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For what it's worth, Ray isn't really worth going back for, or at least it didn't make enough of an impression for me to remember much except the title.
Some of the Black Jack material is worth watching, but you can dip into it at almost any point from the 1990s OAVs on and make some sense of it, since it's fairly episodic. The characters' backstories are interesting, but rarely necessary for understanding the plot. (There's also Young Black Jack, a more recent series—Wiki gives a 2015 airdate—that I forgot about initially which traces part of the title character's origin story.)
Monster is worth watching on its own merits, if you haven't seen it already (it was early 2000s, if I recall correctly, so outside your timeframe), but only the first few episodes could be considered medical drama. After that, it proceeds in quite a different direction.