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What TV show is working in a hospital most like?

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    #32
    tallaght01
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    Piste wrote: »

    Yeah I only really put in the TV shows I'd heard of! Mods edit away if you like.

    I've added in Holby City and Cardiac Arrest for you.


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    #33
    tallaght01
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    Carsinian Thau wrote: »
    Just reached the part about the ABG. I've actually seen an intern try to do one once.

    She tried about 4 times and couldn't get it. The patient was literally crying on the first go.

    It must be really really painful.

    I tried about 5 ABGs before I ever got one successfully. I attempted to cannulate 10 babies before I ever did one successfully.

    But everything becomes second nature eventually :D


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    #34
    PhysiologyRocks
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    Anybody seen Bodies? Also Jed Mercurio. I really shouldn't know this much about medical dramas...


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    #35
    Carsinian Thau
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    PhysiologyRocks wrote: »
    One guy gave us a lecture and he said we could visit. I went up, and some others let me into theatre, too. Only in 2nd year and already been sent to see patients! I've been lucky. Ask when they come to lecture you, they've been really nice to me.

    Disclaimer: If this is generally unacceptable behaviour, let me know.

    I'm going into second year now actually (discounting premed).

    I could give that a shot. Not sure if it'd work for me though, there seems to be an element of protecting the valuable ward time for the older students who can really benefit from it.

    Although, in the brief time I've spent on the wards I was always made to feel welcome. But we did tend to hold back a lot and were basically just following an intern around like incredibly nervous (yet very well dressed) sheep.


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    #36
    allsaintssue
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    All Saints used to be a good representative of what its like on a ward, the old series' I mean.
    Unfortunately, in real life (..or at least in the hospital im in) there are not as many good looking men...:(


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    #37
    Tree
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    You forgot to list dexter's laboratory :(


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    #38
    sam34
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    allsaintssue wrote: »
    Unfortunately, in real life (..or at least in the hospital im in) there are not as many good looking men...:(

    a universal truth, im afraid :(


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    #39
    MrPain
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    This makes me laugh, sorry embedding is disabled for it, enjoy.
    I also feel it is an accurate representation
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFkgbK7VTmY


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    #40
    994
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    kelle wrote: »
    I stopped watching them a long time ago because radiographers don't seem to exist in any of these places, yet they play a very important part in the running of a hospital. Somehow x-rays appear out of nowhere!

    In House, they perform all their MRI and CT scans themselves.


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    #41
    DrIndy
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    tallaght01 wrote: »
    I tried about 5 ABGs before I ever got one successfully. I attempted to cannulate 10 babies before I ever did one successfully.

    But everything becomes second nature eventually :D
    I am the go-to guy for difficult cannulations now - I can cannulate anyone at this stage and I find when really buggered and not wanting the time of a central line, going really high up the shin and finding one of the plexus veins halfway up to the knee often works a treat.


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    #42
    Chunky Monkey
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    PhysiologyRocks wrote: »
    Anybody seen Bodies? Also Jed Mercurio. I really shouldn't know this much about medical dramas...

    Read the book...half porn, half biography :p Pretty good though. Is the series any good?

    Who voted for House?? Love it but it's hardly realistic!


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    #43
    A Neurotic
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    Stall the ball.

    Working in a hospital is not like Grey's Anatomy? I won't spend more time developing my relationships with other staff than treating patients? I won't be dubbed "McLiamy" by swooning female colleagues?

    Can anyone confirm this? It seems I have been sadly misinformed regarding my career choice :(


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    #44
    allsaintssue
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    Actually myself and two friends do put 'Mc' titles on people but they are not so much McDreamy as McVomitingBug...actually quite a nice story how that one came about...and McOpenShirt due to this gentlemans habit of wearing half open shirts all the time


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    #45
    tallaght01
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    How in the name of god is ER coming 2nd in the poll????


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    #46
    Carsinian Thau
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    tallaght01 wrote: »
    How in the name of god is ER coming 2nd in the poll????

    Technical glitch?


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    #47
    sam34
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    tallaght01 wrote: »
    How in the name of god is ER coming 2nd in the poll????

    wishful thinking by all the ladies voting that we might catch our very own george clooney some day!


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    #48
    Carsinian Thau
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    sam34 wrote: »
    wishful thinking by all the ladies voting that we might catch our very own george clooney some day!

    Or all the guys thinking that they are George Clooney?


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    #49
    PhysiologyRocks
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    Maybe the people who voted for it have never been in a hospital and are basing their opinion on... guess what... ER.


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    #50
    JSK 252
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    Scrubs is a load of ****e!


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    #51
    tech77
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    tallaght01 wrote: »
    I would say a lot of the stuff that happens in scrubs is written by someone who has been a junior doctor.

    A lot of Scrubs definitely resonates.

    The House of God (as mentioned) is arguably a better depiction than any of those programs though.
    Love the author's odd, cynical espousal of the "do nothing and they get better" concept.
    And the hard-working, reliable, seen-it-all reg as the oasis of sanity/lucidity among the chaos.

    Makes more sense than a lot of the stuff you see tbh.
    Your man ultimately became a psychiatrist, didn't he? :)


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    #52
    allsaintssue
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    I love that no one voted for Grey's Anatomy, proof at least that I'm not the only one not getting kissed by mcdreamy in lifts!

    I've never watched Scrubs so I can't really comment on that front.
    I like Casualty..well to be fair, I like Michael French more than I like the show..if the brain tumour gets him I doubt I'll be such an avid viewer;)

    Er...I always preferred Carter to George, I think I'm the only woman who thinks clooney is a bit smug looking (..granted he has plenty to be smug about) but ER...I've never had anything remotely like ER happen in real life...I'm still dissappointed to see there are not more helicopters exploding in irish hospitals. And I have to admit as a student nurse who is hoping to become a doctor I'd be lying if I said I didn't hope to end up in a romantic triangle between my very own Carter and Kovac just like Abby....I know I'm sad:rolleyes:

    House- I love house firstly because House is really rather attractive in a strange kind of way and secondly because he is sarcastic..gotta love sarcasm in a man.

    Hmm, just read back this comment and realised all my opinions in the shows were based around the attractive male leads...I swear thats not what encouraged me towards the medical proffession....


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    #53
    sam34
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    tech77 wrote: »
    A lot of Scrubs definitely resonates.

    The House of God (as mentioned) is arguably a better depiction than any of those programs though.
    Love the author's odd, cynical espousal of the "do nothing and they get better" concept.
    And the hard-working, reliable, seen-it-all reg as the oasis of sanity/lucidity among the chaos.

    Makes more sense than a lot of the stuff you see tbh.
    Your man ultimately became a psychiatrist, didn't he? :)

    yeah i think he did. i have a vague idea that he actually committed suicide, but im not 100% sure, does anyone know?


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    #54
    D.R cowboy
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    Chicago Hope on every night 2000 repeats


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    #55
    Chunky Monkey
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    sam34 wrote: »
    yeah i think he did. i have a vague idea that he actually committed suicide, but im not 100% sure, does anyone know?

    According to wikipedia he's still alive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shem


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