It definitely isn't realistic.
We all have guilty pleasures. Just don't put them in your medical school application!
PS. Glee does not shadow what a teacher does either
I believe it was sarcasm haha
Not when it's a drama show that just happens to be in an ED. The drama storylines are more important to them than actually getting the medicine right, because the majority of the viewers won't know if it's right or wrong anyway.
That's my main beef with House. When they're brainstorming what a patient has and throwing out random diseases, a lot of them don't fit what's going on, they're just saying those things to sound impressive to the lay-public.
We described the ED as M*A*S*H without the war. But the most realistic medically related show in the last 20 years is definitely Scrubs.Yet another infuriating thing.
Out of all the medical shows out there, the one that most closely resembles actual life in the hospital is probably Scrubs. No joke.
I still wouldn't talk about Scrubs in a PS though.
TV needs fodder for story lines and medicine is full of actual drama. The technical aspects tend to be trampled in favor of perceived needs of the script.
When I saw that one episode of House where they had this surgery robot da Vinci-like thing, I lol'd hard. It had a joy stick.
No, lol. The thing sliced him up the middle!
When I saw that one episode of House where they had this surgery robot da Vinci-like thing, I lol'd hard. It had a joy stick.
The one in house was pretty obviously a prop, though. With an Atari joystick if I remember.
The early versions of many devices use joysticks as controls. This is the Kepler intubation system, using a Thrustmaster T-flight HOTAS joystick as a control mechanism. If I'm not mistaken, early models of the Davinci used similar consumer electronic controls.
I'm just sayin', early models are pretty hard to tell from props. Hell, even the IR controllers for the bed and equipment we have look like cheap joystick setups. If I took a picture you'd swear I was joking.
If it works, it doesn't have to look pretty. And yeah, most house episodes were kind of "eh". For some reason I can't watch too much of it without getting a headache. Maybe it's the fact that everything on the show is a weird blue, grey color.
Exactly what I was thinking
Greys anatomy is definitely the most realistic. Where else could you drown, and legit be dead for like 3 episodes straight, then wake up and be completely fine?
The medicine isn't why I watch that though
I liked the first two seasons as a film/theater nut, but from a clinician's perspective they were awful. I really liked the filters they used though, they really helped add to the atmosphere of the show.
The early versions of many devices use joysticks as controls. This is the Kepler intubation system, using a Thrustmaster T-flight HOTAS joystick as a control mechanism. If I'm not mistaken, early models of the Davinci used similar consumer electronic controls.
But these past two seasons were crazy on the drama, but harder to follow since there were too many subplots happening at the same time. 
Absolutely 100% correct by far. They did an excellent job really portraying the reality of what it is like for a resident working in a hospital, the ethical dilemmas that happen all the time, etc.Yet another infuriating thing.
Out of all the medical shows out there, the one that most closely resembles actual life in the hospital is probably Scrubs. No joke.
I still wouldn't talk about Scrubs in a PS though.
