Grey's Anatomy - Realistic?
I just started watching grey's anatomy and i love it, but i am wondering how come the same select few surgeons (dr shepard and dr burke) (who appear to not be very old), can carry out any and every surgery, including heart and brain surgery. I thought that brain surgery is done by surgeons who specialise in it, not all surgery. i'm probably wrong, but interested to know the answer! medics pls interact 
Original post by cheribebe
I just started watching grey's anatomy and i love it, but i am wondering how come the same select few surgeons (dr shepard and dr burke) (who appear to not be very old), can carry out any and every surgery, including heart and brain surgery. I thought that brain surgery is done by surgeons who specialise in it, not all surgery. i'm probably wrong, but interested to know the answer! medics pls interact
shepherd is a neurosurgeon and burke is cardiothoracic, which is why they do brain and heart surgery respectively, but the show in its entirety is not very realistic
Original post by AnkhLion
shepherd is a neurosurgeon and burke is cardiothoracic, which is why they do brain and heart surgery respectively, but the show in its entirety is not very realistic
ohhh thank you so much for clarifying!! so can both of them carry out general surgeries as well i.e tumour removals elsewhere?
Original post by cheribebe
ohhh thank you so much for clarifying!! so can both of them carry out general surgeries as well i.e tumour removals elsewhere?
irl they wouldn’t but it’s honestly been a bit too long since i watched it to comment for sure
Original post by cheribebe
I just started watching grey's anatomy and i love it, but i am wondering how come the same select few surgeons (dr shepard and dr burke) (who appear to not be very old), can carry out any and every surgery, including heart and brain surgery. I thought that brain surgery is done by surgeons who specialise in it, not all surgery. i'm probably wrong, but interested to know the answer! medics pls interact
It is hard to overstate just how unrealistic and unrepresenative Grey's Anatomy is of real life medical practice. Same goes for House MD.
You are correct: in real life surgeons specialise (and subspecialise).
Original post by cheribebe
I just started watching grey's anatomy and i love it, but i am wondering how come the same select few surgeons (dr shepard and dr burke) (who appear to not be very old), can carry out any and every surgery, including heart and brain surgery. I thought that brain surgery is done by surgeons who specialise in it, not all surgery. i'm probably wrong, but interested to know the answer! medics pls interact
Probably the best way to get a rejection from medical school would be to say how you'd based your decision on wanting to become a doctor after watching Grey's Anatomy.
Don't include it in your personal statement at all. If you want to know what being a doctor is really like then get some work experience in a hospital or GP practice. Neurosurgery is also the most cliche specialities that medicine applicants want to go into.
Original post by Reality Check
Probably the best way to get a rejection from medical school would be to say how you'd based your decision on wanting to become a doctor after watching Grey's Anatomy.
haha im not even thinking of doing medicine anymore
Original post by cheribebe
I just started watching grey's anatomy and i love it, but i am wondering how come the same select few surgeons (dr shepard and dr burke) (who appear to not be very old), can carry out any and every surgery, including heart and brain surgery. I thought that brain surgery is done by surgeons who specialise in it, not all surgery. i'm probably wrong, but interested to know the answer! medics pls interact
They can do that because they are fictious characters on a TV show, and anything is possible through the magic of television.
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