TV Bosses Behind ‘The Pitt,’ ‘Doc’ and More Examine the Rise of the Medical Drama: ‘The Stakes Are Clear’

 When “St. Denis Medical” co-creator Eric Ledgin found himself in the hospital last year, he didn’t tell the doctors and nurses attending to him that he was deep into production on a new medical series about their profession. At least not at first.

The hit NBC comedy hadn’t premiered yet, so no one knew about his fictional hospital, where expertise and good-hearted chaos battle for supremacy. Rather, his unexpected stay was a chance to observe the world he was building in action –– and he was already noticing parallels.

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“I ended up having a kind of Matt-like nurse,” he tells Variety,

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