Unrealistic steriotypes of medicine on TV

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I'm doing my pre-reqs for Nursing school, and I'm taking English Comp. My instructor gave several possible themes for our second essay, and I chose "Unrealistic steriotypes of medicine on TV" since I felt I could benifit from the information. My problem is, since I've never worked in the medical feild I'm having a hard time getting started. So, if anyone would post some examples of things you have seen on tv that drove you crazy, or made you want to throw things; it would help me greatly!

Have a Great Day!

Chancie

Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.
The only reason i watch "Scrubs" is to get my Zach Braff fix. :)

Same here.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Infection Control.
When ER first came out, my husband grabbed the clicker and shut it off. "You're NOT at work!" he lambasted as I screamed "you DON'T SHOCK a flat line" and then talked about it through a good portion of the show.

Now I change the channel and have not watched a single hospital show, it drives me NUTS:trout:, the hubby too. I'm officially cut off!

Me too, I am banned by the hubbie from screaming out a nasal cannula does NOT make a ventilator sound and other such screams - - - I couldn't stand the way they gave injections in the ELBOW and in 1 second flat the patient was COMPLETLY ON THE CEILING. I WANTED that drug SO BAD some days for some patients that REALLY, REALLY deserved it!!! How about you?

Of course he is not allowed to scream out that's a RUSSIAN/GERMANS/etc tank and their fighting the RUSSIANS/GERMANS/etc. NO MORE army movies for him!

:welcome:

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Infection Control.
The only show I watch is SCRUBBS which is obviously a comedy. I've been getting it though Netflix and will watch a bunch of them in a row. I guess a comedy doesn't have to be accurate, but these last episode had Elliot intubating a pt with no one else in the room, with an ambubag not hooked up to O2, with no nurse assisting with anything. Also, Carla is supposedly the charge nurse of one unit, but she appears in any unit where the doctors are having an issue such as peds, surgery, icu, etc. Also, I just watched a show where they walk into the janitor's breakroom and they are all white guys, no women, no minorities. They must be trying to go opposite of the stereotype there for comedic effect.

AGES ago there was a show called ER (NO NOT the one that's popular NOW!). But the nurse in charge was pleasantly plump and her hubbie sang a song about "Love Handles" and was from the start a comedy - it poled funny at ALL hospital workers and the same nutso patients pts we see enter OUR ER's. Does anyone else remember this show? It was a BLAST!

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.
Me too, I am banned by the hubbie from screaming out a nasal cannula does NOT make a ventilator sound and other such screams - - - I couldn't stand the way they gave injections in the ELBOW and in 1 second flat the patient was COMPLETLY ON THE CEILING. I WANTED that drug SO BAD some days for some patients that REALLY, REALLY deserved it!!! How about you?

Of course he is not allowed to scream out that's a RUSSIAN/GERMANS/etc tank and their fighting the RUSSIANS/GERMANS/etc. NO MORE army movies for him!

:welcome:

HA! Welcome to MY world...!!!

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