Scrubs, House, Grey's Anatomy: are medical students learning bad habits?

Authors

Roslyn Weaver, Universty of Western SydneyFollow
Ian Wilson, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

91674

Publication Details

Weaver, R. & Wilson, I. (2011). Scrubs, House, Grey's Anatomy: are medical students learning bad habits?. The Conversation, 23 August 1-4.

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The Conversation

Abstract

Television loves particular careers: detectives, lawyers, forensic experts and, perhaps most of all, doctors. Popular long-running shows such as House and Grey's Anatomy join a long list of medical programs that have created a fictional world of medicine over the past sixty years.