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Lots of posts about medical-based tv shows, none of which I watch. However, the portrayal of medical professionals in media that isn't about hospitals really interests me.
Murder, She Wrote, for example, has Seth Hazlitt, a PCP (before the term was even in existence, perhaps?) in Cabot Cove, Maine. He tends to feel he is superior to other people because of his profession, but the story always tends to indicate that whatever he thinks Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) should do is wrong. For the record, he usually tells her to butt out of other people's business and stay safe at home.
And a show that I'm sure many of you have seen, Bones, which features an MD and a PhD working side by side. One is a medical examiner and the other is a forensic anthropologist.
Any other shows with this dynamic? Crime shows are kind of the obvious ones, but the only other thing I can think of is Arrested Development, which portrays doctors as either incompetent at communication or incompetent at medicine. It's a comedy, though, so it fell within the bounds of what I expected.
Murder, She Wrote, for example, has Seth Hazlitt, a PCP (before the term was even in existence, perhaps?) in Cabot Cove, Maine. He tends to feel he is superior to other people because of his profession, but the story always tends to indicate that whatever he thinks Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) should do is wrong. For the record, he usually tells her to butt out of other people's business and stay safe at home.
And a show that I'm sure many of you have seen, Bones, which features an MD and a PhD working side by side. One is a medical examiner and the other is a forensic anthropologist.
Any other shows with this dynamic? Crime shows are kind of the obvious ones, but the only other thing I can think of is Arrested Development, which portrays doctors as either incompetent at communication or incompetent at medicine. It's a comedy, though, so it fell within the bounds of what I expected.
