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Over the years, Netflix has aired a number of impressive medical dramas. Ranging from fictional drama series to series based on true events, there’s an impressive slate to check out. Let’s count down 10 of the best!

From inspirational medical professionals to the historical IVF breakthrough, Netflix is home to lots of award-winning medical dramas. In this list, we count down 10 of the finest entries in the streamer’s catalog that you can watch now. This list also doesn’t currently include Netflix’s big new medical drama scheduled to release in 2025 called Pulse. Let’s dive right into it!

11Diagnosis Genre: DocumentaryRating: TV-14Release Date: August 16, 2019Cast: Lisa SandersLanguage: EnglishWatch on Netflix

This Netflix documentary series is based on Dr. Lisa Sanders’ The New York Times Magazine column of the same name. The 7-part series focuses on rare and mysterious medical conditions, from...

Lives hang in the balance in Lenox Hill, a nine-part Netflix documentary series that offers a rare and gripping look inside a big-city hospital.

Neurosurgeons David Langer and John Boockvar, ER doc Mirtha Macri and Ob-gyn chief resident Amanda Little-Richardson devote themselves to patient care and also try to maintain a semblance of a personal life in the series executive produced and directed by filmmaking couple Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz.

“They have a very meticulous job that is strenuous and very hard and they are behind those curtains and nobody really sees the heroic [work] and the sacrifice that they are making,” Shatz explained during Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary +Unscripted awards-season event. “We just realized that there is a whole world that is not being shown.”

Hipaa laws make it very difficult to film in a medical setting, but Barash and Shatz obtained consent from numerous patients.

“I think people want to be seen…...

The first eight episodes of the Netflix documentary series “Lenox Hill” followed doctors who are clearly passionate about what they do. In the heart of a profession that requires a specific, continuous commitment, these medical experts each talk about what motivates them to keep going in a job that’s drenched in uncertainty.

But for as much enthusiasm and conviction as those episodes have, the new half-hour follow-up detailing these doctors’ experiences after the arrival of coronavirus in New York City shows them in moments that bring them to tears. In this epilogue, there’s a very different feel to what viewers get to see of this fight. In the process, it shows how far away we still are from a point where we can look back with any definitive answers.

It’s a chronological look at how the hospital (shown in the rest of the season under more normal...

The first eight episodes of the Netflix documentary series “Lenox Hill” followed doctors who are clearly passionate about what they do. In the heart of a profession that requires a specific, continuous commitment, these medical experts each talk about what motivates them to keep going in a job that’s drenched in uncertainty.

But for as much enthusiasm and conviction as those episodes have, the new half-hour follow-up detailing these doctors’ experiences after the arrival of coronavirus in New York City shows them in moments that bring them to tears. In this epilogue, there’s a very different feel to what viewers get to see of this fight. In the process, it shows how far away we still are from a point where we can look back with any definitive answers.

It’s a chronological look at how the hospital (shown in the rest of the season under more normal...

With temperatures on the rise and no end of summer in sight, we become increasingly thankful for the time we spend inside our air-conditioned homes, comforted by the silence which we have grown used to during quarantine, and entertained by our one and only true friend: Netflix. And so, on that note, here’s what’s new on the platform today, June 24th.

First off we have a documentary called Lenox Hill. Developed by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash, and starring John Boockvar, David Langer and Mirtha Macri among others, it follows the lives of doctors and nurses working at the Lenox Hill Hospital in upper Manhattan. Christened as one of the most poignant docuseries of the year, its latest episode is centered around, you guessed it, Covid-19. Specifically, it will explore how the employees of this hard-hit hospital dealt with the pandemic.

Up next we have another documentary, this one called Athlete A.

“Families don’t want to see blood on your shoes,” Dr. John Boockvar says in an early episode of the new Netflix series “Lenox Hill.” Seeing him quickly wipe himself down before going out to talk to the family of a patient who’s just finished undergoing brain surgery, it’s one of the moments that crystallizes what the show does best.

This vérité look inside the eponymous Upper East Side hospital offers a glimpse into the day-to-day emotional and physical toll that comes with working in health care, utilizing tiny aphorisms like Dr. Boockyar’s to illustrate how much these dedicated professionals can control and what can still remain elusive.

There’s a quartet of doctors that “Lenox Hill” uses as its main lens. Dr. David Langer, the hospital’s head of neurosurgery serves alongside Boockvar, the department’s vice chair. In the maternity wing, Dr. Amanda Little-Richardson is...

“Families don’t want to see blood on your shoes,” Dr. John Boockvar says in an early episode of the new Netflix series “Lenox Hill.” Seeing him quickly wipe himself down before going out to talk to the family of a patient who’s just finished undergoing brain surgery, it’s one of the moments that crystallizes what the show does best.

This vérité look inside the eponymous Upper East Side hospital offers a glimpse into the day-to-day emotional and physical toll that comes with working in health care, utilizing tiny aphorisms like Dr. Boockyar’s to illustrate how much these dedicated professionals can control and what can still remain elusive.

There’s a quartet of doctors that “Lenox Hill” uses as its main lens. Dr. David Langer, the hospital’s head of neurosurgery serves alongside Boockvar, the department’s vice chair. In the maternity wing, Dr. Amanda Little-Richardson is...

That doctors have difficult jobs is among the points TV has made most forcefully throughout the medium’s existence. The genre has long since entered its baroque period, larding on helicopter crashes (“ER”), medical mysteries (“House”) and bombs inside patients (the still-running “Grey’s Anatomy”) to gin up increasingly unsatisfying excitement and over-prove the case that working in a hospital is hard.

What’s so striking about “Lenox Hill,” Netflix’s new documentary series and among the best shows released so far this year, is the way it shows the excitement and the stress of the utterly quotidian. Released into a world in which our understanding of the pressures hospitals face has been newly reinforced, “Lenox Hill” was shot before the Covid-19 pandemic. It depicts a seemingly well-funded, competently staffed hospital in which the best of times are still grindingly tough, and introduces four characters whose un-reality-tv-ish aversion to high dudgeon...