Comments on: General Hospital: a lesson in the difference between fact and fiction

By: that Girl39

that Girl39 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:59:34 +0000

Ah…. the let down of what is TV and what is reality! I visited my local outpatients department this week and not a McDreamy in site! I used to be a huge ER fan until Grey’s found it’s way onto my viewing radar.
McDreamy is now as I understand it, a big household name but I saw him first as a much younger dreamboat in Can’t Buy Me Love when he was The Lawn Boy!

By: Expat Mum

Expat Mum — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:51:27 +0000

Don’t you find that most of the doctors these days look about 12 years old? I always want to ask them how old they are.

By: Mom/Mum

Mom/Mum — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:32:39 +0000

I’ve been in children’s ER here and in my local one, neither had McDreamy, McSteamy or McClooney. I was was so disappointed I momentarily forgot about the drama as to why I was there.
Don’t see the casualty patients getting a huge bill at the end of their visits though…

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:07:22 +0000

Oh no. Are you seriously telling me it’s not like in Grey’s Anatomy? Shattering all my hopes and dreams here Brit.
I live for the day I walk into the ER and Swooney Clooney dashes out with a wheelchair to whisk me off.

By: Trixie Trouble

Trixie Trouble — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:40:29 +0000

Didn’t even get to see a man with a 5 o’clock shadow and his hands handcuffed behind his back.

What a letdown.

By: Trixie Trouble

Trixie Trouble — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:37:50 +0000

I was extremely excited last year when I was called for jury duty – my only reference point was Crown Court c 1976.
How disappointed I was to learn (“the hard way”) that I had to spend 99% of my time locked in a drab room with a dubious representation of society which made me question our legal system.

When I finally made it into the courtroom, which was NOTHING like Crown Court, I didn’t have my name called to be one of the jury. It was probably best for all concerned as the prospect of standing in a room full of strangers and swearing on a bible with a spiel about my general holiness, goodness and clarication of who I am was terrifying and would probably have lead to an embarrassing public fainting.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:27:32 +0000

Most people put frozen peas on their burns! frozen thai green curry seems rather decadent, still i suppose it was Christmas…now then whilst in casualty this time…were you taking up two chairs or was it three?…

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:09:46 +0000

I loved Casualty and was into ER for a while. I find you can switch it on after a long absence and it’s like you never left

The last time I was in an er was here in Iceland, Stephen fell on the ice drunk and broke his collar bone!! There were 3 people in the room and we moved pretty quickly. Before that it would have been in Dublin, where you would wait around 8 hours on a good day in a room and corridor.

By: Siobhan

Siobhan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:56:04 +0000

ER waiting rooms are the worst. No, scratch that, the co-pays and fees are worse.

By: Expat Mum

Expat Mum — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:48:21 +0000

I’m embarrassed to say I’m on first name terms with the staff at our local Children’s ER, but even when we are the only ones in the waiting area, it still takes an hour and a half minimum, four doctors of varying qualifications, and thirty three forms.

I am watching this final season of ER avidly as I still haven’t worked out where the heck in Chicago it’s meant to be. One minute they seem to be looking out over the water from the Shedd Aquarium and the next they are under the El tracks at Wabash and Madison. Any clues anyone?