Medical TV

Every once in a while, a non-medical person will enquire:

"So is being an intern/resident really like on E.R./Scrubs/Grey's Anatomy?"

Hahahaha! "You have NO idea!"

Whilst of course the working life of a doctor is not all fun and games and often a lot of paperwork (which doesn't make for good TV), there are often a lot of truth in these depictions of medical life.

The constant jokes about bodily fluids/products/organs, the larger than life personalities, the lack of social skills all stem from a dark reality hidden behind the facade of the blue scrubs.

Medical types are usually quite bright and so where there are doctor's there is humour to be found. Those bizarre topics of conversation on Scrubs? Here's one of my own form the other night in ICU:

"So did you see that guy on the news? He got half eaten by a shark!"
"Which half? Like how do you get half eaten by a shark?"

"Obviously its the top half that's left... cos you can do without the bottom half!"
"Can you? How much of your body could you have eaten off and still survive?"
"That's a good question.. like you'd need heart and lungs and brain... but I guess you could do without legs and reproductive organs.."
"And you could get rid of your kidneys and go on dialysis?"
"Good point... and you only need a sliver of liver... so we can scrap half of that... and maybe get rid of the bowel/GIT and use TPN feeding?"
"Yeah... I wonder which half of that guy is left... I hope he has some liver..."
"Yeah me too"

Sometimes I feel like I'm on TV... kinda like the Truman show. And as night shifts go on into the dark hours before dawn... the conversation get more and more bizarre.

However I must say the following video below really sums up what I feel like doing one day in the Zoo.

Enjoy!