Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 65 Editor's Choice: 5
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Here's a surprise...
[Read the article: The Beautiful Hospital]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A show called "House, MD" is about... wait for it... a Medical Doctor. Named House.
I agree with Ms. Tisdale that Scrubs is the best hospital show, maybe of all time. I further agree that it's weird that "Princeton" is staffed by only a few, shockingly incompetent or silent nurses. As both the son in law of a nurse and an occasional patient dependent upon them, I recognize that Nurses Matter Too. In fact, that's my sole point in writing.
The tone of this piece seems to indicate that the author thinks very little of us. We, by which I mean the non-medically-trained viewing public, might be confused by a fictional program into believing that doctors will always be like this? Or we may come to believe that nurses are ineffectual silent obstacles to doing the real work of medicine? We emphatically do not.
We ARE weary of being told that "it isn't like that in the real world" by professionals who watch television. Yes, thank you for that reminder. Last I checked I was still lucid enough to recognize fiction and so were my neighbors, and the other 15 million or so Americans who tune in to watch the unimpeachable Hugh Laurie deliver another brilliant performance. We do not require hectoring on the critical subject of reality versus fantasy every time a television program becomes a hit.
I suppose when Heroes is back on the air we can expect a thousand words or so from a real agent of a shadowy bureaucracy about how little the experience of Clare Bennett's father matches that of the real men in horned rimmed glasses. If you only knew.