Comments on: Sex, suicide and surgical blues: getting under the skin of Grey’s Anatomy http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2009/01/08/sex-suicide-and-surgical-blues-getting-under-the-skin-of-greys-anatomy/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:11:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Domhnall MacAuley http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2009/01/08/sex-suicide-and-surgical-blues-getting-under-the-skin-of-greys-anatomy/#comment-51 Domhnall MacAuley Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:35:09 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/?p=38#comment-51 Since Babette learned more about means to communicate by searching Grey's Anatomy than on a complete medical editor’s course, we clearly to work a bit harder on the course content. She recommends emotion, sex, drama, medical mishaps and fun. I am looking forward to the next course already…… Since Babette learned more about means to communicate by searching Grey’s Anatomy than on a complete medical editor’s course, we clearly to work a bit harder on the course content. She recommends emotion, sex, drama, medical mishaps and fun. I am looking forward to the next course already……

]]> By: Babette Pluim http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2009/01/08/sex-suicide-and-surgical-blues-getting-under-the-skin-of-greys-anatomy/#comment-49 Babette Pluim Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:48:16 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/?p=38#comment-49 Well, okay, this is a blog I definitely can not ignore! The itsy tiny problem is that for some reason I have never seen Grey’s anatomy, even though it has regularly been shown on Dutch television. But I think I have made up for that omission by searching the internet for Grey’s anatomy – and finding out lots of information about it! And in this last hour I have also learned more about means to communicate through the internet than I have in a complete medical editor’s course. This is amazing! First I tried to watch a free episode, to catch up for everything I have evidently missed in my life (sex, suicide and surgical blues). Unfortunately, that did not work, as you have to live in the US to be able to see these free programs. But I could watch several short previews to get a feel for it. So that gave me a good start. I then read about all the characters in ‘meet the staff’, after which I took a short personality quiz. Big mistake! I discovered that I am a ‘Bailey’. I don’t think that is a compliment, as it says I have ‘a reputation for being intimidating’. Ouch! To ease the pain I studied the photo’s of Mr McDreamy in a bit more detail, as I was told to do by Daring Debbie the blog writer. I do agree: perfect anatomy. I read a blog, written by one of the writers of the show. Wow, that was not a blog, that was almost a whole episode by itself. That guy sure could write! So I quickly turned away, before writer’s blo(g)ck would hit me again. I tried out all the other little buttons on their website: I listened to a podcast, went to the message board, checked out interesting stuff in medical trivia (information on poison oaks, water addiction, twin-twin transfusion syndrome, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia and much more…), tried to download an i-tune, read their RSS feeds, and even tried out ‘grab the widget’. My gosh, this website was hot to trot! I even did a little comparison study between the American and Dutch Grey’s anatomy website, whereby I discovered that the Dutch website has many beautiful pictures and good descriptions, but the American website has all the interesting gadgets such as blogs, podcasts, RSS feeds, message board and quizzes. I guess in the Netherlands we are lagging a bit behind, and have not reached the stage of all this interaction yet. So what did I learn in this last hour, except that writing a blog ain’t easy? That we do not even need to watch television to get emotion, sex, drama, medical mishaps and fun. For who needs television, when we have all these wonderful communication gadgets on the internet?! Well, okay, this is a blog I definitely can not ignore! The itsy tiny problem is that for some reason I have never seen Grey’s anatomy, even though it has regularly been shown on Dutch television.

But I think I have made up for that omission by searching the internet for Grey’s anatomy – and finding out lots of information about it! And in this last hour I have also learned more about means to communicate through the internet than I have in a complete medical editor’s course. This is amazing!

First I tried to watch a free episode, to catch up for everything I have evidently missed in my life (sex, suicide and surgical blues). Unfortunately, that did not work, as you have to live in the US to be able to see these free programs. But I could watch several short previews to get a feel for it. So that gave me a good start.

I then read about all the characters in ‘meet the staff’, after which I took a short personality quiz. Big mistake! I discovered that I am a ‘Bailey’. I don’t think that is a compliment, as it says I have ‘a reputation for being intimidating’. Ouch! To ease the pain I studied the photo’s of Mr McDreamy in a bit more detail, as I was told to do by Daring Debbie the blog writer. I do agree: perfect anatomy.

I read a blog, written by one of the writers of the show. Wow, that was not a blog, that was almost a whole episode by itself. That guy sure could write! So I quickly turned away, before writer’s blo(g)ck would hit me again. I tried out all the other little buttons on their website: I listened to a podcast, went to the message board, checked out interesting stuff in medical trivia (information on poison oaks, water addiction, twin-twin transfusion syndrome, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia and much more…), tried to download an i-tune, read their RSS feeds, and even tried out ‘grab the widget’. My gosh, this website was hot to trot!

I even did a little comparison study between the American and Dutch Grey’s anatomy website, whereby I discovered that the Dutch website has many beautiful pictures and good descriptions, but the American website has all the interesting gadgets such as blogs, podcasts, RSS feeds, message board and quizzes. I guess in the Netherlands we are lagging a bit behind, and have not reached the stage of all this interaction yet.

So what did I learn in this last hour, except that writing a blog ain’t easy? That we do not even need to watch television to get emotion, sex, drama, medical mishaps and fun. For who needs television, when we have all these wonderful communication gadgets on the internet?!

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