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hmm, this is a tricky one, i'm a student nurse, i've worked on A&E, various medical and surgical wards and in the community, there is little resemblance to working within the NHS and hospital dramas, i mean this is pretty obvious, while drama focus on mise en scene such as a hospital ward, they are really portraying the same crap you see in any other program, relationships, personal struggle, love affairs etc.. all revolving around some guy who fell off a bridge or something, while sometimes watching these drama's i can notice the times when medical advisors have been consulted, and when not, ER is quite good for accurate drug does, drugs used, conditions etc.. while hollywood is awful, while watching Final Destination 2 on C4 once, in a hospital scene the doses and terminology used were awful, but to the majority of society, this would not be known, and the plain fact of saying 1000g of heparin via sub cut!!! is sufficent to the lay person for setting the drama by just saying medical sounding words, and i think this is the point, its not an educational program, its a program set in a hospital revolving around the same issues as any other drama, which are usually bad.
Scrubs and Green Wing are probably the most realistic because funnily enough, unlike casulaty and ER, stuff like helicopters and massive bomb explosions every week don't happen in real life, and people make the day go round by looking at the more humerous side of their job, and laughing at themselves, rather then toxic chemical explosions in the operating theatre.
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