“The Office”-Style Hospital Comedy Is Coming to NBC: See the Hilarious First Look at “St. Denis Medical” (Exclusive)
'St. Denis Medical' premieres with back-to-back episodes on Nov. 12 on NBC
St. Denis Medical is now accepting patients, though becoming one should be done at your own risk!
PEOPLE has an exclusive look at the new workplace mockumentary making its way to NBC this fall. The sitcom co-created by Eric Ledgin and Justin Spitzer (The Office, Superstore) debuts on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
“Dr. Patel will be administering the anesthesia now, so count back from 5 and we’ll see you on the other side,” surgeon Bruce (Josh Lawson) tells his patient just before a procedure with his team.
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ST. DENIS MEDICAL -- "Pilot" -- Pictured: (l-r) Allison Tolman as Alex, Kahyun Kim as SerenaAs instructed, the patient counts down, and with the team of medical professionals expecting him to be sedated, the doctor adds, “Okay, let's do this.”
“Nope! I’m still here,” the patient suddenly says, shocking the team of doctors.
“Jesus Christ, what is this guy, Wolverine?” the lead surgeon asks.
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From there, viewers get to see a typical day in the emergency department at St. Denis Medical Center in Oregon.
“Sometimes we need to do better,” Ron (David Alan Grier) says during a staff meeting.
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ST. DENIS MEDICAL -- "Pilot" -- Pictured: (l-r) Josh Lawson as Dr. Bruce, David Alan Grier as Dr. RonThe PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!
As the scene cuts away, another patient is lying in bed as her loved one sits in a chair beside her and informs the doctors that her treatment “can’t start until her cross is here.”
Enter a lone doctor doing her best to unload a wooden cross larger than the size of her own body out of the bed of a pickup truck in the parking lot. She lugs the item from the parking lot to an elevator at St. Denis Medical Center to get it to the patient before running into a roadblock.
Ron, an emergency department doctor and down-on-his-luck divorcee, then tells cameras: "But we're doing the best we can," as Val (Kaliko Kauahi) struggles to pull the massive cross onto the hospital's elevator — only to realize one thing.
“Oh, it’s going down?” she says in disappointment before attempting to push the wooden cross out of the elevator.
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ST. DENIS MEDICALAccording to a synopsis, St. Denis Medical follows “the employees of an underfunded and understaffed hospital in Oregon. Like real-life medical professionals, the characters come to work every day trying to balance their innate desire to do their very best to help people with their innate desire to not lose their own sanity.”
The NBC comedy also stars Wendi McLendon-Covey (Joyce), Kauahi, Grier and Allison Tolman (Alex), in addition to Mekki Leeper (Max), Kahyun Kim (Serena) and Lawson.
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St. Denis Medical premieres with two back-to-back episodes on Nov. 12, and will air on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on NBC.
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