A Short-Lived American Medical Drama that followed trauma surgeons as they work to save lives and deal with their personal lives.
The show stared Jeremy Northam as Dr Matt Proctor, Lana Parrilla as Dr Eva Zambrano, Mike Vogel as Dr Chris DeLeo, Elisabeth Harnois as Dr Serena Warren, and Omar Gooding as charge nurse Tuck Brody.
It aired on CBS for one season.
Tropes for the series:
- Alliterative Title: Miami Medical.
- Calle Cubana.
- Diver Down.
- Medicine Man.
- Combat Medic: Matt Proctor, a general surgeon ("hernias and hemorrhoids" as another character puts it) who joins Miami Trauma — because before he was a general surgeon, he did two tours in the Persian Gulf and three years at the Landstuhl military hospital as a front-line combat trauma surgeon. It shows, particularly in crisis situations when everyone else is at a loss for what to do. Eva Zambrano, a surgical fellow who had been in line to take over her trauma team, doesn't even argue when he gets the spot over her because he's so good at his job despite his personality quirks.
- Ensign Newbie: The attending — the highest-ranked doctor in the department — sends a new resident off to her first case on her own, telling her, "Page me when you get into trouble". To the highly-experienced nurse going with her, he says, "Page me two minutes before she gets into trouble".
- Hospital Hottie: The entire cast. Zambrano is constantly hit on by patients and family members alike, DeLeo is a bit of a Casanova, Proctor gets it on with the hot-but-strange cardiology surgeon, and Warren is in one romance and out of another with astonishing regularity. Amazingly, the show is one of the more true-to-life depictions of high-stakes emergency medicine to hit the airwaves — aside, of course, from the aforementioned absurd attractiveness of its medical personnel.
- Surgeons Can Do Autopsies If They Want: Copiously and notably averted. All the lead characters but the nurse are trauma surgeons - and just trauma surgeons, who hand over their patients to the required specialists as necessary. When they need to reduce cranial swelling, they call in a neurosurgeon. When a character gets stabbed in the heart, they call in a cardiology surgeon. And when a foot needs to be reattached, they call in a vascular surgeon. One plotline actually involves an attending specialist stealing a patient from the new resident. Moreover, one such specialist is actually dually qualified in both cardio surgery and vascular surgerynote :Dr. Proctor: No one's 'both'. Not anymore.
Dr. Sable: Cal-Berkeley and UPenn may disagree.
