Did Greys Anatomy inspire you to pursue medicine?

[htjacks]

Hey everyone....

Just wanted to post this since it's all over social media.

To celebrate the 300th episode of Greys Anatomy the show is partnering with Good Morning America to do a segment that will highlight those that have gone into medicine as a direct result of watching Grey's Anatomy. If that's you or you know of someone that fits this bill, please submit your story directly to: greysinspired@gmail. From there, Good Morning America will reach out and contact you to hear your story.

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[VincentAdultman]

Oh God no.

 

[Gorne]

Hey everyone....

Just wanted to post this since it's all over social media.

To celebrate the 300th episode of Greys Anatomy the show is partnering with Good Morning America to do a segment that will highlight those that have gone into medicine as a direct result of watching Grey's Anatomy. If that's you or you know of someone that fits this bill, please submit your story directly to: greysinspired@gmail. From there, Good Morning America will reach out and contact you to hear your story.

Show was mildly entertaining the first few seasons, then became absolute trash fast.

 

[Stagg737]

Show was mildly entertaining the first few minutes, then became absolute trash fast.

Ftfy

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

Haha the only career that show inspires is reality tv star.


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[imtheman25]

Oh god no

 

[SophiaOfTheOceans]

Oh god no +1

 

[Redpancreas]

What about House? I won't pretend that that show didn't inspire me a little. GA/Scrubs were pretty stupid in my opinion.

 

[TSteezy]

No.

/thread

 

[Crayola227]

Scrubs even better

 

[Kkshake]

Never inspired me for medicine in general, but I will say it has made me want to consider surgery as a future possibility if my board scores agree

 

[VincentAdultman]

It’s frightening to me that there are doctors and med students young enough to have been inspired by that show to go into medicine...

A high school freshman who saw the first episode of GA when it first aired would be a likely a surgery PGY 2 now.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Please tell me people didn’t actually do this....

 

[DexterMorganSK]

Grey's Anatomy is a medicine show?

I thought it was more like "how to hook-up in a hospital"

 

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[Mad Jack]

Grey's Anatomy inspired me to hate anyone who was inspired by Grey's Anatomy.

 

[zero0]

Grey's Anatomy inspired me to hate anyone who was inspired by Grey's Anatomy.

 

[SunsFun]

I watched first few minutes of the very first episode. Terrible

Even if I try to think of it as describing some parallel reality, the characters were just insufferable. All of them!

 

[ortnakas]

Scrubs even better

If this post was about Scrubs I'd be all over it.

 

[PatsyStone]

It inspired me to go into dermatology. Sadly, my residency does not give us personal masseuses nor does it served us raspberry infused water 🙁

 

[wanderingorion]

Scrubs even better

seconding the scrubs comment. Can't wait for my inner monologues on the wards

 

[Mr. Saigon]

Greys was my gateway but the good doctor was what really hooked me in

 

[iqe2010]

I've never seen an episode of Grey's.

 

[poloboy]

You mean Gray's Anatomy like the atlas?
TOTALLY

You mean Grey's Anatomy like the show?
ALSO TOTALLY...The Plastics Posse, obvi

 

[DocToBe2018]

I desperately need money to fund my travels - this is getting to be ridiculous. If there is monetary compensation, maybe, GA did inspire me to become a doctor.

 

[Moose A Moose]

Greys was my gateway but the good doctor was what really hooked me in

Orlando Bloom?

You sick bastard.

 

[Mad Jack]

My favorite show about a doctor is Hannibal, personally. Definitely wouldn't have affected my career choice though

 

[akinetopsia]

Oh man, can you imagine a personal statement written by someone who said they were pursuing medicine after being inspired by GA? Like, I was going to be a civics teacher, but then saw GA, and decided, hey... why not medicine?

 

[DrDarce]

I actually enjoyed the first few seasons while I was in high school. I remember trying to get into watching it again in college and it was so cringe I couldn't handle it. The drama!

 

[vernhart]

@op, can you also include the responses you have received in this thread?...journalistic integrity basically requires it

 

[Kkshake]

I'm surprised more people aren't inspired by shows like the untold stories of the ER

 

[Dr. Souk]

It inspired me to get better hair gel - well specifically McDreamy sparked my hair product fascination!

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I'm surprised more people aren't inspired by shows like the untold stories of the ER

Trauma: Life in the ER definitely pushed me into medicine, even though I was already interested in anatomy and science.

 

[EleanorAbernathyMD]

Inspire me to go into the field? No

Give me hope that one day I might have more sex? Yes

 

[Sephirakra]

I was always more of a St. Elsewhere fan, myself.

 

[Scrubs101]

Scrubs>>>>>>>all other medical shows

Scrubs may have nudged me in the direction a little, may have got me thinking about medicine. Haven’t even gotten through a full episode of GA though.

 

[neusu]

Hey everyone....

Just wanted to post this since it's all over social media.

To celebrate the 300th episode of Greys Anatomy the show is partnering with Good Morning America to do a segment that will highlight those that have gone into medicine as a direct result of watching Grey's Anatomy. If that's you or you know of someone that fits this bill, please submit your story directly to: greysinspired@gmail. From there, Good Morning America will reach out and contact you to hear your story.

It's why I went in to neurosurgery..

 

[poloboy]

It's why I went in to neurosurgery..

Dr. Herman's Grade IV Astrocytoma is too beautiful to miss out on...

 

[zhopv10]

Hate GA, but ya scrubs...still one of my favorite shows ever haha. And it’s gets funnier the further into training I go


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[HumbledHuman]

Personal statement: "McDreamy's hair and swag on Grey's Anatomy inspired me to pursue medicine...I knew this was the right calling"

 

[threesparrows]

Wow so many haters. I love Grey's but am under no illusions that its an accurate portrayal of medicine. There were some hard to watch seasons but the past few have actually been pretty great. I don't think there's anything wrong with being inspired or having your interest in medicine sparked by a tv show. Not all of us have mommies and daddies who are doctors.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Wow so many haters. I love Grey's but am under no illusions that its an accurate portrayal of medicine. There were some hard to watch seasons but the past few have actually been pretty great. I don't think there's anything wrong with being inspired or having your interest in medicine sparked by a tv show. Not all of us have mommies and daddies who are doctors.

Dad is a lawyer who didn’t go to law school until his forties, and Mom never went to college. GA is terrible. Scrubs, OTOH...

 

[freecitizen]

Sounds like you didn't get the response you were hoping for.

 

[Stagg737]

Wow so many haters. I love Grey's but am under no illusions that its an accurate portrayal of medicine. There were some hard to watch seasons but the past few have actually been pretty great. I don't think there's anything wrong with being inspired or having your interest in medicine sparked by a tv show. Not all of us have mommies and daddies who are doctors.

None in my family are docs, in fact only one other person even graduated college. Still doesn't mean enjoying a glorified soap-opera is an actual inspiration to go into medicine. Maybe a sparked (and misguided) interest, but certainly not an inspiration.

 

[edgerock24]

Wow so many haters. I love Grey's but am under no illusions that its an accurate portrayal of medicine. There were some hard to watch seasons but the past few have actually been pretty great. I don't think there's anything wrong with being inspired or having your interest in medicine sparked by a tv show. Not all of us have mommies and daddies who are doctors.

No parents who are doctors. Grey's has been trash for many years now. Just overall low quality television.

 

[libertyyne]

yes . this one .

 

[Vyzzle]

ER set the seed in for me, but that's because I was a wide-eyed child who probably thought doctors were immortal or something.

It was the undergrad bio + clinical experience that made me realize "yes, this is for me" (also binged scrubs my freshman year so there's that).

 

[obgyny]

A TV show did not inspire me to pursue medicine. Having an experience as a patient and the doctor who took care of me inspired me to go into medicine right before starting college.

I did start watching shows like "Resident Life," "The Residents," and "Trauma: life in the ER," if anyone remembers these shows in the early 2000s. These were documentary shows on TLC and Discovery Health that followed actual residents/attendings in different specialties and their patient's stories. They were more inspiring to me to study hard in college. Then later "Hopkins" and "Boston Med."

As an aside, I love Scrubs, ER, and GA, but purely for the drama (or comedy in Scrubs).

 

[OrthoTraumaMD]

I love scrubs. It's so accurate. I didn't start watching it until I was already a resident, and it has just gotten funnier since. You know you're getting old when you start to identify with Kelso...


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[KnuxNole]

I knew a few people who's first exposure to medicine was thru watching Greys Anatomy.

I think Married to Medicine convinced me 😉