Scrubs (stylized as
[scrubs]) is an American
medical comedy-drama television series created by
Bill Lawrence that aired from October 2, 2001, to March 17, 2010, on
NBC and later
ABC. The series follows the lives of employees at the fictional Sacred Heart
teaching hospital. The title is a play on
surgical scrubs and a term for a low-ranking person because at the beginning of the series, most of the main characters were
medical interns.