Today’s Find: “Monroe” is a British medical TV series that ran for 12 episodes in 2011 and 2012 tinyurl.com/35zne934 Featuring Dr. Gabriel Monroe a brilliant but unusual neurosurgeon. Premiered 10 Mar 2011 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: “Gunsmoke” episode “Home Surgery” on radio 13 Sept 1952 & TV 8 Oct 1955. Rancher has gangrenous leg & Marshall Dillon has to amputate. Surgery not shown, just preop prep—boiling water, bandages, horse tail hair to tie off arteries & liquor consumption. Patient dies #medicaltv #histmed

Today’s Find: “Empty Nest” American TV comedy centered on pediatrician Harry Weston in Miami that ran for seven seasons on NBC from Oct 8, 1988, to April 29, 1995. First 5 seasons featured his work in a hospital & his Southern nurse Luverne tinyurl.com/45wy9nwe #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: Wikipedia has a nice list of fictional medical examiners at tinyurl.com/5b499bv4 Jack Klugman played Quincy in the NBC US TV series broadcast from 3 Oct 1976 until 11 May 1983 tinyurl.com/yk6rkjkk #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: “Scrubs” a U.S. medical TV series originally ran 2 Oct 2001-17 March 2010. The comedy-drama focused on physicians & nurses at a teaching hospital tinyurl.com/4d6wbusb #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: “Dr. Ken” an American comedy medical TV series that ran on ABC 2 Oct 2015 to 31 March 2017. Created by Ken Jeong, a physician who became a standup comedian tinyurl.com/v3kt8u8 & tinyurl.com/akxdbshc #histmed #medicaltv #medicalhistory

1961 Oct 2: Popular American TV medical drama "Ben Casey" premiered on ABC; the show ran until 1966 tinyurl.com/pjbc4q8 Vince Edwards starred as the young, intense--and of course handsome--neurosurgeon #medicalhistory #medicaltv #histmed

Today’s Find: Dr. Mark Piper [Paul Fix] was the first physician aboard the USS Enterprise in "Star Trek:The Original Series" when the TV show premiered in 1966. He was soon replaced by Leonard McCoy [DeForest Kelley] tinyurl.com/4yuvzhnt #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: “The Indian Doctor” a British medical comedy that ran for 15 episodes in 2010-2013. The titular character begins practice in a mining village in south Wales in the 1960’s tinyurl.com/2yuexw9d #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today's Find: "Marcus Welby, MD", was a very popular U.S. TV show that ran from 1969-1976 tinyurl.com/ydeldr7w Robert Young played the kindly family doctor. This Sept 27, 1969 issue was the first of several featuring the show on the cover #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today's Find: "Carol's Second Act" is a US TV medical comedy about a woman who has raised 2 children, retires from teaching, goes to medical school & is beginning her internship tinyurl.com/yy9caskl Premiered on CBS Sept 26, 2019; cancelled May 2020 #medicalhistory #medicaltv

1926 Sept 26: Singer & actress Julie London was born. Among other film/TV roles she starred in "Emergency!" a popular US TV show in the 1970's tinyurl.com/ap5hugo Died 18 Oct 2000 tinyurl.com/y6f3b53t #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: After his successful “Ben Casey” Vince Edwards starred in another medical TV series, “Matt Lincoln” as a psychiatrist who started a telephone hotline for troubled teens tinyurl.com/yc8ckkyn
The show ran for 16 episodes 24 Sept 1970-14 Jan 1971 #histmed #medicaltv #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: “Diagnosis: Unknown” was a U.S. medical TV drama that ran July 5 until Sept 20, 1960 as a summer replacement series. Starred Patrick O’Neal as a city hospital pathologist tinyurl.com/y35d89p6 #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today's Find: "Doogie Howser, MD" a US medical TV show about a teenage doctor that ran on the ABC network Sept 19, 1989 to Mar 24, 1993 tinyurl.com/melft7j This 16 Dec 1989 issue of "TV Guide" also contains an article about how unrealistic the show was #histmed #medicaltv

Today's Find: “Julia” was an American TV comedy that ran from 17 Sept 1968 until 23 March 1971. Diahann Carroll played a nurse working in the office of a doctor played by Lloyd Nolan tinyurl.com/y4jxpuk9 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicaltv

Today's Find: "Breaking Point" was a U.S. TV medical drama that ran Sept 16, 1963 until April 27, 1964. Paul Richards starred as chief resident in psychiatry tinyurl.com/rfr28gf The show was a "Ben Casey" spinoff #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today's Find: "Holby City" is a British medical TV drama that premiered in Jan 1999 tinyurl.com/y9r2hk97 The show is a spinoff from "Casualty" which began Sept 1986 & is set in the same hospital tinyurl.com/yacfk5fe #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: “Medical Investigation” was an American TV series on NBC that ran for 20 episodes Sept 9, 2004-Mar 25, 2005. An elite team from the National Institutes of Health investigates unusual public health crises tinyurl.com/yaudnq7a #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today’s Find: “Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.” is an American TV series that premiered Sept 8, 2021. In this version of “Doogie Howser, M.D.” young Harvard Med Sch grad juggles high school & medicine. Mother is also a physician tinyurl.com/a9re39fc & tinyurl.com/w4dep37h #medicaltv #medicalhistory