This Might Hurt pilot heading to FOX

A pilot for the medical sitcom This Might Hurt (which will include some improv) has been picked up by FOX. The series will focus on a private practice where a pediatrician, an internist and an OB-GYN work together -- though presumably not at the same time, and not on the same person.

The new series was created by actor (You, Me, and Dupree; the failed CBS pilot, Giants of Radio), writer (The Wayne Brady Show) and director (Giants of Radio) Jason Winer, who, according to Variety, got the idea by spending time in a doctor's office. Also, he correctly points out that pain is funny.

He's right about pain being funny. To paraphrase Mel Brooks: "tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."

Casting has not yet begun on the new series, which begins shooting this fall. While the series marks the five kajillionith time a TV series has taken place in a medical setting, I think Winer has his comedic heart in the right place. The description alone, vague as it is, has me intrigued.