Doctor Stranger

Series Similar to Doctor Stranger

If you enjoyed Doctor Stranger, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call

   2025 · Drama, Medical · returning

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, highly rated (8).

   To create a top-tier trauma center, a war-seasoned doctor arrives bringing his blunt but skilled ways to transform his team into life-saving mavericks.

2. Descendants of the Sun

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Medical profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   This story tells of doctors stationed in the fictional war zone of Urk, and follows the love story that develops between a surgeon and a special forces officer, both elite in their respective fields. The story tracks both their personal and professional struggles while exploring issues about the value of life.

3. Mr. Plankton

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Lee Yoo Mi stars as a bride-to-be whose medical conditions threatens her marriage to a family obsessed with continuing their grand lineage.

4. Good Doctor

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Medical profile.

   A medical drama about a man with autistic disorder, who has mentality of 10-year-old, overcomes bias and discrimination by the society and becomes a pediatrician by utilizing his exceptional abilities that the illness brings.

5. Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Medical profile, also on SBS.

   Both Kang Dong Joo and Yoon Seo Jung worked their backside off to become a doctor. For Kang Dong Joo, it was to beat someone out there and for Yoon Seo Jung, it was to be recognized by someone. The humanist drama depicts how the two doctors meet the oddball doctor, Kim Sa Bu and become to realize the true value of life and solace of love.

6. Healer

   2014 · Action, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   A mysterious messenger, an online newspaper reporter who only concerns her own interests, a popular reporter who agonizes over the truth and reality.When these three people meet, a passionate romance starts and the truths from the past and present reveal themselves to the world. This drama features young people and how they grow into real reporters.

7. Chasing Life

   2014 · Drama, Romance, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Medical profile.

   April is a smart, charismatic and quick witted twenty-something aspiring journalist. When not pursuing the latest scoop, April tries to balance her ambitious career with her family, which includes her widowed mom Sara rebellious little sister Brenna and her grandmother We meet April at a pivotal moment in her life: she's landed a fantastic opportunity to impress her hard-nosed Boston newspaper editor and an office romance with her super-sexy co-worker Dominic is just beginning to blossom. In an unexpected twist of fate, April lands in the hospital where her estranged uncle, George works as an oncologist, and she learns the devastating news that she has cancer. The series follows April through her journey in the face of this daunting revelation, during a time in her life when the challenges of finding love and success would be enough to keep any girl occupied. But April is determined to fight and refuses to give up her dreams and goals. Along the way, she'll find new reserves of strength and passion within and discover that facing death may really be the only way to truly live.

8. A Poem a Day

   2018 · Drama, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Medical profile, hidden gem.

   Ye Jae Wook works as a physical therapist and also teaches in the same field. He begins to work as a team leader at a hospital. Woo Bo Young has been working as a physical therapist for 3 years. She wanted to become a poet, but due to her poor family background she studied to become a physical therapist. Shin Min Ho is a trainee, but he isn't interested in physical therapy. His grades weren't good enough for medical school and his parents, who are both doctors, made him study physical therapy.

9. Kill Me, Heal Me

   2015 · Comedy, Romance, Medical · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Medical profile, highly rated (8).

   A romantic comedy between a third-generation billionaire with Dissociative Identity Disorder and a first-year Psychiatrist resident who treats him secretly.After a traumatic experience in his childhood, Cha Do Hyun suffers memory lapses and his personality then fractured into seven different identities. He tries to regain control over his life with the help of Oh Ri Jin, a first-year psychiatric resident who treats him secretly. But Ri Jin's twin brother, Oh Ri Ohn, is a famous mystery novelist who investigates about Do Hyun and his family.

10. The Knick

    2014 · Drama, Medical · ended

    Recommended for similar Medical profile, highly rated (8.3).

    New York City, 1900: The Knickerbocker Hospital is home to groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who push the boundaries of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. The newly appointed leader of the surgery staff is the brilliant, arrogant renegade Dr. John Thackery, whose addiction to cocaine and opium is trumped only by his ambition for medical discovery and renown among his peers. Into the all-white staff and patient hospital comes the equally gifted Harvard graduate Dr. Algernon Edwards, who must fight for respect while trying to navigate the racially charged city. Trying to maintain its reputation for quality care while realizing a profit, the Knickerbocker makes an effort to attract wealthy clientele, while literally struggling to keep the lights on.