TV Medicine Creates Unrealistic Expectations

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Heard On The Morning Show
Doctor's hands
Alex Proimos (CC-BY-NC)

A new study shows patients gain false expectations of medical care from television dramas. Research shows TV shows focus on rare diseases or mass casualties, instead of typical illness; it also reveals fictional patients are more likely to be young and female. Our guest is a UW surgeon who consults with television shows and movies as they portray medicine on the screen.

Episode Credits

  • Kate Archer Kent Host
  • Kealey Bultena Producer
  • Jonathan Kohler Guest

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