Premiering Tuesday, June 21st (ABC, 10 pm et/pt), Combat Hospital focuses on the lives of the doctors and nurses who treat wounded soldiers in Southern Afghanistan (it’s set in 2006).  Elias Koteas (Let Me In) is Colonel Xavier Marks, the principled military surgeon who heads the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit, and Michelle Borth plays Major Rebecca Gordon, a trauma surgeon with thoughts of home weighing on her mind (she might be pregnant).

“I don’t think we have a specific political point of view that we’re telling it from,” says Borth.  “We’re telling it more from the medical standpoint of the conflicts we have as doctors in trying to understand that you have to put political, ethical…all your religious beliefs aside and (figure out) which priority patient is important first.”

“I think it’s more the human element of functioning in a pressure cooker environment that’s more interesting,” adds Koteas.

Click on the media bar and listen to Borth and Koteas talk about learning the medical jargon for Combat Hospital. 

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posted by Greg Srisavasdi