Just a little more realistic....

realmedicine · 03-26-2007, 02:02 PM

The show is great, the acting is wonderful and I'm always amazed at how many plots and surprises appear between the 8 main characters each week. My one critiscim - SURGICAL INTERNS DON'T CRACK OPEN PEOPLES' HEADS OR HEARTS!!! I work in a surgery department with residents, attendings and interns. The residents are the only (and attendings, of course) ones that are even capable of the procedures these interns - Izzy, George, Christine, etc. are doing. And even then, surgery residents don't do these complicated procedures (well, most of them would never happen...) until after at least TWO YEARS of surgery residency. The writer needs to bump these interns up to residents. The surgery internship is typically ONE YEAR - the show has been on for 3 years...unless it's all one year??? Interns basically do the scut work and the work that the residents don't want to do. I understand these are not even real doctors, but c'mon.... Some of my residents would love to be 'de-moted' back down to an intern if they could do any of these (unrealistic) surgeries!

ANTMLOVE · 03-29-2007, 11:09 PM

kay you make a very good point. But lets be honest. imagine a greys anatomy with out these amazing interns doing dramatic surgerys. In my opinion its so great cause it has so many factors that are unrealistic.

realmedicine · 04-19-2007, 01:39 PM

Yes, perhaps I was overreacting to the world of fictional medical television.

03-26-2007, 02:02 PM	#1
realmedicine Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 3	Just a little more realistic.... The show is great, the acting is wonderful and I'm always amazed at how many plots and surprises appear between the 8 main characters each week. My one critiscim - SURGICAL INTERNS DON'T CRACK OPEN PEOPLES' HEADS OR HEARTS!!! I work in a surgery department with residents, attendings and interns. The residents are the only (and attendings, of course) ones that are even capable of the procedures these interns - Izzy, George, Christine, etc. are doing. And even then, surgery residents don't do these complicated procedures (well, most of them would never happen...) until after at least TWO YEARS of surgery residency. The writer needs to bump these interns up to residents. The surgery internship is typically ONE YEAR - the show has been on for 3 years...unless it's all one year??? Interns basically do the scut work and the work that the residents don't want to do. I understand these are not even real doctors, but c'mon.... Some of my residents would love to be 'de-moted' back down to an intern if they could do any of these (unrealistic) surgeries!

03-29-2007, 11:09 PM	#2
ANTMLOVE Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 4	ha kay you make a very good point. But lets be honest. imagine a greys anatomy with out these amazing interns doing dramatic surgerys. In my opinion its so great cause it has so many factors that are unrealistic.

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04-19-2007, 01:39 PM	#3
realmedicine Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 3	Yes, perhaps I was overreacting to the world of fictional medical television.