Hippocrate

Hippocrate ("Interns" as I saw it here on PBS in the States) was one of the best medical dramas I have ever seen. (And I go all the way back to "Dr. Kildare" and "Ben Casey"!) I couldn't imagine being in the position that these poor greenhorns (Alyson and Hugo) found themselves in- having to manage patients with virtually no back-up or supervision, in a gritty St. Elsewhere-type hospital. Of course as a doc myself, I was especially fascinated by the differences between the French training experience and that of the U. S. I would love to hear from my French counterparts how much of the milieu was fiction and how much reality, especially the raunchy cafeteria murals, and so many of the doctors smoking! The medical dramatizations were more detailed and realistic than any I have seen on our medical shows- I still can't figure out how they could simulate an ascitic (grossly-distended-due-to-fluid-in-the-abdomen) belly, unless they asked a real patient who actually had this to be in the show! The acting in general was excellent, and the story lines believable. I was hooked by the first episode, and would love to see more; PBS only offered Season 1.