Book : The Real Greys Anatomy A Behind-the-scenes Look At...

-Titulo Original : The Real Greys Anatomy A Behind-the-scenes Look At The Real Lives Of Surgical Residents

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Berkley

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The ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy has generated a flurry of interest in how medical professionals really make it through one of the most rigorous educational programs around, but how much of the medical drama seen in Grey’s Anatomy is pure entertainment, and how much is an accurate reflection of life both in and out of the OR? In The Real Greys Anatomy, a well-known medical journalist provides some answers. He examines a group of new surgical residents at a major teaching hospital in the Pacific Northwest as they tackle the roller-coaster ride of long hours, fascinating procedures, mundane office tasks, and emotional ups and downs that comprise the life of a student of surgery. From Publishers Weekly The overachievers on the hit TV show Greys Anatomy stand on the shoulders of M.D.s from decades of medical dramas. But health journalist Holtz finds more than a kernel of truth in the ABC white-coat soaper and notes, [O]ur attitudes and beliefs about surgery and medicine shift and adapt unconsciously while we take in the fiction from Seattle Grace Hospital. What unfolds in the book is a Cliffs Notes for surgical residents: the grueling hours-a max of 80 a week; the weird operating flukes-a flame bizarrely ignites from the gas in a surgery patients gut; the need to give good care even to bad people. The anecdotes, however, seem as likely to come from Greys as from real life. On the struggle in treating ailing criminals, one resident confides, I dont feel like my care was compromised by being aware that he was a criminal, but it definitely made me think about it. Theres little new in these tales from the sick ward, but Holtz gives them all a Hollywood glow. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review About the Author Andrew Holtz, MPH, is a health journalist. A former CNN medical correspondent-and co-anchor for the Your Health program-he now works as a freelancer covering health and medicine. Holtz earned a Master of Public Health degree in the Oregon MPH program. He received his BA from Stanford University where he majored in broadcast communication and minored in physics. He is a board member and past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists.