Here's the deal: Emily Owens, M.D. is a perfectly inoffensive medical rom-com that got cancelled after 13 episodes in 2012, and there's a reason for that. Critics hated it (33% on RT), calling it derivative and lightweight, though audiences were kinder (71%).

The premise—'hospital is just like high school!'—is both the hook and the problem. It reduces professional medical training to cafeteria drama, which undercuts any real exploration of what it means to become a doctor. It's Grey's Anatomy without the edge, stakes, or interesting characters.

For teens interested in medical careers, it offers a sanitized glimpse into intern life without graphic content. But let's be real: it's 2012 network TV that didn't survive, and it shows. The pacing, humor, and romantic entanglements feel dated and predictable.

If your teen is desperate for medical content and you want something cleaner than Grey's, sure, it exists on streaming somewhere. But with only 13 episodes before cancellation, you're basically watching an incomplete story that nobody—including the network—thought was worth continuing. There are better ways to spend screen time.