Could someone please explain Scrubs to me

[Peabody]

I realise I am rather behind everyone else on this, but I have lately started watching Scrubs. It's good but I just don't understand the set-up.

What ward are they in? They seem to have cancer patients one day and hernia patients the next.

How is Turk a surgeon? From my very limited knowledge of the NHS I would expect it to go something like medical student, intern, trainee doctor, doctor, registrar, consultant-surgeon. Aren't surgeons highly qualified people who know more than doctors? I have just watched an episode where everyone was mocking Turk for being a stupid surgeon who doesn't know medicine like a real doctor, and I just don't get it at all. Also, what is his speciality?

I suppose I am either reading too much into all this, or else in America medicine is really different to Britain...

pea, it's not real, love

They started as interns, about 10 years ago! they were kept as interns for a while, but to be honest, the writers had to move it along a bit as all the actors were clearly in their mid 30s and all the white panstick in the world couldn't disguise the fact that the actress playing Elliot is not 22.

Glad to hear it's ok to perv over Dr Cox.

I guess I'm more used to House where the set-up vaguely ressembles a real hospital.

I will willingly suspend all my disbelief.

You know that Harry Potter series of films?

There arn't really any wizarding schools in some odd section of England service by platform 9 3/4

it is on now, as we speak

Elliots current bf is hot, although I love John the best

he is a doofus but I bet he flies in the sack

Dr Cox just said he is writing John a prescription for two testicles...

brilliant !

I like the musical episode when they are all singing. Its lovely.
[soppy caaaww]

LOL!

To answer your question seriously Pea, I think that they veer off into 2 distinct specialtys, i.e. Medical and Surgical. So they are 2 different types of medic albeit at the same grade iyswim.

Or, ignore this bit and just laugfh at the Janitor, or Dr Coxs wife (a mumsnetter if I ever saw one).

funny and touching without being typically US mawkish

love it

I love Scrubs. The humour is just perfect.

Am I the only one who thinks Glee has the same kind of offbeat/near- offensive yet utterly charming type of humour?
First time I saw Glee I thought it was Scrubs in high school.

haven't seen Glee

it seems a bit too "teenage" for me

It's not actually.

I thought it would be too until I started watching it.

don't they burst into song every 5 minutes though ?

I would find that highly irritating

ooh anyfucker - you should try it.
It is surface goody two shoes but not really.
Like school counsellor catches lead girl trying to throw up , lead girl complains she is so useless she can't even be bulimic as she has no gag reflex.
" Nevermind, you'll find that a blessing when you are older"

Only off the top of my head so not the best quip but it is charming and subversive which is not easy to pull.
Try three episodes - you will love it or hate it . The first is the most cheesy

lol @ the gag reflex thing

my dd watches that programme, and that comment would have gone whooosh right over her head (thankfully)

Oh I love it. Yes, they started as interns in the intensive care type ward- i.e. the admissions not casualty - I think. That is why the deal with all sorts. And some started as medical some as surgeons etc. I think it is all about specialisms, so medical doctors think they know more about the human body etc than surgeons, who know how to cut and take that as the first option.

Dr Cox is gorgeous, the storylines are fab. I LOVE this show and have all the DVDs. Really sad it is stopping, but I do think it had to come at one time before it got rubbish (as things inevitably)

AF I thought it was a musical type thing but it isn't. They only sing numbers about once/twice every episode.
The rest of the time it's very witty and Scrubs-like.

might give it a try

for some reason though, it isn't on when I am watching telly

oh, well, won't lose sleep over it

Pea - everybody trains initially in general stuff for a couple of years, then you pick a specialty, either surgical, medical, radiology, biochemistry, dermatology etc etc etc. Everyone thinks their own speciality is the most important one that the cleverest doctors do!

FWIW in a hugely generalising fashion, general surgeons know more about illnesses that may require an operation e.g., bowel cancer, gallstones, appendicitis and the like, whereas medics know more about things treated with tablets and clever thinking, like heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, pneumonia and so on. dermatologists know about rashes and skin cancer, orthopaedic surgeons know about broken bones and joint replacements...

radiologists know about everything [whistles inncocently]

clearly Dr Cox is an exception who knows mainly about everything and is king of the sharp put down.

IMHO Scrubs and green wing are more representative of hospital medicine than casualty and holby city!