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1) The promise
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Empires fall, love survives. When Michael, a brilliant medical student, meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between Michael and Ana's boyfriend Chris, a famous American photojournalist dedicated to exposing political truth. As the Ottoman Empire crumbles into war torn chaos, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to get their people to safety and survive themselves....
2) The Cuban
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When a naïve pre-med student gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis, an elderly Cuban musician, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.
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Bette Davis rose from the ranks of Warner Bros. contract players to become a screen superstar when she was loaned out to RKO to appear in John Cromwell's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Leslie Howard (Gone with the wind) stars as Philip, a British medical student who becomes infatuated with a most unlikely woman: a vulgar waitress named Mildred (Davis). Undeterred by Mildred's obvious contempt of him (and her disgust for his...
4) Vital
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日本語
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Hiroshi Takagi (played by the fantastic Tadanobu Asano - Zatoichi, Ichi the Killer), a young man in his 20s, awakens in a hospital bed to find an auto accident has completely wiped his memory away. Back home with his parents and attempting to rebuild his life, he comes across a medical textbook full of detailed drawings of dissection. Utterly fascinated by the subject, Hiroshi is drawn to the medical school to which he was once accepted, but refused...
5) Nakom
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Niger-Kordofanian
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Upon his father's sudden death, a talented medical student must return to his home village in Ghana to fight for his family's survival.
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Crossing the Line follows two young medical students from the University of Tasmania, Amy and Paul, as they leave their safe middle class environments for an eight week placement in the remote indigenous communities on Mornington Island. Here, for the first time, they confront the realities of indigenous health care. As they move beyond their professional roles at times, there is an ongoing tension between their personal experience and the professional...
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Adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel, this saga of unrequited love follows club-footed English art student Philip Carey on his quest to win the love of slatternly waitress Mildred Rogers, a vulgar beauty who holds Philip's deformity in contempt. Giving up art for medicine and vowing to shake his unhealthy obsession with Mildred, Philip romances a supportive writer but when pregnant and abandoned Mildred appears, Philip's self-destructive feelings...
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The film follows a group of medical students who discover a way to bring dead patients back to life. After a successful, yet unsanctioned, trial on a newly deceased animal, the team is ready to unveil their breakthrough to the world. When the dean of their university learns of their underground experiments, their project is unexpectedly shut down and their materials confiscated.
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"So much has happened in fourteen seasons, so many people have come and gone, but the chaos of saving lives and the dedication of the people who make County General run remain. In this season, personal tragedies threaten, and sometimes strengthen, relationships among the staff. And the patients bring their own compelling stories. A boy genius diagnoses his mysterious illness, a cancer-ridden prison doctor is haunted by the men he put to death, a woman...
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"This deluxe 4-disc set wheels in the pilot plus 24 first-year episodes and is also packed with extras that propel you even deeper into the experience of one of the most impactful dramatic series in TV history. The gurneys are rolling. The crash carts are ready. A split second can mean life or death. And you are there with Green (Anthony Edwards), Ross (George Clooney), Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), Carter (Noah Wyle), Hathaway (Julianna Margulies)...
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"A busload of fume-sickened school kids, a gunman whose shooting spree claimed nineteen victims, a guy in an opossum outfit who bit a man dressed as a kangaroo -- they and so many others all converge at the ER. Season seven includes Abby's reunion with her mother, a turbulent woman who suffers from bipolar disorder. Also making the rounds, Carter returns from detox, Abby goes back to square one in med training, Benton struggles to emerge from Romano's...
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The award-winning series explored the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. In its final season, these medical professionals remain determined to save lives in a place where nothing is taken for granted and nothing is certain, nothing except that another desperate person will be rushed through the emergency room doors in the next moment in...
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"It's always rush hour at the ER. Each day, each moment, brings new challenges, triumphs and losses. No one ever expected those losses would include one of County General's talented medical students. New stories unfold as young doctors face the day-in, day-out rigors of the life-and-death decisions as a veteran physician faces a bittersweet conclusion to his career. Old stories resolve. Boulet finds new love and family. Hathaway gives birth to twins...
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"New hopefuls, Army Reservist Michael Gallant and brash Gregory Pratt, arrive to face the challenges of Trauma One life. A familiar face, Dr. Susan Lewis, returns. Benton weighs career and family. Malucci crosses the line once too often, Chen defies demotion, and Greene fights what could be his last battle, leaving a void at the group's heart. His leadership may never be replaced but someone must step into the breach. That someone is the doctor who...
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"Heal 'em and wheel 'em as the fourth season unfolds. A new face enters the mix at Chicago's County General: Dr. Elizabeth Corday comes across the pond from England to work as a surgical fellow. And there are plenty of new challenges ranging from the personal, as Greene tries to patch things up with his father in San Diego, to the professional as Ross puts his career on the line to save the life of a seven-month-old baby boy, from the romantic as...
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"Whad'ya got? The cry goes out as the gurney rolls in. Immediately, the staff of County General Hospital's trauma unit leap into action. There's not a moment to lose and a life to save. Season 3 has Greene the victim of a violent attack, Ross tries to get his personal life in order, Hathaway takes the MCAT, Benton takes on the toughest surgical elective and Carter takes a bold step toward a new career path"--Container.
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"Year 11 of the fast-paced series brings challenges and changes to the ER. Corday and Chen weigh work and family. Abby finds that being a good doctor is as tough as being a good nurse. Ray Barnett -- doctor by day, rock star by night -- arrives. Carter decides to leave. He's been there from the start, a student turned leader who picked up where Greene left off. He set the tone, provided the example. His impact will endure"--Container.
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"County Hospital has its rules. Doug Ross has his. For years, the dedicated pediatrician has pushed the limits. But now he goes too far and it leads to his resignation. The door swings both ways at the ER : eager med studen Lucy Knight arrives. Her mentor for her first rotation is Carter, who knows well the pitfalls of being a student, but perhaps isn't so adept a teacher. Also, Benton has a day-in, day-out patient on his hands when he learns his...
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