medical sitcom based on brown u?

[Radon]

does anyone know which sitcom is loosly based on docs from brown u internal med? is it house md?

thanks

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[mattman49]

Scrubs

 

[DoctorSax]

Scrubs

I thought that it was Gray's Anatomy...

I know they told us on the tour of the Miriam, but I forgot!

DS

 

[waterski232002]

Grey's anatomy is about surgery, not medicine.... and it takes place in washington.

 

[Radon]

well i know that one of the writers of grey's anatomy went graduated from dartmouth im residency...geez i have wayyy too much time on my hands!

 

[Radon]

thanks...yep it's scrubs

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2003-04/03-138d.html

like i said way too much time on my hands!

 

[DrNick2006]

DO you think the show writters helped with that speech?

 

[Tigerz_Fan]

DO you think the show writters helped with that speech?

I would think so. That seemed a bit wordy. Or Dr. Cox may be based on him if he really does talk that much.

But, love Scrubs! Great show!

 

[Mumpu]

Anyone else feel Scrubs has gone downhill after the first two seasons? Season three was downright terrible, four was a touch better, this one waxes and wanes.

 

[Benzo4every1]

Anyone else feel Scrubs has gone downhill after the first two seasons? Season three was downright terrible, four was a touch better, this one waxes and wanes.

I always forget to watch it, so I missed most of the shows. Is any of it on DVD yet?

 

[Hova2005]

The first two seasons are available on DVD, with the third due in May (can you tell I'm a fan 🙄 )

 

[bloocanary]

Grey's anatomy is about surgery, not medicine.... and it takes place in washington.

Grey's Anatomy is about surgery? I couldn't tell.

And ditto on Scrubs going downhill. I love the show, but it was painful watching some of the later episodes. A long way to fall, considering the first couple of seasons were pure genius.

b

 

[Mumpu]

Grey's Anatomy is about what surgeons imagine they are like.

 

[sacrament]

Grey's Anatomy is about what surgeons imagine they are like.

haha, so true...

"Our job is so intense... most people wouldn't be able to hang..."
"No sh1t, bro. 90% of the patients in this hospital would die if we decided not to come in one day."
"Extreme, man. Intense and extreme. I can't imagine doing anything else with my life."
Then they go and spent the next ten hours shoving hernias back into abdomens.

(I have love for surgeons. I even almost became one, despite the fact that I never for a moment appreciated an ounce of that mythic OR glamor. So I decided that if my job wasn't going to be glamorous and exciting, I might as well be able to sit down every once in awhile.)

 

[bloocanary]

Grey's Anatomy is about what surgeons imagine they are like.

I sure as hell don't imagine myself as 1) an inept womanizing syphilis spreader, 2) a wishy-washy wussy bumbling victim of the hot chick, 3) a bitter maladjusted patient-hater, 4) a woe-is-me polygamist neurosurgeon who happens to also run trauma codes and do microsurgical replants on the side, 5) an out-for-myself I'm-God-but-why-doesn't-anyone-love me CT surgeon, or a 6) woe-is-me-the-polygamist-didn't-choose-me-for-first-wife I'm-so-pretty-when-I-look-sad look-at-me whiner.

Of course, I guess that comment gives me away as having watched more than a few episodes ... but I blame it on my girlfriend and her roommates who insist on watching it with me around ...

I do however like to fancy myself as a cross between dorky but funny, endearing, and insightful JD, and dorky but cool and bad-ass surgeon Turk.

b

(yes, I know, I watch too much TV)

 

[bloocanary]

haha, so true...

"Our job is so intense... most people wouldn't be able to hang..."
"No sh1t, bro. 90% of the patients in this hospital would die if we decided not to come in one day."
"Extreme, man. Intense and extreme. I can't imagine doing anything else with my life."
Then they go and spent the next ten hours shoving hernias back into abdomens.

That's exactly it. I hope that most of my future colleagues don't wish to come across as that high on themselves. You don't hear the characters on ER saying stuff like that ... which is why 99% of the lay population think ER docs are THE heros who do all the life-saving in the hospital, run all the trauma codes, and do all the *real* surgery. Not to mention 75% of the surgeons that were on ER were also wacked, and portrayed as meanies, idiots, or annoyances (for God's sake, they dropped a chopper on one of them!!!). The only cool/heroic surgeon (Noah Wylie) ended up switching to ER instea of surgery. What's up with that?!? And now thanks to Grey's Anatomy, 99% of the lay population *really* believe the stereotypical image of surgeons acting all high and mighty to cover up for some hidden shortcoming. I have great love for ER docs, but share some of the love, guys/gals ...

I know it's just TV, but it's the only "reality" people see. Ask your non-medicine friends what they imagine the ER to be like. I'll bet you it will be along the lines of ER the show ... even though most of them have probably had a 6-hour ER waiting room experience in their lives. Not that it really matters what they think ... but it's interesting how TV shapes public opinion, no?

b

 

[Mumpu]

True. I almost became a surgeon as well -- my decision to do IM was heavily influenced by my third-year clerkship where I told my entire team that it was the do-or-die for me. I was abused, yelled at, and ignored. I got no teaching from my team, I sutured twice in the entire month, did no procedures, and my attending didn't even bother to write an eval for me. And I'm actually a decent med student and very good with my hands.

The sad part? I met a few residents from other teams who were happy, well adjusted people, interested in teaching, and wonderful to work with. I have friends who are wonderful nice people and who are doing general surgery. I hope surgery will change when the last "luminary" a-hole retires -- the culture of tolerance for abusive individuals needs to go.

All a big shame because I respect surgeons and I really want to like them and have them as colleagues and not enemies. It takes balls to take a major trauma patient and have the confidence that you can put that gory mess of blood and bone bits together into a person, and it takes mad skills to actually pull it off. This is the stuff that should be on TV. Real world is way better than all the sitcoms.

So, we have "Grey's Anatomy" feeding every bad stereotype about surgeons. "ER" making nonsense about ER docs (I bet an hour of alcoholics and cellulitis would make great prime time TV). "House" is representing hospitalists and ID (I had to read a Wikipedia article to learn that other docs were his colleagues, not residents).

You know what was a really great show? "Resident Life" on The Learning Channel. Documentary, very well done, well balanced among different specialties. I showed it to my parents so they could see what my life will be like starting June 23. Naturally, TLC cancelled it after one brief season.

 

[ruthmd]

I'll second Mumpu's post- I LOVED Resident Life!!! I actually have my tivo set up to record it. It was nice to see physicians and residents portrayed honestly on TV! I didn't know it was cancelled- what a bummer🙁

 

[Mumpu]

Well, not cancelled perhaps but I only saw one season and it was two years ago (I think they did a rerun last year) so I assumed the worst. Or do you know something I don't?

 

[ruthmd]

Well, not cancelled perhaps but I only saw one season and it was two years ago (I think they did a rerun last year) so I assumed the worst. Or do you know something I don't?

No, you're right- I've only seen shows from one season also. But I keep stupidly hoping they'll make more🙂

 

[Mumpu]

I googled it last night and found a couple of articles about it that said it was filmed as a 13-episode series (and one VERY angry article about why there were no nurses in the show and how people should write TLC and protest).

Good theme song too!

 

[bloocanary]

Can I add, as someone who just matched into plastics, I thought it was ridiculous that they had the neurosurgeon reattach someone's fingers on one episode (the realm of the plastic surgeon) (and with the general surgery intern -- even though in real life the chiefs would have to fight over it) (and they were smart enough to *schedule* the replant for the *next day*). But to add insult to injury, I find out this weekend that the only plastic surgeon on the show is ... none other than the scum best friend who slept with Dr. Shepard's wife.

So unfair ... so unfair ...

b