Medical staff of reddit,how true are the medical shows on TV? (Grey's, Scrubs, House, etc)

randomguitarguy · 2 days

But if you are arguing that an internist will never look down a microscope, you are wrong. It is not only taught, it's expected. House may be showy and ridiculous but doctors are responsible and routinely inspect their own cases.

randomguitarguy · 3 days

I disagree. While it's true that lab techs run most routine tests in the lab, doctors certainly participate. There is a clinical pathologist overseeing the difficult cases or zebras. And it's more than just pathologists looking through microscopes. I am trained to look at smears, do gram stains, and interpret basic cytopathology and histopathology.

randomguitarguy · 3 days

I barely see my own apartment. I certainly don't have time to break into someone else's. Plus that would be the end of my career.

randomguitarguy · 3 days

Right! That's why they named him JD.

randomguitarguy · 3 days

Are you just saying that to try to add to the conversation? Is this based on any personal experience?

I have written well over 100 prescriptions in the last six months and have done 30 A-lines, LPs, paracenteses, central line placements, and even a few phlebotomies.

randomguitarguy · 3 days

medicine intern here.

Have never had sex in a call room. Never heard of anyone who has.
I love my program and get treated well. Other programs are known for not being so nice, they get termed "malignant." I have a bunch of classmates from med school who aren't happy.
I know nothing about the insurance for patients I see as an inpatient. I treat everyone the same. When you're outpatient it gets a little problematic. Some things (lab tests, procedures, referrals) will only get done if you have insurance. One of my patients who is really sick is waiting for their medicaid application to get approved before doing any lab tests (it'll be around $300 to get the necessary tests otherwise, which is prohibitively expensive for them). I encourage them to get the lab tests done but if they can't afford them, they don't. I treat them with the best guess that I can in terms of what medications to give. I have a low threshold to send someone in this situation to the ED for further workup.
A couple of residents have been serial nurse daters but no one (as far as I know) has been seeing anyone in our class. Most people are in long term relationships. The single people have a hard time getting out to meet new people because of the lack of free time. We'll hang out after work to get a beer but that's about it.

Scrubs is by far the most accurate medical show. I interviewed at the program for the Merriam (sp?) Hospital in RI. The roommate of the creator was a resident there before moving to California. Apparently a lot of the things in the first season were based on real life events.

*edit: I get so freaking mad at House. Unethical behavior aside, doctors don't run their own mris or clinical lab tests. And consider a freaking DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. Send out tests for ten diseases at a time, not just one. This show would be about 10 minutes long if they just took a freaking good history to start off with.

/rant

implante · 12 days

Bah. Sorry. The US.

thebassoe · 12 days

I just graduated in May. They were still doing it then! Prices skyrocketed by 100% since the 90s apparently.

fearsofgun · 18 days

Amazon link for the lazy

rony43 · 2 months

Couldn't agree more with the last point. 3rd year med students are most useful for data collection/organizing. You're not going to be expected to synthesize the data on a level of a 4th year. If you lie about any data, people will assume all of your data is untrue.

kevinofhardy · 2 months

related to that: the plural of anecdote is not data. - Roger Brinner(?)

plasticmouse · 2 months

This made me so happy :D

Tatertits · 3 months

Yeah, behind you on this one. So much so that I'm not even gonna turn the first sentence into a reference to fornication.

Nuplex · 3 months

I depend on my life being saved daily by my superhuman ability to wash my hands in the hospital. That and I have normal GI flora to fight off the random resistant pathogens.

devilsadvocado · 3 months

oh dear god yes. I bought this for a buddy's bachelor party (he and all of the other guys went to RPI). It was great success.

blugene · 4 months

Internal medicine intern here - I had a Littmann cardiology III in med school and got a Littmann Master Classic II at graduation. I only use the Master Classic II now. The cardiology III is nice for pediatrics because it has the little bell. The sounds are clearer for me in the Master Classic II.

I have one of these bad boys hooked onto it. They are FANTASTIC.

putzmiester · 4 months

I graduated med school (in the US) a few months ago. We made hoodies with our school's name on it for a fundraiser and our dean made sure that we used the staff of aesculapius rather than caduceus as part of the design. He made it a strong point that caduceus is NOT the symbol of medicine.

implante · 4 months

I read this as "threatening to leave you unless you check to see if your fly is down." I think I have had enough internet for the night.

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