Greys Anatomy vs Reality

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I've been binge-watching Greys Anatomy over lockdown. Its a great escae from real life, with all the beautiful, intelligent, kind people. The romance, the drama, the near-misses. Ah, wonderful TV that sorta makes me wish I had gone to Med School and flourished into a brilliant surgeon.

So, would any real medically trained staff/ medical facility employees care to wade in and show me the light? If you've ever watched G.A, what are the glaring differences that you wish people would know? What is life really like as a surgeon, or a nurse, or a GP etc? Are there any similarities?

This is an interesting study about it- www.ahchealthenews.com/2019/01/17/just-realistic-greys-anatomy/

on you tube have a look at Dr Mike as he does react videos to all the medical shows and describes what's realistic and what isn't. Apparently Scrubs is the most realistic haha

I’m just rewatching the whole thing too, I love it even more the second time round.

Having spent a lot of time in hospitals (admittedly uk) I cannot imagine it is anywhere near the truth. Although my dads surgeon was rather Mark Sloane

My daughter is a big Grey's fan,so was I until a certain point I won't mention
So I get to watch it with her and spend a lot of time wondering how the whole childcare thing works? Alternatively if the childcare as easy as it appears to be,how does the " both parents have full on careers as heads of their respective departments" work?
Not a nanny or grandparent in sight...

They seem to have 24 hour childcare on tap in the hospital that they can just drop their kids off at whenever they fancy? Is that realistic?

I love grays !

When I first joined Facebook there was a group where medics talked/ laughed about all the unrealistic bits of greys. I remember a lot of chat about how real scrubs never fit female doctors that well!! There was also a lot of incredulity about Izzy managed to keep her job after the whole LVAD thing.

I'm watching it for the first time...

Yesterday Karev just wandered into the daycare to speak to Bailey

They speak A LOT about personal stuff at the end of patients' beds - I've never experienced medical staff chatting to each other when attending to someone.

Who changes the on-call room beds?

Well the main character has died about 5 times so its obviously not meant to be that realistic. Fatal plane crash, death from hyperthermia, nearly killed by a bomb, attacked by a gunman... I'm sure I've forgotten some. Its perhaps not the best thing to binge watch as it does get more and more ridiculous. So did ER at the end with multiple helicopter crashes I guess but I saw that live on TV so didn't feel quite so bad at the time.

The multiple appearing half sisters are not that realistic either. Once maybe, but not twice. And why is Lexi's other sister never in it again after first being the way that they meet? Also a really high % of women in Seattle are gay. (Men, not so much.)

The medical stuff is just fluff really isn't it. Sometimes they do amazing surgery, and then two series later appear to get the same problem and have no clue what to do. Also, the random sudden writings out of people are annoying. Writing out Kerev in that way was shit and unrealistic. But then Izzie flounced off the series as well so maybe they deserve each other...

I think having watched both in lockdown that I prefer New Amsterdam. But its really hard not to think of the British woman being in Dr Who. A patient dies and you expect a blue box to appear so they can go back in time and make it all better.

Oh and they are all having sex in the on call rooms and never locking the doors. And then are surprised when someone always walks in. LOCK THE DOOR!

I am a huge fan of ER, Greys and New Amsterdam but they are nothing like the real thing! It is impossible to look glamorous at 4am in the middle of a 7 night run when you vomit because you are so tired.
In Greys they never really seem that stressed or busy and that poor Bokhee, the Chinese scrub nurse who is at every operation! The woman never gets a day off! Any baby that is delivered is approx 6 - 8 weeks older than it should be. Scrubs never ever fit like that; you are lucky to get a top and bottom that are the same colour.