As the broadcast of season 2 of “Doc” ends this Wednesday evening on TF1, we asked Pierdante Piccioni, screenwriter on the series, if all the medical cases were inspired by real cases.
Season 2 of Doc, the successful medical series carried by Luca Argentero, ends this evening on TF1 after two episodes rich in emotion. Placed under the sign of the Covid, this new burst of episodes saw the doctors of the internal medicine department manage the consequences, both physical and moral, of the pandemic.
And like Dr House, Andrea Fanti and her team have to deal with new medical cases every week, each more unique than the next.
If we could sometimes have doubts about the veracity of some of these cases, Pierdante Piccioni, the doctor whose incredible story inspired the series, confirmed to us during an interview granted within the framework of the Series Mania Festival, that they were all true.
“I haven’t met them all personally“, he thus explained “These are cases that we have collected from all over Italy. The rule we have set ourselves when writing screenplays is that they must always be true stories, but that we can then dramatize certain elements.”
In parallel with his career as a doctor, Pierdante Piccioni is indeed part of the team of screenwriters, which allows him to breathe some truth into Doc. And if he works mainly on the medical aspect of the scripts by bringing his expertise, he also has his say on the invented or dramatized parts of the scenarios as he told us during our meeting.
It is moreover in this concern for truth that the screenwriters made the choice to kill one of the emblematic characters of Doc in the first episodes of this season 2. The doctor indeed wanted to show that the Covid epidemic was still well and truly present while paying tribute to the members of the medical staff who lost their lives caring for patients with the disease.
Find the last episodes of season 2 of Doc this evening on TF1. Season 1 is available in full on Salto.