Doc – Nelle tue mani
| Doc – Nelle tue mani | |
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| Country of origin | Italy |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 32+ |
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| Running time | 50-60 minutes |
| Production companies | Rai Fiction, Lux Vide |
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| Network | Rai 1 |
| Release | March 26, 2005 – present |
Doc - Nelle tue mani is an Italian medical drama TV series broadcast on Rai 1 since February 2020, written by Francesco Arlanch and Viola Rispoli.
Season 1 was directed by Jan Maria Michelini and Ciro Visco, while season 2 by Beniamino Catena and Giacomo Martelli.
The series is inspired by doctor Pierdante Piccioni, former chief of the emergency room of Lodi and Codogno, who forgot the previous 12 years of his life following a car accident.[1]
The set is the fictional "Policlinico Ambrosiano" hospital of Milan and the plot concerns the doctors working in the internal medicine department.[2]
Plot
Season 1
Professor Andrea Fanti is a brilliant and famous doctor working at the Policlinico Ambrosiano hospital of Milan, where he is the chief of the internal medicine department. At the same time he is also arrogant, painstaking and narcissist.
Fanti thinks that doctors should not trust patients, as they lie. Consequently, he only follows his instinct and trusts his équipe, especially his assistant Giulia Giordano, a doctor he has a secret relationship with.
One day, the father of Giovanni Pavesi, a young boy died in Fanti's ward following a mistake (he was given the wrong medicine, the Satonal, due to a homonymy error), waits for Fanti ending his shift at the hospital and shoots him in the head. Despite the doctor does not die, he suffers from an irreversible prefrontal trauma, which causes him to forget the previous 12 years. Indeed, when Fanti wakes up from coma, he believes that it is June 2008 instead of 2020 and his last memory is him coming home after signing his first contract with the Policlinico Ambrosiano. Forgetting most of the staff he used to work with, he turns from an authoritative doctor into a patient of the hospital.
Thrown into a present he sometimes struggles to understand, obliged to start over most of his life and to deal with relevant trauma like his child's death and the separation from his wife (which he forgot), he perceives his loved ones as strangers. As a consequence, the hospital becomes the only place where Andrea feels really home and where he can try to build a new private and working future.
No more able to be the chief of the department he used to be in charge of, he comes back to work as a "doctor with limitations", that is a kind of assistant for young residents, who nickname him Doc, and uses empathy to interact with patients and help solve their medical issues. In the meantime, he starts a psycological journey with doctor Sardoni, a longtime friend and collegue of his.[3][4][5]
Episodes
| Season | Episodes | First aired |
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| 1 | 16 | 2020 |
| 2 | 16 | 2022 |
References
- ^ "Pierdante Piccioni: "Sono io il vero 'Doc'. Anzi, siamo tutti noi"" (in Italian).
- ^ "DOC, il Policlinico Ambrosiano esiste davvero?" (in Italian).
- ^ "DOC - Nelle tue mani" (in Italian).
- ^ ""Doc – Nelle tue mani": trama, cast e personaggi" (in Italian).
- ^ "DOC. NELLE TUE MANI" (in Italian).