Comments on: New Medical TV Show!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:58:40 +0000

Yes, but we already have real life, what do we want realistic life like drama for in the movie we pay to see?

By: Mark P

Mark P — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:27:42 +0000

OK, let’s jump to the movies. What was the most realistic portrayal of an ER procedure in a movie that was not about medicine? I vote for the scene in Bullitt when the man the police were guarding was being treated for gunshot wounds at the hospital. The matter-of-fact behavior of the doctors and nurses was strikingly different from most movie ER scenes. I remarked on it when we were watching recently, and then I watched the short promotional movie that accompanies the disc. On that I found that Steve McQueen wanted authenticity, so they shot the scenes in an real hospital and used the real staff instead of actors.

By: Rick Pikul

Rick Pikul — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:02:07 +0000

Ah yes, Emergency! Still to this day the most realistic emergency medicine show ever made.

All the medical equipment: Real
The truck: Real, while built for the show it was later donated and used by working paramedics.
The stars: Both graduates of the second class of paramedics, ever.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:37:31 +0000

i think they should remake a whole new series of ER shows:

ER: Des Moines –PTO disasters!
ER: Paris –runway model sprained ankles!
ER: McMurdo Station — frost bite and morphing dogs!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:31:06 +0000

Wait, some of these older shows were day time soaps, right? They don’t count. Then, of course, we’d include General Hospital.

By: Rosie Redfield

Rosie Redfield — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:57:16 +0000

Um, Dr. Kildare? Even older than Marcus Welby MD. (I must be soooo old!)

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:30:38 +0000

None of them as as good as the new show in the clip!

By: James Ernst

James Ernst — Wed, 05 May 2010 07:56:58 +0000

“The victim is in extreme pain Rampart”.

I loved Emergency!

By: Art

Art — Wed, 05 May 2010 05:35:46 +0000

I see your “ER” and a “St.Elsewhere” and raise you a “Markus Welby MD” in black and white. Of course to see it you had to jiggle the rabbit ears a bit. My memory is fuzzy, or is that just the snow that partially obscured the picture.

Of course, this time in ‘living color’, there was a subset of medical shows, the EMT show. The first being “Emergency!”.

By: Rich Wilson

Rich Wilson — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:53:29 +0000

Let’s not forget Trapper John, MD (79)