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Nice balance of analytical thinking and the mystical, as well as looking at the materialistic and service orientation, of one's life. It was fast-paced but thought provoking. I really liked it! I am in the health care field and am rather discerning about these types of shows. This one had the depth to hold my interest, as well as accurate medical information. It really depicted the thinking of the traditional left-brained physician, and evolved to demonstrate how "rational" that physicians are, traditionally. I liked that this opener challenged that thinking. I felt that the characters were well chosen for this series and that lent further credibility to the show. The mark of a good opener for any series is that it is interesting, has depth, and leaves one yearning for more. I felt that this show definitely did just that. It made me wonder, "What will be next?" I would definitely recommend this show to others.

This is a great show. If you like medical dramas with some supernatural and comic relief mixed in. The show moves at a pace with minimal drag on parts. If you liked the movie passengers with Ann Hathaway and Patrick Wilson who stars in this ironically too, then you will really enjoy this. Its a show where all you have to do is watch one episode and you are hooked, trust me. Its also a show where you wont want the episode to end and you will look forward to the next one all week. Its a combo ER and Grey's anatomy, ghost but roles flipped flopped. What makes it better then those two is the pace the show goes at, plus the show is funny too without forcing it and trying to be. Saying he is a gifted surgeon is an understatement, but he lacks people skills which makes the show funny to. Please give this show a shot for one show, you will love it.

It is so refreshing to see a new show of this caliber. I have this show set to record on DVR because I never want to miss an episode. The cast is perfect and it is so refreshing to see someone in the medical profession willing to help others without the concern of money. There is so much greed in the world it is a sin the way many people can not afford proper medical treatment in this country. This is not only true of the poor but also the middle class. I would love to see this show continue on the line up for next season and future seasons to come. In my opinion this was the best Friday night new show of the season. I would hate to see this how canceled before it got off the ground.

totally Love this show.. just the right mixture of all emotions..like the the way the show can make me laugh and cry all in the same episode. one of my favorites this season.. A GIFTED MAN..really like the new women that's heading up the clinic but was really disappointed when you find out she is married.. honestly cant wait for next weeks episode.. its every mans night mare to be haunted by his x wife but i wouldn't mind it if she was always happy and cheery like the ghost wife on this show. its almost like the the good doctors conscience always leading him the right way to go even when he don't want to.. i was also impressed with the moral messages that were portrayed related to current issues in today's society..

A possible reason why so many films and TV shows are set in New York is the feeling that just about anything can happen here. And when you have that element working for you, it becomes a wide open canvas on which the characters in the story can play. This is an example of a program trying to be both realistic and fantastic all at the same time.

Patrick Wilson played Dr. Michael Holt, a quintessentially arrogant but renowned Manhattan neurosurgeon, whose practice was making money hand over fist because all of his patients had Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage.

One night, he bumped into his ex-wife, Anna Paul, portrayed by Jennifer Ehle, who also happened to be a doctor, but a lot more down to earth: she ran a free clinic in Alphabet City. Michael and Anna instantly hit it off, just like old times, back in Alaska where they struggled when they were first married. So just when Holt thinks he might be rekindling things, he learns a horrible and bizarre truth: Anna died two weeks before he saw her that night.

The initial reaction was that Michael maybe should have a visit to the doctors on 379's "3 Lbs." and gotten a brain scan (if they could have done a crossover episode). In fact, he was seeing and connecting with the spirit of his former spouse and she had a bunch of stuff to share with him and some unfinished business of her own.

This changes everything for Dr. Holt who starts "taking meetings" with Dr. Paul, finding some empty room so he could talk to her about various elements of his job and about her former practice - it seems she left the Alphabet City patients in disarray and the staff needed access to her computer to make sense of some things. Some of the time, this is amusing as Holt is talking to himself as if he is speaking to another person. Other times it seems like the doctor is having a breakdown to the people around him.

Meanwhile, Julie Benz played Michael's sister Christina, who believes in the supernatural and is encouraging Michael to explore the factors involved in what he can see and how this is something that is both meant for him to be a part of and is proof of her philosophy. And it wouldn't hurt if Michael became less of a total jerk, with Anna's spiritual influence.

New York played a part in that classic "haves and have nots" way, with the wealthiest people who need medical help waltzing into Michael's gleaming hospital wing with every new medical device to help enhance or save their lives, and the people of the Lower East Side, barely able to cover their costs, struggling to get some doctoring for their health concerns at Anna's overcrowded clinic.

The always capable Margo Martindale played Michael's assistant and added some much needed gravitas and humor to the mix and Pablo Schreiber was a shaman Michael met, who worked part time at the Lower East Side clinic, and who helped Michael understand the elements of the spiritual, and was an ex of his sister.

Let's note the pedigree of the behind the scenes players on this series: Susannah Grant, who created the program, wrote the screenplay to Julia Roberts' Academy Award winning performance of "Erin Brockovich" and Jonathan Demme was one of the program's producers and directors.

I think it's difficult to have such an unsympathetic character at the center of a series. Yes, Dr. Holt is brilliant, but his bedside manner sucks and he treats his co-workers like meaningless underlings for the most part, even as he was learning to find his humanity again through his pro bono medical work. Maybe if he were a quicker study in human nature, more people would have been attracted to him, and to this show, which was, if you could stomach Dr. Holt, pretty good.

I was nicely surprised when I finished watching the first episode of Gifted Man. Even it is placed in medical context it is not like any of medical drama shows on TV. Many of them are so popular, and some of them are very good made, but they are all almost the same and are oriented only in character relations and melodramatics in everyday life.

So I don't watch them. If I would be medical professional I would probably watch them all. On the other hand everything that is different from conventional, and have a bit of mystery in it always attracts me. And that medical part here, looks serious and professional.

With that in mind I was happy to see what Gifted Man will tell me. I was not disappointed at all, at least with pilot. Not some masterpiece but overall, it is very good and even in medical context not like any well known medical show we know.

First we have very good actors in it, like it is Patrick Wilson and Julie Benz, and second, the spiritual world. I am interesting to see how they will develop this, maybe the hardest and questionable aspect. So it is not an easy task. It must be presented somehow believable. If they fail in in it the whole show will fall. For now the segment in dealing with what me missed through life was very good and it fits right.

I don't know much about Shaman's ritual, but I hope they present it in correct way.

So with first very good impression, I am happy to see where it will go, and I hope I will not be disappointed.

This is a decent series, but not brilliant. It's billed as a medical drama with a supernatural twist, but to be honest, the supernatural twist is barely noticeable. The "ghost" only appears about once in each episode and generally for no more than a "chat" with the doctor.

All the episode follow a pretty predictable route from start to finish and the characters are very loosely built. I really struggle to "like" any of them if I'm honest because you don't get to know any of them. Add to that, that in todays money orientated world, the story lines of bringing street urchins to the multi million dollar surgery and performing multi trillion dollar operations on them for the price of a smile, are just a little too sickly and unbelievable.

I had high hopes for this series, but even though it's very watchable, it is a serious disappointment..

I happened to love the pilot, and was excited about the follow-ups.

Instead of exploring the great initial idea for the show, they've strayed into a regular run-of-the-mill medic show, which is fine, had it not been that so many other shows already do that much better than this.

I think it's very sad, and a lost opportunity, that they've squandered a good premise in this way.

All that's left now of the "spirit" / "ghost" theme, is that she's acting as a voice-over, albeit appearing visually. And a pretty dull one, at that.

I have spent the entire weekend watching the first 12 episodes and at first I thought it was a little like House but then I got over it. I like Michael Holt and I like that he reveals a little of himself every week. The menagerie that accompanies him every week fits in with each episode and the writing is quite good.

I know it's probably headed for the scrapheap because most of the good ones are but I hope it reveals a lot more of Michael and Anna's relationship that we don't know already.

I love Rita and while I didn't like her at first she is the type to grow on you and certainly would pull the group at the Clinic into line and probably get them the money they need to continue to support the community.

Good one! Well done and let's hope that if the show is canceled that Patrick Wilson finds another home on TV very soon. He would be sorely missed otherwise.

Michael Holt (Patrick Wilson) is a cold highly successful surgeon at a high price clinic. His ex-wife Anna Paul (Jennifer Ehle) runs a poor clinic and thinks that he's lost his way. The estranged couple run into each other but later, he discovers that she's been dead all along. Her ghost continues to haunt him to be a better man. Rita (Margo Martindale) is his assistant. Dr. Kate Sykora (Rachelle Lefevre) took over Anna's clinic after her death.

Generally, it's a medical procedural as Michael learns to be kind. Patrick works well in movies as a complicated leading man, but as a TV lead, he needs a lot more likability. Its premise has some edge but it needs to figure out the tone. The series lasted one year.

Greetings, I think this show is the best show that has hit the screen in a long time. PLEASE keep the show going. We need shows like this it is serious and informative as well. I think the cast as a whole is an 11-More than excellent. LOVE IT. I would like to say that the Patrick is one of the best actors I have ever seen, he is witty and very serious. He plays the part of Dr. Holt. I know that this is just a show, however I think the real Doctors in real life should take a look at this show. Attitude is what I am talking about. Professional people need to take note of peoples feelings and act on this. Wear a smile on your face. Not all things are bad.

The drama and cast are excellent. I am looking forward to CBC renewing this show. It surpasses the other medical dramas and shows like Bachelor, etc.

I put this one on my Friday night agenda so I don't forget to catch it the following week! I actually sit in front of the TV before the show starts so as not to miss a minute. I am not related to the actors or crew. The first episode captured me and has never let me go.

A Gifted Man is an intelligent, original, well-acted, meaningful series with twists and turns, excitement and emotion. DO NOT let this one pass. CBS should most definitely give it a couple of seasons to grow even better.

After viewing the third episode, these are my thoughts: I really quite like this show. It has a major Broadway star (Raul Esparza) in a supporting role and he's excellent (that's just a side note - thank you show runners). The premise is so much better than Ghost Whisperer, whose spirituality I found, at best, pretty saccharine. I did however, like the relationship between Melissa and Jim. You can't do much better than Jennifer Ehle as Dr. Holt's dead wife. Patrick Wilson is such a beautiful man and talented actor that I'm totally buying into his narcissistic Neurosurgeon character, who has enough restraint to not go after every woman he sees, and a good amount of decency left as a man and a doctor to still care about every patient, not just the rich. That inner struggle is what will keep the show interesting (and that people keep catching him talking to thin air is very amusing. He has a lot to learn about how to keep that on the down-low). So it's walking a fine line right now. He needs to always be somewhat torn, struggling with his sense of privilege, or it will turn into Dr. Michael Holt, Social Worker.

I sort of feel that his situation is like the Rolling Stones cover of You Can't Always Get What You Want (But if you try sometime, you just might find You get what you need). There seems to be a spiritual force involved that is trying to make him more balanced, to feel on a deeper level than exulting in his art as a surgeon (what we saw in the premiere episode was pretty cold and contained, but he has thawed a bit in each episode).

I like this show enough to stick with it and gave it a solid 7 out of 10 because it has room to grow.

I love this show! It has grown on me more and more each week. I love all the characters especially Michael Holt played by Patrick Wilson who is yummy! I find myself mesmerized by Patrick Wilson every time and hour goes by and I feel like it's only been 15 minutes! I truly hope CBS will give this another season. I will be heart broken if they cancel it, it gives me something to look forward to each week. The acting, and actors are Fantastic and story lines are wonderful each and every week. I can't remember the last time I fell in love with a show like this, Oh yes Moonlight also on Fridays on CBS. So I guess I should start bracing myself for they are sure to cancel another great show.

The premise of The Gifted Man is that this physicians x wife visits the doctor and influences his decisions and actions from the great beyond. However, as the series has progressed, the supernatural is diminishing to the point of it hardly playing a role at all in the story line. So what was a very good "mix" of science and the supernatural has simply become an "okay" medical show. I began watching this show because of the supernatural premise. I am not really interested in a medical drama with no edge. I hope the producers and writers understand their oversight and reintroduce more supernatural subjects such as speaking to the dead. The idea that made the series successful has now lost its luster. Me and my circle of friends have begun to lose interest and it will not be long that we stop watching. I have a feeling this show will not be around for too much longer as it is simply "okay" and nothing super special.

I can't believe I'm offering my opinion on A Gifted Man for public consumption. Ignore my rating; it's a come-on. What interests me is not the show itself so much as my reaction to it. It's easy to find fault. It's a TV medical drama, and behaves like it. Still, I keep watching it. It's also easy to find positive things about the show as well. Now that all of the episodes are no longer available for purchase online (why that would be is a mystery), I've spent what I consider to be a good chunk of money on the DVD set (through the back door of eBay) so that I can watch the now missing episodes. A lost treasure recovered? Really? I don't know if you, dear reader, have experienced this predicament, where you watch TV shows you can't justify to anyone, you just watch them. Again and again.

I got started with this show on Netflix. I had hoped to see a Season 2. Seems CBS canceled this show before they really even gave it a decent chance. I truly enjoyed the concept of this show and the message that it relays. It's been awhile since I have found a prime time show that actually had a truly inspirational message hidden within the story line. In an age where we see so much selfishness it was refreshing to see this man throughout the series to learn more about selflessness. This is a show that one of the family channels should consider taking up. A wealthy man at the urging of his wife's ghost hesitantly takes on running the low income clinic she was passionate about. Through the season you can see him evolve from a selfish uncaring person into the type of man we all wish we could be.

This is an excellent show that keeps a person intrigued as to what is going to happen next. Dr. Holt has had his life turned upside down and is learning people skills which he has avoided all his life. The way the characters develop and every week you get a little insight into one of their lives is great; you get to know each of the characters a little better as the show goes on. You get to see that Dr. Holt truly loves his ex-wife and see that he has regrets that he didn't take the time or make the time for her. After going to her funeral and seeing what an amazing woman his wife truly was he seems to also regret that he never knew her the way he should have.I hear it has been cancelled and that truly is a shame.