Doctors and nurses?

Question

Is being a doctor or just working in a hospital in general anything like the show 'Scrubs'?

Answer 1

NO! If you're the same type of doctor as the characters on 'scrubs' (internal medicine) all you do all day, for the most part, is check vital signs and communicate with the nurses on what needs to be done. You are usually running on approx. 2 hours of sleep and you also have to do a mountain load of paperwork. You do have your "fun" times, but not nearly as much as in the show. The show definitely glamorizes being a doctor.  

Answer 2

TV shows are fantasy- made up to entertain, not show reality. If you had a show that showed REAL hospital work, it would gross too many people out.  I don't think the cameramen could follow a first-year resident through one shift. ( for me, that was 36 on, 12 off)  

Answer 3

Ha... I'm laughing because all the nurses call me JD because I have the shortest attention span for anything that isn't mindlessly funny or medical related.

No, it's nothing like Scrubs, working in internal medicine is like being kicked in the head at times. Especially when you work the night shift, because very few people get admitted to the wards in the middle of the night. Although we do sometimes have special moments when something funny happens... But mostly, it's nothing like Scrubs (which is on a seemingly continuous loop in the staff room, along with ER and Grey's Anatomy).