Grey's Anatomy Research Paper

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According to the wise philosopher Marcus Aurelius, “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Grey’s Anatomy is a show in which they have many twists and turns that can generate tears falling down your face to smiling cheek to cheek. Grey's Anatomy is the nation's most popular non-reality program and it most definitely stirs some chatter (Roach). When one thinks about the famous show Grey’s Anatomy, medicine, doctors, trauma,drama romance, surgery all come up. However whenever people think of hospitals as in the real ones only blood,medicine, and broken bones, car crashes come to mind. There are many unrealistic characteristics about the show Grey’s Anatomy. This has lead to people …show more content…
Its an experience that one doesn't just forget about. In the show Grey’s Anatomy there are many unrealistic events that happen. Not only traumas in the show had been outside of the hospital many had been inside such as the shooting. In the show they had a shooter from a high school student come and shoot up the hospital leaving many doctors shot through but still living, and also many patients threatened to be shot when most of them had already been through enough trauma themselves. In a shooting setting at a hospital they have special things they do everyone is not just running around the hospital like they were in the show(Roach). This is also very unrealistic because the last hospital shooting around the world was on February 12th in 2014 (Rosenthal). Not only are there unrealistic traumas inside the hospital but there are many out. They have patients that have come in with axes through their brain and there still living. As DR. David Levy states this is clearly unrealistic because straight as an axe goes through your brain or cracks your skull you're not going to live long enough to get to the hospital (Matters). There are many unrealistic traumas and events that happen in the show Grey’s Anatomy. Most of these events can impact the way people think of hospitals because they are going to be intimidated by the doctors and hospitals because of how the show has influenced them to believe there worse than they

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