Emergency Room Stories
Back in 1961, the United States gave birth to the first medical drama ---- Dr. Kedare. The show was an unprecedented success that year, and it led to the trend of medical dramas. Since then, General Hospital, which premiered on April 1, 1963, has been on the air since then, and the popular medical dramas Dr. House and Grey's Anatomy have both completed a decade of longevity. In China, it wasn't until 2005 that the original cast of "Serious Crimes Unit 6" created "Infinite Life", which officially opened the curtain on medical dramas. Ten years ago, director Xu Qingdong, starring Wang Xi, Liu Jun, Sui Lan, Wang Ting and Jiang Haoran were the gang of trendsetters that spawned the trend of medical dramas in the mainland TV drama industry.
During the decade, mainland medical dramas bearing the names "China's Dr. House," "China's Grey's Anatomy" and even "China's White Tower" have been unveiled. Medical dramas have made their debut, but even if they rely on big-name stars to grab good ratings, they are often criticized for not being professional enough. For example, a medical drama with overwhelming publicity and a star-studded lead cast has been criticized by netizens as follows: "Who said tracheal intubation can cure a heart attack? Does this drama have a medical consultant or not? It's definitely a world inside an imaginary world that hasn't been imaginary in the right place." In the feature produced by Time.com, the professionalism ratings of domestic medical dramas were generally one or two stars, far below the high average of 4.5 stars for similar works in American and Japanese dramas. The only 4-star mainland work within the feature was even the decade-old Infinite Life. As a result, the editors all lamented, "I'm afraid that the spring of domestic medical dramas will have to be saved by works like Infinite Life." Ten years later, salvation has finally come! Created by the golden team of industry dramas and the original team of "Serious Crimes Unit 6", "Emergency Room Stories", the spiritual inheritor of "Infinite Lifespan", is here. The ten-year sequel naturally aroused the expectations of the industry and the audience, so "ER Story" was labeled as "the most anticipated medical drama" at the beginning of the filming. After the drama started airing, viewers found that "ER Story" continued director Xu Qingdong's consistent high density, fast pace, and sense of reality, focusing on the medical industry, which is the closest to people's livelihood, and telling many real and touching stories that happened in the emergency room. At the beginning of the preparation of "ER Story", Wang Xi led the creative team to and from major hospitals and emergency centers in Beijing. They collected a large amount of first-hand material through on-site internships and research. The large amount of material ensured that almost all the cases in the drama came from real cases. The crew also invited Yu Ying, the "Superwoman of the Emergency Room", to be the medical consultant for the script, and 999 Emergency Center medical personnel were on site to keep an eye on the medical details of the filming, which ensured the accuracy of the medical terminology. Even the most discerning viewers will find that "ER Stories" has successfully continued the fine tradition of "Infinite Life" with almost "zero medical omissions", and after ten years of its predecessor, it has once again become the most professional and exciting medical melodrama in the domestic TV industry.
The precision of the details ensures the quality of the episodes, and the richness of the characters' hearts ensures the excitement of the episodes. In ten years of domestic medical dramas, "Emergency Room Stories" has provided another good model in shaping the inner world of characters. The ER group in the drama is known as the "Eight Heroes of Emergency Medicine", and the creators have designed a corresponding medical philosophy for each of them, that is, their values in this industry. Wang Xi, Zhang Lei, Liu Jun, Sui Lan, Wang Ting, Liu Dekai, Zhang Chao, Jiang Haoran, Zhang Xinyan and other strong actors of the old, middle and young generations are on the same stage, and these values are reflected one by one through different cases, which has aroused great praises from people of all walks of life after broadcasting.
"Emergency Room Stories" does not dwell on the doctor-patient disputes triggered by the look-at-the-world mentality, nor does it have the idol star's cool show off, not to mention the operation and treatment methods and methods of the mystery, but there is the collision of concepts, inner entanglement, the rhythm of tension and relaxation, the tension of life and death, the rigorous details, worthy of the ten years of accumulation of the domestic medical dramas. Just as "Infinite Life" opened up domestic medical dramas ten years ago, "ER Story" marks the reboot of the professionalism and watchability of domestic medical dramas.