While the writing on the show is sometimes inconsistent, the overall theme is to be applauded. Like the Cosby show many years ago, the stories do not hinge on the ethnicity of the core cast, but rather how all peoples/families deal with similar conflicts and tribulations, but with a little spin. The teenage daughter and son could be anyone's child, and that is what makes the family aspects work for me. The physician aspect is much more fleshed out and rings so true on many levels (speaking as one with a physician in the family). Of course many of the jokes are just things that a care giver would think and not necessarily say, which is the strange attraction of the Dr. Ken character. He is an unfiltered, un-PC mirror for the health care community. This is a solid twist on the Dr. in television, more like Newhart than Marcus Welby, and in some ways more realistic than the hyper-aggrandized Hollywood babble of shows like House or even Quincy ME.
