S1E7 - unrealistic + unethical scenarios in grey's anatomy

why do some premeds hate on people who watch grey's anatomy? in this episode, i answer this question alongside my own personalised list of the unrealistic (i.e would never happen in the NHS) and unethical (i.e the GMC would catch you faster than you can say "i did CPR on a DNR patient") scenarios. hope yall love this little fun ramble i put together <3

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Hi guys. Good morning and welcome back to another episode of medic mornings. I'm your host Fiona and today I'm going to be talking about Grey's Anatomy, which is my absolute favorite comfort show. Right now, I've watched it around like two years ago, so I'm pretty familiar with all the characters I've watched up to season 8 and refused to go any further than that. Cuz that's when it started going downhill. I'm going to be talking about the perceptions of Grey's Anatomy within the medical community as well as what they represent and accurately perhaps any of the unethical scenarios with in there. It's going to be a ride. So buckle up and let's get started. Okay, so the first thing I'm going to be talking about is why people hate other people who watch Grey's Anatomy. And this is especially especially as a pre-medical students. So I remember when I was pre-med, like, I feel like whenever I said, oh, I love watching Grey's Anatomy. I will also get a lot of like reactions. Like oh, you're just going into medicine just because you watch Grey's Anatomy. And I think there's always that perception. That's when someone watch Grey's Anatomy. They, they don't understand the idealistic, you know, the glorified and the rose-tinted perception of medicine that is completely not true. You can watch a TV show while understanding that is not the case in real life. You can also watch a TV show just for fun and you don't have to like make everything your career and you can watch TV shows like just for fun just for humor is just for bags. Just Jokes. You don't have to. You don't have to take it so seriously and I have two reasons why I think people hate pre-med to watch Grey's. Anatomy of the first one is that they think you're in it for the luxurious the hot sexy seeing the relationships and how glorified it is. So I know Grey's Anatomy like it's probably the number one medical TV show. I know another one called Chicago, Med is a lot more realistic but Grey's Anatomy is so popular because it fits in with a narrative. Doctors are so sexy medicine as such a, you know, such a sexy profession and in reality, it's that's not true at all. But people think that's, you go in for the money for everything that Grey's portrays which is not the case in real life. The second reason why people hate Prima to enjoy Grey's Anatomy is because of medical people being 100% altruistic and I think that because the show is portrayed as very dramatic and very romanticized that people think that pre-meds are only in it for that kind of lifestyle and in a career where you're supposed to give your all your 110% to your patients to the safety of your patient and to prioritize them over everything including yourself that is seen as selfish. I think that's also another reason why I like actual medical people hate Grey's Anatomy, so much is because it depicts it in, such a different light. The public really doesn't know the extent to which Health Care is so different and so far stretched from what it's actually portrayed. As I mean, Shows like Grey's Anatomy just undermine the entire profession. So it's actually okay to be selfish in your medical career. I think putting yourself first and put in what you're good at first end, put in your mental health and prioritizing yourself over patience, is definitely a mindset that everyone should have. Honestly, I think that I talked about this before, but medicine people are held to a higher standard than the rest of the population, competitiveness and jealousy. And like, just comparison in general, is such a big bang within the medical community. And a lot of people will do, whatever it takes to scoring you to put you down. And if it takes just a silly little show, a silly little TV show to put you down, then they take that as an opportunity. And so for my medicine girl, he's out there keep watching. Knocked me, keep fantasizing and romanticizing it because life is too short to not watch TV shows you like. And yeah I just love like even as a medical student, I feel like in the future, I'll just have a rough day at work and really struggle with medical school, but when I come home, I'm going to have this conference show. Eat my dinner. What about Grey's Anatomy? And it's going to be such a fun life. I feel like This part is going to have a lot of spoilers, so if you haven't walked past season 8, then this is not the episode for you. So just click away. But if you do like spoilers or if you've already watched the entire like, eight seasons then, keep listening to the first scenario that really irked me and what prompted me to start this episode. It's when is he cut the lvad wire? And basically, I don't know exactly what the lvad wire does. I think it's something to do with like the heart and the is like a artificial pacemaker or something like that. Feel free to correct me. But basically, when she cut the lvad wire, she just said she quit and then she left. But then she persuaded the chief of surgery to come back. And she just got a slap on the wrist like, honestly, that is so absurd. I feel like that just shows that General public who are watching this. They don't get reprimanded at all. She had the wrong intention, and a malicious, not malicious. But a definitely, a very unethical decision to put Danny to cat the patients under so much pain and his heart, literally stopped. And she as a provider definitely abused her position. So I'm surprised that she even got out of jail. Like, she didn't even have her medical license remove. She was still able to become a practitioner, or physician and honestly, in real life, I think she would definitely have gone through the legalities went to Medical Court richly. It's insane. How she even got away with that and was able to start practicing within like 2 weeks. Anyways, the second scenario. I feel like is a very prominent theme within the show is sex and on call rooms and I know it sounds like It looks insane. I mean well I definitely know in reality on call rooms are like, no one has a time or energy to actually have sex in them. But I mean I'm pretty sure their stories of people doing frisky things and Encore rooms but nowadays I feel like everyone just so tired and so ready to go home to their spouses to their significant others who are actually waiting for them at home and especially since like even if you date another talk to her marry another doctor. It's very rare that your schedule is like mine. I'm sure like there are issues with you making sure your annual leave is. At the same time you take the same weekends off, but often times it's very hard because basically in the UK in medicine, you have different rotation at different horse. Who's I'm pretty sure. So, it's Often times you are at different hospitals even if you go to the same Medical School even if you have the same like deanery so it would be very hard to align your schedule. Yeah that's another thing like everyone in the TV show is so unloyal like the person with the longest standing relationship is just Meredith and Derek and Everyone else is just like hopping around with each other, everyone slept with everyone. And that's just insane to me, like, never never would have happened in real life, especially with not with like medical professionals like get yourself together. Okay, the next one is at, everyone seems to be extremely promiscuous, attractive, and single. Okay. In America, I understand that their interns, right? So they're going to be 4 years of undergrad. Four years of medical school and then they're going to be interns after that. But I'll all the time they take a so, like average to got peers, so that would be great. Let me do the math. They are 29 in the show when they're in turns, 29 years old. And I'm not saying that all 29 year olds medical interns have to be single, but there's a very big chance that a large percentage of medical interns are going to be married or in a long-standing relationship. And I kind of believe that like all the main characters were single at the beginning of the show, like, that is just completely unrealistic. And it's very difficult to imagine that they don't have, you know, they haven't met their significant other in college or university or medical school, that is strange. Okay, 4th weird thing. That is completely wrong. I wouldn't happen in real life is that they're choosing? What specialty they're going into. So I remember in the beginning. Christina was like I'm going to do cardio thoracic and Meredith didn't know what she wanted to do, but like it's been saying that they're choosing specific Specialties when they're interns in the UK. Basically, you have rotation and this is when during Foundation year one and Foundation Year to each choose specific Specialties that you want to try and you're going to spend four to six weeks and there's rotation and then you're going to switch Spe