House Md.. a reason to go to med school

[Hook17]

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[crazy_cavalier]

no

 

[FutureOrthoDoc]

I see alot of this on sdn. People caught up in the glorification of medicine, via their television sets. People really have to get a grip on reality. These shows are not, nor will they ever be, a real account of the medical field. They are acts in which a writer was able to produce emotions out of highly paid actors. I fear that these same people who ask these questions, may actually get into medical school. Let's hope they can separate fact and fiction, if they should ever become physicians.

 

[DrBuro]

good show.. total BS though. same thing with ER and grey's anatomy

 

[izibo]

House is the best of all of them... it rules 🙂

 

[Hook17]

yea i was joking to begin with, but it was just on and i like it.

 

[KingTutATL]

I've never seen it. Why don't they try to make a medical show that truly sticks to real life?

 

[Hook17]

its on mtv

 

[blue2000]

I've never seen it. Why don't they try to make a medical show that truly sticks to real life?

Because real medical life (residency) is long hours of boring, hard work with very little "plot" or "narrative." I'd be happy to have a camera crew follow me as I walk around, write patient notes, put orders into the computer, and answer my pager, but I think the crew would fall asleep, and god help the people watching it on tv! 😉

 

[Psycho Doctor]

House is the best of all of them... it rules 🙂

ugh, i keep forgetting to watch it. is it still on Tuesdays?

 

[DrBuro]

I always thought it would be extremely interesting to make a reality show about residents. One that follows one resident around each show and kind of explains what its really like to be a resident.

 

[adamdowannabe]

There is a show about residents pgy1 (during the first few weeks!)......a DHC show,

They follow some residents around, but they usually just use the good footage (mostly procedures) and some narratives and of course some drama......... it tries to show how interns are really green, and scared and how they realy suck it up and "grow up" the first few weeks.

I'm not sure the name, but it has "first days" as the sub title (to the one word titles)

 

[DrBuro]

Yeah, I think I saw that show actually. They do not do a great job documenting each resident's life. It should be on one of the big channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.) and it should not be the same exact thing as "trauma" or "critical hour".

 

[Belfagor]

Watching shows like E.R. and House turns me off to medicine. Is it me or is the life of every doctor absolutely miserable? Where's the glory in the life of the doctors on E.R. who live in trashed apartments in crime-ridden downtown Chicago and are constantly getting stabbed? Or the vicodin addicted misanthrope who alienates people from his life to feed his growing egotistical neuroses? The guy broke his hand with a hammer to keep the pain off of his leg, mocked a father that was watching his son die, and relapsed into pain medication addiction.

I don't want to be those people. If I wanted a miserable existence where my gifts to mankind went unappreciated I'd go into social work, teaching, or basic research. Give me the lifestyle of the guys I see on Doctor 90210 or Nip/Tuck. I say that in partial jest, but even the lives of the residents I've seen far supercedes the painful existence of the majority of television medical drama.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

of course it is!

 

[Crete]

good show.. total BS though. same thing with ER and grey's anatomy

Dr. Buro, get my wife's picture off of your avatar.

And King, NO ONE would watch a realistic account of medicine!

 

[rpkall]

I'm pretty sure that DHC show about the residents is called "Resident Life," incidentally. I haven't seen it yet, but it looks great. As for TV, I'm really starting to enjoy Trauma: Life in the ER. I can't shake my boredom with ER presently, because the show just keeps going on and on and on with more mindless subplots every year. Even the Africa subplots they could have done more with. *Bleh*

 

[jon stewart]

no, but scrubs might be....

 

[BaylorGuy]

I can spend days just watching whatever they have on the D-HC. They probably have the most interesting shows out there.

Anybody know of anymore online surgery feeds? I've used www.OR-live.com for a bit, but found it kind of talkative...anything better??

 

[Pyroclast]

Actually, I put in my PS that ever since watching House, I've wanted to be a crotchety old drug addict with a limp. Why else would you want to go into medicine?

Not to knock House, I love the show. But I don't think it exactly glorifies the physician's lifestyle. Nip/Tuck on the other hand...

 

[jbrice1639]

no, but scrubs might be....

i have the dvd of season one, and in the interviews with the cast and writers, they were talking to the real doctor who the first season was based on. it was a friend of the writer who was an intern and telling all of these stories to his buddy. the writer thought it would make a cool show, and added all the crazy dream sequences and stuff, but, the stories themselves are actually all real. all the patient accounts and the emotions the interns go through were directly told to the writers by actual doctors who had been through it all. despite the comedic aspect, and all that, the doctors they interviewed on the dvd all claimed that scrubs was the most realistic account of what it's like to be a doctor. just thought that was interesting...and of course, regardless, scrubs is probably the best show on tv (soon to be laid to rest in favor of monkeys dancing with washed up stars or something like that i'm sure...) 🙄

 

[LizzyM]

Read New England Journal of Medicine 1998;338:821-826 (just the Presentation of the Case) http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/338/12/821

Then look at
http://www.tv.com/loves-labor-lost/episode/11488/summary.html


to see how medical narrative can make great drama.

Actually, the publication of the case came after the TV case and differs somewhat but you could almost write a screenplay from a good case report and this is what some TV writers have done, sometimes from their own work experiences as physicians. (See http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/0903/baer.pdf)

 

[fullefect1]

I always thought it would be extremely interesting to make a reality show about residents. One that follows one resident around each show and kind of explains what its really like to be a resident.

Wow.. I am suprised you guys haven't heard of or for some of your seen "Resident Life'. It used to be a weekly show on I believe sundays (mondays maybe) on the regular discovery channel with about a new episode every week. My mom used to hate me because I would kick her out of the main living room with the big screen TV everyweek. I was a die hard fan, and I know there are others out here on this board. But I guess there just wasn't that many fans of it. There has also been other resident documentaries one is called "the residents" but i think they switch the resident everyweek. "Resident LIfe" had like a group of something like 10-15 doctors that they would show them at different months. If you check the TV guide on the regular Discovery channel I usually see them on about once a month on wierd times. They still play on discovery Health once and a while also.

To bad you guys mist it... It was pretty much why I decided I wanted to go to med school... even though I do realize that they show mostely small bits of the most action they can of the life of a resident.

 

[zero2hero]

Scrubs is the greatest show on TV. I can picture myself being Doug in a few years.... j/k!