Okay, let's be honest, how much of what you know about medicine, especially emergency medicine,

comes from watching TV.

Gunshot wounds on its way.

When?

Now.

My.

Hospital dramas have long been a staple of the Western media diet.

We'll link the fine bet in clear trauma one and notify the OR.

In research shows that we tend to believe what we see on fictional TV shows, one Belgian

study, for instance, found that people who watch a lot of hospital dramas are more likely

to overestimate the likelihood of survival of a real-life patient after receiving CPR.

He's not breathing in the information trash.

But overall, is a patient in a TV hospital more or less likely to die than a real patient?

That was a question posed by Amir Hetzroni, an Israeli professor of communications, who

did some research on American TV dramas.

He and his students watched episode after episode of ER, Chicago Hope, and Grey's Anatomy,

keeping detailed coding books on every patient their race, approximate age, their malady,

the treatment, and whether they lived or died.

Mark died this morning.

At 6.04 a.m.

And what did Hetzroni find?

People die on TV and TV hospitals far more than they die in their life.

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