NBC’s Heartbeat showcases America’s fake TV hospital problem

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/ar...credulity.html

"It’s a desperation of plotting,” says Neil Genzlinger. "The medical-drama genre is now so exhausted that hospital shows have to go to absurd lengths to make viewers pay attention, and that has never been more evident than in Heartbeat, which begins on Wednesday on NBC. Like CBS’s Code Black, which arrived last fall with Marcia Gay Harden in the lead role, the series is an effort to put a female doctor front and center, which is commendable. But it is so overstuffed with action and complications and heavy breathing that it never comes close to being credible.” PLUS: Heartbeat is as necessary as an appendix, we’ve seen more compelling versions of all of this before, a real heart surgeon reviews Heartbeat, and Melissa George explains why this medical drama is so different.