What is the best medical television program?

Grey’s Anatomy is interesting, a bit too drama llama for my likings but that’s actually why it entices me so much.

House is a classic show but the content itself is really lacking. The episodes are formulaic to a T. I watch this while I sew because I don’t care when my machine makes noises and I can’t hear their dialog (cause it rarely ever matters).

Scrubs is a great comedy although I will admit I haven’t seen a lot of it.

ER is there too, I’ve seen glances of it and it’s a bit boring to me.

House is currently my favorite medical show. I think Dr. House is a fascinating character and I like the dynamic between the characters. I also enjoy the difficult to diagnose cases. I do wish they would have Chase and Cameron more involved again, though.

I watch and love Grey’s, but it is more for the drama and personal relationships that anything medical.

ER is over, but I did enjoy it. Less so in the last two or three years, though.

I watch Scrubs in reruns and laugh my ass off but, again, it’s not usually so much about the medicine.

Some of the true story medical cases on Discovery Health are very interesting, but there are also a lot of them that I can’t watch due to graphic content.

We like Mystery Diagnosis a lot, and often watch Dr. G: Medical Examiner. I think those two are the best.

My daughter prefers all the factual plastic surgery shows because she plans to become a plastic surgeon. She also likes Gray’s Anatomy because she likes “Doctor McDreamy.” She’s a teenager, enough said.

My husband likes to watch Deliver Me and Babies: Special Edition but I keep thinking about miscarriages when those shows are on so I generally go Fluther for a while.

We also watch Trauma: Life in the ER and used to really enjoy the Code Blue episodes that were set in Charity Hospital in New Orleans, where my SIL is from. Alas, Charity is no more.

We have not been fans of ER for many years because it got way too soap opera-ish, And House tends to be irritating.

I love House. It is just a good mindless television show with an interesting plot and great characters.

I also really enjoy Scrubs for a good laugh.

I loved ER when it was the original cast but I quit watching it after too many of the originals left.

It’s never lupus.

@Grisaille rofl

@Grisaille – It isn’t lupus all the time, but sometimes it is. Sometimes its Lyme Disease instead. It is also amazing how often it turns out to be arsenic poisoning.

House is too formulaic for me. I like Grey’s Anatomy, for the reason plenty of people hate it – the drama. I like Scrubs too, but with most of the original cast gone now, I don’t know if it will be any good when it comes back for its ninth season. Scrubs is kind of quirky, and the medical field people I know say it’s the most accurate of the non-real shows.I also watch private practice, a spin-off from grey’s anatomy, and it’s probably the least-medically of all the medical shows, it’s point is to bring up ethical dilemmas each week.

On discovery health I like Trauma: life in the ER because they go to different hospitals so it’s pretty interesting . Mystery diagnosis and Dr. G freak me out too much though.

@hug_of_war – Compared to my husband’s medical history both shows are relatively tame. Besides he used to be a bailiff and I once considered getting a job in the Miami-Dade morgue, even if they did store extra bodies in Burger King reefer trailers. I also have friends who work for the Canadian version of the Body Farm, and I even dated a pathologist for a brief time.

House

House is my favorite because it’s not so focused on the characters that the medicine gets lost (coughcoughGrey’sAnatomyisjustabadsoapoperacoughcough) but it’s also not so focused on the medicine that the characters are boring.

Although I haven’t watched the last couple of seasons, I really liked Nip/Tuck. I also like the real life plastic surgery shows I’ve been told that my face is not too attractive when I watch those because of my look of mixed disgust and horror.. And House, definitely. Hugh Laurie is amazing in that and it’s insane to me that he’s actually British.

I do not watch any, so I cannot decide on one. From the point of view of a medical professional though, these shows replicate the hospital setting very poorly. I watched a medical show called All Saints from here in Australia some time back, and it was so full of malpractice and poor clinical judgement that I could not watch it without these things interrupting the storyline. The same goes for all the other medical shows I have seen.

@FireMadeFlesh House would piss you off, then. Also,

It’s never lupus.

@Grisaille Oh it does, I heard the story about the broken MRI scanner. I didn’t watch it myself, but if you ever want some entertainment, put “MRI quench” in to YouTube…....

@Grisaille – What is your fascination with lupus?

On the real shows it sometimes is lupus, but more often it is diabetes, lead poisoning, or most often, terminal stupidity.

The best medical show – in actuality the best television show ever – is St. Elsewhere. The stories, the casting (Denzel Washington, Alfre Woodard, Piper Laurie, Edward Hermann, David Morse, and William Daniels among others), the production, the writing, St. Elsewhere had it all. An incredible show.

Untold stories of the e.r. Factual and hardcore

HOUSE ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Darwin: The lupus thing is a House joke. They would suggest lupus and run all kinds of tests for it in practically every single epiosde. It was never lupus. Until one episode in the 4th season, it finally was. The online fandom was so sad that their joke was over.

Ah, I see. I refuse to watch House, so there you go.