At Real Hospitals – Less Trauma and Drama – answers for the gap exercise

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In context:
Medical shows have long been a staple of prime time television. But how well do they reflect ¹ what really happens at the hospital?
That’s the question tackled in the current issue ² of Stanford Medicine Magazine, a publication of the university’s medical school. Many doctors are hooked ³ on TV medical dramas, according to the magazine, but they have a "love-hate relationship" with their television counterparts ⁴ .
Often the doctors aren’t concerned about the technical details of such popular shows as "Grey’s Anatomy" and "ER." Instead, many take issue with the day-to-day goings-on and the false impression that medical professionals have lots of time to socialise and kindle hospital romances.

Kathy Reagan, manager of Stanford’s emergency medicine residency programme, confesses ⁵ that she is a "Grey’s Anatomy" fanatic but finds the scheduling of make-believe doctors particularly unrealistic. Real doctors arrive in shifts ⁶, often at odd hours in the early morning or late at night. On TV, doctors show up at the same time and somehow find time to lunch ⁷ together during the day. And they always find a parking space close to the hospital entrance. "Only in a fairy tale!" Ms. Reagan said.

"I enjoy these shows because they are so unrealistic that I don’t feel as if I am at work," said Dr. Suzanne Miller, a recent Stanford emergency medicine resident who is starting a practice in Washington, D.C.
Fictional doctors also see more "high-adrenaline" cases than most real doctors see in their entire ⁸ careers, the magazine notes, and in those episodes ⁹ C.P.R.** is often inaccurately portrayed. In 1996, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine noted that while on TV most patients survive ¹⁰ after C.P.R., in reality C.P.R. saves lives just five percent of the time. In addition, TV doctors and nurses often don’t perform the technique correctly, according to Stanford Medicine.
Still ¹¹, Dr. Miller recalls that she once asked a patient’s brother how he learned to do C.P.R. "He said he saw it on ‘ER‘," she told the magazine. "He said that’s how they did it on ¹² the show – and he saved his brother’s life, so that’s pretty darn good."

** Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) – a method used to keep someone alive in a medical emergency

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