Do you enjoy TV surgical/medical shows?

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I will be starting the nursing program in May, and I wonder if other students or nurses can tell me if they enjoy watching medical and surgical shows or not? I love watching them all! Will I grow to dislike them once clinicals start or after I become a nurse? What was your experience?

Thanks for the input!

http://www.or-live.com/

Here is a link where you can watch live surgeries! I love it. I watch all types of medical shows on TLC Discovery Health Channel etc.

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http://www.or-live.com/

Here is a link where you can watch live surgeries! I love it. I watch all types of medical shows on TLC Discovery Health Channel etc.

Great Link! Thanks!

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Specializes in A myriad of specialties.

I used to faithfully watch ER years ago but stopped in 1998 when we lost our granddaughter(to whom we were very close so she was more like a daughter); I just could not bear to watch any medical shows. During the past year I've been watching "House" and really enjoy it...except when there are medical situations dealing with children then I'll turn it off.

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Great Link! Thanks!

Yeah it's great. I also forgot to mention, while watching a live surgery you can email the Dr. your questions and they will answer them for you. Pretty cool.

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Specializes in ICU, CVICU.

I love to watch Scrubs because it is funny (and actually more realistic then some of the other shows) and House....but I try to stay away from Gray's and ER. I had a nursing professor tell me one "I LIVE that drama all day- why do I want to watch it when I get home?". I know exactly what she means!!!

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Specializes in ICU, L&D, Home Health.
Yep....some non-nurses still argue with me that you shock a patient in asystole

Have you ever noticed that no matter what show it is, they always seem to shock someone in asystole?

I don't watch medical shows myself- it drives my husband insane when I start complaining about the medical residents on House taking patients to the bathroom and giving IV meds...That hospital must have quite the nursing shortage...

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Well, you can shock asystole. You shouldn't because it won't do squat, but you can do it..........:rotfl:

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

LOVE Grey's anatomy, and sometimes it's very hard for me to bite my tongue so that other people don't get super annoyed with me. Doctors starting an IV? yeah ok. Only docs run in to give CPR. "She's not breathing!" so they pound on the chest... The (only) nurse is kinda portrayed in a promiscuous manner. Other than that, the show is great, though farfetched at times. My boyfriend can't really handle anything medically graphic, so he loves this show too. Other shows that I really like are on Discovery Health and TLC. They are much more real to life, and especially with Mystery Diagnosis, I try to listen to the complaints of the pt and essentially play "guess the diagnosis before they tell it" and have been right quite a few times.

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Specializes in 6 years of ER fun, med/surg, blah, blah.

I have no patience for any of the medical TV shows, except for the reinactments of real events. Those are interesting. The rest are just ludicrous.:barf01:

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Have you ever noticed that no matter what show it is, they always seem to shock someone in asystole?

I don't watch medical shows myself- it drives my husband insane when I start complaining about the medical residents on House taking patients to the bathroom and giving IV meds...That hospital must have quite the nursing shortage...

On Greys Anatomy, they shock in asystole a lot as well - and it's funny because they just INSTANTLY shock them without any IV meds pushed or CPR - and they are revived.

If the patient is in V-Fib or something, the doctor just runs and in yells "PUSH AN EPI!" and doesn't give the dosage amount or anything... lets push 50mg of epi! Well, she never told us how much to push so no wonder he died!

Thats another pet-peeve of mine on TV shows.

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Specializes in ICU, L&D, Home Health.
Well, you can shock asystole. You shouldn't because it won't do squat, but you can do it..........:rotfl:

LOL! I guess that's true...:chuckle

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Specializes in Level III cardiac/telemetry.

i just laughed when on Gray's Anatomy last week Izzy shows up in the pt room with a phlebotomy kit and said she needed to draw some labs. WHAT? I've never seen a doc stick one of my patients. Heck, most of them hit the emergency staff assist when they're in a pt's room and they need to go to the bathroom! I always LOVE to do a little educating on that! Me: "the staff assist is to be used only for emergencies Dr.X." Dr: "This is an emergency, she says she needs to urinate." :nono:

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