{"id":418,"date":"2008-05-30T08:57:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/05\/30\/grays-anatomy-misses-mark-on-heart-surgery-reality\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:31:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:31:38","slug":"grays-anatomy-misses-mark-on-heart-surgery-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/05\/30\/grays-anatomy-misses-mark-on-heart-surgery-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Grey&#8217;s Anatomy Miss Mark On Heart Surgery Reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy the television show Grey&#8217;s Anatomy (Thursdays, 9pm on ABC).<\/p>\n<p>My wife (Robyn) really loves it. So, we always watch the weekly trials and tribulations of Meredith Grey, McDreamy, McSteamy, George, the Chief, Yang, Izzy and, lately, Dr. Erica Hahn &#8211; the head of cardiothoracic surgery at Seattle Grace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brooke Smith - Heart Surgeon Dr. Hahn On Gray's Anatomy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/doctor-hahn-gray-anatomy.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That said, the title of this blog may be a little harsh for ABC&#8217;s hit series.<\/p>\n<p>But, as a former open heart surgery patient, I&#8217;m getting a tad uncomfortable of the dramatic style by which Grey&#8217;s Anatomy depicts life in a heart surgery ward.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last week, the show depicted a three-way sexual innuendo among the operating physicians during cardiac surgery.<\/li>\n<li>A few weeks before that, a patient showed little-to-no signs of physical trauma following heart valve surgery.<\/li>\n<li>Recently, Dr. Hahn (played by Brooke Smith) failed to inspire and encourage her talented resident (Yang) to participate in a cardiac procedure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know. I know.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m a little sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>It is a television show designed to win fans, ratings and ultimately advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I just want future patients and caregivers to know what life is really like in a hospital. Especially, considering that Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8217;s viewers may be scheduled for surgery the next day, the next week or the next month. For that reason, I wish the writers and producers of the show would enhance their portrayal of hospital life for heart surgery patients.<\/p>\n<p>Do you watch the show? What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}