Noah Wyle

You know, Neil is special, and I just want everyone to get that feeling I get when I listen to America and Forever Blue Jeans.

And Sweet Caroline, yeah, but I'm never going to be the real McCoy.

I mean, I don't really look like Neil.

I don't even really sound like Neil.

I've got to be Neil, but I've just got to be me, too.

I was looking for the right way to say it, and you just came right out and said, a Neil Diamond interpreter.

I play Dr. Michael Rabinovich, who is several decades into his medical career and probably should have retired a couple of years ago.

But like many practitioners, post-COVID felt pressed into service and out of the increasing need.

And because he's really good at what he does and he really cares about the people he works with, he's kept working.

And...

It's taken a toll on him.

He's seen a lot and done a lot, and he's been able to compartmentalize a lot of that.

And today, we are embedded with him for his entire shift on the day that he's no longer able to do that.

The casting process was laborious.

We were looking for people with theater backgrounds, people who were really adept at memorizing lots and lots of dialogue, very good with props, who could do all sorts of things while doing a procedure and walking backwards.

And we had to cast the show internationally.

We found actors in Australia.

We found them in England.

We found them on the East Coast, West Coast.

But we found tremendous performers.