It may have taken a pandemic for Americans to collectively express our appreciation for health care workers, but they’ve always had an outsize presence on TV. Among the series that have defined generations are medical shows like E.R., Grey’s Anatomy and M*A*S*H. General Hospital is our longest-running soap. As flailing broadcast networks grasp for perennial crowd pleasers, it seems as though everything on their schedules that isn’t a cop or lawyer show is a doctor show.