Former police detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), whose photographic memory and amazing ability to piece together tiny clues made him a local legend, has suffered from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias since the unsolved murder of his wife, Trudy, in 1997. Now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department and working as a freelance detective/ consultant on difficult cases, Monk hopes to convince his former boss, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), to allow him to return to the force. Stottlemeyer, who wavered between admiration for Monk and annoyance at his eccentricities during the first season, is becoming more of a friend to Monk as the series develops, frequently calling him in to help, as much for Monk's benefit as for his own. However, he knows Monk's limitations as well as his strengths and may still harbor doubts about the wisdom of allowing Monk to carry a gun or subdue a perpetrator. Stottlemeyer's second-in-command, Lieutenant Randall Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford), also seems to be developing both admiration and compassion for the man he once labeled "the defective detective." Despite flaws and inadequacies all around, the three are becoming an increasingly effective team, with additional help from Monk's personal assistant. From the double-episode pilot through the first half of season three, Monk was aided by his nurse, Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram). But in the tenth episode of the third season, Sharona was replaced by a new assistant, Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard). Like Sharona, a divorcee with a son named Benjy, Natalie is a single parent, a widow with a daughter named Julie (Emmy Clarke). Unlike Sharona, Natalie is not a nurse but a former bartender with a fresh perspective on "Mr. Monk," as she still addresses her new boss.
The Practice focused on the meijubar.net law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates (later becoming Donnell, Young, Dole, & Frutt, and ultimately Young, Frutt, & Berluti). Plots typically featured the firm's involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirrored current events at the time of the episodes' initial broadcast. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme.
该剧背景设定在人类餐桌上的新鲜肉类消失后的人工培植肉时代，讲述结束人类食用动物数百年“支配”与“被支配”关系的生物科技企业BF掌握了培植肉市场，在呈现快速增长势头的时期，企业内外陆续出现了质疑BF代表行为的人。
卢晚晚是清耀大学医学院临床系大二的学生，然而不佳的心理素质却让卢晚晚逢考就发挥失常，与要求严格的医学院格格不入。因多年暗恋不成功，卢晚晚酒后扬言要追求同校的超级学霸任初，二人绯闻由此传出。沸沸扬扬的绯闻严重影响了卢晚晚本就颇感吃力的学习生活。为撇清二人关系，卢晚晚设法同任初签订《绯闻消除计划》。澄清绯闻的过程中，两人看到了彼此性格中的闪光点，渐渐互生好感。在任初的帮助与引导下，卢晚晚逐渐克服了内心的胆怯，找到了兴趣和学业的平衡，努力成为了一个合格的医学生，而任初也在卢晚晚的感染下，摆脱了学霸的孤高，越来越有亲和力。两个人都不自觉地被对方改变，成为了更好的自己，最终也收获了一段健康的校园恋情。
