Shocker: Hollywood portrayals of medicine sometimes diverge from the actual reality.
Academic article in the Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open journal compares medical outcomes in "Grey's Anatomy" to real life, "Grey’s Anatomy effect: television portrayal of patients with trauma may cultivate unrealistic patient and family expectations after injury".
Of
course, anyone who watches a medical TV drama with me and has to
"shush" me when I repeatedly complain about some Hollywood exaggeration
already knows this.
(And
don't even get me started about random x-rays being hung upside down or
backwards on viewboxes in the background of an OR or ER scene.)