David Schulner, screenwriter: ‘One vote prevented Trump from destroying the safety net of health care for the whole country. That’s when I saw how fragile our system is’
The screenwriter David Schulner, 52, walks the corridors of Vall d’Hebron hospital in Barcelona imagining plots for an episode he will never shoot. New Amsterdam ended in 2023, but every time he steps into a hospital he feels like he’s back on set because the series was filmed in real New York hospitals. And he thinks about “things we could have done better, and things that the science has changed,” he says in a room at the Barcelona public hospital complex. He speaks a few hours before giving a talk on how to use reality in medical fiction at the third International Congress on Health Communication.