If the medical drama leverages life-and-death stakes to wash viewers in emotion—those great, bathetic waves of romantic agony and release—Soderbergh refurbishes it into a delivery system for sensation.
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Sophia Nguyen lives and writes in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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