Good Ratings, Bad Medicine

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In a post-pandemic Melbourne medical clinic where reputation is everything, a single violent night will destroy lives. When cleaner Gabriella arrives for work, she discovers two doctors—Matteo and Bernard—lying bloodied on the clinic floor. One is dying. The other will soon become Australia’s most infamous celebrity.

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Behind the clinic’s respectable façade, secrets are multiplying. Gabriella is being blackmailed by a drug syndicate into stealing prescription pads. Matteo, the charismatic star of the hit TV show Doctors of Melbourne, is chasing fame and freedom from medicine. Bernard, his business partner, is buckling under a failing marriage, an impossible workload, and the fear that everything he’s built is slipping away.

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As a patient’s suspicious death draws journalists, gossip, and dangerous attention to the clinic, private betrayals and professional misconduct begin to surface. In a world where reputation can be weaponised and truth carefully edited, the question is no longer who is innocent—but who will survive the story.

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Good Ratings, Bad Medicine offers a unique perspective on the high-stakes world of healthcare, weaving its narrative through the tension arising from power imbalances, moral compromise and the fragile boundary between healer and harm-doer. It also explores wellness  in the age of ratings, celebrity branding and social media scrutiny, a space that feels both familiar and newly volatile in a post-pandemic landscape.

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