You're listening to Well Now,

You're listening to Well Now,

Slates Podcast on Health and Wellness.

I'm Dr. Kavita Patel.

And I'm Maya Fowler.

It is Award Season in Hollywood and folks are up in arms.

Fans are debating the shocks and snubs of the Oscar nominations. People are all in their feelings.

And here it well now, we're thinking about how movies and television shape the way many of us see health and wellness,

beyond the star-studded ceremonies.

Maya from shows like House to Gray's anatomyomy to what I call the OG-E-R, it actually helped

me get through medical school and pass some board questions, believe it or not.

It seems Hollywood can't get enough of medicalized drama.

Dr Ross, peak flow's gone from 190 to 300.

How's her guests?

Much better.

Sandy, you are doing great.

But what happens when so much of what we think we know about health comes from the Dream Factory.

In a moment, we're going to hear from one of the country's first physicians to find a second career as a television writer. But first, Kavita, let's talk a little bit about how we view wellness in entertainment.

It's just like we want to combat all these myths about our health and that our patients go on to social media to try to find

information that we know just sometimes is true or it's not. We sometimes have to push back on

similar misrepresentations about health care as it shows up in media itself.

So how does Hollywood's portrayal of wellness affect your work, Kavita, as a physician.

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