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A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012)
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A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.
Style: realistic, clever, medical drama, dark, sitcom, costume drama, historical drama, dark comedy, humorous, witty ...
Plot: doctors and patients, dark humor, hospital, doctor, medical, self destructing, drug addict, morphine, diary, surgery, society, doubts and hesitations, health situation, traditional versus modern, medicine, social relations, nurse, addiction, winter, drug addiction, historical event, satire, storytelling, workplace, cognitive science ...
Time: 1910s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, soviet union, ussr
Keyword: bbc, withdrawal, russian, operation

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, medical drama, witty and humorous films and TV series with plots about doctors and patients, doctor, hospital, medical, medicine, workplace and power relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres. Some movies like A Young Doctor's Notebook: The Knick (2014), Nurse Jackie (2009), Sirens (2011), Morphine (2008), Sherlock (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Knick (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
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Story: Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and ...
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, medical drama ...
Plot: medicine, life is a bitch, addiction, hospital, doctor, doctors and patients, workplace situations, surgeon, nun, medical, realism, society ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, year 2014, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place: usa, new york, america
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Nurse Jackie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
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Story: Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to ...
Style: realistic, medical drama, semi serious, sitcom, dark comedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: addiction, hospital, nurse, doctors and patients, double life, medical, workplace situations, drug abuse, conflict, responsibility, suffering, medicine ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Sirens (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sirens is a British comedy-drama about an ambulance service team broadcast on Channel 4. It was first screened on 27 June 2011. The series is based on the book Blood, Sweat & Tea by Brian Kellett. The series is filmed predominantly in Leeds ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, witty ...
Plot: paramedic, doctors and patients, ambulance, rescue, friendship, workplace situations, boss, workplace, coworker, power relations, dark humor, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
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Morphine (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: drug abuse, addiction, morphine, doctor, urban decay, drug addiction, civil war, hopelessness, world war one, hardship, loneliness, rivalry ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: russia
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Sherlock (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story: A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Style: clever, detective, witty, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sherlock holmes, investigation, private detective, murder mystery, genius, mastermind, friendship, british, murder, mind game, riddles and clues, prodigy ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, england, scotland yard, afghanistan, britain ...
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The House of God (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: medical, medicine, health, intern, dark humor, power relations, misfit, unfulfillment, doctors and patients, mental illness, hospital, urban ...
Time: 80s
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St. Elsewhere (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, talky, serious, witty ...
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, dark humor, doctors and patients, workplace, power relations, intern, workplace situations, surgery, medicine, villain ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, massachusetts, boston
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A Very Peculiar Practice (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.
Style: surreal, dark comedy, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: satire, university, professor, college, doctor, health, doctors and patients, polish, power relations, society, social misfits, teachers and students ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
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All Creatures Great and Small (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based ...
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: veterinarian, pets, village life, workplace, doctors and patients, family relations, family business, medical, doctor, hospital, skirt, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: yorkshire, england, europe
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Green Wing (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
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Story: Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Although set in a ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, surreal ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, love triangle, workplace, comedy of errors, love affair, fall in love, staff, prank, battle of the sexes, workplace situations, nurse ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Monday Mornings (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Monday Mornings was an American medical drama television series that ran on TNT from February 4 to April 8, 2013 and aired Mondays after Dallas. It is based on a novel of the same name by Sanjay Gupta. In May 2012, TNT placed a ten-episode order for ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: hospital, surgery, medicine, doctor, doctors and patients, treatment, staff, intern, workplace situations, patient, workplace, boss ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
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Monroe (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Monroe is a British medical drama television series created and written by Peter Bowker and produced by Mammoth Screen for the ITV network. The series follows a neurosurgeon named Gabriel Monroe, played by James Nesbitt. The six-part series was ...
Style: medical drama, serious, emotional, realistic, fast ...
Plot: doctor, hospital, workplace, intern, surgery, family relations, workplace situations, patient, fighting illness, doctors and patients, family problems, boss and employee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Mapp & Lucia (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
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Story: 1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint village.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, historical drama ...
Plot: small town, village, rivalry, lesbian, society, social relations, small town life, village life, gossip, friendship, snobbism, priest ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: europe, england
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AfterMASH (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: AfterMASH is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 26, 1983, to December 11, 1984. A spin-off of the series M*A*S*H, the show takes place immediately following the end of the Korean War and chronicles the adventures of three ...
Style: sitcom, retro, realistic, not serious, feel good ...
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Time: 20th century, 80s, 1950s
Place: missouri, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
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Story: Hospital drama set in London during the early 1960s, following the staff of a busy gynecology ward at a time when abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just becoming available to married women.
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Plot: hospital, doctors and patients, treatment, workplace, society, patient, workplace romance, workplace situations, intrigue, post war, medicine, motherhood ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: london, england
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The Resident (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
Style: medical drama, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia
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M*A*S*H (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, ...
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Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: korea
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Critical Care (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: black comedy, cynical, humorous, dark comedy, independent film ...
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Casualty 1900s (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Story: Featuring true cases, characters and events taken from the London Hospital records, nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs, these gritty medical series show the lives – and forbidden romances – of pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere, period piece ...
Plot: hospital, doctors and patients, workplace, workplace romance, couple relations, public health, cure, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, medicine, doctor, multiverse ...
Time: victorian era, 1900s
Place: europe, london, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: Emily Owens, M.D. is an American medical drama television series created by Jennie Snyder Urman. It was picked up by The CW on May 11, 2012, It premiered on The CW on October 16, 2012, and aired on Tuesdays at 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central. On ...
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
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Northern Exposure (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: After receiving a scholarship from the state, a recent Columbia University medical school graduate is required to set up his practice in an eccentric Alaskan town.
Style: offbeat, realistic, humorous, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: small town, small town life, fish out of water, medical, native american, cold weather, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, doctors and patients, moose, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Style: medical drama, realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, doctors and patients, moral dilemma, workplace, nursing, workplace situations, nurse, society, love, working class, medical ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, northern england, yorkshire, europe
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Charité at War (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young ...
Style: realistic, captivating, stylized, medical drama, intellectual ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in ...
Style: medical drama, exciting, sincere, serious, realistic ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, santa monica california
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Nurses (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
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Story: Follow five young nurses working on the frontlines of a busy hospital in downtown Toronto, dedicating their lives to helping others, while struggling to help themselves.
Style: medical drama, realistic, intellectual, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: medical, doctor, doctors and patients, nurse, hospital, physician, relationship vs career, coworker, nursing, ambition, health situation, staff ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
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Getting On (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Darkly comic series about life on a hospital ward and a nursing team who have to get on with the job despite challenges thrown up by the modern NHS.
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: hospital, satire, elderly, nurse, medical, friends, friendship, doctors and patients, workplace situations, retirement home, power relations, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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The Night Shift (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The stories of the men and women who work the overnight shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital. They are an irreverent and special breed, particularly adrenaline junkie T.C. Callahan.
Style: medical drama, realistic, tense, humorous, semi serious
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san antonio texas, texas
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Scrubs (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D" Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.
Style: sitcom, humorous, medical drama, witty, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, bromance, workplace situations, workplace romance, doctors and patients, friendship, couples, love and romance, friends, workplace ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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