A fictional medical procedural set in 2006 at the only military hospital providing advanced surgical care in all of Southern Afghanistan. The series charts the frantic lives of the hospital’s resident doctors and nurses from Canada, America, the U.K. and other coalition countries. This highly-charged series follows the characters as they navigate their way through the relentless life-and-death battles on the operating table, and the never-ending conflicts that arise from working in a war zone military hospital.
A Role 3 Medical Unit is the highest level of care available in Kandahar, with facilities for emergency surgery and intensive care. Within its walls, an international team of doctors, nurses and medics deliver the best battlefield surgical care anywhere to wounded soldiers, civilians caught in the crossfire and even the enemy.
Helming the hospital on behalf of the Canadian Forces is Colonel Xavier Marks (Elias Koteas), a career military surgeon and Head of the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit. New Role 3 recruits include Major Rebecca Gordon (Michelle Borth), a top-of-her-class trauma surgeon who is eager to impress, and Captain Bobby Trang (Terry Chen), who as Trauma Team Leader is thrown into the deep end upon his arrival. The only nonmilitary medical staffer is the brilliant British neurosurgeon, Dr. Simon Hill (Luke Mably), whose decision to work in a war zone has raised more than a few eyebrows. Overseeing the mental well-being of the Role 3 staff on their tour of duty is the Australian psychiatrist Major Grace Pedersen (Deborah Kara Unger) . And as every doctor knows – they are nothing without their nurses. Commander Will Royal (Arnold Pinnock), Chief of Nursing, will not let them forget this universal truth.
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