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Doctors may have the power to save lives, but they can also use that power to cover up their mis- takes. Medicine isn’t practiced by saints — it’s a business, after all, and that reality can have some dramatic repercussions. See its effects on new doctors in “The Resident,” which premieres Sunday, Jan. 21, on Fox.
The network’s newest drama examines the good, the bad and
the ugly behind the blue curtain of modern-day medicine. Doctors — especially new doctors — struggle with the realization that they can’t fix an institution that’s more focused on money than on saving people’s lives.
Dr. Conrad Hawkins (Matt Czuchry) is more frustrated than anybody by this fact, as he tells Dr. Devon Pravesh (Manish Dayal) on the latter’s first day of his residency. Pravesh is the first-year resident that Hawkins socializes to the hospital. Young and ambitious, he wants to
be an outstanding doctor — one of the only things the two can find com- mon ground on — but Pravesh real- izes that his indoctrination will be nothing as he expected. In the first 10 minutes, Hawkins informs him that everything he’s learned about medicine is wrong, and to take off his tie because he’s “not at Harvard anymore.” When Pravesh asks for a
new supervisor (he maintains that Dr. Hawkins is a psychopath), a nurse tells him to watch and learn.
Considering the success of both “Scrubs” and “House,” the medi- cal field basis for the series seems
to be a good sign for its longevity. Plus, Czuchry has his acting chops. He made his big debut in the big- screen horror-comedy “Eight Legged Freaks” (2002), but he’s probably best known for his role as Logan Huntzberger in “Gilmore Girls” and as an alumnus of “The Good Wife.”
Dr. Hawkins has the same level
of brilliance as Dr. House, but with better social skills. Kind of. He has the whip-smart comebacks that resembles Dr. Cox from “Scrubs,” and in one scene he tells the junior residents to “try and not kill anyone” while he’s on another floor.
Dayal is best known for his star- ring role in “The Hundred-Foot Jour- ney” (2014) and “Viceroy’s House” (2017), but fans may also recognize him from his role as Vijay Nadeer in “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Melina Kanakaredes plays Dr. Lane Hunter, an oncologist who tells Dr. Hawkins that they can’t save every- one — of course, he replies with a cocky “says who?” Kanakaredes is no amateur when it comes to televi- sion, either. Her early television cred- its include a recurring role in “NYPD Blue,” and she also guest-starred in “The Practice,” “Oz,” and starred for five seasons as Dr. Sydney Hansen
in NBC’s critically acclaimed series “Providence.” After a brief hiatus from television for a role in “Caba- ret” on Broadway,
she returned in 2004 for a role in “CSI: NY” and appeared opposite
movie legend Robert De Niro in “15 Minutes” (2001).
Emily VanCamp (“Revenge”) plays Nicolette, the nurse who tells Dr. Pravesh to listen and learn from Dr. Hawkins. She’s also Dr. Hawkins’ on-again, off-again romance. The rate of medical error was shocking for the actress, who studied statistics intently for her character. It’s the third-leading cause of death, she told Access Hollywood in an interview.
Hawkins uses unorthodox meth- ods, such as throwing ice on a patient to revive her, but he never forgets the risks of the job. Unlike
Dr. Soloman Bell (Bruce Greenwood, “Mad Men”), Hawkins knows the repercussions of a bad decision. Dr. Bell is a celebrity doctor with a lot
to lose: he bills over $20 million per year, and he’s also the chief of sur- gery. So, after he hits an artery during a relatively safe procedure and kills a patient, no one questions him when he covers it up with a pre-existing condition — no one except Hawk- ins, of course, who tells the chief of medicine to consider changing his methods before killing additional patients.
Hawkins may be young, but he’s not out of line — he’s experienced the fallout of his mistakes. He carries around a picture of a little girl who died due to an error on his part, and the reminder helps him stay humble and diligent.
Most doctors only want to help their patients — but what they don’t teach, Hawkins explains, is that there are so many ways to harm. The doc- tors of “The Resident” will break
all the rules that they followed in school. But if it were easy, as Hawk-
ins says, everyone would be a doctor. After all, saving people’s lives is the best job in the world.
“The Resident” will replace Fox’s “Rosewood,” the network’s recently canceled medical drama. Other than “The X-Files” revival and Seth Mac- Farlane’s live-action dramedy “The Orville,” it’s the only drama picked
up this season.
There are many medical
shows, but “The Resident” will get to the root of what
it feels like to be in the trenches of the medi- cal profession today.
Don’t miss the series premiere airing Sunday,
Jan. 21, on Fox.
Matt Czuchry stars in “The Resident”
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