Relationships in medical dramas and their effects on patients

Relationships in medical dramas

Relationships in medical dramas

I feel bad for patients on medical dramas like Grey’s Anatomy. Not only do the patients have serious medical illnesses; but the doctors in the show, who the patients are relying on for help, have relationship issues with each other in about every other episode.

If I was a patient on the show and Dr. Meredith Grey told me that I had a 50/50 chance of living. I would ask her, “was that a 50/50 chance before or after Dr. McDreamy and you got into a huge fight and you became an emotional train wreck.”

Moving out of your apartment

Reality TV show about people moving out of their apartments.

Reality TV show about people moving out of their apartments.

The most intense reality TV show would be one about people moving out of their apartment when their lease is up.  I think there are a lot of people out there who would want to watch a TV show about tenants frantically trying to clean up their apartments and getting their full security deposit back. 

Seeing someone win a quarter of a million dollars on the Biggest Loser is ok… good.  But it doesn’t trigger as many emotions as seeing someone get their entire $600 security deposit back.  Someone moving out of their apartment doesn’t just make good reality TV, it also makes a good movie.  Forget A-bombs and asteroids.  That is nothing compared to the emotions, pain, drama, uncertainty, and fear involved with moving out of your apartment. 

The only reason there hasn’t been a movie made about someone moving out of their apartment, is that it is too much story for one movie.  A movie about someone moving out of their apartment needs to be a trilogy a minimal to tell the entire story.  Maybe, just maybe, you could cut the story down to a movie and a sequel.  But to do that, you would have to cut out all of the parts about the landlord. 

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