So... How real is the show ER?

I kinda wish it was like "ER"... it would be more exciting!

I would have to agree with the the other post. Working in the ER is NOTHING like the show. The techs do alot of the stuff and the nurses do alot of the stuff and the Dr. wait to see what the nurse tells them. The Dr's really don't do alot of pt care at all. Most of the time the ER is really boaring, and you get alot of repeat offenders (that is, people that come in all the time for non- emergency matters). Even the shows on Discovery Health depicting trauma in the ER, we had one come to the ER that I worked and they were there for a month and they only showed an hr of Trauma that was gathered over a month. If you want alot of trauma you should work at a level one trauma hospital. even then its still not like ER on TV. Oh and not everyone that works in the ER is good looking.

Ya gotta admit, thought, that TV shows have come a long way from the standard medical show (dating myself here) that usually had several doctor stars and one nurse star. That lone nurse functioned in every single department of the hospital...if you were having a baby, she coached you through labor! If you were having a heart transplant, why there she was! And if, god forbid, you were dying, she was at your bedside 24/7. My idea of nursing when I was growing up was a band of attractive blondes, roaming the hospital and performing all these heroic deeds.

Ha ha! Nurse Fembot! At least nurses were doing something on the older shows ...

Only episode of Greys Anatomy I watched with my wife was the one where they shocked the dear in the back of a pickup...after that I've never seen it again (and don't care to). House drives me crazy too...what IM doctor does CT's and MRI's...

I haven't watched ER since "Dr Ross" left...lol

Yep, same here! Another thing that annoyed me about ER was that "Nurse Hathaway," who was a prominent nurse character in the show, wanted to be a doctor. But of course, right?! LOL! Don't all nurses want to be doctors? (That's sarcasm, in case anyone missed it. )

I work in a level I Trauma center and the nurses here do A LOT. our doctors are great and there is a lot of team work. i love it here and i will admit that watching ER before nursing school did have something to do with me wanting to work here.
i wouldn't want to be a doctor for anything. besides, i can change fields if i want to someday (oncology or homecare for example).
there are repeat patients and some of it does get routine, but then a good code comes in and it's great.

I was always amused by the MD's moving patients over from ambulance stretchers on ER. I have been working on an ambulance since 1990, I have met one doc in that time that did that (and does so quite frequently) but he moved up from EMT-P to DO.

The first season of ER was pretty good, but it went downhill.

I have stopped myself so many times from yelling oh my gawd this is nothing like ER just to see everyone's head spin off. HAHA.