House or Scrubs?

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Which TV show do you think is a more realistic portrayal of the medical profession, House or Scrubs? If your experience in the medical profession had to be exactly like one of these shows, which one would you pick and why?
 
emac said:
Which TV show do you think is a more realistic portrayal of the medical profession, House or Scrubs? If your experience in the medical profession had to be exactly like one of these shows, which one would you pick and why?
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Realistically, I'd have to say neither. But given a choice I'd like Grey's Anatomy. The long hours of a surgury resident would pass much more happily if my boss looked like mc. dreamy 🙂
 
emac said:
Which TV show do you think is a more realistic portrayal of the medical profession, House or Scrubs? If your experience in the medical profession had to be exactly like one of these shows, which one would you pick and why?
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Personally, i like watching House, but i just recently got hooked to Scrubs. Both dont seem to accurately portray medicine at all, but i think Scrubs has a good way of presenting it...being both serious and somewhat comedic in the end.

I'd much rather live through a Scrubs experience....Elliot Reid 👍 👍
 
I have heard from a couple of residents that "Scrubs" is the most accurate portrayal of hospital life on TV to date. I don't think that's saying much, though. Keep in mind that any doctor with the bedside manners of Dr. House or Dr. Cox would not have a job for very long.
 
I've also heard that 'Scrubs' captures the atmosphere of a hospital really well.
 
I've never seen Scrubs! I think I need to start watching it. I do love House. I wouldn't call it realistic, per se, but the cases are interesting and the science behind them is legit.
 
I think House is probably more like what an IM doc wishes he could get away with (i.e. only taking on interesting cases, saying exactly what he thinks about his patients' behavior--health-related and otherwise). Whereas Scrubs just makes fun of how ridiculous life as a resident can be. Gray's Anatomy is less about medicine than it is about the intersection of people's personal lives with the medical heirarchy. As such, I find that a little more realistic, although equally absurd as the others.
 
The doctors I know all love Scrubs and say that it's the most accurate portrayal of medicine. Interesting....
 
if any of the shows were acurate nobody would watch them. In all reality, being a doctor, nurse, etc. is just another job and nothing special. The TV shows do a good job of romanticizing it though.
 
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Hello? Nip/Tuck.
 
me likie scrubs
 
deuist said:
I thought that he was a pathologist. Is he an internist?
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Yep...did his fellowship in nephrology. However, all the House doctors tend to do everything.
 
SCRUBS!! Definitely...even though neither show is obviously right on the money, Scrubs is a caricature of every person you'll ever meet in most hospitals...of course they take it over the top. I have the first season on DVD and it is my favorite show of all time.

House is good because he says the things that we can't in real life. However, it doesn't even make sense. The docs on that show do everything from cardio to neuro and back to peds and Ob....what the heck> it's not realistic at all.

But the WORST is Grey's Anatomy. So many patients have asked me this year if doing a residency is like that. NO! We don't sleep with attendings (well I don't anyway), no one is that "dreamy" and there's just not enough time to have the social life that they do on the show in a surgery residency. PUH-LEASE!
 
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Am I alone in thinking that House is one of the worst "successful" shows ever made? Its ridiculous, it makes no sense, and I get the distinct impression that it was written by monkies. Not the smart ones, either.

Last night I watched an entire episode just to see what everyone was talking about. In it, they performed: a cervical spinal tap, some type of weird plesmythograph thing instead of an ECG (the guy had some burns, so clearly no ECG), they examined his brain USING A SONOGRAM (which they obtained by going through his eyes... oh, and they were looking for a lesion in the occipital lobe), they woke a patient from a medically induced coma in 4 seconds flat, House induced a migraine headache in himself and cured it by taking LSD which he then reversed the effects of by taking an SSRI, House had an old nemesis' entire recent project ruined by sending 1 email to the company funding his research, the residents (who I have to assume are IM residents) fixed a brain bleed (again using the sonogram to guide the needle)... I don't even know what else.

WORST SHOW EVER.
 
lilmo said:
Realistically, I'd have to say neither. But given a choice I'd like Grey's Anatomy. The long hours of a surgury resident would pass much more happily if my boss looked like mc. dreamy 🙂
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I love all three shows, but I'd like to be in Grey's Anatomy too (even though it's not one of the "choices" of this thread) Dr. McDreamy's all yours, lilmo. I've got my eyes on the very gorgeous eyes of Meredith. 😍 I gotta say GA has the best looking doctors of the 3 shows.

Dr. House gets away with some ridiculous stuff, but he's very entertaining to watch.
 
Messerschmitts said:
Dr. House gets away with some ridiculous stuff, but he's very entertaining to watch.
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Why?? What precisely is so entertaining about him or that show? He's a terrible actor, the role he plays of the smartass genius is a mixture of about 29 cliches, and the stories are complete crap. WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS SHOW?
 
Because it's nice to see a doctor portrayed as a flawed individual. Same reason I like Becker.

Not that J.D. doesn't do a good enough job on Scrubs.

Saw my first episode of House tonight. He ogles fake breasts. It caught me off guard.

Maybe it'll get old the second time I watch it. But there will definitely be a second time.

Flobber said:
Why?? What precisely is so entertaining about him or that show? He's a terrible actor, the role he plays of the smartass genius is a mixture of about 29 cliches, and the stories are complete crap. WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS SHOW?
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Why is it entertaining to watch House be House? Let's put it this way: imagine how dull, boring, and utterly unentertaining the show would be if House were a normal, caring, well-adjusted human being. 😛 Making House a cranky, misanthropic jerk was absolute genius. To me the selling point of the show isn't the medical "mysteries" (some of which are pretty far-fetched, even for TV), but House' attitude. I didn't say I "liked" his character, and I certainly never want to be like him. But damn it's exhilirating to watch House do and get away things that would get real doctors fired. 😀 House does all that, and he has a snappy comeback. Week after week, I exclaim (silently) "OMG, I can't believe he did/said that!!" It's a guilty pleasure, like watching a train wreck.
 
I agree. It's like pre-med porn.

When I confront the fact that I'm eventually going to have to be a respectable grown-up, it makes me sad. Seeing someone who is solving (admittedly ridiculous) medical problems while acting like a childish jerk gives me a vicarious charge.

I'm probably in denial regarding the giant humbling I'm about to receive. Having someone make medicine look easy and fun makes me feel a little better. I thought I'd like Glide Year. I don't.

Messerschmitts said:
Why is it entertaining to watch House be House? Let's put it this way: imagine how dull, boring, and utterly unentertaining the show would be if House were a normal, caring, well-adjusted human being. 😛 Making House a cranky, misanthropic jerk was absolute genius. To me the selling point of the show isn't the medical "mysteries" (some of which are pretty far-fetched, even for TV), but House' attitude. I didn't say I "liked" his character, and I certainly never want to be like him. But damn it's exhilirating to watch House do and get away things that would get real doctors fired. 😀 House does all that, and he has a snappy comeback. Week after week, I exclaim (silently) "OMG, I can't believe he did/said that!!" It's a guilty pleasure, like watching a train wreck.
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House is fun to watch during first year because in certain situations you find yourself thinking WOAH I know what they're talking about. I don't get that with Scrubs... And some of the things House says are just plain funny.
 
House is great b/c you feel you get to see which Zebra-disease you can remember from pathology.

Scrubs the lord of all medical shows. Nothing beats it, especially since there are only a few comedies left on TV.

Long live Scrubs. Long live J.D.
 
Season 1 of House was a lot better!

These recent episodes like last week's have been kinda bad.
 
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What's with all this medical show rivalry? Why can't we all just...get along? 😛 Grey's Anatomy is my favourite, and House is tied with Scrubs for 2nd. I love all 3 shows very much, for the different types of entertainment they are able to offer.
 
Megalin said:
House is fun to watch during first year because in certain situations you find yourself thinking WOAH I know what they're talking about. I don't get that with Scrubs... And some of the things House says are just plain funny.
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If you ever find yourself thinking that you understand what is going on in House, stop watching the show immediately and begin furiously studying. You are not learning enough. :laugh:
 
I don't think House is that bad, but has anyone else noticed that almost every single patient has had at least one seizure?
 
Messerschmitts said:
I didn't say I "liked" his character, and I certainly never want to be like him. But damn it's exhilirating to watch House do and get away things that would get real doctors fired. 😀 House does all that, and he has a snappy comeback. Week after week, I exclaim (silently) "OMG, I can't believe he did/said that!!" It's a guilty pleasure, like watching a train wreck.
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Yeah. No kidding. And for us to be fascinated by that type of misanthropic self-destructive capital-R Romantic genius/dingus is nothing new. An example off the top of my head is Sherlock Holmes: socially awkward & often rude cocaine addict who also happens to be a deductive genius & source of encyclopedic knowledge. House is clearly more 21st-century, though; we get occasional titillating glimpses of his weaknesses & mistakes.
 
emack said:
Yeah. No kidding. And for us to be fascinated by that type of misanthropic self-destructive capital-R Romantic genius/dingus is nothing new. An example off the top of my head is Sherlock Holmes: socially awkward & often rude cocaine addict who also happens to be a deductive genius & source of encyclopedic knowledge. House is clearly more 21st-century, though; we get occasional titillating glimpses of his weaknesses & mistakes.
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Yall are all crazy, Nip/Tuck is by FAR the most accurate portrayal of REAL medicine. I mean who of you hasn't known a plastic surgeon who in the course of one year didn't treat drug lords, dismember them, feed them to alligators in the Everglades, help patient committ suicide in the comfort of their hotel room while having an affair with said patient, snort cocaine from the a$$ of a patient between sexual encounters, and other wise break every other ethical, moral, and state law governing the practice of medicine 😀
 
Scrubs! Hands down. For some reason comedy conveys truth better than drama, at least IMO. I guess because if it wasn't based on truth, then it wouldn't be funny to begin with. This show also has the best "side" characters ever, like Nervous Guy and Ted the lawyer. "How's that law degree working out for you, Ted?" "I was going to be a senator..." Priceless.

House. The only good part of that show is Hugh Laurie insulting everybody. Other than that... gah. He has the cliche residents (streetwise black guy, saintly morally perfect pretty girl, even prettier boy) who seem to be residents in everything from IM to neurosurgery to pedes. He has the babe of a boss who constantly protects him because she's not-so-secretly in love with him. But it's not totally unrealistic: I'm pretty sure every hospital has its residents illegally break and enter into patients' homes to look for causes of their disease.

Grey's. Ok this is addicting trash and I can't stop watching but come on... it IS trash. 🙂 The same show could be written in the setting of a law firm or an office, with very few changes. In fact, it already has. Ally McBeal, anyone? Also. At every surgical floor that I used to work at, the vast majority of surgeons were white, male, and over 40. If they were all screwing each other and sneaking off for quickies in the on-call room like on the show, it would NOT make for very good TV. (shudder) EDIT: After that dreadful Super Bowl 2-part episode with the bomb in the patient's chest, and Meredith hooking up with George, and Izzi hooking up with the jerk, etc etc... may not be enjoyable trash anymore, but just trash. 🙁

ER. Not surprised nobody has mentioned this dinosaur of a show. It actually used to be pretty good, for the first couple of seasons or so. Those episodes bear no resemblance to the rubbish they have now. Hard to believe it shares the same network as Scrubs.
 
emac said:
Which TV show do you think is a more realistic portrayal of the medical profession, House or Scrubs? If your experience in the medical profession had to be exactly like one of these shows, which one would you pick and why?
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House = medically unrealistic (i.e. wrong meds given, no airway obtained during a code) & the lead is an annoying a-hole

ER = realistic in early seasons, but becoming increasingly fake

Grey's Anatomy = medically unrealistic (i.e. general surgeons doing pediatric neurosurgery) & more sex and the cityish adultery/swinging than in reality (most residents/attendings are monogamous)

Scrubs = funny & meant to be unrealistic (the interactions with staff are actually pretty close to reality) 👍
 
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