Best Medical Dramas
Which are the best medical dramas (their main plot is related to medical professionals)?
Note: the contribution of @etherealtaekibum is greatly acknowledged :)
penel Dec 13, 2019
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![Dr. Romantic]()
Kim Sa Bu was once a famous surgeon at the peak of his career at a major hospital. But he suddenly gives it all up one day to live in seclusion and ...more -
![It's Okay, That's Love]()
Despite being a bit of a prickly pear, Jang Jae Yeol has become famous for authoring mystery novels and for hosting a popular radio show. While sitting on a talk show panel ...more -
![A Beautiful Mind]()
Lee Yeong Oh is a genius neurosurgeon who just came back to Korea after finishing his studies abroad. He now works with his father, Lee Gun Myung, who is the head of ...more -
![Doctors]()
Yoo Hye Jung was a tough bully in school with a prickly personality and always goes wayward. She had many scars from her childhood and through self-preservation, Hye Jung keeps her heart ...more -
![Doctor John]()
"Doctor John" is a medical drama centered on pain management specialists. It offers a unique perspective, treating the doctors' quest for the source of their patients' enigmatic pain as an exhilarating pursuit, ...more -
![Good Doctor]()
Although Park Shi On is an autistic savant who lacked mental maturity and empathy, he graduated from medical school with distinction. His medical skills are exceptional, but he struggles to deal with ...more -
![Life]()
This series examines the hospital as a breeding ground for misuse of power. It is a place of conflicting interests and clashing egos. The doctors have the power to save lives, but ...more -
![Code Blue]()
If it can be treated one second earlier, the heart might start beating again. If there is one extra helicopter, another life in danger may be saved. If one more life can ...more -
![D-Day]()
An unprecedented 6.5-magnitude earthquake has struck Seoul, destroying roads and buildings, and preventing ambulances from reaching victims. Woefully unprepared for such a massive disaster, Korea can only watch the desperate situation and ...more -
![Doctor Stranger]()
As a child, Park Hoon and his father were kidnapped by North Korea. In North Korea, he was trained to become a doctor by his father who was already a doctor. Park ...more -
![Yong Pal]()
Kim Tae Hyeon is a talented surgeon. Desperate for money to pay his sister's medical bills, he adopts the code name Yong Pal and offers his medical skills to those in need ...more -
![Live Up to Your Name]()
Heo Im, who is born in a concubine family in the Joseon era and has very outstanding medical skills, is frustrated about his career as he fails to climb to higher positions ...more -
![Hospital Ship]()
Army doctors board a hospital ship, which is a floating hospital that serves people who live on remote islands. But were these doctors interested in helping underprivileged people for free? Not at ...more -
![Blood]()
Park Ji Sang is a doctor specializing in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery in the best cancer research hospital in the country. He is also a vampire. Despite seeming cold and unfeeling, Ji Sang masks ...more -
![Emergency Couple]()
Jin Hee, a dietitian, had a satisfying life until she met medical student Chang Min. Despite his wealthy family's opposition, they married. Chang Min later became a pharmaceutical salesman, straining their relationship ...more -
![Doctor Prisoner]()
Doctor Prisoner centers around an ace doctor in a university hospital’s emergency care center, a skilled professional who treats his patients with full devotion and without discrimination. However, his medical license gets ...more -
![A Poem a Day]()
The story of lives of people who work at the hospital like physical therapists, rehabilitation therapists, radiologists, nurses, medical trainees and more. Ye Jae Wook works as a physical therapist and also ...more -
![Surgeons]()
Is it possible to search for answers to a death that occurred almost 30 years ago? Zhuang Su is a successful cardiothoracic surgeon who has been practicing in the United States. He ...more -
![Partners for Justice]()
Baek Beom has worked as a forensic doctor for 10 years. He is excellent at his work but does not open his mind to other people. Eun Sol is a rookie prosecutor ...more -
![Black Pean]()
Tokai, a surgeon at Tojo University Hospital, boasts a 100% surgery success rate, but his arrogance often causes friction among his peers, who refer to him as "a doctor who saves patients ...more -
![Code Blue Season 2]()
It has been one and a half years since Aizawa Kosaku, Shiraishi Megumi, Hiyama Mihoko and Fujikawa Kazuo were assigned to Shoyo University's North Hospital. They have only three months left of ...more -
![Faith]()
A 21st-century plastic surgeon Eun Soo gets kidnapped and brought 700 years into the past for her healing powers. Goryeo era bodyguard to the king, General Choi Yeong is smart but a ...more -
![Code Blue Season 3]()
Kousaku Aizawa, Megumi Shiraishi, Mihoko Hiyama, Kazuo Fuikawa and Haruka Saejima have worked and pursued careers down different paths. Kousaku Aizawa left the hospital emergency room. He now works as a brain ...more -
![Cross]()
Kang In Kyu’s father was brutally murdered 13 years ago. To take revenge on those who are responsible for his father’s death, he becomes a doctor. Kang In Kyu volunteers at a ...more -
![Heart Surgeons]()
The series revolves around the thoracic surgery department of a hospital. Park Tae Soo is a thoracic surgery fellow for four years whose mother is waiting for a heart transplant. Meanwhile, Choi ...more -
![Unnatural]()
Unnatural is a case-of-the-week medical mystery show; its main theme is the change of reality brought upon by imminent death of a loved one. Mystery and exhilarating human drama unfold against the ...more -
![Descendants of the Sun]()
A love story that develops between a surgeon and a special forces officer. Kang Mo Yeon is a pretty and assertive woman who works as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Haesung Hospital. She ...more -
![Radiation House]()
Igarashi Iori is a talented radiographer who believes the “truth” is definitely captured in CT and MRI images. He and radiologist Amakasu An work at a hospital’s radiology department where they determine ...more -
![Partners for Justice Season 2]()
In crime and in life, all contact leaves a trace. There is no perfect crime and our hero and heroine have the ultimate cooperation. This drama continues the tale of a forensic ...more -
![Doctor X]()
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wandering from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many ...more -
![Chocolate]()
The story of a man who became a neurosurgeon, though he dreamed of becoming a cook, and a woman who became a cook because of him. Lee Kang is a neurosurgeon who ...more -
![Hospital Playlist]()
The stories of people going through their days are seemingly ordinary but actually special at the hospital, a place known as the microcosm of life, where someone is being born and someone's ...more -
![Jewel in the Palace]()
About 500 years ago during the time of Chosun Dynasty, Korea boasted a rigidly hierarchical and male dominated social structure. Based on a true story about a legendary girl, Jang Geum, who ...more -
![God's Quiz]()
Han Jin Woo, Korea's top medical examiner, leads a team of experts in conducting a medical crime investigation after strange events and mysterious deaths occur in a hospital. He first clashes with ...more -
![Good Doctor]()
Shindo Minato has savant syndrome. His memory is amazing, but he has difficulty communicating with other people. When Shindo Minato was little, he dreamed of becoming a doctor. He met Doctor Shiga ...more -
![JIN]()
The story follows a brain surgeon named Minakata Jin, who has spent the last two years in anguish as his fiancee lies in a vegetative state after an operation he performed. One ...more -
![Dr. Koto Shinryojo]()
After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is ...more -
![Kounodori]()
The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an OB-GYN doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth, and he was ...more -
![Jejoongwon]()
Jejoongwon is the first modern hospital in Korea established in the Joseon era in 1885. Baek Do Yang is a nobleman who gives up his status to enter its ranks. Hwang Jung ...more -
![Dr. Romantic Season 2]()
A “real doctor” story set in a small, humble hospital called Doldam Hospital. It is a story about people who meet Kim Sa Bu, a genius doctor, and discover “real romance.” Kim ...more -
![Iryu Team Medical Dragon]()
Ryutaro Asada, a renegade but brilliant surgeon, was being framed for a misdiagnosis and let go by the North Japanese Hospital. He went into exile and lived in a seaside shack when ...more -
![Dr. Frost]()
Dr. Frost became a professor in psychology at an early age. He is extremely bright but has difficulties sympathizing and connecting with others due to an injury to his frontal lobe as ...more -
![Algernon ni Hanataba wo]()
Shiratori Sakuto is 28, but has the intelligence of a 6-year-old boy. He works for Dream Flower Service, a flower distribution centre which provides employment for problem youth. One day, he and ...more -
![The Great White Tower]()
A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save ...more -
![God's Quiz Season 2]()
Han Jin Woo and his team of medical experts continue to solve mysterious deaths and cases larger in scale and more intractable than before, including the truth of a rare disease that ...more -
![In Hand]()
Himokura Tetsu is a scientist who specialises in the study of parasites. He loathes people and is very sadistic. Tetsu bought a huge botanical garden in Hakone which he converted into his ...more -
![God's Quiz Season 4]()
Elite doctors chase a mysterious death and attempt to solve the mystery related to rare diseases. (Source: DramaWiki) -
![God's Quiz Season 3]()
The old-timer Bae Tae Shik butt heads with Han Jin Woo acting as the genius medical examiner. The two always differ in opinion, but whenever a case needs to be solved they ...more -
![Doctor X Season 3]()
Freelance surgeon Daimon Michiko gets embroiled in an escalating struggle for supremacy between the factions of Totei University Hospital and Saikyo University Hospital, which represent Japan’s east and west at the National ...more -
![Brain]()
Lee Kang Hun, who graduated from the top medical school, works at the top hospital and is the top neurosurgeon around. He has ambitions to become the director at his university hospital. ...more -
![Unmet: Aru Nogekai no Nikki]()
Kawauchi Miyabi was once a promising neurosurgeon, but an accident caused damage to Miyabi's brain. She is unable to remember the past 2 years of her life, and she will forget everything ...more -
![Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctors]()
The drama depicts the difficult decisions and moving human stories that take place daily in the OB-GYN department, focusing in particular on Seo Hye Young, a talented and determined obstetrician who has ...more -
![Golden Time]()
After spending two years teaching in the country, Lee Min Woo returns to a city hospital to complete his residency and face his own uncertainties about being a doctor. Free-spirited and goofy, ...more -
![Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo]()
Sakura Nanase is a 22-year-old rookie nurse. She met Doctor Tendo Kairi several years ago and fell in love with him. To meet him again, she studied hard and became a nurse. ...more -
![JIN Season 2]()
It has been two years since Minakata Jin went back in time to the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. One day, Sakamoto Ryoma arrives from Kyoto to seek Jin's help. Ryoma ...more -
![DOCTORS Saikyou no Meii]()
A surgeon, Sagara Kosuke, resigned from the university hospital where he had worked for 12 years and is returning to work after taking a year off. He had agreed to himself to ...more -
![Furikaereba Yatsu ga Iru]()
This is a story of two physicians who are complete opposites. Although he's a skilled surgeon, Dr. Shiba does not believe that every life is worth saving, but is willing to perform ...more -
![Blackjack ni Yoroshiku]()
Saito Eijiro is a graduate of the prestigious Eidai Medical School and is sent to Eidai Hospital as a trainee doctor. There, under the supervision of Dr. Shiratori at the surgery department, ...more -
![Forest]()
Kang San Hyuk, a man who would go to any lengths for a business deal, is the CEO of the investment company RLI. He enters the 911 special rescue team to research ...more -
![Toumei na Yurikago]()
17-year-old Aoi came to Yui Obstetrics and Gynecology clinic as a part-time nurse apprentice in Summer 1997. Right after her entry, she is shocked after witnessing an abortion surgery. However, she also ...more -
![Dr. Cutie]()
Shen Zhao Er is the daughter of the palace-appointed doctor and grew up with Ji Heng, the son of an official of the king. In an incident of poisoning concerning a royal ...more -
![The End of the World]()
An unidentified epidemic with a 100% fatality rate strikes Seoul. There is no guarantee who will be alive tomorrow. The Korea Center for Disease Control (KCDC) begins investigating the unknown so-called “M(Moon)” ...more -
![Team Batista no Eiko]()
There exists a legendary team of surgical experts in Tojo University Hospital that specializes in the Batista procedure - one of the most difficult cardiac surgeries with a survival rate of only ...more -
![Hakui no Senshi!]()
Tachibana Haruka is a rookie nurse with a bright personality. Mihara Natsumi is 34-year-old veteran nurse. She is struggling at work and with her love life. While Tachibana Haruka and Mihara Natsumi ...more -
![Nijiiro Karute]()
Kureno Masora is a young doctor who was working happily at a large hospital in Tokyo. However, she found out that she has an illness and decided to continue working as a ...more -
![God's Quiz: Reboot]()
This is a drama about elite doctors and forensic scientists investigating mysterious deaths and solving mysteries related to rare diseases. Han Jin Woo is the tortured medical genius with a miracle brain ...more -
![Hospital Playlist Season 2]()
Everyday is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist. (Source: Netflix) -
![Doctor X Season 2]()
The story continues with Michiko still working as a freelance doctor at the Teito University Hospital. Enjoying herself at a horse race in Hokkaido from an invite by Dr Kanbara Akira, Michiko ...more -
![Doctor X Season 4]()
Surgeon Daimon Michiko is sent to Totei University Hospital this time. Although it reigns as the top university hospital in the country, the hospital’s reputation has suffered greatly from various cover-ups, medical ...more -
![Doctor Cha]()
Cha Jung Sook is married to Seo In Ho, who works as a chief surgeon at a university hospital. He has a strict, sensitive, and thoroughgoing personality. Cha Jung Sook has been ...more -
![Daily Dose of Sunshine]()
Jung Da Eun works as a nurse. She is transferred to neuropsychiatry from the internal medicine department. This is her first time working in neuropsychiatry, so everything is difficult and awkward for ...more -
![Last Hope]()
"Last Hope" depicts a medical center with the doctors implementing the latest cutting edge medical treatments. The doctors come from a diverse background to work together as a team and to give ...more -
![Dr. Koto Shinryojo 2006]()
February 2006, Shikina Island. Dr. Koto is riding his bicycle to visit his patients. He is told by one of them that Takehiro, one of the boys who was brought up on ...more -
![37-sai de Isha ni Natta Boku - Kenshui Junjo Monogatari]()
74. 37-sai de Isha ni Natta Boku - Kenshui Junjo Monogatari
Japanese Drama - 2012, 11 episodes96 points by 1 votersThe drama is inspired by a true story and portrays the hard struggles of a 37-year-old man who decided to quit his job as a salaryman at a food company and is ...more -
![You Are My Hero]()
Freshly graduated doctor Mi Ka was at a jewellery store to purchase a gift for her parents when a jewel heist by armed robbers occurred. A special SWAT team was deployed to ...more -
![Doctor X Season 5]()
It has been a year since the downfall of Hiruma Shigekatsu, who had engaged in dirty hospital politics. Teito Medical University Hospital enters a new era with its first female hospital director. ...more -
![Doctor X Season 6]()
Totei University Hospital has built a massive deficit. Investor Nicholas Tange, whose nickname is Vulture, comes up with a turnaround plan for the hospital. His plan implements restructuring and cost-cutting. By Nicholas ...more -
![A Life]()
When Okita Kazuaki was starting out as a doctor, he was forced to resign from the hospital. He left his girlfriend, Danjo Mifuyu, behind and went to the US alone. 10 years ...more -
![Heart to Heart]()
Cha Hong Do suffers from social phobia and has a problem with severe blushing. She does have a strong sense of curiosity and learns from books and the internet. One day, her ...more -
![6 Persons Room]()
After the dramatic-looking accident, Min Soo goes to the 6-person hospital room. He wakes up surrounded by women themselves. We will learn about their stories, to the accompaniment of humor and mystery. -
![Risky Romance]()
Han Seung Joo is a neurosurgeon with a strong desire for winning. Joo In Ah is an endocrinologist who's obsessed with hormones. They fall in love. (Source: MyDramaList) -
![Umi no Ue no Shinryoujo]()
Doctor Kouta Sezaki works on a clinic ship, which sails around the Seto Inland Sea. He's talented as a doctor, but possesses a weakness to fall easily in love with women. When ...more -
![Marry Me Now?]()
Park Yoo Ha studied hard in medical school and finished her internship course. She works hard to become a doctor due to her father. Her father raised 4 children by himself and ...more -
![Dr. Champ]()
Kim Yeon Woo is an orthopedic doctor who takes up a new post at Taereung National Village, the training center for national Olympic athletes, after she is fired from her previous job. ...more -
![Hello, God]()
The story is about a bright and innocent 27 years old guy with an IQ of 65. Because of his issues he is neglected by society and frowned upon, but he tries ...more -
![Soul Mechanic]()
How do you deal with anger? Where does happiness actually come from? These questions are at the heart of Fix You, a touching drama about a quirky psychiatrist on a mission to ...more -
![Kounodori Season 2]()
Set two years later. The story follows the growth and conflicts of Kounotori Sakura. He works as a doctor delivering babies and also performs as a concert pianist under the nickname of ...more -
![Radiation House Special]()
During his flight to the United States, Igarashi is faced with an emergency situation. Is he able to overcome it? While the radiation house department is preparing a life without Igarashi. (Source: ...more -
![Dr. Park’s Clinic]()
Dr. Park Won Jang recently opened his own internal medicine clinic. His goal is to become acknowledged as a skilled physician and make a lot of money in the process. He thought ...more -
![Mr. Brain]()
Ryusuke Tsukumo is a quirky yet brilliant neuroscientist working for the National Research Institute of Police Science. Wielding a unique perspective and psychology, Tsukumo tackles the nation’s most baffling crimes and scandals, ...more -
![Dr. Brain]()
An emotional journey that follows a brain scientist who is obsessive about figuring out new technologies to access the consciousness and memories of the brain. His life goes sideways when his family ...more -
![Horse Doctor]()
Born from a low caste, Baek Gwang Hyun first started working as a horse doctor, then worked his way up to become a famous veterinarian. Eventually, he became a doctor appointed to ...more -
![Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist]()
Yoo Se Poong’s legendary abilities as a physician are well-known in the royal palace. Nonetheless, he was expelled from the royal court when his involvement in a conspiracy against the royal family ...more -
![If You Wish Upon Me]()
Yoon Kyeo Re is a young man who has known nothing but misery ever since he was a child. He was abused while still a boy and had a horrid time at ...more
