TV Review: Grey’s Anatomy:

Title: Grey’s Anatomy

Main actors: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh, Justin Chambers, and Chandra Wilson.

Network (streaming site): Netflix, and originally ABC.

Where the show originally aired: the television network, ABC

Most recent episode date: November 12, 2020

Tv show review: Grey’s Anatomy is an entertaining medical show, with a few inaccurate counterparts.

Grey’s Anatomy, a very popular show among medical fanatics, and stay at home parents alike. The show is narrated by and portrays the life of protagonist Meredith Grey, for which the show is, most likely, named. The show was created by the American television producer, screenwriter, and author Shonda Rhimes, who is also responsible for a tv show called “Scandal”, which tells the story of Olivia Pope, a lawyer in Washington DC, who also advises the president, and over time develops a very close relationship with said president. In addition to “Scandal”, Rhimes has also created the spin off to “Grey’s Anatomy”, which is known as “Private Practice”.

Season One showcases the many mistakes that a new doctor might make when starting at a hospital, despite this Grey’s Anatomy has also been labeled incredibly medically inaccurate, this is because of the insane amount of exaggeration that takes place surrounding each medical case that is seen in the entire seventeen season (currently) series. Inaccuracies aside, this show is still successful in showing that each doctor has a certain problem or problems, and that even the most skilled surgeons can make mistakes sometimes, even if in real life they would face serious consequences for some of the “mistakes” that are made on the show; like making a mistake that ultimately cost a patient their life (season 6, episode 6), this probably does happen, but it is extremely rare and is most certainly not handled lightly.

One of the biggest inaccuracies that is apparent in Grey’s Anatomy is that the interns don’t face consequences for all of the shenanigans that they get into on a daily basis, like cutting a wire that is attached to a heart pump that is vital for keeping a patient alive (season 2, episode 27). this most certainly would not happen, and even on the rare occasion that it did happen in real life, the doctor who was responsible would probably be fired and stripped of their medical license as well as any other credentials that make them a doctor, not to mention anyone else who was involved would face serious repercussions for their assistance of such an unspeakable act. While there are several things about medicine that the show gets right, like the look of the organs inside of a patient’s body, there are a few things that are not right in the slightest, and there are some ways that the show breaks the Hippocratic oath entirely. However, this is not meant to be accurate, and it is not the end of the world if Shonda Rhimes gets a few things wrong, because this is a work of fiction that is only supposed to be entertaining.

I honestly went into writing this thinking that I had a positive mindset regarding this show, but in reality I actually have mixed feelings regarding the show. from an entertainment standpoint I would say it is a brilliantly created show and very entertaining, but from a medical standpoint everything seems to be greatly exaggerated, and far from perfect. My final verdict is this; the show is successful in all that it set out to do. Obviously it is not a medical documentary, but that is not what it was originally supposed to be. It set out to entertain its audience, and to act on a feeling of nostalgia from the showrunners perspective, and in my opinion that is exactly what this show did.