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Prepare your tissues as we dive into the most gut-wrenching and emotional storylines from medical dramas. From devastating losses and heart-stopping accidents to unforgettable moments of love and sacrifice, these narratives pulled at our heartstrings and left a lasting impact. Witness tales of courage and heartbreak that resonate far beyond the hospital halls.
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00:00You're in my spot.
00:04Just so you know, Grubhub will not deliver to the roof.
00:09Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:10And today, we're counting down our picks for the storylines that left us grabbing the tissues.
00:16For this list, we're keeping things drama-centric,
00:19so sitcoms like Scrubs and M.A.S.H. will not be making an appearance.
00:23There was your camera, aren't you?
00:25Aren't you gonna take some pictures?
00:28Pictures of what?
00:31Number 10. COVID-19 comes to the hospital.
00:34The Good Doctor.
00:36Your temperature's almost 101. Your other symptoms?
00:39First, it was a sore throat. Then my body started aching.
00:45And then there's this cough. I even had my flu shot.
00:49Many medical shows chose to face the COVID-19 pandemic head-on.
00:53The Good Doctor put the staff of San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital right on the front lines
00:59in its two-part season four premiere.
01:02For a show that usually kept things light, they really went there.
01:05Tell him he's going to be fine.
01:09I can't.
01:10He's right. The majority of COVID patients who go on a ventilator never come off.
01:17Put the other doctor on.
01:19Dr. Sean Murphy and his colleagues were overwhelmed by the increasing fear,
01:24isolation, and urgency that all of us had experienced in our own way in 2020.
01:30Even after the initial wave of imminent cases, the team was left with post-traumatic stress
01:35that felt like a very real representation of what many frontline workers would have experienced.
01:41Yesterday, I thought he was dying, but today he's alive.
01:47So, thank you.
01:53You're welcome.
01:54Number 9. Buck's Death. 9-1-1.
01:57Hey, where do you think you're going? I got this.
02:00No way, you got the last one.
02:01I didn't realize you were keeping track.
02:05Watch it, it's me.
02:07I'm always keeping track.
02:08Somehow, the fact that our favorite first responder doesn't die from that lightning strike
02:13is just as tragic as if he had.
02:16We certainly get to watch everyone react as if he did.
02:19Buck's resulting coma leaves him in a surreal in-between space,
02:23while his beloved colleagues and friends grieve the very likely possibility of life without him.
02:28The doctor said the force from the lightning caused a pulmonary contusion.
02:32That sounds pretty serious.
02:35How long does he have to stay on him?
02:37A couple days at least.
02:40The hope is that his oxygen levels will increase high enough.
02:44Hopefully, they can take him off sedation.
02:45And then, he'll be okay?
02:47Over two episodes, we watch as his life hangs in the balance and he reckons with his mistakes.
02:53Buck's death forces him and the audience to face the fragility of life.
02:58It doesn't matter that it's temporary.
03:00It's still utterly devastating.
03:02We were pretty worried about you.
03:03We all were.
03:04Yeah, I know.
03:05You busted out the rosary beads and everything.
03:09How do you know that?
03:12I don't know.
03:13I just do.
03:14Number 8.
03:15Del's Car Accident.
03:17Private Practice.
03:18After all this time, we're not sure why the writers wanted Del Parker to suffer so much.
03:24I just want to scream to whoever keeps doing this to just stop.
03:28Having endured a difficult childhood, the loss of his wife, and sudden single fatherhood,
03:33Private Practice's third season couldn't make things that much worse, could it?
03:37Apparently, it could.
03:39Del?
03:41Del, wake up, sweetie.
03:42Wake up, Del.
03:44Del?
03:44Del?
03:44He's unresponsive.
03:48We're pitching down in your waiting room, send a crash cart.
03:51Having just received the good news that he was accepted to UCLA, he and the pregnant
03:56Maya Bennett are involved in a head-on collision on the way to the hospital.
04:00Del sustains a brain hemorrhage, but no one realizes it in time in all the commotion.
04:05Maybe we can call over the OR, see if Emilian can step out.
04:08No, no, no, no, no, no, no stepping out.
04:09His brain is exploding.
04:10Yeah, and Maya's spine is flapping in the breeze.
04:12Can we get the backseat drivers out of the room?
04:14Y'all shut up or get out.
04:16Undeserved doesn't quite begin to cover it.
04:17Even his shocking death was an unintended consequence of taking care of other people.
04:23No one even looked at him.
04:24You want me to explain why you can't beat yourself up like this?
04:27No, not really.
04:29Number 7.
04:30The home birth storyline.
04:31New Amsterdam.
04:33At the end of the medical drama's first season, Dr. Goodwin and his wife Georgia are expecting
04:38a child.
04:39They opt against an ordinary hospital birth, instead hoping to have a home birth.
04:44Because it's a medical drama, complications arise.
04:47But that's only the start.
04:48You're going to feel a slight heaviness.
04:53And then you're going to drift off to sleep.
04:55And then we'll be able to operate without you feeling a thing.
04:59On the way to the hospital, the ambulance is involved in a high-speed accident with another
05:04ambulance driven by a fugitive.
05:06Of course, the season ends on that bombshell of a cliffhanger.
05:09Is the world dark?
05:11Sure.
05:13But there's light.
05:14When the show returns for its second season, Georgia is revealed to have died from her injuries.
05:20The Goodwin's daughter, Luna, is born healthy.
05:22If you walk in the door, get off my feet.
05:26Because I've just been so beautiful.
05:33Since you've been gone.
05:39Nurse Jackie Payton befriends a young man she meets in substance abuse recovery.
05:43To her shock, he turns out to be the son of her boss, Dr. Cruz.
05:47So what, now you're on the outside, it's the whole rehab cover from your buddy system?
05:51How could I possibly know it was your kid?
05:53It's anonymous.
05:54Nobody's covering for anybody.
05:55We met in rehab, we go to AA.
05:58You're pissed, I get it.
05:59Oh, you get it.
06:00Great.
06:01Their friendship is fraught, complicated by their respective disorders.
06:04But he ends up being a key player in Jackie and Dr. Cruz mending fences.
06:09However, it comes at a cost.
06:11Who do you think you are?
06:12You don't even work here and you're calling all the shots?
06:15Trauma, now.
06:16Stay right there!
06:17For now!
06:18God damn it, doesn't anybody listen to me?
06:20Charlie's substance use disorder ends tragically at the very hospital where they work.
06:25Dr. Cruz and Charlie are played by real-life father and son, Bobby and Jake Cannavale,
06:31making it all the more heartbreaking to watch.
06:33Charlie, I...
06:34Don't say his name.
06:36It's not yours to say.
06:39Charlie?
06:41Charlie?
06:43Charlie?
06:45Number 5.
06:47Nick Bradley, The Pit.
06:49HBO's beloved and heart-rending medical drama gave its audiences two major gut punches in
06:54the same episode.
06:55I asked if you didn't need the family room.
06:57It's available now.
07:01Less rights for Nick.
07:03Just one of those days.
07:05The Pit's eighth hour, 2pm, brought Nick Bradley's multi-episode arc to an end.
07:11Brought to the hospital after an overdose, he is soon declared brain dead.
07:15No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
07:16People wake up from comfort.
07:18You can wake them up.
07:20You can do that.
07:21You can, you can, you can talk.
07:23You can talk.
07:36His parents' grief and the doctor's inability to help him makes it all feel so real.
07:41and all the more senseless.
07:44Nick's story touches everyone
07:45at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital.
07:48He's finally laid to rest, but not in vain.
07:50His organs are harvested for donation
07:52and will save other lives.
07:54Surgical teams are flying in from all over the country
07:57to meet Nick at the Center for Organ Recovery.
08:00We have a car and driver waiting
08:02so John and Lily can follow right behind the ambulance.
08:06So we won't be seeing you again?
08:11If it's all right, I think a lot of us here
08:13would like to attend Nick's funeral.
08:15Number four, Wilson's Heart, House.
08:18Wilson is gonna hate me.
08:22You kind of deserve it.
08:25Dr. House has diagnosed
08:27more hyper-specific medical conditions than we can count.
08:30Only when it comes to helping his best friend, Wilson,
08:33save his girlfriend, Amber's life, does he come up short.
08:36House and Amber are involved in a bus crash
08:38that leaves Amber fighting for her life
08:40and House struggling to remember the night's events
08:43for any details as to her condition.
08:45If the trauma didn't damage her heart,
08:46why was she on the bus?
08:48I don't know.
08:49If she had any underlying condition,
08:51the accident could have exacerbated you.
08:52Why were you with her?
08:53I don't know.
08:54I'm not hiding anything.
08:55I just don't remember.
08:56What else could damage her heart?
08:58His alcohol use, coupled with memory loss,
09:01leaves House arriving at the solution too late
09:03to save Amber from multi-system organ failure.
09:06Amber dies in Wilson's arms,
09:08putting a devastating punctuation mark
09:10on their relationship.
09:12That's okay.
09:13It's not okay.
09:14Why is it okay with you?
09:16Why aren't you angry?
09:22That's not the last feeling I want to experience.
09:29Number three, Dr. Green's cancer, ER.
09:33The stalwart Mark Green was the longtime heart and soul
09:36of Cook County General Hospital.
09:38Neurological symptoms led him
09:40to a shocking brain tumor diagnosis.
09:43What?
09:44Leoblastoma multiforma.
09:47Bummer, huh?
09:49Gets better.
09:50I found out that it's inoperable.
09:52Though the diagnosis is terminal,
09:54we follow Green as he seeks a second opinion
09:56and undergoes risky surgery to buy himself more time.
10:00His brush with death sees him trying to connect
10:02with his daughter, Rachel, with the time he has left.
10:06And...
10:07You ready?
10:07Yeah.
10:08Paddle, paddle, paddle, paddle!
10:10Go, go!
10:13Hand up!
10:16Go, go, go, go, go, go!
10:18Oh, my God!
10:22Yes!
10:24Unfortunately, his cancer returns,
10:26and he eventually passes away with Rachel at his side.
10:29His peaceful death in Hawaii as Over the Rainbow plays
10:32is still an all-time perfect TV moment.
10:35Where trouble melts like lemon drops
10:38High above the chimney top
10:40That's where
10:43You'll find me
10:45Oh, somewhere
10:49Over the rainbow
10:52Number 2
10:53BJ's Heart
10:54General Hospital
10:55BJ!
10:57You are going to be late for the school van!
10:59Can't find the bracelet Uncle Frisco gave me, Mom!
11:02Honey, I warned you
11:04It was going to get lost
11:04and we kept taking it on and off
11:06Last time I saw it,
11:07I think it was in the kitchen
11:08Two pairs of parents face the impossible.
11:11A school bus crash claimed the life of BJ Jones,
11:14the young daughter of General Hospital veterans
11:16Bobby Spencer and Dr. Tony Jones.
11:19Before they can even grieve,
11:21they must decide if their daughter's heart
11:23can go to her cousin Maxie,
11:24who is in dire need of a transplant.
11:27There is a little girl upstairs
11:28that has a chance at a healthy, normal life
11:32and this is her chance
11:33It's her only chance
11:34What are you doing?
11:36You're not thinking straight
11:38You're angry
11:39This is not about you or me
11:44It's about life and death
11:47Frisco and Felicia are torn
11:49Both relieved that their daughter
11:50would receive a heart
11:51and devastated to learn where it came from
11:54Tony leaning over to listen
11:56to his daughter's heart beating in Maxie's chest
11:58has to be one of the longtime Soap's
12:00biggest tear-jerking moments
12:09Number one, Denny and Izzy
12:12Grey's Anatomy
12:13So this other guy
12:14I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve this heart
12:18I'm sure he does
12:19But so do you
12:22So do you
12:23And if you tell me any more crap
12:26about heading towards the light
12:28or looking down on me from him
12:29and I swear
12:30I will kill you myself right now
12:32Dr. Izzy Stevens broke all the rules
12:34for her patient, Denny Duquette
12:36They were already breaking all the rules
12:38by carrying on an unethical doctor-patient romance
12:42But her desperation leads her to cut his LVAD wire
12:45to get him bumped up the heart transplant list
12:47She all but blows up her own career to save him
12:51I don't feel guilty
12:52And I know that I should
12:54and I would if it were anybody else
13:01But I can't feel anything but happy
13:03Although he does get his new heart
13:05complications occur and he dies
13:08The moment when Izzy's colleagues
13:10find her curled up with him in his hospital bed
13:12in her gown
13:13is still one of those scenes
13:14that made Grey's Anatomy must-see TV
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