Undoubtably a pilot movie for a potential series as the main credits for the first five actors list both their real names and the character name whom they are portraying. The remaining featured players are introduced as "guest starring."
Competently made, but nothing about it stands out, either. Most likely greenlit by ABC to jump on the hospital bandwagon as CBS struck gold the previous year as their series Medical Center proved to be a huge success. Personally, I'm not much of a fan of television medical dramas as they really all seem indistinguishable to me. The only one I liked enough to watch 3 or 4 seasons of was "ER" and even that got tiresome eventually. Once you discard the new diseases or injuries that must be treated each week, what's left are interpersonal dramas and lovey-dovey affairs in the hospital which bore me to death (is there a pill to treat that, Doc?). Basically they're all soap operas with stethoscopes.
Competently made, but nothing about it stands out, either. Most likely greenlit by ABC to jump on the hospital bandwagon as CBS struck gold the previous year as their series Medical Center proved to be a huge success. Personally, I'm not much of a fan of television medical dramas as they really all seem indistinguishable to me. The only one I liked enough to watch 3 or 4 seasons of was "ER" and even that got tiresome eventually. Once you discard the new diseases or injuries that must be treated each week, what's left are interpersonal dramas and lovey-dovey affairs in the hospital which bore me to death (is there a pill to treat that, Doc?). Basically they're all soap operas with stethoscopes.