Hospital shows! The patient is in bed but the side rails are down; or the patient is this close to death but has no tubes or lines; or they cardiac arrest and are awake and responsive moments later after a successful resuscitation attempt. And nurses are always portrayed as either ditzy and scatter-brained, in relationships with the doctors, or Nurse Ratched. We're really not like that! We're not mean, or dumb, or looking to pair up with the nearest doc. And the way the interns overlap with the attendings on Grey's Anatomy -- doesn't happen that way in a real teaching hospital. They're not on obstetrics service one day and neurosurgery the next. I liked Grey's Anatomy when it first came on and the patient situations were interesting (remember the "pregnant" man?) but now I don't watch it because the portrayal is so inaccurate.
Edited to add: And they can get DNA and pathology reports back in a matter of minutes. Doesn't happen that way! Path reports take a couple of days.
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