's still unable to operate or breathe on his own. He's currently facing KarmicPunishment, residing alone in the same vent farm he sends his patients who have no hope of ever waking up again.

* WideEyedIdealist: Manish Dayal's Dr. Devon Pravesh, an intern who on his first day performs CPR on a drug addict for an extended time [[spoiler:only to leave her brain-dead]].