I’m torn sometimes… It’s a pretty straightforward formula, the old medical drama…. Casualty is still the stone cold classic… Old lady reaching for toast, trips over terrier, sets house on fire and next thing you know 14 people are in ambulances, heading for the one ward where all the cameras are… The American shows are more about the people in the hospital, ever since ER, it’s always been about the doctors, the nurses and the interaction between the two…And the hotter the doctor / nurse combinations, all the better… It also is about the adrenalin rush, the cut and spurt of blood, the shouting and the drama that the high speed life saving creates. ER is probably modern TV’s formative medical drama, although I have a soft spot for what is now probably the hopelessly slow and old fashioned St Elsewhere. No one seems to show that one on the … There’s more →