It’s a testament to the inventiveness of The Knick, Steven Soderbergh’s new medical drama, that it’s hard to know what to fear more: turn-of-the-century ailments or the antiquated tools used to cure them. For those of you catching up: The Knick is the nickname given by its staff to New York City’s Knickerbocker Hospital. The year is 1900: a time when, as we learn in the show’s first few minutes, more has been learned about man’s body in the last five years than in the previous 500. Enter Clive Owen’s Dr. John W. Thackery, a character based partially on the famous surgeon William Halstead, rumored to be the inventor of the blood transfusion and the medical chart.
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