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Hi there! Anyone saw Grey's Anatomy last night?? What did u all think?? How's that for your first day at a surgical intership 😳 ?? IMO the show was really awesome and intense.
Dupree said:Guys, it's just a show. It is so like med students and doctors to carry over their anality to fictional TV shows.
blue2000 said:I watched. I felt like I had to, esp. since I'm going to be a surgical intern in Seattle starting in a few months. It was, well, okay. To nitpick:
1) No 48 hour shifts anymore.
2) I've never met a chief like the one they portrayed. Chiefs don't want the patients to die, and an interns first day is not the time to let them loose in the hospital.
3) Four interns on one team. What?
4) Surgery service taking care of a girl with a seizure disorder. Hmm.
But overall, I thought it was decently written, decently acted. I'll watch a few more episodes, but I'm not in love.
Havarti666 said:Dupree, it's just some venting about a show that couldn't even be entertaining with its ******ation.
fourthyear said:It probably wasn't that the guy forgot the causes of post-op fever - he just froze under the pressure of being pimped in front of everyone - very realistic even for a pompous jerk like this character.
Apollyon said:Oh, and, I was told that this surgery intern now rotating in the ED did an appy himself on the third day - I specifically questioned this, and was told that it was true.
pamchenko said:i would have an episode just about scut. all kinds.
another episode would be dedicated to chasing down a CT scan since the hospital wasn't on PACS
i would have an episode dedicated to showing the world how much ER dumps or how many patients they've killed.
another great episode would be a grand rounds where the attendings got into a fight, or even if the attendings decided to just yell at the intern for no reason.
i would also add more cast members...where are all the prelim surgs? those designated into other subspecialities would have a catch phrase "only 1 year of this BS before ENT (or ortho)"
Unna BootsBovie9 said:EPISODE #2. Prada Unna Boots
picture the exciting music...
fade to the clinic exam table....
big, fat old legs... with ulcers........
intern wrapping the things with an unna boot........
NOW THIS IS GOOD TV!
Stay tuned for Episode #3- Gucci Colostomy Bag, the Rupture!
sodium chloride said:I was amazed when the cardiothoracic/appendectomy surgeon came out of the OR and announced that his patient had died on the table. That would never, ever happen at my institution. The patient would get an IABP and a VAD and then transported to the unit on multiple pressors. Rarely does a CABG patient die on the operating room table.
supercut said:I didn't see the first episode, but saw the second. I won't watch again. It was incredibly stupid and bears absolutely no resemblance to reality. In fact, it's reality meter scores less than that of "ER"
Funny how there only seemed to be one resident, and a whole bunch of interns. And that the interns all report to one resident for their assignment for the day. I've never heard of being assigned to go around telling pts their lab results, has anyone else?
My personal nomination for most ridiculous scene...in the OR for the repair of the TOF (detected by a surgical intern who for some odd reason went to the nursery and randomly listened to a baby's heart, finding a murmur). All the interns were there, watching and then the attending tells one to go scrub and maybe I'll let you hold a retractor. WTF????
It would have been more realistic to show my personal favorite experince as an intern on cardiac. While on call, I was paged to the cardiac ICU (run entirely by PA at my institution) to prononce a pt dead and fill out the paperwork, cuz that's one of the few things PA aren't legally allowed to do. Now there's some real drama!!
The sad thing is that the lay public will think this is actually how things are.
rubyness said:--Love the 007 nickname. WTF? Never heard that before. "License to KILL!!" Ha ha!
Gibby Haynes said:What I want to know is why didn't I choose a residency program where the female terns walk around in their underwear. 😡
I guess its a Seattle grunge thing, you wouldn't understand.
tega said:guys...its a freaking show meant to entertain the lay public...its not a phucking documentary.....
so quit all these its not realistic crap.......
go tarheels..!!!!!
geekgirl said:the liver transplant - a porkchop sized "organ" cupped gently in the intern's palms as he walked from room to room.
damn man, this show is worse than i thought.
Tenesma said:how about defibrillating asystole twice??? that was asinine.
tom_jones said:Unfortunately I subjected myself to the show last night. I'm not going into surgery, so could someone please enlighten me?
1. Is there a surgery intern on the planet who doesn't know the five main causes of post-op fever?
Probably. There are a lot of *******es out there - esp. in Seattle
2. Is there a surgery program where, on the first day, one of the interns is handed a scalpel and told to perform abdominal surgery without assistance?
I hope not. The guy did get pretty far though. Impressive.
3. Is there a collection of surgery interns anywhere that appear as if they have never even gone through a 3rd year surgery rotations before? Who the hell promises the patient that he'll be okay? Who is doing his first blood draw as an intern?
He was starting an IV and the pt was probably a hard stick. I promise you'll be OK.
4. Is there a surgery attending on the planet who punishes an intern by making him go tell a family that dear old dad croaked under the knife?
Or better yet, an attending that makes the intern stand outside the OR and watch through the window? Usually people like a little retracting help and someone to cut the sutures.
5. Is there a hospital on this continent where an intern tells the family about said croaking (see 4.) in what appears to be the hospital lobby?
Or discusses the seizure pt in and elevator? HIPAA sucks ass
6. Is there a surgery attending on the planet who shovels a seizure disorder of unknown etiology onto the interns?
Seaglass said:Why Lisa, why?
Celiac Plexus said:Did anyone notice that the spelling "Grey" is different from the "Gray" as in Henry Gray's anatomy? I wonder if this because of copywrite issues, or just the show's creators trying to be cutesy....
Also, the old t-shirt under the scrubs is decidedly unsurgeonlike. What's next? Fannypacks?
Brianna said:Hi there! Anyone saw Grey's Anatomy last night?? What did u all think?? How's that for your first day at a surgical intership 😳 ?? IMO the show was really awesome and intense.
Havarti666 said:Unfortunately I subjected myself to the show last night. I'm not going into surgery, so could someone please enlighten me?
1. Is there a surgery intern on the planet who doesn't know the five main causes of post-op fever?
2. Is there a surgery program where, on the first day, one of the interns is handed a scalpel and told to perform abdominal surgery without assistance?
3. Is there a collection of surgery interns anywhere that appear as if they have never even gone through a 3rd year surgery rotations before? Who the hell promises the patient that he'll be okay? Who is doing his first blood draw as an intern?
4. Is there a surgery attending on the planet who punishes an intern by making him go tell a family that dear old dad croaked under the knife?
5. Is there a hospital on this continent where an intern tells the family about said croaking (see 4.) in what appears to be the hospital lobby?
6. Is there a surgery attending on the planet who shovels a seizure disorder of unknown etiology onto the interns?