Upcoming CNN special on medical training

[Sheherezade]

I saw this TV announcement in my copy of The Week.

Grady's Anatomy

CNN's Special Investigations Unit follows medical residents at Atlanta's busy Grady Memorial Hospital through both their professional and private lives. Medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta (an attending neurosurgeon at Grady) also reports on the effects of recent restrictions on the number of consecutive hours medical residents are allowed to work. Saturday, March 24 at 8 PM CNN.



Fire up those recorders if you are interested.

[Ravenclaw]

Cool. I remember someone on here who's husband is an NS resident there mentioned they were taping it.

[SuzySunshine]

Is that 8pm ET?

[Ravenclaw]

I just set the DVR and it's scheduled at 8PM for us (EST).

[Deebs]

Does anyone know - is it going to be on CNN Special Investigation? My DVR doesn't have a specific description for that, but I'm assuming it's the right one.

[Ravenclaw]

Does anyone know - is it going to be on CNN Special Investigation? My DVR doesn't have a specific description for that, but I'm assuming it's the right one.

Deb, mine said that as well and I assumed the same. From Angie's excerpt, it sounds like that's it.

[SuzySunshine]

Re: Grady's Anatomy

That would be my DH.. he's not one of the one's being followed... but he's the PGY3 assisting the PGY 5 NS.
Its apparently a two part series, 8pm on both saturday and sunday. From the clips I've seen, my dh will be seen and not heard... I can pick him out a lot, but I'm not sure if he plays a role at all. I told him he is sexy window dressing
He's the tall guy (well, he's only 6'1"- but Lou is 5'8" and Sanjay is honestly 5'6" or so, so my dh looks much taller than he is), wearing a blue duke scrub cap.
*** crossing our fingers they didn't catch him doing something stupid***

So after it airs you're going to tell us how "real" it is, right?

[Vishenka69]

Just finished watching this. Neither of us is impressed with the "realistic" concept. Aside from may be the girl's husband being bitter and the two separating. The 5th year's (Lou) wife was way too upbeat about him never being home. Although DH had other medical issues with what they showed.

What did everyone else say?

[SuzySunshine]

I taped it, DH and I are going to watch it together later this week. We watched the first 1/2 of last night's episode and DH said the neurosurgical part was accurate. I beleive it was two parts, tonights' episode was different then last night.

[alison]

We're going to watch the one we taped yesterday. I caught a few seconds of it, when one of the couples was making bird noises. Interesting.

[pstone]

We watched it, it was horrible and pointless to say the least.

[alison]

I think it's the popularity of Grey's Anatomy that draws the layperson into the show. Or at least that was CNN's hope. Just another tv show...

Although I did think the tension built up about the 30-hour rule was interesting. What do you think about the attending who said something to the gist of "it teaches doctors not to care about their patients?"