buckikris When this series came out in 2009, I was hooked. Trauma was a series that was going to be the next big thing in medical drama. The series involves an elite group of paramedics, E.M.T.'s, and flight medic's. The group works in conjunction with San Francisco Hospital. Going to some of the worst accidents in San Francisco. Cliff Curtis( Rabbit) is a flight medic; who went though his own traumatic experience a year ago. After surviving a helicopter crash he is back; and has a new partner, Marisa( Aimee Garcia). She is ex-military and at first doesn't mix well with Rabbit. They are Angel Rescue, coming to the scene in moments of crisis. Working with Angel Rescue is Capt. Basra's( Steven Jones), team. The team consists of partner's Medic Boone(Derek Luke) and E.M.T. Tyler(Kevin Rankin). The top paramedic of the group is Nancy Carnahan( Anastasia Griffith). She has a medical degree, but for some reason, stays a paramedic. This aggravates Dr. Jo Saviano( Jamey Sheridan), who thinks she is wasting talent by not taking the next step. Which is becoming an M.D. at San Fransisco City Hospital. Nancy is also the wild one of the bunch and has the repetition. She plays the field, including a lot of her co-workers. She is one with a heart, taking Glenn(Taylor Kinny-Chicago Fire) under her wing. He is the new guy, he's nervous, makes mistakes; and no one seems to like. Capt. Basra knows Nancy will teach him well, and not make mince-meat out of him. Eventually the others warm up to him; and he is a good sport about being a probie.This show has excitement from beginning to end. This show is realistic to a point. Some of the resuscitation efforts( C.P.R. looks weak). A few times it looks like they could be doing it right. Like they taught us in school arms locked, not rocking, a straight steady motion.I have to say that the whole cast is great, Tyler and Rabbit will always be my favorites. I was shocked to find out after only one season the show was going to be canceled. Watching this show takes me back to the days when I belonged to my cities fire department. I was a fire explorer, we were first responders, we went on calls; a great learning experience I will never forget. I'm glad I did by the DVD of Trauma so I can also relieve one of the best shows of 2009.THX, Kris L. CocKayne

Cameron Allen I was a big Third Watch fan and as a result I had low expectations for this show, and I was right. The fact that the show focuses only on the paramedics gives it a shred of originality, but honestly they should have just brought back Third Watch (which only ran for six years and ended before it's time). A mix of new cast and perhaps some of the original cast would have drawn new viewers and probably some old fans like me. All they would have had to do was to focus on the paramedic/fire aspect more than the police if that's the angle they want. But Trauma is nothing but another cheap rehashing of an old idea with an uninspired cast. Don't waste your time with it. Go rent Third Watch on DVD instead.

clydsterama Like everyone else I was looking forward to this quite a bit. I like Cliff Curtis (fantastic in "Training Day." And Anastasia Griffith was okay in "Damages.") Imagine, well, you don't have to, my disappointment when this drek appeared and unfurled in front of us. Appalling.Good luck getting to the hospital if the characters from this misfiring 3-episode-and-out boatload of triteness have anything to say about it -- they're too busy screwing in the back of the ambulance or drinking on the job. What's meant to be hip, daring, and oh, so real is merely lame, familiar and fake. Even down to the way the characters are handled visually this was doomed -- the introduction of Cliff Curtis with this loving hero dolly shot was a harbinger of doom. No way this character lives up to the way he's photographed. And guess what -- he knows his stuff and saves that guy's life -- and then gets knocked out of the sky. What a stunning turnaround. I haven't seen plot twists like that since "Sheep in the Big City," which is supremely better written, acted and thought out. I'm not going to ramble on about this. The positive comments are clearly written by shills, friends of the producers who've been sought out to write pleasant things. Too bad the comments' writers aren't doing the teleplays. They're equally as inventive.

st_eguard-012006 Never let the Trauma Staff do CPR on you! The story is fine, fast paced and - as far as one can tell from the pilot - well developed. The roles leave plenty of room for internal tensions and the characters themselves seem to have interesting backgrounds. That together with the variety of different settings the characters can play in the show has great potential.But never let them do CPR or any other medical procedure do on you! Basically in the pilot they killed at least 2 patients just by giving them the wrong medicine or by delivering a devastating CPR.So... the do need a medical consultant.