Chicago Med star Nick Gehlfuss has revealed how difficult it is to wrap your head around medical terminology.
Nick, who plays chief resident Dr Will Halstead in the new show, said learning to play a convincing doctor was one of the biggest challenges of the part.
Nick Gehlfuss as Dr Will Halstead (NBCUniversal)
Speaking on set in Chicago, he said: “It’s like a foreign language, it demands attention and time, like anything else, but the most difficult part is what you do with the words after you memorised them.
“It is authentically portraying a doctor with the cadences of how they speak, how they move, the rate at which they speak and the props and the details of scalpels and how you hold them, that’s what becomes the most challenging part.”
Nick spent time with real doctors in hospitals to prepare for the role and said he was taken aback when he wasn’t freaked out by the blood.
He said: “I was little surprised, I don’t have experience of this but I couldn’t look close enough.”
Chicago Med (NBCUniversal)
He has dismissed comparisons between Chicago Med and other shows based in hospitals.
He said: “It’s definitely it’s own thing, it’s not a fair comparison.
Nick with his Chicago Med co-stars (NBCUniversal)
“It’s by Dick Wolf (who is responsible for the Law And Order franchise as well as Chicago Fire and Chicago PD).
“Every week you will learn something new about the medical field that you didn’t know.
Chicago Med begins on Sunday March 20 at 9pm, on Universal Channel.
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