YMMV / The Resident

• Anvilicious: While the themes of corruption in medicine have never been subtle, it is frequent for characters to now lecture one-another on things with the audience in mind, like sperm donation facilities.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "So Long, Dawn Long" ends with a "superfungus" breaking out in the hospital....which aired as the Coronavirus pandemic covered the globe.
  • In 'Fear Finds a Way', a deadly disease sweeps through Chastain. The scenes are frighteningly similar to the COVID-19 epidemic that Chastain and the rest of the world would face later on.
• Jerkass Woobie: Dr. Cain suffered a Career-Ending Injury while attempting to become a football player and shifted his focus into medicine. As a black surgeon, it's also implied he faces racism. That being said, he's still demonstrated himself to be greedy, immoral, and a giant dick.
• Moral Event Horizon: See Complete Monster.
• The Woobie: Lilly Kendall, for being a cancer patient. Her condition continually deteriorates as time goes on and is further exacerbated by Dr. Lane Hunters' deliberate misdiagnosis of chemo-drug. Her husband also bails on her, leaving her with no companionship other than her doctors (one of whom is corrupt, but she continues to have absolute faith in).
• Nightmare Fuel: Just about single one of the cases patients are brought in for are medically possible, and many of them are completely out of our control.
  • It should also be noted that many of these patients come in with symptoms that appear benign like mild pain or a cough, only for their situation to become life-threatening as it's revealed they have things cancer or organ failure.
  • Imagine ending up with a life-threatening condition or dead because the doctor treating you made a critical mistake or was incompetent.
    • Or worse, this happens because of deliberate malpractice and coverups in the case of people like Doctors Bell, Hunter, and Cain.
  • How much would it suck if you went to a hospital and caught a superbug that was both highly lethal and nigh incurable?
  • People ended up dying because of a drug trial gone wrong.
  • Someone else ended up dying because a nurse fresh out of med-school was unable to identify him, and his brain-bleed was left untreated.
  • Patients like Dawn are left comatose for months on end, and Dr. Cain deliberately kept them alive rather than be allowed to die just because it would pad his stats and revenue.
• Squick: If you don't like seeing the gore from the surgery scenes or some of the conditions patients have when they're brought in, you might wanna skip those parts...
• Tear Jerker: Any time a patient dies.
  • Nic's father went through serious survivor's guilt that nearly drove him to suicide.
  • A man who had multiple sclerosis and other conditions tried to kill himself because Red Rock buried him in medical fees.
  • The death of Pravesh's father due to COVID-19, especially since he was in an overcrowded hospital left uncared for.
  • Seeing the interns go from Wide-Eyed Idealist to a Heroic BSoD when they realize their mistake seriously injured or killed a patient.
  • Watching Bradley Jenkins try to kill himself when the stress of his career becomes too much.
  • The death of Dr. Cain's former love interest.
  • The deaths of Lily, one of Barnett's sons, and Jessie hit particularly hard.
  • In one episode, a mother who recently gave birth dies after one of her doctors neglects her. Even the normally stoic Mina Okafor is in tears. The incident that inspired that episode makes it worse, as, like the husband, Charles Johnson was told his wife wasn't a priority.