Greys Anatomy: Review: Grey's Anatomy?

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Grey’s Anatomy
Have you ever thought about how many people watch television every day? “Close to 20 million people tune in every week to the show Grey’s Anatomy” (askville.amazon.com). Some of the viewers watch the show every week and are dedicated fans. Others just watch when they can catch it, but even when they don’t watch it every time, it still has an effect. Viewers who are not regular watchers tend to look at more of the medical information. They stop on the channel because they like medical shows or something catches their eye. If that many people watch Grey’s Anatomy alone you could just imagine how many watch television all together. Most television shows are just for the viewer’s entertainment, but Grey’s Anatomy is for more than …show more content…

The interns have to deal with surgeons above them telling them what to do and teaching them how to become better surgeons. They learn the right and wrong way to do medical procedures while dealing with no sleep and other interns stealing surgeries from them. They have some challenges while going through internship. They begin to fall in love with the wrong people. Which leads to interns cutting Lvad wires so there boyfriend can get a heart transplant and interns having sex with someone that turns out to be their boss. Then they make their way up the chain of command and become junior resident. The first process of wading out the ones who can’t handle surgery is the intern test. Once they become residence they have their own set of interns to teach while dealing with the residence above them also known as attending. In this stage they become more involved with being on their own. They begin assisting with procedures, and doing them with supervision. This is when all of the real problems begin. They are put in life of death situations where they have to preform surgeries in the highest tensed atmosphere. They have car accidents, bombs in body cavities, and most hectic a hospital shooting. This is where they …show more content…

It varies from heart transplants to skin biopsy. This show gives a variety of procedures that people would never know about if they wouldn’t have watched the show. For example, there is a genetic condition that makes someone not feel pain called congenital insensitivity to pain. It is very rare but it can happen. They also show the patient getting the procedure done. They show operations from the time they say tin blade to when they ask for sutures. They show the organs in the body and where they are. They show if someone has to cut vertical or horizontal. This is a good way to show what surgery looks like without things being real. Everything in the show looks real and they use real terminology but it is a fake and set up. The way that the show is set up it would show someone who didn’t know anything about the body exactly were the heart is and how far you have to cut to get

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