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3''A Gifted Man'' is an American fantasy medical drama television series that aired on Creator/{{CBS}}. The pilot episode was directed by Creator/JonathanDemme, who also served as an executive producer on the show along with writer Susannah Grant.
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5The series is about Michael Holt (Creator/PatrickWilson), a talented but self-absorbed surgeon who lives a comfortable and materialistic life attending an upscale New York City clinic, but is nevertheless discontented with his life. Just as he starts questioning his purpose in life, his life is thrown into disarray when he is visited by the spirit of his deceased ex-wife, Anna Paul (Jennifer Ehle), who had recently been killed in a car crash, and who asks Michael to help keep running the free clinic she previously directed.
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7The series premiered on CBS on September 23, 2011, but on May 10, 2012, CBS canceled the series after one season.
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9!!This series features examples of:
10* AgentMulder: Michael's sister Christina, who believes in the supernatural, not only immediately believes Michael when he tells her that Anna came back as a ghost, but is actually ''thrilled'' with the idea, as she insists he was a better person when she was around.
11* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Dr. Holt had apparently never heard that you're not supposed to diagnose paternity based on ABO groups when he told an AB- man, on the spot and with no other apparent check, that his son, O+, wasn't his biological child. Although it is rare, the man could have been ''cis-AB'' and had an O child.
12* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Evan "E-Mo" Morris, a psychiatrist-neurologist at Holt's clinic, becomes forgetful, and it isn't until it becomes serious after quite some time has passed that the possibility of it being the result of a neurological disease is considered.
13* ISeeDeadPeople:
14** Dr. Michael Holt can see the ghost of his dead ex-wife, but it's not clear if he can see others.
15** A later episode had a little girl who can see the ghost of her grandmother, with her mother later developing similar symptoms, and it turns out that there is a connection, with a pop star that Dr. Holt attends to in the episode.
16* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: With the exception of the pilot, every episode title begins with the words "In Case of...".
17* MoralityChain: Christina insists that even before she died and came back as a SpiritAdvisor to Dr. Holt, he was a better person when she was around back when she was alive.
18* SpiritAdvisor: Anna's return as a spirit draws Dr. Holt out of the funk of his self-absorbed life and convinces him to use his talents to help those who needed it most.

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