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Medical dramas such as ER, Grey's Anatomy, House M.D., and Scrubs offer great entertainment. However, they don't always offer the most accurate portrayal of a doctor's working life. See if you can guess which shows inspired the following observations. • Despite a 60-hour workweek,
you will still have plenty of time for drinking,
socializing, romance, heartbreak, and other personal
dramas.
• Doctors only date and
befriend other doctors, and never interact with
anyone who is not a patient, coworker, or family
member.
• Struggling with a difficult
diagnosis or personal dilemma? Pay close attention
to everything your patients say or do, because
one of them will inevitably (albeit accidentally)
help you resolve the problem.
• Workplace elevators
make great kissing booths.
• The on call room is
primarily used for staff members' romantic trysts.
• It's better to have
a lovers' quarrel in the hospital waiting room
than in the privacy of your own home.
• It's OK to confide
your romantic woes and personal problems to your
patients, because they will always respond with
insightful advice and will never complain about
your lack of professionalism.
• All of your personal
scandals will immediately become public knowledge
around the hospital.
• Telling people that
you're a doctor automatically makes them trust
you.
• Patients who have a
mysterious illness will always suffer a heart attack,
stroke, or respiratory arrest before they can be
correctly diagnosed.
• Patients who are annoying,
immoral, promiscuous, have a criminal record, or
are otherwise not sympathetic characters have a
higher risk of death.
• It's not necessary
to diagnose the patient before starting treatment.
• If anybody in your
family has a medical problem, they will invariably
arrive at your hospital during your shift.
• Heaping witty insults
on your patients will not get you out of clinic
duty.
• Despite safety precautions,
one staff member will inevitably catch a life-threatening
illness from a patient and need to be quarantined.
• It's OK to break into
patients' homes in order to identify the cause
of their illness.
• You can set up an apartment
in the hospital basement and live there for years
without attracting anyone's attention.
• Breaking hospital rules,
safety codes, and the law will not end your medical
career.
• Within a year, you
may encounter the black plague, candiru (a parasitic
fish that can become lodged in a person's urethra),
a woman with two uteruses (uterus didelphys), and
other rare medical conditions. For some interesting
reading, check out WebMD's
TV
Checkup blog, which evaluates the credibility
of the medical scenarios presented on popular TV
shows.
• Train wrecks, ferry
boat accidents, terrorist attacks, and natural
disasters tend to occur during TV sweeps week.
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