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1. September 1994 marked the premiere of one of television's longest running and most beloved medical dramas. Created by Michael Crichton, "ER" ran for fifteen seasons and focused on the lives of emergency medical physicians in their work and personal relationships. In which fictional hospital was the show "ER" based?
2. Hugh Laurie took to the world of television medicine in 2004's "House, M.D." as the title character Dr. Gregory House. He and his staff worked at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital based in New Jersey. House and his team of physicians worked tirelessly to solve a wide variety of medical mysteries. His caustic demeanor and god-complex made him a difficult man to work for and to work with, though his medical genius made him an asset the hospital couldn't live without. Of which department was Dr. House the chief?
3. Showtime took a different spin with its medical drama, focusing on the lives of the nurses in a hospital instead of the lives of the doctors. "Nurse Jackie" premiered in 2009, starring Edie Falco in role of the title character of Nurse Jackie Peyton. She worked in New York City's All Saints' Hospital in the emergency department and struggled balancing her personal life and her work life. What addiction did Jackie feed into to help her cope with her life?
4. "M*A*S*H" was a popular medical drama that ran on television from 1972 until 1983, running longer than the war in which the story took place. The show followed the lives of the surgeons, nurses, and regular army at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. The popular television show followed the movie "MASH" (1970) which starred a young Donald Sutherland as the brilliant, but irreverent, surgeon, Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce. During which war were both the movie and the television show based?
5. At Seattle Grace Hospital in Seattle, Washington, drama abounded among and around the many surgeons that staffed the halls. In 2005, ABC premiered a new medical drama that followed five young surgical interns in their first year as new doctors. As the series continued, the interns became residents, and then attending physicians. What is the name of this drama, that starred such actors as Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, and Patrick Dempsey?
6. Dr. Douglas Howser was a teenage surgeon at the fictional Eastman Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. His years as a surgical resident were seen in the medical drama "Doogie Howser, M.D.", which premiered in 1989 and ran for four seasons. Doogie was a genius, who survived pediatric leukemia as a young child and decided to go medical school. He was made a doctor at the young age of 14. Which American actor, also famous for his starring role on the television show "How I Met Your Mother", played Dr. Doogie Howser as a teenager?
7. Chicago, Illinois, was the subject of not one, but two, medical dramas in the 1990s. "Chicago Hope", based in a fictional private charity hospital of the same name, suffered severely in network ratings when it debuted, showing on the same night as the Chicago drama "ER", and only aired for six seasons. Unlike rival show "ER" which was purely American drama, "Chicago Hope" was shown in the style of a soap-opera. Thomas Gibson, of "Criminal Minds" and "Dharma & Greg" fame, landed his first major recurring television role on "Chicago Hope" when it premiered in 1994. What was the name of his character on the show, who was an ER physician and trauma surgeon?
8. In 2009, TNT released a new medical drama, "HawthoRNe", to audiences across the United States. The show followed the work and personal life of the title character Nurse Christina Hawthorne, portrayed by Jada Pinkett Smith. Hawthorne's best friend was Nurse Bobbie Jackson, played by Suleka Mathew, and she was one of the few people with whom Hawthorne could be completely open. What medical "condition" defined Nurse Jackson's life on the show?
9. "Combat Hospital" was a British and Canadian medical drama that lasted for only one season in 2011. It focused on the lives of military doctors and nurses in conflict in 2006. Members of the military camp were mainly from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia. The cast of characters also included a civilian neurosurgeon played by Luke Mably, and a civilian interpreter played by Hamza Jeetooa. In which country was "Combat Hospital" based?
10. Mark Feuerstein took to the small screen and New York's Hamptons in 2009, starring as Dr. Henry "Hank" Lawson in USA's new medical drama "Royal Pains". In the series, people of the Hamptons were reluctant to seek medical advice from a hospital, but were very open to having a physician who was willing to treat them in their homes. Dr. Lawson, with the aid of his brother, Evan, began a concierge medicine business in the Hamptons to treat patients in the convenience of their own homes. Hank had recently left a prominent hospital position in New York before working in the Hamptons. What was the reason that Dr. Lawson left his hospital position, which led him to become a concierge doctor?
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