Shows Like Doctors

If you liked Doctors (2000), a soap and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Casualty (1986)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and soap
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
2
Chicago Hope (1994)
★ 7.2/10Also soap and drama
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago…
3
The Resident (2018)
★ 8.4/10Also drama
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
4
Heartbeat (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Based on the real life and achievements of Dr. Kathy Magliato, this unique character-driven medical drama follows Dr. Alex Panttiere, an outspoken world-renowned heart-transplant surgeon and one of the few women in her…
5
SkyMed (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Life, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying…
6
PULSE (2025)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
A group of ER residents navigate medical crises and personal drama amid a divisive allegation at their Miami hospital.
7
Days of Our Lives (1965)
★ 6.2/10Also soap and drama
The Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.
8
Hawthorne (2009)
★ 7/10Also drama
Christina Hawthorne is a compassionate and headstrong Chief Nursing Officer heading up a group of dedicated nurses at Richmond Trinity Hospital on the hospital's front lines. She does everything in her power to help…
9
Saving Hope (2012)
★ 7/10Also drama
When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid, in a state of shock. As the staff of Hope-Zion races to save lives, comatose Dr. Harris…
10
The Young and the Restless (1973)
★ 7/10Also soap and drama
The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman…
11
Guiding Light (1952)
★ 5.9/10Also soap and drama
Guiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year…
12
Degrassi (2001)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and soap
The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
13
Temple (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Talented and successful surgeon Daniel Milton has his world shattered when his wife Beth develops a fatal degenerative disease. After conventional treatment options run out, Daniel partners with the lonely yet…
14
Nurses (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Follow five young nurses working on the frontlines of a busy hospital in downtown Toronto, dedicating their lives to helping others, while struggling to help themselves.
15
Call the Midwife (2012)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
16
Dickensian (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity…
17
Burden of Truth (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
A big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.
18
Murder in a Small Town (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his…
19
Dawson's Creek (1998)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and soap
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.
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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.