At Real Hospitals, Less Trauma…and Drama – gap exercise

Can you supply the missing words in the text below from the panel to your right?
You can find the words in bold in the page on vocabulary and notes.

Medical shows have long been a staple of prime time television. But how well do they …………….. ¹ what really happens at the hospital?
That’s the question tackled in the current …………….. ² of Stanford Medicine Magazine, a publication of the university’s medical school. Many doctors are …………….. ³ on TV medical dramas, according to the magazine, but they have a "love-hate relationship" with their television …………….. 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, …………….. ⁵ that she is a "Grey’s Anatomy" fanatic but finds the scheduling of make-believe doctors particularly unrealistic. Real doctors arrive in …………….. 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 …………….. 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 …………….. ⁸ careers, the magazine notes, and in those …………….. ⁹ C.P.R.** often is inaccurately portrayed. In 1996, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine noted that while on TV most patients …………….. 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.
…………….. 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 …………….. ¹² the show – and he saved his brother’s life, so that’s pretty darn good."

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

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