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The Resident (TV series)

2018 American medical drama television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Resident is an American medical drama television series that aired on Fox from January 21, 2018, to January 17, 2023. The series premiered on Fox as a mid-season replacement during the 2017–18 television season. The series focuses on the lives and duties of staff members at fictional Chastain Park Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, with generally a critical eye into current issues of medical practice and tensions in the healthcare industry.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Resident (TV series)” is 2018 American medical drama television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Resident, series and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2023, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Resident, series and American is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2018, 2023 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Resident (TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.