NBC Medic Channel?

A lot of people taking themselves WAY too seriously in here. Relax, it's a TV show. It's supposed to be sensationalized. I highly doubt most OCD cases end up investigative geniuses like Monk, I know that you can't ACTUALLY put a computer in someone's head like "Chuck," and I imagine you'd be hard pressed to prove their are former spies running around thwarting drug dealers like in Burn Notice.

So what if it gets people more interested in EMS? Yeah, they'll find out that it's not like on TV, and a lot will leave. But a lot won't, a lot will stay on, and I imagine that quite a few of them are going to be great providers that would have otherwise never even THOUGHT about a career in emergency medicine.

Just take a deep breath, and remember that you don't have to watch the show. Personally, I'll watch it and heckle the hell out of the stupid stuff they do along with my nurse wife. But letting it get under your skin like this... It just can't be good for your blood pressure.
 
Yeah, I gotta say that I might never have even thought of a career in EMS if it hadn't have been for TV. It just never would have occurred to me. Half the people in my class are there because Scrubs got them interested in medicine.

Now that's not to say that any of them, including myself, thought or think in any way that those shows are realistic, it just got us interested, so we learned more, liked what we saw and went for it.

Our university has about ten times the amount of people applying for the course than it has places. This means we can raise the entry requirements significantly above that of a lot of HCP degrees (except physio for some reason). Which, of course, means that we don't end up with all the idiots that people like Rid and Vent always complain about. I think TV has a larger role in this than people would like to admit.
 
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