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Andrew @ 10 January 2010 at 3:23 pm:

“Surely that’d be more professional than pointing out unrealistic ‘jokes’ and ‘facts’ in a show that doesn’t claim to educate the medical profession as it hardly now has any medical fact behind it?”

Er, I love this show and everything, but isn’t this a little hypocritical for someone who posted this, essentially doing the exact same thing, using the exact same “unrealistic” word several times over.

And in fact, all the article did was highlight seemingly major things in a hospital (if this was a sitcom based in a computer repair shop and the show pretended you could switch a computer on without plugging it in, it’s effectively the same) and didn’t quibble over the ‘jokes’ or ‘facts’ at all, unlike your own article, which (while I enjoyed the wittiness a lot more than LATimes’ boring drone) was much pettier and pointed out little subjective flaws rather than huge objective medical procedure holes.

And talking about comments being strange, why can we only comment on select articles nowadays – have you ever considered your falling comment count on the episodes reviews is due to that it’s turned off by default on most other articles, then people assuming it’s off for all articles after they’ve seen a couple without them switched on, then not bothering to check again? It’s an easy mistake and one of the top reasons comments start dwindling in general on websites.

Chief (author) @ 10 January 2010 at 11:07 pm:

Mhh, not sure, it may have something to do with the fact that he’s a medical professional who lectures at university. If I was effectively paying him to teach me at that academic level, I’d prefer him to spend his time keeping up with medical advances, so he can teach me useful stuff, rather than outdated information that I’d later then have to unlearn. If he’s going to pick on Scrubs like that – which let’s face it, I defy any person involved in the medical profession to say the dialogue in ANY medical comedy/drama show is realistic – to essentially publicise his medical “e-book” which will carry about as much academic weight as a feather, then he’s got a busy career ahead of him picking on all the other shows and films. Who’s his audience? People who take their medical advice from the television and the internet.

And a pecking order in a profession? Wooooow, shocking. Who’d thought. Scrubs dealt with that in season one with Elliot and Kelso.

Does this make me a hypocrite. Of course not. There is professional and factual unrealism which has been happening since the days before Hollywood, and we don’t watch to learn how to diagnose and operate. My comments on the unrealisms of for example, Dr Kelso’s shagpad, are hardly subjective.

Andrew @ 11 January 2010 at 12:47 am:

Apologies for the ‘hypocrite’ comment – it was a little harsh considering I was actually simply amused that you appeared to call out someone for calling something unrealistic when using the exact same word (repeatedly – the actual motif of the article, in fact) to describe the show a month before.

It’s mostly the line “Surely that’d be more professional than pointing out unrealistic ‘jokes’ and ‘facts’ in a show that doesn’t claim to educate the medical profession as it hardly now has any medical fact behind it?” which got me (in the amused way), because the article itself never mentioned the humour of Scrubs at all, much less calling it unrealistic, whereas your’s actually did. That’s all.

Don’t think I’m ranting at your site or you yourself, because as I said previously, I enjoyed your article a hell of a lot more than their’s.