Poll: What Medical Show Can We Diagnose for You?
If you're a regular reader of our WebMD TV Checkup blog, then you know that we most often post about Grey's Anatomy, ER, House, and Scrubs.
Now, it's your turn to tell us if there are other shows out there on the tube that you'd like to see our docs diagnose for accuracy. Or, maybe you've seen a whacky disease diagnosed on one of your favorite shows and want to know if it's for real? Post your suggestions here in our comments section, and we'll do our best to use as many of them as possible.
Remember, if you don't see it on this blog, you can always do your own research right here at WebMD. Try our new and improved Search, easy Symptom Checker, or find information on one of our many Health Centers.
Can't wait to hear from you!
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Now, it's your turn to tell us if there are other shows out there on the tube that you'd like to see our docs diagnose for accuracy. Or, maybe you've seen a whacky disease diagnosed on one of your favorite shows and want to know if it's for real? Post your suggestions here in our comments section, and we'll do our best to use as many of them as possible.
Remember, if you don't see it on this blog, you can always do your own research right here at WebMD. Try our new and improved Search, easy Symptom Checker, or find information on one of our many Health Centers.
Can't wait to hear from you!
Technorati Tags: TV Checkup, medical shows, Grey's Anatomy, House, ER, Scrubs
14 Comments:
I'd rather see you continue to do a great job with the four shows listed--or just House and Scrubs, as those are the only two that I watch--than expand and provide less interesting coverage of more shows. (There are plenty to pick from on the Discovery channels, especially Discovery Health.)
I'm with Justin. I only watch Scrubs and Grey's on that list...but I like seeing the analysis of the other two as well.
Add Nip/Tuck when it's going on, and I think that's pretty much it for medical (fiction) shows. Soon they're going to have a Grey's Anatomy spinoff (why? WHY?? so pointless...), so that's another show you'll be able to pick apart.
Thanks for your quick comments. We're going to do our best to keep the good content flowing on the main shows.
But, during the times those shows are on hiatus for part of the season we want to be sure you don't get bored. :-) Gotta keep the talk going.
We appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. Keep 'em coming.
Right now the only one of those I watch is House. Mostly I am interested in the steps they take to make their diagnosis (are they accurate, time compress aside) Plus some comments on ethics (or lack there of) of Dr House
As a nurse with 45 years experience, it really irritates me to see totally inaccurate information on the medical shows, so I seldom watch them. I know of a case in which a layperson tried to administer CPR the way it was shown (wrongly - elbows bent, inadequate compressions, breathing with patient's neck flexed) on a TV program. The patient died. Now, I don't know that the patient would have survived had the CPR been performed correctly, but I will always wonder if he would have survived with proper CPR. What the producers / directors don't seem to realize is that many people take the information from those programs as "gospel," and adjust their actions and expectations in line with that perception...
We need badly more exposure and awareness for the disease called RSD (reflex sympathetic dystrophy) I have had it 11 yrs and seen 47 different Drs. The earlier the disease is dx the better for positive treatments. Its a small window, I was 9 mos post injury (ruptured tendon in thumb) and now 11 years later I am in w/chair with total body RSD which is rare for it to go that far.
WE need shows to expose this and get more attention to bring more earlier dx for many sufferers who are accused of malingering and exaggerations of pain. It is real.
We need more to know those, I have seen drs who did not know what it was.
What Really Needs to be Discussed is:
Why Physicians LIE Most of the time to their Patients! I Know this from my own Encounters ; as well as Numerous Others who have told me from their own encounters with physicians.
The Fact that Many Doctors Do Not Want their patients to Discover the Truth about Their Injuries or Their Illnesses! Mostly because these Doctors are Holding Off on Actually Helping Their Patients and Bilking their Patients Insurance Companies out of Thousands ; possibly Millions of dollars! I went through a Lot of Severe Pain because of a Very Bad Back Injury I had in a slip and fall accident 11 months ago! Well,my Doctor/s KNEW about my Back Injury and They HAD THE EVIDENCE of my back injury during the 11 months I was SUFFERING....I asked my Doctor/s EVERY TIME I SAW THEM IN THEIR OFFICE TO REFER ME TO A SURGEON too! Well,I was told by these physicians that I only had sprained muscles in my back and it was going to take 6 months to a year for the pain to subside and my back to heal. My doctor/s would keep me on Very Strong Pain Pills and put a tens unit and a heating pad on my back for ten months.Which they Seperatly Billed my Insurance Company for as physical therapy or surgery.Until One of their doctors who I saw for the first time SHOWED me my X-Ray Report and told me the Truth about my Back Injury.Even though these doctors REFUSED to send me to a Surgeon ; I found ANOTHER Doctor who would,ONLY because I RESEARCHED MY CONDITION AND CONFRONTED HIM ABOUT IT! Because I CONFRONTED my New Doctor about my Back Injury and Because I DID my Homework and Told him Everything I Found Out about it ; He FINALLY SENT ME TO A SURGEON...
Patients NEED to do THEIR OWN RESEARCH for EVERY SINGLE TEST RESULT THEY RECEIVE regarding their health! They ALSO NEED TO CONFRONT their own Doctor/s when they are NOT happy with the medical care they have been getting! Otherwise they WILL end up like me ; On Very Strong Medications and Suffering a LOT for a Very Long Time..........
Leona,
ITA with everyone here said especially the nurse of 45 yrs and the commenter above me.
I can go on forever, but going to stop here.
Would love you TV checkup entries on These TLC Daytime/Primetime shows.
A Baby Story
Bringing Home the Baby
Surviving Motherhood
Untold Stories of the ER
Any other shows or specials that show on this health or parenting
Thank you.
Jessica
well, first of all, please don't use this comments section as a place to rant. I don't care.
Second, I appreciate the query- what other shows might they have missed? How about the crime drama/medical murder mystery/forensic science shows that sometimes delve into weird ways people expire, like CSI, Crossing Jordan, Law and Order, etc. I've seen on L&O SVU and CSI where they can't match up a suspect to the DNA taken from the crime scene because of something medical, like a bone marrow transplant or chimerism (sp?). Most of the time the cause of death is not a medical mystery (maybe why someone had the urge to kill, but not why the person died, but sometimes there are plots on those shows that pertain to this blog, too.
I think you all are doing a wonderful job of separating fact from fiction. And the comments are just as good. Thank you all. I was wondering however, how common is Dr House condition with his leg? I believe he has dead muscle which had something to do with not being able to remove waste from that muscle.
I have been suffering with fibromyalgia and other numerous muscularskelectal conditions now for over 5 years and also have discovered that I have a "fatty tumor" on my left side of my shoulder blade area and yet, these dr's and/or specialists all say the same thing "oh, it's nothing", but no one wants to tell me the truth. I also have a venous angioma on the right side of the basal ganglia and an indescribeable inflammation on the back of my right ear. It seems to me that all doctors are very racists against fibromyalgia patients because they look at me as a high risk. that is unfair and I'm tired of the b.s. Get it together, be real or get off the boat altogether and let someone else who will take their jobs seriously do it right and be truthful to their patients without making them feel "guilty" all the time for a condition that they did not ask for and is poorly misunderstood by most doctors.
so anyways, back to the topic, i think house is the most medically interesting show on television, according to the producers the medical conditions they focus their shows around are REAL, usually VERY rare, conditions/procedures, that's what makes it interesting to me, if House was just about a doctor who prescribed fioricet and soma to a tension headache patient, it would make for a pretty boring show. I'm not sure about any of the others, because mostly they're too much like soap operas (namely greay anatomy) I don't see what everyone sleeping together has to do with medicine... just my opinion (which is actually on topic)
they said I had a fatty tumor on the back of my neck I know that it hurts and cant sleep because of the pain I need to know where to go to find a good dr that will help me get this removed
I have been suffering regular migraines and loss of coordination on my right side due to what I've been told is a "venous angioma" in the left side of my brain. I'm told that it's basically an enlarged vein in my brain. I'm told there's nothing they can do. I would like to see something on "House" or some show like that.
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