TV Shows
This long-running ABC show is set in Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, showcasing surgical life at Seattle Grace Hospital.
Grey’s Anatomy
This romantic book adaptation about two teens with cancer by John Green, with the line “Okay? Okay.”
The Fault in Our Stars
This novel, later adapted into a hit Netflix series, tells the story of Hannah Baker, a teen who leaves behind cassette tapes explaining the reasons for her suicide.
Thirteen Reasons Why
This app is used by med school students to practice for the MCAT?
Anki
This real condition, also called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, occurs when extreme emotional stress causes heart muscle weakness.
Broken Heart Syndrome
This show starred Hugh Laurie as a brilliant but misanthropic diagnostician solving impossible medical cases.
House M.D.
This Marvel movie features Benedict Cumberbatch playing a gifted neurosurgeon whose hands are ruined in an accident, leading him on a mystical journey of healing.
Doctor Strange
In this tear-jerker, two teens with cystic fibrosis fall in love but must maintain the distance to survive.
Five Feet Apart (Rachael Lippincott)
This ceremony marks an important milestone for new medical students.
White Coat Ceremony
This psychiatric condition makes a person insist a close friend or family member has been swapped for an identical impostor, think Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but real.
Capgras Syndrome
This show follows Dr. Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism, as he navigates professional and personal challenges.
The Good Doctor
This romantic drama stars Emilia Clarke as a caregiver to a paralyzed young man struggling with his new reality.
Me Before You
This novel follows a girl who can’t go outside due to her alleged immunodeficiency, until she falls in love with the boy next door.
Everything, Everything
This psychological phenomenon makes medical students think they have every disease they study.
Medical Student Syndrome
This rare condition causes bark like growths on the skin due to an immune system defect.
Tree Man Syndrome
This NBC drama depicted life in a Chicago emergency room and helped shape TV’s portrayal of medicine in the ‘90s.
ER
This drama is about a father and son struggling with addiction and recovery, based on their real-life memoirs.
Beautiful Boy
Based on a true story, this biography (and Oscar-winning film) follows mathematical genius John Nash as he battles schizophrenia while revolutionizing economics.
Beautiful Mind
The final boss battle at the end of med school, this event decides where you’ll train for residency?
Match Day
This syndrome causes those affected to feel a compulsion to drink blood, often accompanied by an affinity for the dead.
Clinical Vampirism/ Reinfields syndrome
This is a recently released medical show that has been deemed the most accurate to real-life healthcare experiences.
The Pitt
Tom Hanks leads a team of astronauts in this 1995 drama, where NASA engineers fight to keep them alive to prove that medicine in space is no joke.
Apollo 13
In this Jodi Picoult novel, a young girl named Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation after being born to donate organs and tissues to her sister with leukemia.
My Sister’s Keeper
Every med student knows the ABCDEs. But not for the alphabet, but for this type of emergency situation.
Trauma Assessment (Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Exposure)
This disorder causes patients to believe they are dead, do not exist or missing organs
Walking Corpse syndrome/ Cotard’s syndrome