Greys Anatomy

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Greys Anatomy

• Leeann Tanner
• Sherre Robirds

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Do medical television dramas give viewers an
unrealistic expectation of medical procedures?

• A case study of
• Greys Anatomy

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The Doll Heads

• Enough is Enough Season 2, Episode 2 Original
  Airdate October 2, 2005
• Mr. Hubble has a bowel obstruction. He wont tell
  the doctors what he swallowed. When his x-rays
  are complete, it appears like balloons are all
  through his intestine. Bailey puts up the X-ray
  so all of them can look at it. To fix him,
  they'll have to run his bowel - removing his
  entire intestine from his body, hand searching
  for the "balloons" and removing them. Alex
  doesn't think they're balloons because one of
  them has a face, they all have faces. Mr. Hubble
  didn't swallow drugs, he swallowed ten Judy doll
  heads.

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Medical Superstitions

• Superstition Season 2, Episode 25 Original
  Airdate March 19, 2006
• The staff at Seattle Grace has an odd
  superstition If three people die in a hospital,
  then by the end of the day there will be 7
  deaths. Some of the staff really believes this,
  others think it is silly. But by the end of the
  episode, seen people have died.
• Real Life Cases

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OOPS!

• SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING Season 1 Episode 5 Air
  date 4/24/05
• While assisting Bailey and Webber on a procedure,
  George discovers a towel left inside a woman from
  a surgery five years earlier. It turns out that
  it was Burke's old mistake - will he have to come
  clean about it to the woman and the hospital?

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Lionitis

• Yesterday Season 2, Episode 18 Original Airdate
  February 19, 2006
• Cristina presents 15 year old Jake Burton to
  Derek. He has advanced Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia
  (CDD). It is a rare bone disorder where calcium
  builds up in the skull and causes facial
  disfiguration and shorter life expectancy.

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Joseph Merrick The Elephant Man
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The Stand Still

• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head Season 2,
  Episode 1 Original Airdate September 25, 2005
• The local bartender, Joe, collapses in the bar,
  and is found to have a giant aneurysm. The best
  way to treat the problem is with a standstill
  operation. This surgery to repair brain aneurysms
  involves cooling the body of the patient.

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Spontaneous Orgasms

• Yesterday Season 2, Episode 18 Original Airdate
  February 19, 2006
• A young woman was involved in a car accident
  because one of her spontaneous orgasms happened
  while she was driving. medically termed PSAS
  (Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome)
• Not much is really known about PSAS, and at first
  the interns thought she was epileptic seizures.
  She is diagnosed with a neurological condition
  that is causing the PSAS and undergoes surgery to
  help correct the problem.

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Feeling No Pain

• Sometimes a Fantasy -Season 3 Episode 3
• Megan, a little girl with a leg gash, is brought
  in. It's her fourth accident in a month and her
  foster parents say they know it looks bad but she
  just "plays rough." While the parents are meeting
  with social services to see if they've been
  abusing her, Megan tells Alex that she has super
  powers. He tests her reflexes by having her put
  her hand in a bucket of ice and take it out when
  it starts to hurt. He puts his hand in too and
  has to take it out before she does she says she
  felt nothing.

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Megan has injuries all over her body, which
causes doctors to think she is abused at first.
At one point, she proves that she feels nothing
by pulling the staples out of her arm.
Ashlyn Blocker,a 5-year-old girl who has CIPA,
must be checked for scrapes and cuts because she
cannot feel pain.
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Adult Conjoined Twins

• Dont Stand So Close to Me Season 3 episode 10
• In this episode, conjoined twins arrive at the
  hospital with the desire to be separated. The
  surgery is said to be very complex, and 22
  doctors are required to do the procedure.
• The doctors practicing the extensive surgery on
  realistic dummies.

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Faking a broken heart

• Deny, Deny, Deny Season 2, Episode 4
• Calpana, who has grown up as a missionary, is
  admitted to the hospital with heart palpitations.
  It is later revealed, after it is found that her
  urine is blue (no drugs showed up on labs), that
  she has been taking the drug amitriptyline in
  order to cause the palpitations. She is suffering
  from Munchausens syndrome and is transferred to
  psych.

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DOUBLE TROUBLE

• LET THE ANGLES COMMIT Season 3 Episode 6 Air date
  11/2/06
• Addison has a patient, Noelle, who has two
  uteruses. In each uterus is a different baby one
  conceived six weeks after the other. But once
  Addison reveals this fact, her fiancé, Greg,
  figures out that the younger of the unborn
  children cannot be his. He leaves in disgust,
  right as Noelle goes into premature labor and
  requires an emergency Caesarian section.

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Plague? Seriously?

• Time has Come Today Season 3 Episode 1
• George and Derrick are held in quarantine during
  a flu epidemic, because they might have been
  exposed to Plague.

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What do you mean, it wont come out?

• OH, THE GUILT Season 3 Episode 5 Air date
  10/19/06
• A middle-aged couple comes into the ER in a very
  awkward predicament -- they got stuck together
  during sex! They explain they got divorced five
  years ago but keep meeting for sex. From the
  X-ray, Addison determines that the man's genital
  piercing is caught on his ex-wife's IUD.

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Greys Anatomy

• Leeann Tanner
• Sherre Robirds