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I am quite saddened that the TV show ER is coming to an end this season. It saddens me to say farewell to the show that first sparked my passion for medicine so long ago when I was just a little kid, and kept the dream alive every week for years growing up. Hopefully soon it will be my turn to be the doctors in that show I idolized when I was young. To ER I bid you adieu, it's been a great 15 years.

RIP Michael Crichton
 
ER has sucked the last 5+ years. Its about time.
 
pyropig said:
I am quite saddened that the TV show ER is coming to an end this season. It saddens me to say farewell to the show that first sparked my passion for medicine so long ago when I was just a little kid, and kept the dream alive every week for years growing up. Hopefully soon it will be my turn to be the doctors in that show I idolized when I was young. To ER I bid you adieu, it's been a great 15 years.

RIP Michael Crichton
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Aw dog, that sucks. I was just getting into it too. Anyone know of any megavideo-esque sites that will let me watch for free? This sucks cuz I was just getting off my house addiction, partly due to the fact that being on SDN made me realize how fake it is (blast you SDN!!) and also partly because it just isnt as sarcastic, funny or crazy anymore (it also gave me the idea that sepsis is this sudden condition that you all of a sudden just see and treat, a la Dr. Chase). At least there's still scrubs, which I am still on season 4 of.
 
pyropig said:
I am quite saddened that the TV show ER is coming to an end this season. It saddens me to say farewell to the show that first sparked my passion for medicine so long ago when I was just a little kid, and kept the dream alive every week for years growing up. Hopefully soon it will be my turn to be the doctors in that show I idolized when I was young. To ER I bid you adieu, it's been a great 15 years.

RIP Michael Crichton
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Didn't know ER was still on TV. I like watching sports when I turn the TV on. I don't watch House, Scrubs, Greys (yuck!), or Private Practice.
 
LastPolarBear said:
Aw dog, that sucks. I was just getting into it too. Anyone know of any megavideo-esque sites that will let me watch for free? This sucks cuz I was just getting off my house addiction, partly due to the fact that being on SDN made me realize how fake it is (blast you SDN!!) and also partly because it just isnt as sarcastic, funny or crazy anymore (it also gave me the idea that sepsis is this sudden condition that you all of a sudden just see and treat, a la Dr. Chase). At least there's still scrubs, which I am still on season 4 of.
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http://www.ovguide.com/

That site will be your best friend. Type in whatever you want to watch and it'll (usually) find a working site/link for you to watch it.

You can also go to http://sidereel.com to find your show and links for them.

But you didn't get this from me. :ninja:
 
Its gone?! Ah man, what am I going to do? Hopefully they just start re-runs. I mean really, they are still doing re-runs of Walker Texas Ranger. I think they can spare some air time for ER....
 
Greys and Private Practice RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀
 
Tuckermans said:
Its gone?! Ah man, what am I going to do? Hopefully they just start re-runs. I mean really, they are still doing re-runs of Walker Texas Ranger. I think they can spare some air time for ER....
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PRoblem is with these long running shows that nobody reruns the early seasons. Law and Order is a prime example, you will NEVER see the first five seasons on TV.

I got the first season of it last week. Once you get over the 1980s technology/stupidity the episodes are actually really good.
 
LastPolarBear said:
What is this "private practice"
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It's a Grey's Anatomy spin-off that takes place in a boutique group practice somewhere in SoCal. The show tends to have a lot of (nausea inducing) "ethical dilemmas."

I liked the first season or two of Grey's, but the writing seems to have went down the crapper. It's like they're making a concious effort to reduce the viewship of their 18-45 year-old male demographic with some of the plotlines.
 
zenlike said:
It's a Grey's Anatomy spin-off that takes place in a boutique group practice somewhere in SoCal. The show tends to have a lot of (nausea inducing) "ethical dilemmas."

I liked the first season or two of Grey's, but the writing seems to have went down the crapper. It's like they're making a concious effort to reduce the viewship of their 18-45 year-old male demographic with some of the plotlines.
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Ah, I see. Yeah, I never thought it could be done, but I'm actually getting bored of house. Tis a shame.
 
Watch Dexter... it's much better than any of these medical dramas and there is usually a scalpel or two involved. 😎

My wife watches all of the medical dramas (thus I have seen bits and pieces of them all) and I have yet to find any of them (other than a few short moments of House being a jerk to someone) even mildly entertaining. They ought to just get it over with and call the people from The Hills, Shot of Love, and Rock of Love and cast them in a medical drama because then they could reach the peak of inane TV and stop the madness of primetime medical shows.
 
Only the first few seasons of ER were good (seasons 1-4). That was back when they were more about medicine and less about drama. Those were the days...
 
zenlike said:
It's a Grey's Anatomy spin-off that takes place in a boutique group practice somewhere in SoCal. The show tends to have a lot of (nausea inducing) "ethical dilemmas."

I liked the first season or two of Grey's, but the writing seems to have went down the crapper. It's like they're making a concious effort to reduce the viewship of their 18-45 year-old male demographic with some of the plotlines.
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there was never a 18-45 male demographic. Just some poor suckers who were forced to watch it when their gf/wife/chick they were trying to sleep with, made them watch it.
 
Limvostov said:
Watch Dexter... it's much better than any of these medical dramas and there is usually a scalpel or two involved. 😎

My wife watches all of the medical dramas (thus I have seen bits and pieces of them all) and I have yet to find any of them (other than a few short moments of House being a jerk to someone) even mildly entertaining. They ought to just get it over with and call the people from The Hills, Shot of Love, and Rock of Love and cast them in a medical drama because then they could reach the peak of inane TV and stop the madness of primetime medical shows.
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dexter is a sick show. hopefully the new season starts soon.
 
If you stopped watching house because of a lack of realism then ER is not the greatest road to go either.

I enjoyed the first few seasons, but I was little so that probably had more to do with it. It is like pulling teeth to watch that show now.
 
Dexter is the best show on television. Michael C Hall makes me want to be a serial killer.

I never watched ER that much; I prefer Chicago Hope re-runs and Scrubs. Though, I watched an episode of Private Practice last week with the girlfriend's father, and though I hate Grey's Anatomy with a passion, I actually was somewhat entertained. They had no horrendous, glaring medical errors because there wasn't much actual medicine going on in the episode I saw--more ethics-type stuff. I don't know his name, but the black guy is awesome.

Also, LOST blows.
 
:idea:
Get all of the actors from ER, Grey's anatomy, priv. practice, all of the soap operas, and have them all meet in the same hospital where they duke it out, they all die, and all of those shows are off the air for good.
 
Bacchus said:
Kate Walsh is too cute to die.
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Yeah you're right. The producers wouldn't kill her. Maybe they will all fold under the new healthcare system, when every patient that goes to her private practice is on medicare/medicaid, she doesn't get reimbursed properly and her practice fails.
 
You obviously haven't been following Private Practice. The practice is in debt and had to lease to a competing practice (didn't know the plans at the time) to get money. Now they're doing all sorts of things to survive the downturn. Get with it. 😉
 
Terpskins99 said:
5+? Try 14. They have sucked ever since the first season.
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It sparked my interest in medicine.

I will miss it, though it's awesome that so many old cast members are back for the final season.
 
Bacchus said:
You obviously haven't been following Private Practice. The practice is in debt and had to lease to a competing practice (didn't know the plans at the time) to get money. Now they're doing all sorts of things to survive the downturn. Get with it. 😉
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No. :meanie:
 
Chocolate Bear said:
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease tell me you wrote about George Clooney in your personal statement and made it in!!!! 😀😀😀
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Haha. In passing. It's what initially sparked my interest, but it's not what made me "KNOW" I wanted to be a doctor, that came later (and was what the bulk of my PS was about).

My grandmother and I used to watch it every Thursday (I think the show started when I was about 11) and she'd always tell me that I could do that, that I could be a doctor because I could be anythign I wanted. Because I was so interested she would get me all kinds of books about science and being a doctor and medicine....

It was her sudden death, and the doctors that I met during that awful ordeal that REALLY made me think seriously about it. Then in college, when I messed up my spine and had really AWFUL doctors, thats' when I absolutely decided that I was going to be a physician, so I could be BETTER then them!


I did mention it in several of my interviews (because I got asked...since I had put that "I had always been interested in medicine as a carrear, ever since I started watching ER as a child" in my PS).

My father found this HILARIOUS as (unbeknownst to me) he told the dean of Duquesne law school that he wanted to be a lawyer b/c of Perry Mason.

Like father like daughter I guess!
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The AMC show "Breaking Bad" is starting its second season today. It's an amazing show and if you want to catch up, the first season is only seven episodes because of the 2007 writers strike. It's slightly medicine/science related because the main character (the dad from "Malcolm in the Middle") is a chemistry teacher who comes down with lung cancer and turns to cooking meth with his old student to have some money to leave his family when he dies.
 
Veoh.com
hulu.com
sharetv.org
surfthechannel.com

This Thursday's ER episode has all the main guys returning.....I may just watch this one for old time's sake.
 
ER was a brilliant show. I recently went back and watched the first 7 seasons. The downfall of ER started back in the 5th season when George Clooney left. After this the show had a very fluid and underdeveloped cast. With Anthony Edwards leaving, most of the original cast had departed. This caused supporting cast members to become the main focus of the series. It was also at this time that the show became more political and the producers introduced possibly the worst character in the series history, Neela. Unfortunatly NBC refused to put ER out of its misery and continued to keep it on the air for at least 6 seasons too long with a horrid main cast.
 
NotAndrew said:
ER was a brilliant show. I recently went back and watched the first 7 seasons. The downfall of ER started back in the 5th season when George Clooney left. After this the show had a very fluid and underdeveloped cast. With Anthony Edwards leaving, most of the original cast had departed. This caused supporting cast members to become the main focus of the series. It was also at this time that the show became more political and the producers introduced possibly the worst character in the series history, Neela. Unfortunatly NBC refused to put ER out of its misery and continued to keep it on the air for at least 6 seasons too long with a horrid main cast.
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I didn't think it got bad after George Clooney left. They still had some great characters. Even after Mark Green died (dear god that was depressing) you still had Carter (my fav), but when he left I didn't like any of the characters anymore. Although I've actually enjoyed the last couple of seasons since Archie became a real doctor and wasn't this ******ed red headed whiny little character anymore.
 
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