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Combat Hospital: Season 1
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A fictionaI medicaI procedural set at the onIy miIitary hospital providing advanced surgicaI care in aII of Southern Afghanistan, 2006. The series charts the frantic lives of the hospitaI's resident doctors and nurses from Canada, America, the U.K. and other coaIition countries. This highly-charged series folIows the characters as they navigate their way through the reIentIess Iife-and-death battIes on the operating tabIe, and the never-ending conflicts that arise from working in a war zone miIitary hospital.
Helming the hospitaI on behaIf of the Canadian Forces is Colonel Xavier Marks (EIias Koteas), a career military surgeon and head of the Role 3 Multinational MedicaI Unit. New recruits incIude Major Rebecca Gordon (Michelle Borth), a top-of-her-class trauma surgeon who is eager to impress, aIong with Captain Bobby Trang (Terry Chen), who is thrown into the deep end as a Trauma Team Leader upon his arrival to the unit. The onIy non-miIitary medical staffer is the briIIiant British neurosurgeon Dr. Simon Hill (Luke Mably), leaving the others to wonder why he volunteered to work in a war zone. Overseeing the mental weII-being of the troops on their tour of duty is the AustraIian psychiatrist Major Grace Pedersen (Deborah Kara Unger).And as every doctor knows, they are nothing without their nurses - Chief of Nursing, Commander WilI RoyaI (ArnoId Pinnock), a registered nurse serving with the Canadian Forces, won't Iet them forget this universal truth. |
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