Is new amsterdam worth watching

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For both of the two episodes New Amsterdam sent to critics, Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) walks the hallways of New York City’s oldest public hospital asking anybody who will listen — surgeons, nurses, custodians — a simple question: How can I help?

Max’s grand inspiration, as the newest medical director at fictional New Amsterdam Hospital, is that after years of medicine driven by the bottom line, he wants to put patients first.

This is not a huge inspiration, mind you, so his secondary inspiration is to, as the face of hospital bureaucracy, actually use that bureaucracy to assist caregivers through the power of crowdsourcing.

New Amsterdam really isn’t awful, at least not in terms of its basic execution. Some of the performances are quite good and the possibilities for story are limitless.

Unfortunately, while NBC states that NewAmsterdam is based in some part on Dr.

Eric Manheimer’s memoir Twelve Patients: Life and Death