I discuss some recent research on television representations of trauma and emergency medical care, and how differences between TV and reality can affect both patients and doctors.
I like a good medical drama as well as anyone, but sometimes the mistakes make me cringe. Of course, anyone who has watched a medical TV drama with me and has had 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.)
