TV medical dramas, ANOTHER unplanned pregnancy?

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Grey’s Anatomy season last spring finished with an unplanned pregnancy, started this fall with 2 more unplanned pregnancies, and all the rhetoric of a woman’s right to chose, it’s her body, and on and on. This week another woman comes into the hospital with an injury needing surgery and she’s 8 weeks along. Doesn’t want to be pregnant so this was an opportunity to announce to the watcher that at 8 weeks it’s very easy to take an abortion pill, 2 pills within 24 hours.

I decided to record New Amsterdam, another TV show that I’ve never watched. They really stacked the deck by having a poor, underage, black woman with Down’s Syndrome, who was under the guardianship of a church going Christian woman. That message was, whether you have insurance or not, the permission of your guardian or not, if you want an abortion, we are going to make it happen for you. We are the kind, reasonable, loving people who care about you and what you want. She got her abortion.

Having President Trump in office has made the TV producers promote pro-abortion full on. Using 1 hour shows to continue to promote how women need abortion, no reasons required, no questions asked, and certainly no business of the baby’s dad. They are threatened and coming out swinging.

Continue to pray and bathe the whole world in the red and white rays coming from the heart of Christ. Divine Mercy Jesus we trust in You. Change hearts today.
 
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Having President Trump in office has made the TV producers promote pro-abortion full on
Has someone done a study?

I’ve been watching medical dramas since “Medical Center”. Abortion has been a common, recurring event on every medical show I can remember. I do not see any more or less use of this story line.

ETA St Elsewhere had 2 abortion episodes

A list of non-medical shows from the 80s


From that I found a blog:

 
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Grey’s Anatomy has had 4 in a very short amount of time. Two of the doctors are pregnant so they will stretch out that over every show. How they will play that out, who knows. One of the doctors is older so I’ll guess it will allow them to talk about all the hazards a woman with a career faces and being older. Every angle seems to be covered, can’t leave anyone out.
 
I’ve been watching medical dramas since “Medical Center”. Abortion has been a common, recurring event on every medical show I can remember. I do not see any more or less use of this story line.
Um, how many abortion storylines has General Hospital had since the American soap opera’s inception in 1963?
 
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This has nothing to do with President Trump.

And don’t watch medical shows. I’ve worked in a hospital since 1979, and I HATE medical shows. Their treatment of the hospital laboratory makes it very clear that they DO NOT BOTHER TO DO ANY RESEARCH ABOUT ACTUAL REAL-LIFE HOSPITALS!!!

Would you get all your news from The Onion? Hopefully not, and if you do read The Onion (which I do when I get hold of an issue!), then hopefully you realize that it’s satire, not fact.

Well, hospital shows are poor drivel, but worse, they are fiction, and very very BAD fiction!!!

Do not waste your time. Play with your kids instead. Or do chores. Or sleep.

BTW, I did like one medical show–I found St. Elsewhere to be fairly real-life hospital life. However–the show turned out to be a fantasy of an autistic child! So even the writers knew that their storylines and settings were FAKE FAKE FAKE!!!
 
Never been a Soaps gal, but, I’d imagine there have been plenty!
 
Drama is just that, fake. If I am concerned with reality, I watch documentaries or read non-fiction. When I want to escape, well, a good show about knights and dragons or a hilarious take on heaven/hell or a drama about a fictional hospital will do just fine.
 
Drama is just that, fake. If I am concerned with reality, I watch documentaries or read non-fiction. When I want to escape, well, a good show about knights and dragons or a hilarious take on heaven/hell or a drama about a fictional hospital will do just fine.
That’s fine, and I, too, love a good escape on TV.

The problem is that when people watch these shows, some people think that’s the way the hospital really works. We have a shortage in the number of young people who are entering the allied health professions, especially medical technology (lab). One of those television shows recently portrayed the lab as a place where a goof-ball man stands behind a dutch door and tells the doctors who come down for their results (which is so wrong! nowadays, it’s all communicated via computer!) that "the lab was backed up so you can’t get your results yet–unles you are a sexy young lady doctor who brings him donuts!–this is insulting to all of us who work very hard in the hospital lab! We have instruments that do hundreds of tests in just a few minutes! Stats are given immediate attention! And there is a timeline that all the doctors know–we are obligated to get results to them within a certain time frame (e.g., a gram stain should be in their computers within one hour from the time of collection!).

I think that good escapism can still portray the hospital world in an accurate way, and depict medical professionals as professionals who work very very hard and don’t have more than a few minutes out of every day to yack about our problems. Yes, of course we have lives-we have personalities and personal problems and issues, most of which never find their way into our jobs because our duty is to help our patients, and our romances, divorces, babies, diseases, funerals, politics, etc. can wait until we are off work.

TheLittleLady, I think you can see that this is a very sensitive issue for me. We only have 2 med tech students this year, and only one has expressed interest in applying for a position in our lab when she’s finished with her degree. We have at least 7 openings in our lab, and all of use are working extra shifts and/or coming in early or staying late to try to make up for the short staffing. When a television show depicts lab people as donut-craving dolts who can’t get our work done–that just makes it harder for kids to take a career in lab science seriously, and makes my working life a weary daily slog.

The best portrayal of a laboratory professional that I ever saw on TV was Dr. Julia Hoffman on the old soap opera, Dark Shadows. She was a hematologist (one of the lab departments), and on the show, was often seen looking through a microscope–something that I do every working day! It was Dr. Hoffman who inspired me to look into a lab career.

Another great portrayal of laboratory professionals that actually prompted a lot of interest in medical technology resulting in a significant increase in the number of young people majoring in Medical Technology was on Quincy, M.E…
 
Having President Trump in office has made the TV producers promote pro-abortion full on.
It has nothing to do with Trump and, (most likely), a lot to do with Planned Parenthood. Caren Spruch - Biography - IMDb
Caren Spruch is the Senior Director of Arts & Entertainment Engagement for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She founded the organization’s program to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights through the arts. Caren collaborates with producers, directors, and writers to advise them on incorporating health and advocacy messages into their television and film scripts. She also works closely with prominent artists to engage them in publicly supporting Planned Parenthood’s mission in the media, on social media, and at events.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they influenced Grey’s Anatomy.
 
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TheLittleLady, I think you can see that this is a very sensitive issue for me. We only have 2 med tech students this year, and only one has expressed interest in applying for a position in our lab when she’s finished with her degree.
Med tech jobs are something I constantly suggest to young people, or to those in a career change moment. My BFF is a Phlebotomist by trade, she now works in medical recruiting, going to job fairs and encouraging people to apply for these so much in demand positions. There are not many jobs today where “you can get a job anywhere!”.
 
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