Why greys anatomy is not realistic

As stated above, same goes for the surgeons doing a lot of what nurses do…but at least nurses are mentioned in the show! Ok so this annoyed the heck out of me. I am on Season 7, and the other day I saw that they did, for the first time, tape a patients eyes. I would like to think all nurses are down right wholesome and not like her lol!

Most of the time during my clinical rotations in the hospital, I saw that the nurses really run the show during patient care. Most of the time physicians are way too busy for the one-on-one ADL care or close monitoring that the show depicts pre and post op.

I kind of get irritated when the physicians depicted in the show do the nurses jobs, treat them like crap, or belittle them…but it is a fun show and I do enjoy calling out incorrect procedure protocol or guessing what a patients diagnosis is and what will happen next!

How can one hospital be full of good-looking doctors? How about that for misrepresentation, haha. I also love the show despite everything. You need to either put in a spoiler alert or change your reference to the hospital name to Seattle Grace. Some of us are just now watching the series on Netflix and have not gotten to the episodes where the hospital name changes yet.

Even though it may be highly unprofessional the truth is that there maybe hospitals, where interns talk about there personal life, and attendings who sleep with interns. But many of the cases in the show happened in real life. If you want to see a full on accurate surgery, with no false accusations, watch a documentary because this show focuses on the characters rather than the actual surgeries.

I think that this is a very good comment, because its true. I am a resident, and as much this is a fake show, it focuses on the characters more, and the surgeries are less important. Thank you for making this a statement. I know!! Thank you. Like chill tf out. Every depiction of the show may not be correct, but those minor things are taught to those who choose to be a surgical intern. The important things- the hard work, the long hours- are they not correct?

And are you positive, without a doubt, that all teaching schools are in accordance with yours? As you said before this is a tv show that is highly fictionalized as is every other show. I doubt that you are indar the impression that detectives go into work everyday and participate in shoot outs, high speed pursuits causing thousands of dollars worth of damages. I feel like most people also know that.

I have no medical training or knowledge whatsoever. I do know that when watching something fictional its hard not to critique it but all shows have proffesional consultants so they are aware of these things but they are profesionals in entertainment and know what they are doing. Real life is boring, if it was not we would not be watching these things. They will never take advice in a letter as this could open up a possibility for you to claim you are owed money for your contribution.

It goes a long way to encourage those of us that are in premed I love the show even though some sene are unreal I know residency program is not as easy as it is been potraited in the series but hey its just to entertain after all. Im really young in 13 but I plane to be a surgeon when I get older in think I might want to be a Cardiothoracic Surgeon or a Neurosurgeon. As an aviation professional since and a pilot since earlier high school , licensed in three facets by the FAA, I see the same with aviation in movies and tv shows.

Such simple fixes but they always—always! Sully, Hanks, and Eastwood with in my A simulator to work on getting acquainted in the cockpit environment and most of the movie is portrayed well. I feel your pain but I also understand still enjoying movies and shows on those topics :. You get to choose a specialty once you get into your residency, i presume. I would definitely try to go to one of the big, ivy league schools, but acceptance rates and money could be a real issue.

But my top 10 med schools after college are these: 1. Stanford Medicine 2. John Hopkins School of Medicine 3. Harvard Medical School 4. Weill Cornell Medicine 5. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science 6. Baylor College of Medicine 7. Boston University School of Medicine Perelman School of Medicine. I have already gotten accepted into John Hopkins School of Medicine, but i would still like to keep my options open, as this is not my first pick.

I really wish you the best of luck, and I hope you get to pursue the career, whatever it may be. Also, keep your options open about your career. When i was in 7th grade, I wanted to go into forensic psychology, but i later realized in high school, that i wanted to go into medicine.

So, thank you for reading this incredibly long comment, and i wish you the best of luck. Izzie cutting that wire, should have been fired. Doctors sleeping around in on call rooms instead of working. The list goes on. Here's 5 Steps to Start Your Own I recall that many of the female surgeons and surgical residents are wearing jewelry in the OR—earrings and such.

This would never be allowed. Being a surgeon is one hell of a job. The reality part of it sounds worse. Salute to all surgeons, and those in the medical field. The organs used on the show are often real organs from animals, usually cows. Not all scenes offer real organs, of course, but some do, and that does a very decent job of making the operations look genuine, as if an actual doctor were working or on call.

Grey's Anatomy follows surgical interns. Everyone always wanted to be in surgery—especially Christina Yang—but, in real life, surgical residents don't work in quite so many different departments as the residents on Grey's Anatomy seem to. Once you're a resident, you're not exploring the way interns do. Grey's, of course, wants to keep storylines fresh and interesting, but that's why they often veer a bit from reality.

Doctors may do their best to tame a situation, but unruly, poorly-educated patients can make their jobs unnecessarily difficult. Often, patients arrive with their own wild theories about what is wrong with them or some theory about how to treat themselves.

Patients in real life consult the internet and bring their findings to their appointments, just as it's portrayed in Grey's Anatomy. It's a real-life phenomenon on and off-screen. In every episode of Grey's Anatomy, the surgeons—the characters fans follow and care most about—seem to run every room they enter, including the emergency department and medical bay.

The truth is that surgeons don't run the medical bay; they are often called for consults, but the Emergency Department and trauma bay have their own doctors who work with the patients when they come through the door. Television medical drama, it seems, is still an important avenue for portraying the medical profession and medical care.

In this digital age, future researchers should broaden the focus to investigate how doctors and patients alike present videos and images of themselves and medical procedures in online forums and social media, such as YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat. Festival of Social Science — Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Deborah Lupton , University of Canberra. Surgery Emergency departments Medical ethics Trauma media studies Medical students Medical education Television drama.

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