Medical Dramas – Accurate or Not?

By Barbara Ficarra Today, Kevin Pho, MD writes, “Why can’t young doctors intubate patients correctly? Blame television.” Dr. Pho references a Canadian newspaper where it’s reported that “Many of the doctors in training said they had learned the procedure from watching medical dramas. And a subsequent analysis of the show ER revealed its fictional MDs and nurses performed intubations incorrectly almost every time.” Medical dramas on television are for entertainment purposes.  They are not educational…

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