Private Practice

Private Practice is a medical drama on ABC that centers around the life of Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) as she moves to Los Angeles to begin working at her medical school friends' private practice, Oceanside Wellness Center. Private Practice is a spin-off from ABC's other popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy; an episode of Grey's Anatomy served as a backdoor pilot for this new show. Addison's new coworkers include Naomi Bennett (Audra McDonald) and Sam Bennett (Taye Diggs), newly divorced owners of the Santa Monica practice, Alternative Medicine guru Peter Wilder (Tim Daily), Pediatrician Cooper Freedman (Paul Adelstein), Sexologist Charlotte King (KaDee Strickland), Midwife William "Dell" Parker (Chris Lowell), and Psychiatrist Violet Turner (Amy Brennerman). Together the doctors struggle in the face of medical crises, broken hearts, friendship conflicts, and keeping the practice afloat. Many episodes' story arcs feature a patient of the clinic, almost always involving child birth or medical complications from being pregnant. Since Addison was also a main character of Grey's Anatomy, the two medical shows often feature crossover events, where the characters of one show visit the characters of another. MORE