One of my favourite t.v shows to watch is House. It's a medical show that focuses on less than five doctors with specific medical specialties working in a diagnostic center at a hospital in Princeton, New Jersey.
The characters aren't portrayed very realistically at all. All of the doctors are extremely attractive and look well-rested even though they claim to have many sleepless nights running a battery of tests on their patients, who rarely seem to die. The lead doctor, Dr. Gregory House, is an addict. Throughout the seasons he has been to rehab (numerous times), a mental health facility, and jail. Even a high functioning addict can barely function in everyday life to maintain relationships, but House pops pills like their candy and manages to save patients lives. Yes, the show highlights his temper and his terrible attitude towards life, but it doesn't show the nitty-gritty hardships of being an addict.
There's also no way that the head of the hospital would let the House continue to work there in a real-life situation. On the show he proves to be a danger to himself and others in every episode but the dean of the hospital always let's him do whatever he wants. If a real hospital ran that way, there would be much more dead patients and fewer doctors working under her due to her lack of care for the rest of the departments in the hospital.
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ReplyDeleteAli -- of course House is ridiculously unreal, right? So let's dig deeper: why would the producers create such a character? What parts of the show are "emotionally" real -- and what parts are designed just to keep us glued to the set? Why not ever show the boring parts of medicine? The 2,000th head cold; the paperwork, etc. Some reminders: your posts need to be at least 350 words. Incorporate as many vocabulary words and concepts as you can into your essays to demonstrate what you are learning.
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