Medical fiction
Medical fiction is fiction whose events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment. It is highly prevalent on television, especially as medical dramas, as well as in novels.
Subgenres
Romance novels have an independent subcategory in medicine, medical romance, with its own settings and characters.
Medical crime or conspiracy
Medical comedy
See also
List of fictional medical examiners
References
Borys Surawicz, Beverly Jacobson:Doctors in Fiction: Lessons from Literature. Radcliffe OUblishing 2009, ISBN 978-1-84619-328-6 (online copy at Google Books)
Philipp A. Scott: The medical research novel in English and German, 1900-1950. Popular Press 1992, ISBN 0-87972-552-4 (online copy at Google Books)