Okay, so I'm very new to this forum and I'm starting my nursing education. And I'm SURE (like 100% positive) that this has been discussed here before (probably many times), but how does the show ER portray what happens in a real ER where you all work?
Again, I'm sure this has been discussed before so if you know what page it's on or whatever, just steer me in the right direction. I would search for "ER" but you know... umm... I think I'd find a lot of results that way.
Thanks!
BTW... I am considering going into the ER specialty.
At one of my previous jobs, I told my neighbor (we lived in an apartment building) where I worked, and he went "EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!" I wondered what he meant by that, and it turned out he had never set foot in a hospital for any reason since he was discharged as a newborn, and he thought that the whole inside of the building looked like the TV show "ER"! I told him, "No, the ER looks like ER, and then not even most of the time. Usually, it looks more like your doctor's office."
This was in Sioux City, and when that plane crash happened in 1989, everyone said that it did indeed look like "ER" but that was definitely an exception, and not an experience anyone would want to go through again. I worked there a few years later.
I liked Dr. Greene. I liked the "tension" between Dr. Carter and his 'mentor' Dr. Benton [an under-rated character IMO].
Then I kinda quit watching it regularly after the first 2-3 seasons. I'd watch it if I was flipping channels and it came on - but IMO the show had become repetitive. They tried to spice it up with the docs travelling to Africa - and I'm 50-50 about that. I liked seeing 'the dark side' of Luka but a lot of the other stuff was a little too far-fetched.
As far as medical "dramas" (note I didn't use the word "show") go, I think it lived up to it's name. It was pretty fantastic - but it was supposed to be fantasy, right?
Of course, as an ED/ER nurse - I am weary of all those folks who look at that show and think that real life ER is like the show ... be it the "miracles of resuscitology", the "quick and speedy care" or "sex every other week in every other room"...
But for entertainment wise, it wasn't half bad [the earlier seasons. The later ones were ridiculous].
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At one of my previous jobs, I told my neighbor (we lived in an apartment building) where I worked, and he went "EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!" I wondered what he meant by that, and it turned out he had never set foot in a hospital for any reason since he was discharged as a newborn, and he thought that the whole inside of the building looked like the TV show "ER"! I told him, "No, the ER looks like ER, and then not even most of the time. Usually, it looks more like your doctor's office."
This was in Sioux City, and when that plane crash happened in 1989, everyone said that it did indeed look like "ER" but that was definitely an exception, and not an experience anyone would want to go through again. I worked there a few years later.