The hospital series is back, in a dirtier and hospital

The blonde doctor Danny has a stormy relationship with the dark -haired doctor Xander. He is suspended, after which Danny takes his place as leader of the emergency department in Miami. When a vertebral storm starts in Florida and the hospital fully flows, the two must put their feelings aside and collaborate.

Pulse is called the new hospital series that can be seen on Netflix from Thursday 3 April. Presumably we will see ambulance drivers who push in stretches through the hinged doors at a rapid pace while screaming the blood pressure and heartbeat of the patients. Under high pressure, the doctors go to work, effective and practical, sometimes cynical, usually loving. The surgeons are cutting suboptimally for fifteen hours, their sense of responsibility is above everything else. And you keep looking because you want to know who survives and who dies.

Pulse is only the first hospital series of Netflix. Since the sixties, hospital series have been part of the fixed repertoire of traditional TV channels, they did not often make the streaming services. Until recently, they preferred to focus on expensive quality series with a limited duration. Endlessly running genre pieces, with their regular pattern, did not hear in between. But now that streaming services are becoming more and more like traditional TV, there is also room for a series like Pulse.

Hospital series have a beneficial effect. That argues the Italian study Investigating Medical Drama TV Series from 2023. According to Guglielmo Pescatore, professor of Media Studies in Bologna, the series offer a compressed mini -diversion of society and an open debate room to reflect on ethical dilemmas, on the erratic and fragile of a human life, and abortus, abortus, abortus.

Above all, they increase our knowledge of health care. According to the study, for example, hospital series have broken the taboo on cancer. Pescatore: « By humanizing disease, by depicting it as a problem that can be tackled, instead of as an uncontrollable fate, hospital series contribute to a lasting shift in the way society sees health problems. »

Doctor Kildare is considered the father of the genre: in the 1930s and 1940s he already had a film series. There are now hundreds. We know St. Elsewhere,,  » There,,  » Chicago Hope. The genre works best if you mix it with others. Usually that is romance (Gray’s Anatomy) But you can also turn it into a sitcom (Scrubs), a war series (M*A*S*H) or a detective à la Sherlock Holmes (House). Hospital series were off the tube in the Netherlands for a while, but since last year Medical Center West Back, on SBS6. Just like other genre series, hospital series have strong competition from reality as well as The Children’s Hospitalwhether Emergency help 24/7.

HBO Max is also a bit easier with the expensive, risky quality series, and has had a long -term hospital series since January: The Pittworn by Noah Wyle, known as a doctor Carter in There. As leader of the emergency department in a hospital in Philadelphia, he accompanies three vegetables, while his traumas from the coronation time regularly play. The series shows a fifteen -hour service in real time – one hour per episode. The skilled doctor is not confronted with a hurricane, but with a Mass Shooting At a festival.

The Pitt Contains all the ingredients of an average hospital series and at the same time rises far above. It is usual than usual: the camera likes to make extreme close-ups of horrible wounds. As one Running gag a newcomer is constantly being sprayed with ointment, urine and blood. Partly because of this, the series feels a lot of realistic than usual – American doctors prices The Pitt For her correct representation of the practice.

The Italian professor Pescatore can also be satisfied: The Pitt Offers ample attention to social topics, in the first place to market forces in healthcare, which means that the hospital is overcrowded and under -financed. The series is not openly anti-Trump, but the activist actor Noah Wyle would like to make it clear that medical facts are not just some opinions, and that a lifetime is not a merchandise.

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