12 Shows Like The Good Doctor You Should Watch

When it comes to a medical series starring a gifted young doctor, Neil Patrick Harris’ 1980s family comedy, Doogie Howser, MD, might be your place to start. In the series, Harris played a scholar himself, a young boy who graduated from high school, college and medical school at age 14 and became a licensed physician and hospital surgeon two years later. However, this is not the series that we actually recommend. Instead, you might want to check out the Doogie Kameāloha, MD remake.

In this revived series, updated for the 2020s, Peyton Elizabeth Lee takes on the role of senior physician Lahela Kameāloha, a teenage prodigy who, at age 16, works as a physician at the fictional Oahu Health Medical Center in Hawaii. She gets the nickname “Doogie” thanks to the 1980s television series to which her friends, family and co-workers compare her and which is as fictional on the show as it is in real life. A quick-witted teenager, she struggles to balance her work and normal teenage life while constantly having to prove herself against peers twice or three times her age.

Doogie Kameāloha, MD is an enchanting series that is as much about Lahela’s life and personal drama as it is about the medical cases she works on during the day from The Good Doctor.