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Patient of the Week

86 statements
15 feature instances
29 referencing feature instances

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Patient of the Week	label	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week	page	PatientOfTheWeek
Patient of the Week	comment	In a Medical Drama the patient has a disease that is the focus of the episode, with a little personal drama thrown in. This is the Monster of the Week construction, Medical Edition. Examples
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Patient of the Week / int_1d699932	comment	Black Jack usually treats one patient per chapter. Justified, as he's a black market surgeon.
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Patient of the Week / int_2275c659	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_2275c659	comment	House: The show is based on the premise that House and his team only take patients who have been examined by multiple other doctors and are still missing a diagnosis. The show also deviates from the formula comparatively often, especially in later seasons. Deconstructed in several episodes; once when new administrator Edward Vogler wanted to fire House because only treating one patient a week isn't cost-effective, and again when House confessed to a patient that he chooses to take only one case at a time, often leading to unfortunate results for the twenty-odd files he passes up.
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Patient of the Week / int_2feff3ce	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_2feff3ce	comment	Grey's Anatomy follows this trope almost religiously, only deviating from it on special occasions. Typically, the cast will split into halves (or thirds, or fourths, depending on how many subplots are the episode has), each group tackling a single patient who'll provide some perspective or wisdom that can be easily applied to whatever problem a character has, then disappear and never be heard from again. Patients who last longer than one episode tend to have multiple issues, and may end up getting rotated through various specialists as their condition worsens.
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Patient of the Week / int_384a2157	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_384a2157	comment	CASUAL+Y spinoff Holby City also uses the Patient of the Week format - while it's not as frequent as in the parent show, the fact that Holby City is set in a cardiac surgery department makes it rather more inexplicable.
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Patient of the Week / int_3e5de40b	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs doesn't follow this trope as strictly as the other shows in the folder, since it isn't a medical mystery show — it's a work comedy that centers purely on the doctors. The patients only show up when it's plot important. It's very apparent that the show's creators wanted it to stand out from the others.
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Patient of the Week / int_40cd1746	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_40cd1746	comment	Monday Mornings: Some of the cases feel like this trope, but there are usually several patients for each episode. Most people are actually treated as whole people, and most cases aren't mysterious at all. Some patients come back in later episodes with additional issues, which brings nice continuity rarely seen in patient characters. The pilot episode has a Sassy Black Woman who is suspected to be a hypochondriac, but she's seriously ill, and it was found out after several tests because of one obsessed doctor. Lampshaded in one episode when they couldn't diagnose a patient right away which is unusual. They are clearly missing something, and Dr. Robidaux asks whether they should call Dr. House.
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Patient of the Week / int_5293b208	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_5293b208	comment	Kamen Rider Ex-Aid is weird example when viewed as medical drama because the patients arrive with Gamer disease that is spred by resident monsters, Bugsters. Treatment involves playing a video game that centers around defeating the Monster of the Week that spawns from infected patients. Also, all the heroic riders are doctors with various fields of residency. It makes much more sense, when viewed as a Kamen Rider series with a theme of medical drama. It is never brought up why only one patient at time, but on the single occasion more people were infected, things got complicated.
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Patient of the Week / int_611b218d	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_611b218d	comment	Call the Midwife mostly follows this format (with some aversions of patients appearing in multiple episodes). This is justified for a programme about midwifery; the amount of time spent as a patient is fixed for pregnancy and childbirth. The case of the week is often a unique complication in pregnancy or the family background of the patient.
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Patient of the Week / int_77063387	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_77063387	comment	While not exactly a medical drama, Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist combines this with Woobie of the Week. Each episode focuses on a patient who is struggling with various emotional/spiritual problems that manifest as "mysterious diseases", and Dr. Ramune helps them get over these issues to cure them of their disease.
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Patient of the Week / int_8787a82d	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_8787a82d	comment	In Doctors, the doctors ended up solving their patients' life troubles so often that the writers started having people seek them out for psychological aid.
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Patient of the Week / int_8d814070	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: It shows up at least a few times a season. Justified since the point of a field hospital isn't to monitor patients long-term but to get them either fit for duty or stable enough to transport away from the war zone, and also subverted with episodes that feature large numbers of patients and illustrate the necessity of triage.
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Patient of the Week / int_8ef19f57	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_8ef19f57	comment	Nip/Tuck by and large follows this format. Almost every week, the two main characers, who run a plastic surgery firm, handle a unique case, sometimes pro bono. Their opening line in every episode is "Tell us what you don't like about yourself".
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Patient of the Week / int_c71fd496	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_c71fd496	comment	The Dr. Kildare series, which consisted of sixteen films in The '30s and The '40s, established this trope as well as several other tropes of the Medical Drama. Most of the films involve Dr. Kildare, or his successors after the Dr. Kildare character was written out, trying to diagnose the mysterious problem of a strange new patient.
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Patient of the Week / int_eeac804a	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_eeac804a	comment	Emergency! had two or three of these an episode, starting either with Johnny and Roy rescuing the patient or occasionally the patient coming into the hospital on their own and rotating between chunks of the storylines and scenes of station time.
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Patient of the Week / int_f3562189	type	Patient of the Week
Patient of the Week / int_f3562189	comment	The Dr. Kildare TV series, which aired from 1961-66 almost exclusively uses this trope. Each episode is structured with a main plot revolving around one patient (usually a celebrity guest star) and their personal drama, and a subplot centering on different patient and...different personal drama. The subplot often parallels the main plot, and in the end, a central Aesop unites the two.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Patient of the Week	processingCategory2	Index of the Week
Patient of the Week	processingCategory2	Medical Drama
Dr. Kildare / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Dr. Harper Therapy / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Monster Girl Doctor / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Doctors	seeAlso	Patient of the Week
PatientoftheWeek	sameAs	Patient of the Week
Real-Life Relative / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Black Jack (Manga) / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Team Medical Dragon (Manga) / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Cirque Mystique (Roleplay) / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Chicago Med / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Dr. Kildare / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Emergency! / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Grey's Anatomy / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
House / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Mercy / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Nip/Tuck / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Off the Map / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Picket Fences / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Private Practice / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Scandal / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Scandal (2012) / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Scrubs / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
The Good Doctor / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Transplant / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
Melvina's Therapy (Webcomic) / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week
The Dragon Doctors (Webcomic) / int_4f5f008e	type	Patient of the Week

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