TV Shows Trauma and Mercy

Trauma

Executive producer Peter Berg delivers "Trauma," the first high-octane medical drama series to live exclusively in the field where the real action is. Like an adrenaline shot to the heart, "Trauma" is an intense, action-packed look at one of the most dangerous medical professions in the world: first responder paramedics. When emergencies occur, the trauma team from San Francisco General is first on the scene, traveling by land, by sea or by air to reach their victims in time. From the heights of the city's Transamerica Pyramid to the depths of the San Francisco Bay, these heroes must face the most extreme conditions to save lives -- and give meaning to their own existence in the process.

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Mercy - NBC TV Show - Mercy Seasons, Spoilers, Cast, Pics


NBC's "Mercy," a new medical drama with a unique point of view, portrays the lives of the staff at Mercy Hospital as seen through the eyes of those who know it best—its nurses.

Nurse Veronica Callahan (Taylor Schilling, "Dark Matter") returns to Mercy from a military tour in Iraq—and she knows more about medicine than all of the residents combined on NBC's "Mercy." Together with fellow nurses Sonia Jimenez (Jamie Lee Kirchner, "Rescue Me") and Chloe Payne (Michelle Trachtenberg, "Gossip Girl"), Callahan navigates through the daily traumas and social landmines of life and love both inside the hospital and out in the real world on NBC's "Mercy."

The cast of NBC's "Mercy" also includes: James Tupper ("Men in Trees") as Dr. Chris Sands, a new doctor at the hospital who complicates Veronica's life; Diego Klattenhoff ("Supernatural") as Mike Callahan, Veronica's husband; and Guillermo Diaz ("Weeds") as Nurse Angel Lopez.

NBC's "Mercy" is a Universal Media Studios/Berman Braun production. Joining writer/executive producers Liz Heldens (NBC's "Friday Night Lights") and Gretchen Berg & Aaron Harberts ("Pushing Daisies," "Pepper Dennis") are executive producers Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun. Emmy Award winner Adam Bernstein (NBC's "30 Rock," "Rescue Me") is the director for the pilot of NBC's "Mercy."
TV Shows Trauma and Mercy

It's really odd to finally see TV shows coming out addressing trauma after all these years, but it's wonderful they are finally being done.

Quiet heroes we depend on everyday to take care of us when parts of our life beyond our control spiral into chaos. Car accidents can change our lives in a second. Natural disasters strike leaving us in total confusion wondering where we're supposed to live, find clothes, food, how we are supposed to put our lives back together again. Fires wipe out everything we thought we valued, needed to make us happy and obliterated sentimental reminders of our lives captured in pictures lost forever.

We tend to not think about these people we need when traumatic events happen but we're sure glad they show up when they do.

Firefighters, emergency responders, police officers and Chaplains show up when they are needed the most then return into the background of our lives. It never dawns on us to wonder how they do it, how they face all these events, risk their own lives for the sake of strangers, then go back to their own lives without asking anything in return except a simple thank you and their paycheck, because they were "just doing their jobs" for the rest of us.

They go back home after working to save us, risking their lives to do it, then have to take out the trash, do the laundry, go food shopping, deal with kid's homework, dust furniture and vacuum the rugs. They deal with the usual mundane problems and family relationships all the while they are remembering they just saved a life, wondering why simple events in life can take on so much importance to the people they love the most. Someone died in their arms a little while ago but they have to deal with an argument over who was supposed to unload the dishwasher. They saved the life of a child but have to go home and tell their own kid to clean their room.

We see them everyday but never really notice any of them until we need them. We never think about their own lives once we are done needing them.

These TV shows may make us think more about them while reminding us of the trauma they face daily. Mercy will show us what it's like to be sent into combat then have to come back home living like the rest of us but being oh so much more than we could ever dream of.