If you've seen every episode of Anatomy (305 episodes, including five special editions, as of February 8, 2018), you might think you know everything about hospitals. Heck, you can even think of yourself as a medical expert.
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But before you go into the hospital and start pointing fingers at all doctors and nurses, you may need to spend some time - because the new findings - surprise - TV version of the medical community is not very accurate. Who would have thought!
According to a study published in the Journal of Traumatic Surgery and Acute Nursing, people watching medical programs such as Anatomy may have unrealistic views on the daily activities of patients and staff in local hospitals. It's far beyond the scope of doctors. It's not like hallucinogens or hallucinogens. (sigh)
-Nowadays, patient satisfaction is a major event. The study's author, Dr. Jordan Weinberg, explained that it had become a measure of quality. & If there is a real gap between expectation and reality, the patient's experience will be relatively poor, and nurses and doctors will translate it into a poor experience, because nurses and doctors try to care for this very frustrated patient.
Weinberg, director of trauma medicine at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, and his team screened 269 episodes of popular medical drama. They focused on 290 fictional trauma patients who visited the Grace/Graceland Memorial Hospital in Seattle and recorded data on everything from demographic and admission patterns to length of stay, severity of injury and final outcomes. Next, they compared these data with real-life patient data obtained through the National Trauma Database. It should not be surprising that the TV version of Hospital Life is more dramatic and charming than real life. Because why do we use other methods? At the end of the day, it's all about entertainment and escapism.
So what's the biggest difference? Firstly, fictional hospital patients are younger than real patients (34 to 41), and more likely to be women (40 to 30%). Obviously, it's much more interesting to watch a young woman swallow a bomb (yes, it's a real conspiracy) than to see a middle-aged man.
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Recovery time also stopped completely: TV patients discharged faster (seriously injured patients in the hospital less than a week, compared with only 20% in real life). The mortality rate in the program was much higher, 22% of fictional patients died, compared with 7% in the control group. Yo!
Although realism is an indispensable factor in the success of TV dramas in the contemporary workplace, both hospitals and police stations require that theatrical effects be focused on special and non-trivial aspects, the study explains.
& Therefore, American TV medical dramas often rely on storylines featuring rare diseases, strange manifestations of common diseases, strange and/or bizarre injuries and mass casualties, which are framed by the true and/or bizarre performance of a typical American hospital.
However, this is not to say that TV plays like Anatomy are totally wrong. Weinberg, who had not seen the play before the study, admitted that their descriptions of hospital life had a lot of authenticity, possibly because the producers hired a doctor's consultant to keep things accurate. In the final analysis, he doesn't want you to stop watching the show crazily --- just don't base your medical expectations on it. & We don't look at Gray's anatomy for education. "We watch TV for entertainment," he said. & Under the constraints of what they are trying to do (that is, entertain people), they are actually very good at realizing reality. & quot;
So next time you walk into the hospital, remember that your actual experience may not be like the plot in the play. You may have to wait a little longer to see a doctor. He may not be like Patrick Dempsey or Alan Pompeo, but at least you're not there because you saw your feet off. And, yes, it happened on the show. Read more:
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