Paging Dr. Identity Crisis.
If you’ve ever found yourself deep in a binge-watch spiral, emotionally traumatised by a medical drama you said you’d stop watching after just one more episode (LIES), then chances are New Amsterdam has already gripped your soul and refused to discharge it.
This show isn’t just Grey’s Anatomy’s cooler, more emotionally literate cousin — it’s a masterclass in feeling things aggressively. From Max “I have zero chill but 100% heart” Goodwin to Helen “Queen of eyeliner and emotional repression” Sharpe, every character is a walking, talking diagnosis of your personality flaws… I mean, traits. Sorry, Freudian slip.
Let’s begin the rounds…
Dr. Max Goodwin
You’re chaos dressed as compassion. You fix problems that don’t even belong to you and say “How can I help?” like it’s a threat. You believe bureaucracy can be beaten with optimism and spreadsheets. You cry once a season, in private, dramatically backlit by fluorescent hospital lights. You’re running on caffeine, grief, and pure stubborn hope. People adore you. Corporate fears you.
Dr. Helen Sharpe
You’re elegance in a lab coat. You speak in calm, accented syllables that could heal blood pressure. You have your life together, until you don’t. You’ve got “I can save the world but not my own heart” energy. You probably ghost people politely, with a sincere apology paragraph. You move cities instead of confronting emotions. You’re grace, guilt, and good hair personified.
Dr. Lauren Bloom
You’re the blueprint of functioning chaos. You’ve cried in the supply closet and still saved three lives before breakfast. You say “I’m fine” through gritted teeth. Your trauma has trauma. You flirt like it’s cardio and heal like it’s punishment. You have one good playlist, one bad coping mechanism, and five unfinished therapy assignments. But oh, when you rise? Everyone feels it.
Dr. Floyd Reynolds
You’re the “heart guy” in every sense. Loyal to a fault, deeply moral, and allergic to half-measures. You give “golden retriever raised by church bells” energy. You want marriage, meaning, and mutual respect, but the universe keeps throwing you plot twists instead. You probably iron your scrubs and your emotions. People call you steady, but your heart’s been through more surgeries than your patients.
Dr. Iggy Frome
You’re the human embodiment of a weighted blanket and chaos. You care too much, talk too much, and probably diagnose people mid-conversation (and then feel bad about it). You bake when you’re sad and overshare for sport. You see people, really see them, but forget to look in the mirror sometimes. You are the comfort character in everyone else’s season, but when your episode hits… it hits hard.
Dr. Vijay Kapoor
You’re wisdom in motion; that quiet brilliance that doesn’t need validation. You believe in intuition, tradition, and chai as a solution to most things. You’ve seen life, lost things, loved deeply, and still show up every day with steady hands and a soft heart. But you also have the emotional range of a dad who won’t admit he’s proud. You say little, mean much, and probably own 27 types of herbal tea.
Dr. Elizabeth Wilder
You’re precision and poetry in one person. You’ve mastered the art of saying everything without words. You lead with empathy and edge. You don’t need to be loud to be legendary. You’ve fought for every ounce of respect you have, and now you’re rewriting what leadership even looks like. You’re the calm before, during, and after every storm. Simply iconic behaviour.
Georgia Goodwin
You’re the ghost of grace itself. You believed in art, in family, in building something gentle in a world that isn’t. You’re the reason someone learned to love again. You’re the bittersweet song in the background of someone else’s episode. You deserved better, and that’s exactly why you’ll be remembered.
Karen Brantley
You’re corporate power in a designer suit. You talk in boardroom dialect but secretly believe in miracles. You make spreadsheets cry. You say “budget cuts” with tears in your eyes. You’re the pragmatic auntie of this hospital: sharp, tired, and constantly cleaning up Max’s optimism. Deep down, though? You love the chaos. You are the chaos.
Dr. Cassian Shin
You’re the cool, new doctor energy. Stoic, sleek, maybe too good at your job. You walked in mid-season and everyone was like, “Oh damn.” You flirt like it’s a surgical procedure: precise, professional, and deeply confusing. You’ve got that mysterious-past energy, the “I fix bodies but not hearts” aura. You probably journal in fountain pen and have a tragic backstory we’ll never fully know.
Ella
You’re soft-core sunshine with anxiety frosting. You hold the hospital together one cappuccino and existential crisis at a time. You’re not the main character, but without you the whole plot collapses. You care deeply, panic quietly, and overthink professionally. You have golden-retriever heart with cat-level trust issues. You might not save lives medically, but emotionally? You keep everyone alive.
So… which New Amsterdam CHARACTER are you?
Take a deep breath. Sanitise your hands. And remember that in this hospital, everyone’s a little bit of a miracle and a little bit of a mess. Pick your poison, pick your person, and report to the ER of self-discovery. Stat.
Whether you’re the chaotic do-gooder who’d cancel capitalism mid-surgery (hi Max), the overachiever with a tragic backstory and killer brows (hi Helen), or the emotionally constipated sweetheart who treats patients better than themselves (hi Bloom, you okay hun?), this was is your chance to self-prescribe a character match and maybe, just maybe, unpack your trauma while you’re at it. 🫠
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