Where it was filmed 'DOC - Nelle tue mani'

Doc – Nelle tue Mani tells the story of Andrea Fanti (Luca Argentero), the brilliant Head of Internal Medicine at the Policlinico Ambrosiano in Milan. Feared by his team and revered by his patients for his talent, he is cold and profoundly distant at work until the father of a patient, whose death was caused by medical error, shoots him in the head. On his awakening, Professor Fanti is no longer the same: his brain has gone back 12 years to when he was a young, empathic doctor, on track to become department head, happily married to Agnese (Sara Lazzaro), now a director of the hospital, and father of two children. He remembers nothing after that and the process of putting the pieces together will be hard and painful. However, the amnesia also allows him to get closer to his patients, to understand needs and difficulties, becoming a better doctor and man.  His department team now call him “Doc”.

Although set against the modern skyline of Milan, it was Rome’s Policlinico Universitario Campus Biomedico that provided the rooms and equipment of the fictitious Policlinico Ambrosiano, where the lives of patients and staff intersect in the department of Internal Medicine.

Once the white coats are off, the characters live out their time in storied places in the city: piazza Duomo with the Gothic spires of the cathedral, galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, piazza della Scala, piazza Gae Aulenti, the bosco verticale, an architectural complex of two towers covered with 2,000 plant species, and the navigli, where Carolina (Beatrice Grannò), Andrea’s daughter, lives.

The seaside location of San Felice Circeo (Latina) provided the dock where Andrea heads when he needs peace.

Doc - Nelle tue Mani – Season 2

In Season 2 of Doc - Nelle tue mani, the staff of Policlinico Ambrosiano, like the rest of the world, have just come out of the Covid-19 pandemic. Flashbacks show recent events: Internal Medicine was converted into a Covid ward and the hospital found itself treating thousands of patients with limited equipment and personnel.

In the post-emergency period, the high number of deaths of both doctors and patients has trigged an inquest which involves all the Policlinico staff including the director Agnese Tiberi, Andrea Fanti and his team. New characters include Marco Rossetti who plays doctor Damiano Cesconi.

Exterior locations in various places of Milan include the navigli and the area around porta Garibaldi.

Doc - Nelle tue Mani – Season 3

Having discovered the truth about the gunshot that cost him his memory in season 1 and having fought alongside his team during the pandemic in season 2, Doc faces a new challenge in season 3. Reinstated as department head, he does his best to manage the ward to meet the goals identified by the Hospital’s leadership team, without compromising the quality and the attention that he provides his patients.

At the end of a long day of work, Andrea is blown away by a memory from the twelve years he believed lost forever. It is only a fragment of the life he lost but it is enough to spark the hope that his whole memory will return.

Season 3 brings three new specialists to the department: Federico Lentini (Giacomo Giorgio), a talented doctor and impenitent bon viveur who is at Internal Medicine against his will, forced by his father to serve six months on the ward before starting his new, easy life as a fashionable oculist; Lin Wang (Elisa Wong), shy and reserved with a deep passion for medicine that puts her in conflict with her family; and Martina Carelli (Laura Cravedi), the rising star of Internal Medicine whose secret could destroy her career.

From the skyscrapers of porta Nuova to CityLife, where Andrea has his ultra-modern apartment, well-known places in Milan return as locations in addition to new areas as the lives of the doctors and their patients develop over the episodes.