Grey's Anatomy on ABC

[Amiens]

Anybody watch the premiere last night? I am a sucker for medical drama, I think an itty bitty part of me still longs to go to medical school. Anyway, I watched it and thought it was ok with some room for improvement- I will get to that later. Matt thought it was pretty cheesy. He was very quick to point out all of the wrong things done in the show.

I liked the balance of male and female surgeons, and the different personalities that seem will be portrayed on the show. I loved seeing all the different shots of Seattle. I kept thinking- Ooh I know where that was shot and that and that. I felt cool for a moment. They obviously shot some of the scenes in the summer because it was gorgeous.

Here is what I thought was way off the mark (as did Matt)
- do they not have call rooms in the hospital? All the interns kept hanging out in the basement near the vending machines.
- how is it that a bunch of interns were able to take lunch all at the same time?
- Umm does this imaginary hospital not have to follow the 80 hour work week and their interns work 48 hours straight. I thought the rule was no more than 30 hours in a row- that's what Matt said it was.
- Matt thought these things were bogus- the one intern performing an appendectomy on his own (Matt said from what he knows of friends is that in the surg intern year an intern is lucky to assist in a half dozen surgeries for the year- I am sure this varies from program to program.); the one intern responding to a seizure page, at least when he was an intern it was the Med team that would respond.

That's what I thought about it.

Crystal

do they not have call rooms in the hospital? All the interns kept hanging out in the basement near the vending machines.

Ahhh, yes, hangin' by the vending machines just shooting the breeze. One of DH's fondest intern year memories.



I didn't see the show but those inconsistencies seem rather...inconsistent!

[Amiens]

Nellie,

And it's not like these are internal medicine interns either- they are surgery!

Musn't be too grueling of a program if they are all hanging out in the cafeteria or next the vending machines. At least on Scrubs it seems like they are being worked and pimped to an extent, and it's a comedy.

Crystal

DH and I watched this too and we didn't really care for it. My husband kept pointing out all of the inconsistencies with some of the diagnoses. Either they have no medical advisor on the show....or they have one who should be fired.

And this is gossipy, I know, but the lead actress talks like she had too much collagen injected into her lips.

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I saw it, I thought it was ok. A little over dramatized. I think the word 'sex' was mentioned at least 5 times. Were they trying to make it interesting? They were reaching.

I also found the lunch scene interesting, all chummy and chowing together, yah right!!!

[Rapunzel]

I didn't watch it because the commercials for the premier made it seem more like a bunch of residents sleeping with each other and being generally over-wrought in a soap opera kind of way. In other words, I got the idea that it wasn't going to have much substance (which I want in a drama - although maybe not so much in a comedy ).

Let me know if it gets better and maybe I'll stay up and watch it....

Jennifer

Will said he thinks they should show how the surgeons learn to be a..holes to the anesthesiologists.

Emily

Didn't care for it much either and agree with the assesement of inconsistencies.
Frankly, I think it may have potential and since I am married to a surgery resident, I will keep an eye on this show.
It seems like this show, just like all the others have the same basic plot: patient comes to hospital dying; no one can figure out what's wrong with this patient; just in the nick of time they save this person;
the illnesses/diseases/accidents become more and more extreme and rare.
All these shows are missing out on the real drama - the drama that occurs in medical marriages. The drama that occurs at home and in these relationships. I long for a real show on HBO or Showtime that depicts OUR lives being married to physicians. I guarantee there is more interesting material here than in random patient cases and doctor/patient interaction. Or even doctor/doctor interaction.

[Vanquisher]

I agree Lori. I would love to see a show like that. I watched the first episode too, and I will probably keep watching for a little while if only to shrug and say, "who is the advisor on this program?"

Anyway, I have noticed that on most medical shows everyone is single. I am sure that in later episodes we will get sex by the vending machines and going out to bars for drinks. Romances will blossom into heated, dramatic, and stupidly unrealistic sexploits.

If they show an episode where a resident goes home to a frazzled spouse who is taking care of everything at home, and falls asleep mid-conversation, where sex hasn't been thought of for weeks or even months, and the children are wondering who that man/woman is, then I will be aghast, my jaw will drop, I will write the network a letter of gratitude, tape the episode, and send it to my in-laws. :>

I'm not holding my breath. At least so far, from my perspective, they aren't making the hours seem easier than they are. I would rather that be wrong and too harsh and have all the pity I deserve than for people to think it isn't that bad.

But, there you go, that's a little evil [pity me] part of my brain.

If they show an episode where a resident goes home to a frazzled spouse who is taking care of everything at home, and falls asleep mid-conversation, where sex hasn't been thought of for weeks or even months, and the children are wondering who that man/woman is, then I will be aghast, my jaw will drop, I will write the network a letter of gratitude, tape the episode, and send it to my in-laws. :>

Yup, I watched it and have the same thoughts as all you. The producers definitely didn't do their homework.

[Sheherezade]

DH and I thought the best scene was when the whole cadre of interns are seated theater style, eating snacks and taking bets on the selected intern doing the appendectomy. DH: "WHO are they kidding? Don't these interns have any work to do????" There seems to be a LOT of downtime in their program. Maybe we should look into it.

Uhhhh...DH wanted to watch this just to see "how bad" it was--he totally rips apart any medical show on TV. When the interns all went running out to the helicopter, he started laughing hysterically. That was his first "inconsistency".

However, the whole sex thing opened me up to a whole new set of worries--I kept asking DH--Are women hitting on you at work? Oh, eight months pregnant and severly paranoid and deranged--I have GOT to have this baby!!

[Vishenka69]

If they show an episode where a resident goes home to a frazzled spouse who is taking care of everything at home, and falls asleep mid-conversation, where sex hasn't been thought of for weeks or even months, and the children are wondering who that man/woman is, then I will be aghast, my jaw will drop, I will write the network a letter of gratitude, tape the episode, and send it to my in-laws.

LMAO! That was great.

I think ER is the best medical show (from all the ones out there). The few times DH watched it with me, he commented on how good their medical advisor was. Although they too get a bit too mushy and distracted (like in the last episode when one of the interns just left in the middle of the day to spend time with her bf).
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The few times DH watched it with me, he commented on how good their medical advisor was.

E.R.'s medical advisor is Dr. Judith Tintinalli - chair of the emergency medicine department at the University of North Carolina. She literally wrote the book on emergency medicine -- I don't know the title of the book, but I've read that it's simply referred to as "the Tintinalli." Sometime last season, I read she was supposed to receive a cameo role on an episode as a way of expressing the program's gratitude.