The Best Medical Shows Of 2025, Ranked

Chicago Med follows the emergency department (ED) doctors and nurses of the fictional Gaffney Chicago Medical Center and is the third installment in Dick Wolf's Chicago franchise. This pure genre show enthralls viewers invested in the comings and goings of emergency doctors much in the way of classics like ER.

Itself a transplant from Canada, this medical drama follows Dr. Bashir Hamed, who was an established emergency doctor in his home country of Syria, but now must re-qualify to practice medicine again in his new home of Toronto. As a resident, Dr. Hamed finds that both the skills he knows and the life he's lived are very different in his new country, and must channel his passion for medicine to find his place again.

If anything, Grey's Anatomy deserves a place on any list of medical series as one of the longest-running scripted primetime shows ever, with eighteen seasons following Dr. Meredith Grey and the rest of the staff at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital (originally Seattle Grace Hospital when the series premiered in 2005). This series has covered almost every possible topic of life, love, and health over the years while Dr. Grey has journeyed from intern to Director of the Residency Program and seems set to continue doing so.

Perhaps it's a bit more period drama than medical drama, but this British series based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth follows more than just the ups and downs of life as a nurse-midwife in the 1950s and '60s. As an embedded part of their community in East End London, these midwives give their patients support through some of the most tumultuous years for childbirth, from the 1957 "Baby Boom" through the 1960s and the introduction of the contraceptive pill and more modern legislation on women's health.