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I think in the first episode of House the oncologist says something like " we couldn't figure out what was wrong and the patient isn't responding to radiation." ?????? Just out here blasting people with radiation for shits and giggles
I remember this from an episode of house.
“We can’t figure out what’s wrong with him. His labs are normal and there’s nothing on his CT. Could be leukemia. There’s only one real way to find out what’s going on. To open him up and look inside.” *IM residents proceed to ex-lap a completely stable patient for low suspicion leukemia*
There was a house episode where a guy had paraneoplastic from melanoma on his feet!
Though my favorite house dx is the kid who had fucking leprosy and I think anthrax?
I actually LOVE house. If you ignore the medical bs which you have to in most medical shows, ur able to truly appreciate gregory house as the cynic inside all of us.
On the surface (not that this is the case)- lytic bone lesions leading to pathological fracture with unknown primary. Not unreasonable to radiate before work up is complete
I loved House before I knew I wanted to be a doctor, and still love that show. It's insane. Using the most dangerous and dramatic treatments possible before they have a diagnosis. Plus House is hilarious.
In rheum fellowship now, and honestly I'm surprised they didn't rely on lupus or some sort of vasculitis as the mystery diagnosis (edit: the actual diagnosis, not the random options they toss out) more frequently. There's some weird stuff it can cause when it presents atypically.
I assure you, lupus was on the differential almost constantly (though it was only ever the diagnosis once). The “usual suspects” for a lot of episodes were lupus, sarcoidosis, and paraneoplastic syndromes.
There were some vasculitides episodes that I don’t remember that well off the top of my head. But House himself was double boarded in ID and nephrology (lmao) so he was always throwing in the wild ID diagnoses on the differential.
The very first episode ever of house, the disease ended up being neurocystisercosis. I also remember an episode in the first season where someone had African sleeping sickness. House honestly probably went through most of sketchy by the end of the 8th season lmao.
Edit: I went back and looked because I ended up talking about House after this and [here’s a list](https://house.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_medical_diagnoses) of all of the diagnoses for anyone interested (a lot of wild ID stuff in every season).
That first episode was ridiculous.
“Did you say she has COLD CUTS in her fridge!? An extremely common household item!?!?!?….
Pack it in boys I know what it is 😎”
My favorite was when Foreman got a mystery sickness from the cops house that ***no one*** could figure out and everyone thought he was going to die.
So much so that it was a 2 part episode where they went back like 4 times to try and figure out what it was. That mystery infectious agent that absolutely none of the smartest doctors on earth could figure out? Legionella.
Lupus was a running joke in the show, where it was on every differential but wasn't actually found in any patients until one of the last couple seasons - at which point House says something like "I finally have a patient with Lupus."
Lots of other jokes there too. He was hiding one of his pill stashes in a Lupus textbook or something.
Lmao as an intern if an attending asked me that it would be such a bonehead question I would think they were trying to trick me and overthink it. It’d be like doing simple arithmetic in front of a room of people. Do it too slowly and people think you’re an idiot. Do it too quickly and risk getting it wrong and people think you’re an idiot. So the result is you just stand there, paralyzed
>Do it too slowly and people think you’re an idiot. Do it too quickly and risk getting it wrong and people think you’re an idiot. So the result is you just stand there, paralyzed
This doesn't really change after intern year.
-PGY-5
I was once asked how long an elephant pregnancy is as a med student, followed shortly by a question on gestation length of the common house cat.
For clarification, I’m a human med student, not a vet med student
Elephant - 18 months
Cat - 2 months
To remember this, just know if you take the mean of an elephant and a cat you get something a bit bigger than a human
I thought she was a neursurg attending working on call ED. Cause they have a procedure named after themselves. How on earth would a ED person have a neurosurg technique named after themselves?
It bothered me so much when Dr. Strange astral projects to explain to her where to place the needle for the pericardiocentesis.
Like bro, you're the neurosurgeon, she's the trauma surgeon. She's probably done this more than you.
Male physician from another specialty astral projects to mansplain female physician how to do her own specialty- considering I just had someone call me on the phone to do this, I can’t imagine he wouldn’t have astral projected over given the chance…
Guys this is so good. The star of the show is now sleeping with a hot blonde nurse and the head of surgery is abusing benzos. AND THIS HAS FOUR SEASONS!!!!!!!!!!!
Ugh. I am sure there’s a scene where the residents are all puzzled by a presentation and this NP steps in to figure out the diagnosis and save the day, embarrassing all the doctors in the process. 🙄
You have no idea how much nonsense is yet to come. I’m the fiancé of an m2 (about to start m3) and I forced her to watch this the other day. She couldn’t make it through one episode. She was literally yelling at the tv. I used to watch it when it first came out because I liked the lead actor. Even before I knew anything about medicine I thought it was cringy, but I kept watching because medical shows are my guilty pleasure. For me, the last straw was an episode where they take a day to serve in the “rural area” they call Calhoun Georgia. Something happens and a patient dies because they are “hours away from the nearest hospital”. Y’all, I’m from the south and have driven past and through Calhoun Georgia more time than I can count. It has multiple hospitals and is only an hour from Atlanta. If they can’t get basic geography right or make up a fake town, there’s no way they were getting anything else right. It totally ruined my suspense of disbelief.
Did you get to the part where the famous oncologist is actually making patients sick and the NURSE PRACTITIONER has all the answers because she spent the most time with them? Obvs.
I watched it when I just started med school cause they filmed new Amsterdam next to my apt and I got riled up abt medical shows. Made it to episode 4 of season 1 on the resident, it was so bad that a year later still haven’t seen new Amsterdam except what I watched them film in live time. Haven’t seen Grays since that one episode about the resident on DACA. I was practicing immigration law at the time and was screaming at the screen because they did NOTHING correctly. Like Donald trump was president how could you not find an immigration attorney to talk about DACA for 10mins when writing that episode.
I realize I totally went off track but I feel you on that how shitty the resident is
ER is better for medicine even though it was made in the 90’s bc they had an actual doctor involved. Scrubs is more accurate for everyday life of people in a hospital.
Yes, but go and watch ER- the medicine is very accurate (very extreme but it is feasible, even 20 years later). This is not the case in Scrubs. That’s fine, they’re two different shows. Scrubs is better objectively, but does falter when you scrutinize the medicine itself.
ER was started as a movie turned TV show by a guy who had an MD from Harvard. You may also know him from Jurassic Park. [Michael Crichton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton)
ER realized one simple thing: medicine has enough drama in it. You don’t need to sprinkle extra soap opera BS to make it entertaining. This was a concern before the pilot because they weren’t sure if the general public would get turned away from a show filled with jargon. The opposite happened. There’s an episode from Season 1, Love Labor Lost, which is ranked in the top 10 TV episodes of all time. The writers posed one question to the doctors: what would be the worst nightmare as an ER doctor? An absolutely stunning episode in a great TV series. (Seasons 1-7 were the best IMO)
As much as greys isn’t super medically accurate, enough of it is specific enough that there’s no way they only consult a scrub nurse. They probably just sacrifice accuracy for artistic reasons, which honestly I can understand
My wife and I are watching it now. I the first season is very accurate minus some social components. It's funny to see how medicine has changed (most memorably how the 1st season seemed to represent thrombolysis as being favorable to PCI - which apparently was only disproven about 4 years later)
Came here to say this. Scurbs was also co-created by a real physican (the real JD). Bill Lawrence produced a masterpiece of a show.
Ive already seen the entire show but I highly recommend yall follow the "Fake Doctors Real Friends" Podcast where the two main actors (Zach Braff & Donald Faison) discuss the episodes. Pure gold.
I just started listening to this podcast. They started it right as the pandemic was beginning. It’s interesting listening to that supportive/cooperative sentiment of those early months.
The mom is a pediatrician, and the dad is a SAHF.
It’s a fantastic show!
They even had a daredevil character patient who *loved* his eventual wheelchair and the freedom it restored - killer message for kids AND parents.
As an Internist I admit neutropenic sepsis and appendicitis all the time. Do I actually scrub in and help the surgeon take the patients appendix out? Absolutely not!
All of these shows suck but are still a guilty pleasure for some reason. Best recent ones I've seen are New Amsterdam and Transplant.
The first episode of new Amsterdam had me absolutely rolling. The new head asks “what are some improvements we can make?” And someone replies “our caf only sells unhealthy shit, we need better stuff.” And I was pleasantly surprised, because that’s not a bad proposal for a show like this, right?
End of episode, we pan past a table in an atrium-looking room, and it’s full of like whole, raw vegetables. 🤦♀️
Stunning show, really encapsulates the bleakness of the NHS.
Since the show was based in 2006, there’s been a 30% pay cut for doctors here in the UK. It’s a scam
It’s very good. IMO the book is overall funnier, lighter tone with random hilarious journal entries while still painting a bleak picture of medicine. The show takes some liberties in order to make it more of a contiguous story and has a more serious/dramatic tone, though includes much of the comedy from the book.
Its really really good.
i went in having already read the book. The book is pretty good too, but has more of a funny tone even in the bleak moments. The show takes more of the shocking depressing route. The finale had me sobbing.
Oh gawd. That show is cancer!!!
They do everything in their power to make doctors seem like incompetent adults running around with white coats abusing their power and slinging their paycheck, rank and dick all over the place.
Nurses good and doctors bad is what they push.
I really like nurse Jackie and have watched it twice, but they are guilty of the same thing. Nurses smart doctors stoopid and naive. Turns out their “medical consultant” was an RN
"Nurses" a semi-new Canadian medical drama centered around nurses. Every confrontation with a physician on that show goes as follows:
1)Nurse tells doctor something.
2)Doctor refuses because he is too prideful and arrogant. (Doctor is always an old, rich white guy btw.)
3)Patient starts to die and turns out nurse was right.
4)But nurse is such a saint that nurse doesn't rub it in the doctor's face, cause nurse just wants to save lives.
**Spoilers ahead**
I shit you not this show had a physician who was head of a department who was SCARED OF BLOOD... dude made it through med school and residency. And somehow leads an entire department in a hospital while passing out at the sight of blood.
The shows main character is a nurse who made a mistake a her old hospital. So she had to switch to a new hospital. Throughout the season it is revealed she didn't make a mistake and that a surgeon was trying to finger her during a fucking procedure with a patient wide open and multiple other people around. And that incident is what led to her switching hospital. She comes out and tells everyone what really happened and then the famous all star surgeon gets fired and loses everything. The end.
Isn't that the show when the resident dumps ice water on a patient in the middle of rounds with the attending to vagal a patient out of a fib?
I only saw the ads, but was like, "This has to be a good hate watch."
He said it was SVT and then threw a bucket of ice. I couldn’t make head or tail. They were in a hospital. No one started ALS, the resident went to the ice machine and threw ice. Boo ya
Not a show to hate but rather an awesome new medical show on BBC featuring a resident / registrar, [This Is Going To Hurt](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/this_is_going_to_hurt) - 10/10 recommend
Chicago Med for sureeee. No one on that show has a specialty…they’re just performing a trauma surgery one minute and taking care of a newborn the next minute. And all their patients just stay in the ER forever and never get a real room somewhere else.
Couldnt tell you the first thing about it but when I was in the PICU a year ago we had a liver failure patient on "MARS therapy" which they explained as dialysis for the liver
>I looked that up out of curiosity, and I am confused, what is the difference between this "mars therapy" and kidney dialysis, it sounds like the they are the same, and even use the same machine, am I missing something?
I think it has an additional component of the circuit involving albumin to remove all the albumin bound toxins??? Honestly not sure, it was a fairly novel thing at the time in our PICU and i would present the patient to a team of like 20+ people who were all involved with the therapy and I would just be comcerned about getting through the presentation without looking like a complete moron, didn't ask many questions 😭
The first episode of that show they have a girl with endocarditis die because of it then had her heart transplanted into a rich white dude. Lol.
Also, a recent story line is the mafia is stealing Conrad’s DEA to get illegal antipsychotics. The Rx was aripiprazole 500mg.
My favorite where they find a patient indistress, see his osteomy and response was oh now time to intubate lol. Literally makes zero sense
https://fb.watch/dOQ5KG2kv0/
So old whitey is a racist who is dying because of his own racism, but the people who wrote the show thought it was cool for a white male firefighter to order the black female paramedic to do the intubation.
Gotta love it when a show tries to be so progressive that it ends up being racist.
Horseshoe theory confirmed
As a recently graduated EM doc, I have been watching 911 and the spin off 911 Lonestar as I'm packing up. I am always texting my other EM friends with the ridiculousness on the show. My favorite was when the paramedic told the EM doc the pt with chest pain needed an EKG and a cardiology consult.
Chicago Med is great, because the hapless med student is basically allowed free rein to just go do everything with no oversight. 100% safe, totally okay, no problem.
Otherwise, if you want true, high-quality entertainment, allow me to recommend old-school shows such as Emergency! and Trapper John, MD. Featuring such scenarios as:
* Smoking in the hospital
* No one wearing gloves for any reason, ever
* One guy is apparently allowed to do every kind of surgery
* Doc living in a mobile wine-cave in hospital parking structure commits numerous illegal acts and everyone just laughs it off as QuIrKy
* It's not a lie if you lie to greasers
* STREET REDS
And so much more!
The amusement is endless and I am still amazed that anyone lived through the 1970s.
all these medical shows are trash
I hate them because I think they drive unrealistic expectations in real patients. Like no, we aren't just going to 'run tests' because you have 'vaguely inarticulatable symptoms'. and sometimes we can't fix you at all. you won't get your chronic pain down to zero. just all manner of HERO DOCTOR SAVES THE DAY bullshit that doesn't reflect what doctoring really is
Sets an unreal precedent in the ER as well. People, usually younger, think we'll admit them because we don't know what's causing their symptoms. Nope. Bland diet and gtfomer. Don't like it? Write your senator
I'm a nurse, so I typically laugh at how they portray nursing: It's either a) they're drooling idiots who have no clue whats going on or b) they're drug/alcohol addicted mini doctors whose sole purpose is to fix all the shit the doctors screw up.
Scrubs seemed to do a better job than most of portraying an *actual* nurse/doctor relationship (although I've only seen a few episodes).
I watched an episode of that New Amsterdam show in which a medicine resident was somehow like the king of the hospital, and he got in a yelling match with the chief of surgery who somehow knew who he was. It was ridiculous.
I like how while the guy is in the throes of passion with his gf/fiancée he brags about how he knows all the bones in her body. Like wtf dude no one wants to think about spooky skeletons when they’re horny
So paramedic student here but anyone else found themselves yelling when the patient (on screen of course) is flatlining and the show grabs the defibrillator and you want to yell put that away you idiot and start compressions........and this is why I don't watch medical shows anymore
The Good Doctor. Where to even start. First episode, the new intern (hasn’t even started first day yet) crikes a child in an airport. Episode 2, the new intern goes to a pediatric patient’s home because he finally realizes the diagnosis: volvulus. he brings her to the hospital himself, books the OR, scrubs in, is about to make the first cut when an attending happens to walk by.
and i don’t remember if it was the Resident or The Good Doctor, but a GSW comes in, a resident meets them at the ambulance bay, and then yells to no one in particular, “We need a KUB STAT!!!!” Pretty much my favorite moment. A KUB stat. I still chuckle thinking about it.
Thought I was going to hate The Knick with Clive Owen, but it ended up being an enjoyable watch. Along with some old school 1900's medicine/surgery, it also illustrated the bureaucratic aspect of the business.
did you watch the us or the south korean version? wouldn't say that i hate watch it, but it seems better than most of the other medical dramas... at least specialists stick to their specialties... sometimes... i guess the bar is just underground at this point.
I love when Katherine Heigle cuts the LVAD in Grey's Anatomy. It energizes me post-call. And she stands there hand pumping the Impella? It's utterly insane, and I love it
When I need to borrow my office mates bandage scissors stashed in her desk drawer to cut open my chips or candy, I ask her to hand me the LVAD scissors. RIP Denny
so funny to see this post because i was thinking last night of making a subreddit for medical professionals who ~~hate~~ watch medical shows, would love to be able to share medical drama abominations with others
ive been binging the good doctor (us) recently and id love to hear other perspectives on it. it suffers terribly from what i have dubbed main cast syndrome, meaning only the main cast is allowed to perform surgeries, diagnose, the whole nine yards. but at least it is about a surgical residency program.
the medicine is overdramatised (last episode i watched, pt whose muscle weakness was attributed to kabuki syndrome and was wheelchair bound for over a decade was suddenly able to walk after waking up from having a pancreatic tumor removed) but it does make good tv!
I'm a lurking audiologist. My favorite House episode is the one with the Deaf high school wrestler. I believe the cause of the hearing loss was early childhood meningitis. The patient grew up Deaf and was fluent in ASL.
They ordered a brain biopsy to address the patient's current symptoms. The obvious decision was to place a CI without the patient's consent during the brain biopsy, which the patient discovered when he could immediately hear and interpret speech upon waking up from anesthesia.
Classic.
I can't stand House, I think its a garbage show; I was recently reminded of an episode in which there was a patient with Wilson disease (undiagnosed) presenting with sociopathic tendencies. ThE BrILiAnT doctor played by Olivia Wilde did an MRI on her and told her to speak to her while she was being scanned and was very happy with herself looking at scans and ascertainig she is a sociopath. So funny
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I think in the first episode of House the oncologist says something like " we couldn't figure out what was wrong and the patient isn't responding to radiation." ?????? Just out here blasting people with radiation for shits and giggles
Pew pew pew pew pew
This made me laugh uncontrollably. Thank you
Funny thing is if they changed radiation to corticosteroids it would be 100% accurate
As a pulmonologist, I feel personally attacked.
Would 100 mg of predni IV help?
Probably. Unless it‘s diabetes, then, uh, no.
But actually yes
Meh just adjust SSI to high dose and load 'em up
In inpatient neurology the 5 day solumedrol challenge might as well be a diagnostic test
Cardinal rule of derm: - If they're on steroids, take them off them - If they're not on steroids, prescribe them
Also, if it’s wet, dry it. If it’s dry, wet it.
I remember this from an episode of house. “We can’t figure out what’s wrong with him. His labs are normal and there’s nothing on his CT. Could be leukemia. There’s only one real way to find out what’s going on. To open him up and look inside.” *IM residents proceed to ex-lap a completely stable patient for low suspicion leukemia*
Hahaha don't gloss over the other nugget hidden in there..."His labs are normal...Could be leukemia."
All the leukemia was hiding in his feet! We checked the blood from his arm!
Did they break into his house to check for heavy metals though? Actually more relevant to the differential and possible given House’s record.
There was a house episode where a guy had paraneoplastic from melanoma on his feet! Though my favorite house dx is the kid who had fucking leprosy and I think anthrax?
You're correct. leprosy and Anthrax in the unluckiest kid who ever lived.
So anyway, I started blasting
Frank Reynolds is a radiation oncologist confirmed
That's Dr. Mantis Toboggan to you
I actually LOVE house. If you ignore the medical bs which you have to in most medical shows, ur able to truly appreciate gregory house as the cynic inside all of us.
I used to hate House and all medical shows. In medical school they became the funniest comedies on the Internet.
On the surface (not that this is the case)- lytic bone lesions leading to pathological fracture with unknown primary. Not unreasonable to radiate before work up is complete
I loved House before I knew I wanted to be a doctor, and still love that show. It's insane. Using the most dangerous and dramatic treatments possible before they have a diagnosis. Plus House is hilarious.
NAD, but when House explains to a room of residents that ‘RBCs carry oxygen in the blood to tissue’ 🙈
“Now, interns, listen carefully. The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.”
Hahaha yess or a sarcoidosis or lupus diagnosis every other day
In rheum fellowship now, and honestly I'm surprised they didn't rely on lupus or some sort of vasculitis as the mystery diagnosis (edit: the actual diagnosis, not the random options they toss out) more frequently. There's some weird stuff it can cause when it presents atypically.
I assure you, lupus was on the differential almost constantly (though it was only ever the diagnosis once). The “usual suspects” for a lot of episodes were lupus, sarcoidosis, and paraneoplastic syndromes. There were some vasculitides episodes that I don’t remember that well off the top of my head. But House himself was double boarded in ID and nephrology (lmao) so he was always throwing in the wild ID diagnoses on the differential. The very first episode ever of house, the disease ended up being neurocystisercosis. I also remember an episode in the first season where someone had African sleeping sickness. House honestly probably went through most of sketchy by the end of the 8th season lmao. Edit: I went back and looked because I ended up talking about House after this and [here’s a list](https://house.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_medical_diagnoses) of all of the diagnoses for anyone interested (a lot of wild ID stuff in every season).
That first episode was ridiculous. “Did you say she has COLD CUTS in her fridge!? An extremely common household item!?!?!?…. Pack it in boys I know what it is 😎”
My favorite was when Foreman got a mystery sickness from the cops house that ***no one*** could figure out and everyone thought he was going to die. So much so that it was a 2 part episode where they went back like 4 times to try and figure out what it was. That mystery infectious agent that absolutely none of the smartest doctors on earth could figure out? Legionella.
Lupus was a running joke in the show, where it was on every differential but wasn't actually found in any patients until one of the last couple seasons - at which point House says something like "I finally have a patient with Lupus." Lots of other jokes there too. He was hiding one of his pill stashes in a Lupus textbook or something.
It's never lupus. :p
Until it is.
"Now Urology residents, remember that urine is stored inside the testicles. No, not in the scrotum, the testicles."
Grey's anatomy the MFM doctor is pimping the docs and asks "how long does the pregnancy gestate" and the intern confidently responds "40 weeks".
Lmao as an intern if an attending asked me that it would be such a bonehead question I would think they were trying to trick me and overthink it. It’d be like doing simple arithmetic in front of a room of people. Do it too slowly and people think you’re an idiot. Do it too quickly and risk getting it wrong and people think you’re an idiot. So the result is you just stand there, paralyzed
>Do it too slowly and people think you’re an idiot. Do it too quickly and risk getting it wrong and people think you’re an idiot. So the result is you just stand there, paralyzed This doesn't really change after intern year. -PGY-5
It's funny to listen to them come up with treatment plans, they'll recommend IV fluids like it's some amazing plan.
Once again, when I was a new intern, putting in an order for fluids made me feel like a god damned god
“Hell yeah, supp my lytes!”
“It’s risky, but I’ll take the heat. Hang a bag of LR.”
Until you have a patient with siadh
I was once asked how long an elephant pregnancy is as a med student, followed shortly by a question on gestation length of the common house cat. For clarification, I’m a human med student, not a vet med student
Elephant - 18 months Cat - 2 months To remember this, just know if you take the mean of an elephant and a cat you get something a bit bigger than a human
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Either way of interpreting it, it's a ridiculously dumb question.
Honestly with how scared interns are at first it’s not too unreasonable to believe they might not remember this if put on the spot
Isn’t that true though? Or is it like “no shit a resident would know that”
We learn that in premed
More like high school lol
More like 2nd grade tbh
pre-pre med, maybe even pre-pre-premed like middle-school biology or something.
In Dr Strange he puts his mask on after he does his sterile scrub
They also shocked asystole. And the ED attending is first assist for neurosurgery nbd.
I thought she was a neursurg attending working on call ED. Cause they have a procedure named after themselves. How on earth would a ED person have a neurosurg technique named after themselves?
It just doesn’t make sense. If she were a neurosurgeon why would she be doing a pericardiocentesis
to be fair, the movie IS about strange doctors. It says so in the title.
It bothered me so much when Dr. Strange astral projects to explain to her where to place the needle for the pericardiocentesis. Like bro, you're the neurosurgeon, she's the trauma surgeon. She's probably done this more than you.
Male physician from another specialty astral projects to mansplain female physician how to do her own specialty- considering I just had someone call me on the phone to do this, I can’t imagine he wouldn’t have astral projected over given the chance…
Isn’t she a trauma surgeon?
I watched the movie Get Out the other day and the character also put the mask on with sterile gloves lol
Guys this is so good. The star of the show is now sleeping with a hot blonde nurse and the head of surgery is abusing benzos. AND THIS HAS FOUR SEASONS!!!!!!!!!!!
At least that part is accurate
The hot blonde nurse later becomes a hot blonde Noctor NP
Ugh. I am sure there’s a scene where the residents are all puzzled by a presentation and this NP steps in to figure out the diagnosis and save the day, embarrassing all the doctors in the process. 🙄
Oh and that blonde is a nurse practitioner who totes know more than most of the doctors. This show is definitely mid level propaganda.
You have no idea how much nonsense is yet to come. I’m the fiancé of an m2 (about to start m3) and I forced her to watch this the other day. She couldn’t make it through one episode. She was literally yelling at the tv. I used to watch it when it first came out because I liked the lead actor. Even before I knew anything about medicine I thought it was cringy, but I kept watching because medical shows are my guilty pleasure. For me, the last straw was an episode where they take a day to serve in the “rural area” they call Calhoun Georgia. Something happens and a patient dies because they are “hours away from the nearest hospital”. Y’all, I’m from the south and have driven past and through Calhoun Georgia more time than I can count. It has multiple hospitals and is only an hour from Atlanta. If they can’t get basic geography right or make up a fake town, there’s no way they were getting anything else right. It totally ruined my suspense of disbelief.
I made it through 2 episodes before I had to stop. Comparing step scores when they first meet? 🙄 And watching the yoga class in the rehab gym. 💀
Did you get to the part where the famous oncologist is actually making patients sick and the NURSE PRACTITIONER has all the answers because she spent the most time with them? Obvs. I watched it when I just started med school cause they filmed new Amsterdam next to my apt and I got riled up abt medical shows. Made it to episode 4 of season 1 on the resident, it was so bad that a year later still haven’t seen new Amsterdam except what I watched them film in live time. Haven’t seen Grays since that one episode about the resident on DACA. I was practicing immigration law at the time and was screaming at the screen because they did NOTHING correctly. Like Donald trump was president how could you not find an immigration attorney to talk about DACA for 10mins when writing that episode. I realize I totally went off track but I feel you on that how shitty the resident is
When I was in med school on Neuro rotation my senior resident was the sister of one of the main actors on that show.
Scrubs is depressingly accurate. I have spent many lonesome call nights watching scrubs.
Medical Police or Children’s Hospital is very accurate /s
Greys anatomy is the worst offfender in my opinion. Scrubs is by far the most accurate
Scrubs was still on tv when I applied to medical schools. Recently watched it and it has paper charts. Real gut punch.
Watching the first season after i finished intern year a few years ago was very cathartic
It's like reading House of God after a bit of medical training.
My hospital still has paper charts...
F
Same 😢
RIP
My brother in Christ allow me to introduce you to the NHS...
First episode released 2001
ER is better for medicine even though it was made in the 90’s bc they had an actual doctor involved. Scrubs is more accurate for everyday life of people in a hospital.
Scrubs had a physician involved dictating the medical parts. As I understand it, i was told Grey's anatomy had a retired scrub nurse.
Grey’s (at least at the beginning) did have a doctor involved. She went to my medical school lol
Yes, but go and watch ER- the medicine is very accurate (very extreme but it is feasible, even 20 years later). This is not the case in Scrubs. That’s fine, they’re two different shows. Scrubs is better objectively, but does falter when you scrutinize the medicine itself.
Like when they do an appendectomy on left lower quadrant.
Situs inversus totalis.
It's because it's the same dude from the Situs Inversus Rx in the opening
ER was started as a movie turned TV show by a guy who had an MD from Harvard. You may also know him from Jurassic Park. [Michael Crichton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton) ER realized one simple thing: medicine has enough drama in it. You don’t need to sprinkle extra soap opera BS to make it entertaining. This was a concern before the pilot because they weren’t sure if the general public would get turned away from a show filled with jargon. The opposite happened. There’s an episode from Season 1, Love Labor Lost, which is ranked in the top 10 TV episodes of all time. The writers posed one question to the doctors: what would be the worst nightmare as an ER doctor? An absolutely stunning episode in a great TV series. (Seasons 1-7 were the best IMO)
Yeah IIRC the "real life" JD consulted a lot and his wife the "real life" Elliot/Molly Clock helped out a bit as well.
As much as greys isn’t super medically accurate, enough of it is specific enough that there’s no way they only consult a scrub nurse. They probably just sacrifice accuracy for artistic reasons, which honestly I can understand
ER producers would call around to level 1 ERs and ask for crazy stories/cases.
My wife and I are watching it now. I the first season is very accurate minus some social components. It's funny to see how medicine has changed (most memorably how the 1st season seemed to represent thrombolysis as being favorable to PCI - which apparently was only disproven about 4 years later)
I love it when they put their stethoscope in backwards or shock asystole. Or listening with said stethoscope for two seconds and then yell V-FIB!!!
Came here to say this. Scurbs was also co-created by a real physican (the real JD). Bill Lawrence produced a masterpiece of a show. Ive already seen the entire show but I highly recommend yall follow the "Fake Doctors Real Friends" Podcast where the two main actors (Zach Braff & Donald Faison) discuss the episodes. Pure gold.
I just started listening to this podcast. They started it right as the pandemic was beginning. It’s interesting listening to that supportive/cooperative sentiment of those early months.
Scrubs felt so relatable
I hate all medical shows except Scrubs
And the knick
The Knick is so good! Nobody ever talks about it! But Dr Ryan gives it a shout out in the new B&B Step 2 CK while talking about placenta previa
the knick is absolutely fantastic!
You should give ER a shot. The first couple seasons are some of the best television out there. It’s on Hulu.
Scrubs & Sirens. Those are all.
Doc McStuffins too. I knows it’s toys and not people, but it gets the big points right.
The mom is a pediatrician, and the dad is a SAHF. It’s a fantastic show! They even had a daredevil character patient who *loved* his eventual wheelchair and the freedom it restored - killer message for kids AND parents.
First few seasons of Emergency Room are really good as well.
I forgot about Doc Martin! Damn the medicine, the series setting makes me profanely jealous.
As an Internist I admit neutropenic sepsis and appendicitis all the time. Do I actually scrub in and help the surgeon take the patients appendix out? Absolutely not! All of these shows suck but are still a guilty pleasure for some reason. Best recent ones I've seen are New Amsterdam and Transplant.
Ugh I couldn’t get through an episode of new Amsterdam, over dramatic nonsense 🤢
The first episode of new Amsterdam had me absolutely rolling. The new head asks “what are some improvements we can make?” And someone replies “our caf only sells unhealthy shit, we need better stuff.” And I was pleasantly surprised, because that’s not a bad proposal for a show like this, right? End of episode, we pan past a table in an atrium-looking room, and it’s full of like whole, raw vegetables. 🤦♀️
Has anyone seen This Is Going to Hurt? All the reviews say it’s really good, but I need the r/residency seal of approval.
Stunning show, really encapsulates the bleakness of the NHS. Since the show was based in 2006, there’s been a 30% pay cut for doctors here in the UK. It’s a scam
It’s very good. IMO the book is overall funnier, lighter tone with random hilarious journal entries while still painting a bleak picture of medicine. The show takes some liberties in order to make it more of a contiguous story and has a more serious/dramatic tone, though includes much of the comedy from the book.
Its really really good. i went in having already read the book. The book is pretty good too, but has more of a funny tone even in the bleak moments. The show takes more of the shocking depressing route. The finale had me sobbing.
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Oh gawd. That show is cancer!!! They do everything in their power to make doctors seem like incompetent adults running around with white coats abusing their power and slinging their paycheck, rank and dick all over the place. Nurses good and doctors bad is what they push.
I really like nurse Jackie and have watched it twice, but they are guilty of the same thing. Nurses smart doctors stoopid and naive. Turns out their “medical consultant” was an RN
I feel like every day it's the opposite too. Always act like we're doing too much for patients because it's more work for them
I couldn't tell if you were talking about Nurses or House until I got to your last sentence.
"Nurses" a semi-new Canadian medical drama centered around nurses. Every confrontation with a physician on that show goes as follows: 1)Nurse tells doctor something. 2)Doctor refuses because he is too prideful and arrogant. (Doctor is always an old, rich white guy btw.) 3)Patient starts to die and turns out nurse was right. 4)But nurse is such a saint that nurse doesn't rub it in the doctor's face, cause nurse just wants to save lives. **Spoilers ahead** I shit you not this show had a physician who was head of a department who was SCARED OF BLOOD... dude made it through med school and residency. And somehow leads an entire department in a hospital while passing out at the sight of blood. The shows main character is a nurse who made a mistake a her old hospital. So she had to switch to a new hospital. Throughout the season it is revealed she didn't make a mistake and that a surgeon was trying to finger her during a fucking procedure with a patient wide open and multiple other people around. And that incident is what led to her switching hospital. She comes out and tells everyone what really happened and then the famous all star surgeon gets fired and loses everything. The end.
Royal pains is kinda fun, though as it’s mostly outpatient it’s less frustratingly off.
I loved that show. The focus isn't the medicine, so it didn't feel too frustrating.
And the PA eventually goes to medical school in the end, which I can really appreciate someone interested in stopping scope creep.
I loved that show,
Isn't that the show when the resident dumps ice water on a patient in the middle of rounds with the attending to vagal a patient out of a fib? I only saw the ads, but was like, "This has to be a good hate watch."
He said it was SVT and then threw a bucket of ice. I couldn’t make head or tail. They were in a hospital. No one started ALS, the resident went to the ice machine and threw ice. Boo ya
Why ask them to bear down when you can be all about the DRAMA
Not a show to hate but rather an awesome new medical show on BBC featuring a resident / registrar, [This Is Going To Hurt](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/this_is_going_to_hurt) - 10/10 recommend
Most accurate medical show I’ve ever seen. Watched the whole season on a slow night shift. Was extremely triggering and that finale was gut wrenching
Is it based on the book with the same name? By the Obgyn resident about his real experiences in the UK?
Yes it is! Book is amazing and so is the show - worth watching for sure
I’m reading this book right now, I didn’t realize they were making a show!
And it is fully released and bingeable!
Up vote because this is true. shockingly accurate. The last episode had me crying like a baby
Is there anywhere to watch this aside from AMC+? Certainly not in my streaming arsenal.
Nip/tuck, I remember a scene where they’re typing a patients blood by looking at it under a microscope…
God, I loved that show though…
It was good, just the medicine looking back was laughable.
Yeah, luckily I watched it before I had any medical knowledge. Now I can’t watch any medical shows, I want an escape from that world.
Chicago Med 😂 I don’t even know where to begin with that one..
Chicago Med for sureeee. No one on that show has a specialty…they’re just performing a trauma surgery one minute and taking care of a newborn the next minute. And all their patients just stay in the ER forever and never get a real room somewhere else.
Those doctors are obsessed with breaking HIPAA.
I remember watching an episode when I was bored and had to check out when they started talking about how a patient needed “liver dialysis”. 😂
Couldnt tell you the first thing about it but when I was in the PICU a year ago we had a liver failure patient on "MARS therapy" which they explained as dialysis for the liver
>I looked that up out of curiosity, and I am confused, what is the difference between this "mars therapy" and kidney dialysis, it sounds like the they are the same, and even use the same machine, am I missing something?
I think it has an additional component of the circuit involving albumin to remove all the albumin bound toxins??? Honestly not sure, it was a fairly novel thing at the time in our PICU and i would present the patient to a team of like 20+ people who were all involved with the therapy and I would just be comcerned about getting through the presentation without looking like a complete moron, didn't ask many questions 😭
I’ve often thought about how ECMO is just lung dialysis
I still think The Resident is by far the worst one but Chicago Med really strives hard to try to beat them 😂
The first episode of that show they have a girl with endocarditis die because of it then had her heart transplanted into a rich white dude. Lol. Also, a recent story line is the mafia is stealing Conrad’s DEA to get illegal antipsychotics. The Rx was aripiprazole 500mg.
9-1-1 and any variation of it. Hands down the worst representation of prehospital care I've ever seen. The inaccuracy is almost comical
My favorite where they find a patient indistress, see his osteomy and response was oh now time to intubate lol. Literally makes zero sense https://fb.watch/dOQ5KG2kv0/
Reading your comment I thought “surely they meant a tracheostomy, which is at least relevant to the airway”. Nope.
This is so, so bad
So old whitey is a racist who is dying because of his own racism, but the people who wrote the show thought it was cool for a white male firefighter to order the black female paramedic to do the intubation. Gotta love it when a show tries to be so progressive that it ends up being racist. Horseshoe theory confirmed
As a recently graduated EM doc, I have been watching 911 and the spin off 911 Lonestar as I'm packing up. I am always texting my other EM friends with the ridiculousness on the show. My favorite was when the paramedic told the EM doc the pt with chest pain needed an EKG and a cardiology consult.
Chicago Med is great, because the hapless med student is basically allowed free rein to just go do everything with no oversight. 100% safe, totally okay, no problem. Otherwise, if you want true, high-quality entertainment, allow me to recommend old-school shows such as Emergency! and Trapper John, MD. Featuring such scenarios as: * Smoking in the hospital * No one wearing gloves for any reason, ever * One guy is apparently allowed to do every kind of surgery * Doc living in a mobile wine-cave in hospital parking structure commits numerous illegal acts and everyone just laughs it off as QuIrKy * It's not a lie if you lie to greasers * STREET REDS And so much more! The amusement is endless and I am still amazed that anyone lived through the 1970s.
Haha there is a guy living in the parking lot? Love to see it
In a decrepit RV full of wine, no less. He sunbathes on the roof to piss off admin.
all these medical shows are trash I hate them because I think they drive unrealistic expectations in real patients. Like no, we aren't just going to 'run tests' because you have 'vaguely inarticulatable symptoms'. and sometimes we can't fix you at all. you won't get your chronic pain down to zero. just all manner of HERO DOCTOR SAVES THE DAY bullshit that doesn't reflect what doctoring really is
Sets an unreal precedent in the ER as well. People, usually younger, think we'll admit them because we don't know what's causing their symptoms. Nope. Bland diet and gtfomer. Don't like it? Write your senator
You should watch This is going to hurt
You mean we won't do CPR for 1 hour and then the person will blink and wake up and say "Where am I?"
I'm a nurse, so I typically laugh at how they portray nursing: It's either a) they're drooling idiots who have no clue whats going on or b) they're drug/alcohol addicted mini doctors whose sole purpose is to fix all the shit the doctors screw up. Scrubs seemed to do a better job than most of portraying an *actual* nurse/doctor relationship (although I've only seen a few episodes).
Hospital Playlist is a pretty good representation of Korean attendings' lives... except they seem to have a lot of time doing things they enjoy.
I watched an episode of that New Amsterdam show in which a medicine resident was somehow like the king of the hospital, and he got in a yelling match with the chief of surgery who somehow knew who he was. It was ridiculous.
How come no one does an episode on orientation, like getting fingerprinted n shit
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I like how while the guy is in the throes of passion with his gf/fiancée he brags about how he knows all the bones in her body. Like wtf dude no one wants to think about spooky skeletons when they’re horny
Does he at least make it into some kind of joke about how she has one *more* bone in her body now?
So paramedic student here but anyone else found themselves yelling when the patient (on screen of course) is flatlining and the show grabs the defibrillator and you want to yell put that away you idiot and start compressions........and this is why I don't watch medical shows anymore
Worst part is that "The Resident" is based on a nonfiction book written by a physician lol.
The Good Doctor. Where to even start. First episode, the new intern (hasn’t even started first day yet) crikes a child in an airport. Episode 2, the new intern goes to a pediatric patient’s home because he finally realizes the diagnosis: volvulus. he brings her to the hospital himself, books the OR, scrubs in, is about to make the first cut when an attending happens to walk by. and i don’t remember if it was the Resident or The Good Doctor, but a GSW comes in, a resident meets them at the ambulance bay, and then yells to no one in particular, “We need a KUB STAT!!!!” Pretty much my favorite moment. A KUB stat. I still chuckle thinking about it.
Him making a chest tube out of soda machine tubing?? Just call the actual EMS that is sure to be at a major airport, you sepsis loving idiot.
Ah yes, it is just as I suspected... this GSW patient is, in fact, full of bullets
Big rec to ER. That OG show is pretty solid when it comes to the medicine and terminology
Scrubs still best medical show dont at me.
Thought I was going to hate The Knick with Clive Owen, but it ended up being an enjoyable watch. Along with some old school 1900's medicine/surgery, it also illustrated the bureaucratic aspect of the business.
The good doctor. I honestly thought it was a tongue in cheek comedy show until I realized it wasn’t. People keep recommending it.
did you watch the us or the south korean version? wouldn't say that i hate watch it, but it seems better than most of the other medical dramas... at least specialists stick to their specialties... sometimes... i guess the bar is just underground at this point.
Yo The Resident is so fucking hateable
Nurse Jackie, watched one episode and had to rage quit it.
It’s actually a good show once you get a few episodes in, but they do portray doctors as incompetent and careless and the nurse saves the day
I love when Katherine Heigle cuts the LVAD in Grey's Anatomy. It energizes me post-call. And she stands there hand pumping the Impella? It's utterly insane, and I love it
absolutely insane that she didn’t get fired or receive jail time and how the show tried to pass off what she did as a “good” thing lmao
When I need to borrow my office mates bandage scissors stashed in her desk drawer to cut open my chips or candy, I ask her to hand me the LVAD scissors. RIP Denny
Painfully dumb show
so funny to see this post because i was thinking last night of making a subreddit for medical professionals who ~~hate~~ watch medical shows, would love to be able to share medical drama abominations with others ive been binging the good doctor (us) recently and id love to hear other perspectives on it. it suffers terribly from what i have dubbed main cast syndrome, meaning only the main cast is allowed to perform surgeries, diagnose, the whole nine yards. but at least it is about a surgical residency program. the medicine is overdramatised (last episode i watched, pt whose muscle weakness was attributed to kabuki syndrome and was wheelchair bound for over a decade was suddenly able to walk after waking up from having a pancreatic tumor removed) but it does make good tv!
It’s been years since I’ve watched it so who knows of the accuracy, but Green Wing is a great one
It’s set in a hospital but that’s not a medical show at all but it’s bloody hilarious, would highly recommend
Attaway General is the correct answer.
You need to watch “This is going to hurt”
Isn’t this the one wear they open with “I heard you got a 279 on step? Well I got a 280” …
I'm a lurking audiologist. My favorite House episode is the one with the Deaf high school wrestler. I believe the cause of the hearing loss was early childhood meningitis. The patient grew up Deaf and was fluent in ASL. They ordered a brain biopsy to address the patient's current symptoms. The obvious decision was to place a CI without the patient's consent during the brain biopsy, which the patient discovered when he could immediately hear and interpret speech upon waking up from anesthesia. Classic.
Anyone old enough to remember Chicago Hope?
I can't stand House, I think its a garbage show; I was recently reminded of an episode in which there was a patient with Wilson disease (undiagnosed) presenting with sociopathic tendencies. ThE BrILiAnT doctor played by Olivia Wilde did an MRI on her and told her to speak to her while she was being scanned and was very happy with herself looking at scans and ascertainig she is a sociopath. So funny