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Greys Anatomy to The Resident, 5 medical dramas that will leave you fascinated

Being a doctor is one of the most challenging professions that exist, with the incredible power to save a fellow humans life. Along with the immense mental prowess, one must possess to undertake this demanding career, one must also navigate the fragile emotions of family members and the complicated power dynamics at play. If youre sick of watching reality shows and sitcoms, these intense medical dramas are the perfect watch to get you lost in the world of scalpels and scrubs.

Here are 5 stellar medical dramas to binge-watch across various OTT platforms:

The intense series revolves around a young doctor with autism who is navigating the intricate structure of hospital hierarchies. From standoffish coworkers to the crushing pressure of his field, the series explores the many challenges the dedicated professional faces. Essayed by brilliant child actor Freddie Highmore, this series addresses the topic of autism with accuracy and destigmatizes common myths with its spot-on character portrayal. Catch the latest season that addresses the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic on Colors Infinity.

One of the longest-running medical dramas on television, this powerful TV series is renowned for capturing the entire spectrum of human emotions, from devastating loss and immense joy. Set in Seattle, the series documents the lives of medical professionals, the intriguing cases they encounter and the complicated relationships between coworkers. Lauded for their inclusivity, the series remains a fan favorite across generations.

Is it even a medical show if not chock full of drama? Exposing the harsh realities of the medical world, this series delves into politics, bad bosses and more as these novice doctors deal with the day-to-day challenges of the tough profession. From romance with coworkers to complex cases, this show has it all.

Centered around the Sherlock and Watson of the medical world, the series is lead by Gregory House, a brilliant but brash doctor who is plagued by his chronic pain caused by a surgery gone wrong. His team of specialists race against the clock as they work in the one-of-a-kind department of diagnostic medicine. Known for butting heads with his patients as well as administration, Houses biting wit and brilliant mind make this series beyond fascinating.

Set in the windy city of Chicago, this series is a part of the Chicago franchise, often crossing over with shows Chicago Fire and Chicago PD. It revolves around the accident and emergency department of a hospital, detailing the pressure doctors and nurses experience when dealing with the horrific cases of trauma they witness in the grueling department.

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A little fan feedback doesnt hurt according to Ellen Pompeo. The Greys Anatomy star said she understood where fans were coming from when they criticized season 17 of the medical drama.

One viewer took to Twitter and praised the show, saying the latest season is the most groundbreaking, life changing season, but another disagreed.

I guess Im an alien because this season was dumpster trash! I love the show but not this season, the audience member tweeted in response.

Pompeo, 51, quoted the exchange on Twitter and replied, All good! Seventeen seasons we cant please everyone all the time its definitely not easy keeping it going and keeping it great I get it thanks for checking it out anyway and thanks for your feedback it matters sending you love.

Some of Pompeos followers were offended that the person didnt like season 17. However, the Meredith Grey actress, who is one of three remaining original cast members, defended the critical fan. But why is someone saying they didnt like something bad? Its literally been on for two decades!! Let her live there is plenty of st I dont like the Boston native added.

The star added that she only finished one long-running show, The Sopranos. The show spanned 86 episodes over six seasons, which doesnt come close to Greys 380 episodes.

The 17th season of Greys Anatomy was almost entirely focused on COVID-19, making the romantic medical show much darker. Meredith was eventually infected with the virus and went into a coma where she reunited with many of the characters whod died on the show, including Derek Shepard, Mers late husband.

The coronavirus story was what convinced actor Patrick Dempsey to reprise his role as the brain surgeon after leaving the show in 2015 when his character died. It was really for us to get the message out there to wear a mask, take care of yourself, he told Variety in April of her reason for returning.

He wouldnt turn down a season 18 arc, though. Who knows? Never say never with this show, right? the Enchanted actor, 55, teased. Im glad we did it this year. And [showrunner] Krista Vernoff did a fantastic job telling the story. It was just a great way to give people some hope.

As for whether COVID-19 will play a part in the next season, Pompeo said viewers would have to wait until fall to find out, but shes pretty sure next season will be lighter. I honestly dont know but I dont think so, she added. Its been a lot for everyone hopefully the worst is behind us.

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Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery on "Grey's Anatomy." Gilles Mingasson/ABC via Getty Images

Jesse Williams told Insider on Tribeca's closing night red carpet he knows fans want a Japril show.

He left "Grey's Anatomy" in May with other projects lined up, but doesn't dismiss a future spinoff.

"I won't say it's not a possibility. I sure as hell won't say that," Williams told Insider.

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Jesse Williams departed "Grey's Anatomy" back in May, but he's well aware that fans would love to see a continuation of his character Jackson Avery's story with April Kepner (Jackson's longtime love interest, played by Sarah Drew).

The actor didn't shut down the possibility of a Jackson and April (or "Japril," as they're affectionately known to fans) spinoff series, separate from "Grey's Anatomy," while speaking with Insider on the red carpet for Tribeca Festival's closing night film, "Dave Chappelle: This Time This Place," at New York City's Radio City Music Hall last Saturday.

"It's all love. It feels good," Williams said of how passionately fans are campaigning for Japril spinoff.

Though Williams has plenty of other projects lined up (he teased to Insider on the red carpet that he signed on for a new movie with Owen Wilson and Michael Pea just hours before arriving), he still has plenty of love for the "Grey's" fandom.

The actor, who will next make his Broadway debut in a revival of the play "Take Me Out" next year, also agrees the idea for a spinoff that viewers are pitching, following a reunited Jackson and April as they move to Boston to help underserved and underrepresented communities through Jackson's family's foundation, "makes total sense."

Sarah Drew returned to "Grey's Anatomy" for the season 17 episode "Look Up Child" ahead of Williams' exist to help close out Jackson's storyline. ABC/Richard Cartwright

"It's a really interesting premise. We would kill it," Williams continued, adding that his former costar Drew "is such a tremendous person and actor."

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"So, I get it. I'm with them," he added.

Of course, there's a difference between liking the idea and being open to actually helming a spinoff.

While Williams obviously can't make any promises, he believes such a show can certainly happen in the future.

"I won't say it's not a possibility. I sure as hell won't say that," he told Insider.

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The past two TV seasons were affected by the pandemic in more ways than just offscreen (with production shutdowns and adjustments to availability and what scenes could and could not be filmed). They also, in some cases, featured fewer episodes of some of our favorite shows. But that wasnt necessarily a bad thing.

For example, when it came to medical dramas that incorporated COVID-19 (like Greys Anatomy), it might allow the shows to distance next season slightly from it with most of the pandemic (except for long-term effects) left in the past. For procedurals, it resulted in tighter storylines and less time spent chasing after a suspect (like on Law & Order: Organized Crime). And for one kiss that was seasons in the making, it might have meant fewer episodes to finally see that happen.

Scroll down as we take a look at the shows that benefited from shorter seasons in 2020-2021 based on the current storylines.

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'NCIS,' 'Grey's Anatomy' & More Shows That Benefited From Shorter Seasons - TV Insider

In 2015, the terrorist organisation Islamic State released an article in their propaganda magazine titled Extinction of the Grayzone. In it, they laid out their plan to essentially divide all countries in the world, and particularly the West, into two groups: those that sided with them and everyone else.

They described everyone who is currently in the middle particularly moderate Muslims as gray.

In her piece for The New York Times on being a Muslim in the grayzone, Laila Lalami notes that the organisation even credits George W Bush for their ideology, citing his well-touted phrase youre either with us, or youre with the terrorists as the central nugget of their thinking.

Fast forward five years, the best illustration of this polarisation happens on Instagram in a war of black- and white-coloured squares.

In June 2020, amid the Black Lives Matter protests, prominent musicians in the US proposed Blackout Tuesday as a way to show their solidarity by posting a black square on Instagram. It was meant to symbolise a day where they all downed tools to show the impact of black people on culture. Instead, as it spread across Instagram, it became an easy way for millions of people across the world to show their solidarity with the movement.

In reaction, the white supremacist hashtags #WhiteoutWednesday #WhiteLivesMatter sprung up on Twitter and Instagram as people against the Black Lives Matter movement started posting white squares on their feeds.

Islamic State certainly did not come up with the idea of us vs them, but the grayzone gives us a simple way of describing exactly what it is that is lacking in important conversations like the one above: an understanding of all the shades of meaning in between.

Whats happening in our brains that makes us so quick to choose a side, defend it so forcefully, and leave no room for a wider scope of thinking? The answer is emotional, biological and systemic.

According to the University of Johannesburg Psychology departments Dr Sumayya Ebrahim, it comes from a place of fear and anxiety.

Its a defensive reaction so that you dont put yourself at risk for judgement and criticism from others. Making a stand and putting yourself forward can be fraught, so its easier to go with a group than to object.

Stanford biology professor and author Robert Sapolsky takes it a step further in explaining exactly why its so rewarding for us to stick with our chosen group. He says that humans have an instinct to separate into us vs them thinking, and weirdly enough its fuelled by the love hormone oxytocin.

Oxytocin promotes pro-social behaviour. Until people look closely. And it turns out oxytocin does all those wondrous things only for people who you think of as an Us, as an in-group member. It improves in-group favouritism, in-group parochialism.

So, while it is a fear-based decision to stick to a homogenous group opinion, its chemically rewarded in the brain through feelings of belonging and validation.

We may have little control over our biological reaction to our choices, but to systems thinking expert Ncedisa Nkonyeni, the problem of this type of thinking is also structural, and is reinforced by factors like privilege.

Nkonyeni, who convenes the systems change and social impact course at the Bertha Foundation, explains: It happens anywhere where theres a fear of difference and overreliance on the supremacy of a single group, or a single person.

In a context where theres great homogeneity within a specific group around something that they all identify with, and in doing so are awarded a certain status because of it, and that status awards certain decision-making capabilities that enable that group to centralise power and control.

Ebrahim also found that this behaviour is strongly associated with our ideas of identity. Psychologically, we struggle to separate our emotions from the positions or actions we take because we think of them as identity markers.

Were protective over our own positions because we put a bit of ourselves and a bit of our identity forward when we take a position publicly on any topic. Almost every single topic is political in a sense, these days even a preference for hair colour or body hair, for example.

Because of this, we feel vulnerable and we are ready to defend.

Not only are we ready to defend our positions, our need to protect our standing becomes so focal that we also become almost blind to any other discerning information.

In his psychology book You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself, David McRaney calls this phenomenon the backfire effect:

Once something is added to your collection of beliefs, you protect it from harm. You do this instinctively and unconsciously when confronted with attitude-inconsistent information. Just as confirmation bias shields you when you actively seek information, the backfire effect defends you when the information seeks you, when it blindsides you. Coming or going, you stick to your beliefs instead of questioning them. When someone tries to correct you, tries to dilute your misconceptions, it backfires and strengthens those misconceptions instead.

As we go about our lives, living in a society that supports an almost tribalistic form of polarisation along race and class lines, coupled with oxytocin-fuelled belligerence in our everyday interactions, how do we stop ourselves from giving into every pull towards one side or another, and further and further from the gray?

Nkonyeni believes the framework of systems thinking can help us to think in more nuanced ways.

She explains: Systems thinking moves from a place that acknowledges the complex systems that we operate in and the first part of doing that is letting go of the illusion that we can control the system in which we operate.

She points out three things that form the framework of systems thinking, and suggests these could be tools to help us train ourselves towards more nuanced thinking, and to take more complex positions and actions.

The first is an acknowledgement of paradox. What groupthink doesnt allow for is the existence of legitimate paradox that two things that contradict each other can actually be true at the same time.

The second is emergence the acknowledgement that just because you do or say something, does not mean your intended outcome is the only possible outcome.

Systems thinking acknowledges that within complex systems you cannot claim causality. Youve got all these different variables all in relation to one another, and just because I do something to one of these variables doesnt mean that they will only experience that action, and not any of the other influences that are acting on them within the system.

The third point is acknowledging that no one group or person can or should have all the answers. Be it on social media, within a company or society as a whole, Nkonyeni says that for a more nuanced approach to happen, we need to consider that different people are all authorities in different contexts.

Transforming systems is a collective action that draws on the intelligence of the system and those who contribute to it. No one authority knows everything although, unfortunately, a lot of parts of society have become quite used to allowing that and not questioning that.

That is not to say that there shouldnt be an individual effort to think more critically. Ebrahim advises that a good starting point for self-reflection is separating emotion from your argument.

If you had to defend yourself logically and rationally, ask yourself what argument would you use other than an emotional argument? she advises.

And with that reflection could come an openness that Nkonyeni suggests is essential to being able to think in a more complex framework.

A willingness to be affected can help people start to think in a more nuanced way. A willingness to share power and unlearn some of the taken-for-granted truths that have been passed onto you. A willingness to be wrong and see what intel there is on the other side of being wrong. DM/ML

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Temporary change or permanent shift?

Some may view the pandemic as having served as a minor shift in market leadership, with growth primed to regain its position. Inglis-Jones said European equity markets in general are no longer cheap and are actually looking expensive relative to history. However, this does not spell doom for value.

There are three reasons for this. First, the majority of stock markets high valuations is attributable to the expensiveness of growth and quality stocks. Value stocks by contrast, despite the strong rally of recent months, are still priced cheaply relative to history.

Second, value stocks now have momentum. A year ago, making a value bet in a portfolio meant a negative bet on momentum as the strong momentum cohort was dominated by growth stocks. This is no longer the case today indeed our portfolios have strong biases to both value and momentum, whereas a year ago the momentum bet was strongly negative.

This is a development in the world of factor investing that has not occurred for a number of years and is highly positive for values prospects - we noticed that when value stocks also carry a strong momentum signature we were unable to find in the history a period when value did not perform strongly.

Finally, we would point to the sheer scale of the underperformance of value in the last decade. Value has a lot of catching up to do as the chart above makes clear. Whilst it may seem as if value stocks have had a strong six months, they have merely begun to mend the devastating performance they have delivered to investors in recent years.

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