1/29/18
I think I’ve mentioned before that I do not watch TV doctor-shows. Because the shows are so ridiculously unreal.
They, those responsible for the show’s existence, take a subject that is otherwise entertaining, good, shocking, and a lot of other adjectives thrown in for good measure, and they apply their license. Literary license, that oft sought after quality of lying. As is often said, the only truth is that everybody lies (I specifically did not reference House for this quote because House is not the origin of this saying).
Some of the ones that I am acquainted with include The Doctor, Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, Marcus Welby, MD, M*A*S*H and MASH (yes they are different), Doogie Howser, MD, St. Elsewhere, House, The Resident. There are many, many others. The one thing that they all have in common is fiction. There isn’t an ounce of truth in any of them. They stage sanitized scenes, use actors, write scripts with sanitized language, and add drama. They have to or they wouldn’t have an audience of 1.
I was recently introduced to a new, social media version of TV doctor-show. ZDoggMD. I’ll give you 2 links to his work that I did watch and enjoy. One for entertainment (1) and the other to illustrate what I’m trying to convey here without my having to actually watch one of the above-mentioned pieces of crap (2). I only qualify this with the following.
ZDogg does a pretty good job of critiquing The Resident (I’ve never seen the show BTW), he just doesn’t go far enough and actually gives checks (his metaphor for “that’s OK” as opposed to an X for “that’s a fail”) where I would not.
But the times, they do change. I watched a few ZDogg YouTube productions and laughed my ass off.
Your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave’s 35 years of experience in The Reality Medical Show.
Weary
1. A lot like sepsis, an entertaining spoof of It’s starting to look A Lot Like Christmas; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6q5FGoaxg8
2. A real doctor watches The Resident, a critique of the newest doctor show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRzLXH52Vr4