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We're obsessed with television. As employees of America's number one health site, we often find ourselves questioning the medicine behind our favorite medical TV shows. Do the docs on ER and House really know their stuff? And just how common is that rare disease on last night's Grey's Anatomy?

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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Washington Post Offers Grey's Reality Check
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The Washington Post has a great story on interns and docs at Howard University Hospital watching Grey's and wondering: why isn't MY life like this?

Take a gander (registration required) at how they feel about Meredith and Dr. McDreamy's relationship, how the interns talk-back to their superiors, and how the medical story lines seem to get.. um.. creative during sweeps.

Howard's docs specifically mentioned story lines such as interns getting to do major surgeries, or Meredith's lack of brain damage after being dead for what seemed like hours.

How do you feel about how doctors are portrayed on Grey's? All in good fun or distracting?


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Posted by: Kathy_WebMD at 3/29/2007 11:34:00 AM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think any intelligent person knows it's all drama. Life is nothing like television.

If they showed Grey's Anatomy and made it just like life...I'm sure it'd get tedious. As exciting as a hospital can be at times, television often requires spice, relationships and taboo to be interesting.

3/29/2007 9:22 PM  

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