Doctors or businessmen?: ‘The Resident’ shows both faces

learn from Dr. Hawkins. She’s also Dr. Hawkins’ on-again, offagain romance. The rate of medical error was shocking for the actress, who studied statistics intently for her character. It’s the third-leading cause of death, she told Access Hollywood in an interview.

Hawkins uses unorthodox methods, such as throwing ice on a patient to revive her, but he never forgets the risks of the job. Unlike Dr. Soloman Bell (Bruce Greenwood, “Mad Men”), Hawkins knows the repercussions of a bad decision. Dr. Bell is a celebrity doctor with a lot to lose: he bills over $20 million per year, and he’s also the chief of surgery. So, after he hits an artery during a relatively safe procedure and kills a patient, no one questions him when he covers it up with a pre-existing condition — no one except Hawkins, of course, who tells the chief of medicine to consider changing his methods before killing additional patients.

Hawkins may be young, but he’s not out of line — he’s experienced the fallout of his mistakes. He carries around a picture of a little girl who died due to an error on his part, and the reminder helps him stay humble and diligent.

Most doctors only want to help their patients — but what they don’t teach, Hawkins explains, is that there are so many ways to harm. The doctors of “The Resident” will break all the rules that they followed in school. But if it were easy, as Hawkins says, everyone would be a doctor. After all, saving people’s lives is the best job in the world.

“The Resident” will replace Fox’s “Rosewood,” the network’s recently canceled medical drama. Other than “The XFiles” revival and Seth MacFarlane’s live-action dramedy “The Orville,” it’s the only drama picked up this season.

Matt Czuchry stars in “The Resident”