<p>Maybe I’m not paying close enough attention, but I wish they’d do a little more on the patients’ back stories. It’s frustrating. Did they say why no one in this guy’s family lived past 54? And why did the guy get the vasectomy in the first place?</p>
<p>I need to quit TV/cc multitasking.</p>
<p>Haha, I’m watching, but now it’s a commercial break - I’ll reply after. I think it’s pretty good thus far though.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s much better than I thought it would be. My 13yo, who sometimes talks about being a doctor, is watching, too. Not happy to hear about docs sleeping at the hospital. :)</p>
<p>I can’t believe I’m hanging in during the open-skukll scenes; I usually bail about the time the cutting startss.</p>
<p>The urologist is charming.</p>
<p>I’ve been hooked into this by my husband.</p>
<p>I think the guy had the vasectomy in the first place because he had 3 kids from previous marriage.</p>
<p>Agree about urologist being charming. I loved her “secret stash” in the black garbage bag.</p>
<p>Missed the part about kids from a previous marriage. Thanks.</p>
<p>Any idea about the guy whose family all dies young?</p>
<p>Really enjoyed the show. Being a resident sure looks like a hard life.</p>
<p>I would have liked to see them go a bit deeper into fewer stories. Like they showed the girl who had been in the auto accident and they did the reconstruction of her skull. It didn’t tell anything about how that was going to help her brain injury. So they probably should have just left her story out.</p>
<p>I didn’t personally think the vasectomy reversal story was all that compelling. </p>
<p>They didn’t say it, but it almost seemed like the thoracic surgeon whose marriage was breaking up was already involved with someone else. Sad.</p>
<p>Loved the part where the brain surgeon and his kids were discussing the surgery.</p>
<p>There was nothing said about the man whose family all died young as to why they died.</p>
<p>I don’t think they ever gave a reason for his family’s early deaths. Side note: I thought the guy actually sang pretty well at the end.</p>
<p>In all, I think the show’s pretty interesting though I get the sense that the producer and the even the doctors and patients themselves were trying to make things more dramatic. That’s to be expected, of course. As a possible pre-med next year, this show at least gave me a nice albeit dramatized cross-section the life of a doctor.</p>
<p>They did an earlier version of this in 2000. It was the best, most compelling television I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>I liked last night’s show but I didn’t think it was as good as in 2000 because it tried to cover too much in one episode. In 2000, they focused on one doctor each night so you really got a feel for his/her professional life, got to know the patients well and really felt connected to them by the end of the episode. There was a little about their personal life (I remember a female surgical resident who was struggling with balancing professional demands with wanting to start a family) but the focus was on the hospital.</p>
<p>Probably because of the explosion of reality tv in the intervening 8 years the producers chose to focus more broadly because they probably think we don’t don’t have the attention span to concentrate on one doc (with few salacious person details) for a whole 60 minutes! That’s a shame.</p>
<p>I’d like to know more about the neurosurgeon’s story. How did he get from being an inllegal immigrant/migrant farm worker to one of the best neurosurgeons in the nation?? Especially in these - let’s build a fence and keep out all the aliens who only want to suck dry our social services - times, it would be good to see a story that tells a little different story.</p>
<p>The neurosurgeon’s story was on ABC World News with Charlie Gibson last night. You can probably get the story by going to the website.</p>
<p>Excellent last night. I wish it would’ve started out with 2 hours to give some real depth and then make it weekly.</p>
<p>I’ve often wondered how doctors can successfully have a life outside the hospital? I feel for Dr. Bethea but couldnt figure out if he and his wife have issues, on his free night why wouldn’t he go home to be with the family instead of in the bar with his buddies? </p>
<p>The neurosuregeon is very impressive. To come from being a migrant worker to a top doc is amazing. I hope we get to hear how that happened.</p>
<p>thanks runnersmom
I was compelled also by the neurosurgeons story.From farm worker to Berkeley? I want to know more about what happened in between. I do know that if I had a problem he’s the type of doc I would like.
The female urologist’s story seems compelling also. What made her pick that field? What did she go through in her residency years? Was she discouraged from picking the field…must have been daunting as she is the first ever on staff.
I suspect we’ll get more backstory on the docs as the weeks go on,unless they start featuring other docs.Coming attractions showed different ones.
Scariest incident for me was when someone bumped the microscope in the neurologists operating room.What if his hand had slipped due to that?</p>
<p>DH and I watched it last night. Residency can certainly be tough on families. I really felt for the Bethea family. He and his wife have known each other since 6th grade … it’s sad that it appears to be over between them, especially since she asked him to move out and she’s got an attorney. I wondered the same thing as you, laxmom, when he was out with his buddies instead of being at home, but that could possibly have been due to editing … maybe he had already moved out.</p>
<p>I really liked the urologist and the neurosurgeon.</p>
<p>[Hopkins</a> | Episodes](<a href=“ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos”>ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos)</p>
<p>Here’s a link to the shows episodes…is it ok to post or does it violate tos?</p>
<p>Dang I missed the first episode - does anyone know whether they plan on rerunning it before the next one?</p>
<p>You can watch the full episode online.</p>
<p>I liked the show very much. The surgeon’s child’s comment on brain
surgery being easy: “It is. If you know how to do, it is.” Didn’t ER have
a story line about a female urologist? I liked her comment on her black
garbage bag stash for her patients: “I learned which ones work the best during my fellowship!” </p>
<p>I’m also waiting to hear how one goes from picking tomatoes to brain
surgery. OK, he learned English, then what?</p>
<p>The doctor headed for divorce: I could be wrong about this, but to be
fair, I think the reason he was out (instead of home with family) was
because two of his friends from college happened to be in town.</p>
<p>You get a little bit of history on that link. There are bios. The brain surgeon started out at CC.</p>
<p>And Bethea has taken a different job. Hmmm. Maybe he salvaged his marriage?</p>
<p>According to an article he wrote for the NEJM in August 2007, the neurosurgeon was able to take advantage of an amnesty program that was part of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.</p>
<p>Here is an excellent article about how Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa went from illegal immigrant picking tomatoes on a farm to a world renown brain surgeon:</p>
<p>[DOME:</a> The Remarkable Journey of Doctor Q.](<a href=“Landing Page | Johns Hopkins Medicine”>Landing Page | Johns Hopkins Medicine)</p>
<p>Enjoy and be inspired.</p>
<p>Thanks, NMR.</p>