This Canadian show served as a midseason replacement for NBC in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic put almost all American productions on hold.
Tropes in this series include:
- Benevolent Boss: Dr. Bishop consistently goes out of his way to protect the doctors that work for him, especially Bash, whom he backs up on every unorthodox decision.
- Best Friend: Theo is closer to Bash than any of their other coworkers, even offering Bash and Amira a place to stay after they are evicted.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: Outright subverted by Bash's sister Amira, who comes off more as a slightly Broken Bird.
- Determined Doctor: In the first episode, Bash had saved some people including Dr. Bishop at a restaurant with his medical skills and that was even before he was hired as a doctor. In the second season, he even saved the life a hostile patient who attacked him twice.
- Do Wrong, Right: Theo is enraged when he discovers that the hypothetical procedures Bash has been asking him about are actually real cases in Syria because of the liability issues it brings up. However, he's even angrier that Bash didn't provide him with the full details of the cases because offering advice on incomplete information can be fatal.
- Fatal Flaw: Many of the doctors have these which has led them to making some very poor decisions.
- Bash has a hard time relying on a team due to his history of field medicine, something that he really can't do in a teaching hospital.
- Mags puts too much on her plate and doesn't separate her work and home lives which has led to her taking situations far too personally.
- Theo's anger issues tend to boil over and cause him to lash out, especially in regards to his soon to be ex-wife.
- Bishop has a hard time giving up his leadership position and having others edging him out of said position doesn't help matters at all.
- Novak, Bishop's temporary stand-in, tends to edge others out of their comfort zone in ways that they feel are abrasive.
- June feels the pressure of being a black female doctor and puts up a strong emotional wall that has her come across as rather cold and aloof.
- Hollywood Law: Mags tells Bash that he will be blamed if Bishop dies; however, Ontario's Good Samaritan Act should protect him from liability, given that he is a trained, if not licensed, professional, not someone that could be reasonably accused of negligence.
- Hospital Hottie: All the York Memorial doctors are different types of attractive.
- I Have This Friend: Bash talks with the hospital's resident psychiatrist for advice on a patient of his who supposedly has PTSD, but it's actually himself.
- Meatgrinder Surgery: Bash developed the ability to perform surgery with crude workarounds due to the dearth of resources in Syria. He also helps friends back in Syria perform emergency operations with whatever they have on hand.
- No Antagonist: Characters are always more concerned about saving patients than opposing each other.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Characters frequently bring up the time Bash drilled a hole in Dr. Bishop's head in the pilot, especially Dr. Bishop himself.
- Patient of the Week: Par for the course for this series, we have patients coming in to be treated to mix up with the doctors' personal dramas.
- Practically Different Generations: Bash is at least twenty years older than his little sister Amira, who's in grade school. It's therefore unsurprising he's raised her in Canada, and he would likely be taken as her father by most who don't know their relationship.
- Promotion to Parent: Bash has become the Parental Substitute for his sister Amira after losing both their parents in Syria. While they both get along well and do love each other, it isn't easy for him to have to work so much as well as accept that she's also growing up.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Khaled and Bash fear that Officer Brent, who shows up in "Under Pressure", will deport Khaled. It turns out that Brent is only looking to expose the scam that the guy who hired him is running, and doesn't care that he's an illegal immigrant.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: In most situations, Bash couldn't be considered for a position at York Memorial because he lacks credentials that are recognized in Canada. But, Dr. Bishop is impressed by Bash's actions in the pilot and opens up a slot for him.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Bash is frequently haunted by his past in Syria.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When Bash's fiance returns after five years and him thinking that she died, they try to mend their relationship again as though nothing ever happened. It doesn't work because of just how much they've both changed, especially Bash, and the physical and emotional distance between them has grown significantly.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: A frat boy brings in his friend with a head wound he received as part of a hazing ritual. While his friend is being stitched up, he tells June that he really needs to get into the frat so he can get his foot in the door and get rich. As they're getting ready to leave, the frat boy suddenly loses consciousness and goes into cardiac arrest. The doctors wheel him into resus to try to save him, but he dies on the table from cardiac arrest. The reason? He drank a whole bottle of soy sauce to try and get accepted by the fraternity, and the hyponatremia from the salt killed him. His friend is left devastated.
- Survivor Guilt: Bash reveals that one of his biggest failures was having to leave behind his father to die or else risk both of them getting captured by soldiers. It takes time for him to be able to admit the truth to Amira.
- Trans Tribulations: Downplayed in "Trigger Warning". One patient is a teenage trans boy, who wants to have top surgery (i.e. a double mastectomy), while his parents aren't on board with it (and since he's under eighteen, their consent's required). His parents do agree to have him be seen at a gender clinic about going on puberty blockers though by the end.
- Will They or Won't They?: Bash and Magalie seem to be headed to this.
