I was catching up with the New York Times Health section this afternoon and I saw this blog about portrayals of doctors and hospitals on television http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/at-real-hospitals-less-traumaand-drama/. This blog was about a Stanford Medicine Magazine article http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2007fall/med-tv.html about doctors and medical students reactions to medical television shows. Many of the doctors interviewed are not so much concerned about the technical details as they are about the unrealistic portrayals of day-to-day life in these clinical settings. For example, the time from a patient arriving in the ER to the time that patient is having open heart surgery is unrealistically short. Of course, television condenses time for the sake of moving the story along. And there is a lot more sex going on in television hospitals than in real clinic settings. Real interns and residents do not have the time for leisurely lunches and casual sex as the doctors on Grey's Anatomy.
Of course, television is about entertainment and not necessarily realism. And as I mentioned in a post earlier last month, many professions feel the same way as doctors about how their respective professions are portrayed on television. Still, it's fun to listen to doctors play television critic.
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