The Best Hospital Life Documentaries

Health & the Body - 50 free documentaries about hospital life.

Start with Gun Shot Wound: A Trauma Surgeon's Grim Reality (52 min, ENDEVR), then Accompanying a nomad doctor in Mongolia (18 min, DW Documentary). All 50 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on hospital life is Complications by Atul Gawande.

• Gun Shot Wound: A Trauma Surgeon's Grim Reality (52 min, ENDEVR)
• Accompanying a nomad doctor in Mongolia (18 min, DW Documentary)
• America's Oldest Hospital: Abandoned (64 min, Real Stories)
• Surviving A&E: Junior Doctor Diaries (47 min, Real Stories)
• 84-hour Work Week, Low Pay: Why Malaysia’s Doctors Are Leaving | Insight (45 min, CNA Insider)
• Inside Singapore’s Fight Against Kidney Failure: A Looming Dialysis Crisis? (21 min, CNA Insider)
• Crisis Point: Junior Doctor Diaries (47 min, Real Stories)
• Britain's Most Notorious Psychiatric Hospital | Broadmoor (Full Mini-Series) (90 min, Real Stories)
• The Terrifying Killer Nurse (46 min, Real Stories)
• Assaults in the hospital - When doctors harass their female colleagues (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Sky Clinic: Secrets of the World’s Only Flying Hospital (46 min, Free Documentary)
• Thrown Into The Deep End: Junior Doctor Diaries (47 min, Real Stories)
• In the Name of Healing | When Medicine Becomes a Market (22 min, Moconomy)
• We're So Tired: Can These Working Parents And A Nurse Reclaim Their Energy? | Restless - Part 1/2 (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Anxious America: Living with Clinical Anxiety (60 min, Real Stories)
• First Day In Charge: Junior Doctor Diaries (48 min, Real Stories)
• The Doctor Raised In US Saving Singapore Patients, Kidney By Kidney | Singaporean At Heart - Pt 2/4 (22 min, CNA Insider)
• CLASSIC Doctor Who Moments | Doctor Who (58 min, BBC Studios)
• Why Some Hospital Patients Wait Hours For A Bed: What Can Be Done? | Talking Point (23 min, CNA Insider)
• The Dirty War on Britain's NHS (104 min, Real Stories)
• Doctor Who's Deadliest Planets | Doctor Who (20 min, BBC Studios)
• Classic Villains Who CAME BACK! | Doctor Who (81 min, BBC Studios)
• The Fifteenth Doctor's Best Moments | Doctor Who (99 min, BBC Studios)
• Multi Doctor Moments! | Doctor Who (63 min, BBC Studios)
• Genesis of the Daleks: Best Moments | @DoctorWho (44 min, BBC Studios)
• Germany: Inside the preemie ward (19 min, DW Documentary)
• The Dangers of Gun Violence in America (51 min, Real Stories)
• National Health Service In Crisis: The Complete Junior Doctors Diaries (182 min, Real Stories)
• Doctors Fight Britain's Biggest Healthcare Crisis (45 min, Real Stories)
• War Hospital: The Human Cost Of Conflict (89 min, Real Stories)
• The DALEKS! | Doctor Who (102 min, BBC Studios)
• Floating Hospital Treats Patients In India's Most Remote Islands | Reaching The Unreached (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Life And Death At The Emergency Vet Clinic | On The Red Dot - At The Vets (23 min, CNA Insider)
• ORBIS: The DC-10 Transformed Into A Flying Eye Hospital (45 min, Spark)
• This Old Plane Got Converted Into a Hospital (45 min, Wonder)
• Romantic Moments 💘 | Doctor Who (50 min, BBC Studios)
• The Lives of NHS Doctors on the Frontline (23 min, Real Stories)
• Best Moments of the Fifteenth Doctor - Season 1 | Doctor Who (79 min, BBC Studios)
• Inside Syria’s Secret War Hospitals (47 min, Real Stories)
• The Space Museum | FULL FIRST EPISODE | Season 2 | Doctor Who: Classic (24 min, BBC Studios)
• The Doctor Fighting Snakebite Deaths In Papua New Guinea's Remote Villages | Reaching The Unreached (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Waldy & Bendy | Season 5 | Episode 08: Should art be on the NHS? (51 min, ZCZ Films)
• Revelation of the Daleks | FULL FIRST EPISODE | Season 22 | Doctor Who: Classic (24 min, BBC Studios)
• The Ambassadors of Death | FULL FIRST EPISODE | Season 7 | Doctor Who: Classic (25 min, BBC Studios)
• Timelash | FULL FIRST EPISODE | Season 22 | Doctor Who: Classic (24 min, BBC Studios)
• First adventures in the TARDIS | Doctor Who (32 min, BBC Studios)
• Genesis of the Daleks | FULL FIRST EPISODE | Season 12 | Doctor Who: Classic (25 min, BBC Studios)
• How a Mother's Loss Led to a Life-Changing Health Clinic in Africa (50 min, Real Stories)
• The Web Planet | FULL FIRST EPISODE | Season 2 | Doctor Who: Classic (24 min, BBC Studios)
• Power to the patient - VPRO documentary - 2012 (44 min, VPRO Documentary)

Top-Rated Books About Hospital Life

1. Complications by Atul Gawande (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
2. This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay - View on Amazon
3. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink - View on Amazon
4. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (3.9/5) - View on Amazon