Grey's Anatomy

Hospitals are meant to help some people heal physically and others mentally. In the novel One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey published in 1962, readers are introduced to a mental hospital that has goals that do not align with helping people. Within the hospital, characters with varied personalities and opinions are intermixed with three main characters playing specific roles with supporting characters close by. With the characters’ motivations, themes develop such as the emasculation of the men in the hospital by an oppressive nurse. Symbols, such as laughter and the “combine”, are also pertinent to themes as the readers watch the men transitioning from being oppressed to being able to stand up for themselves causing change in hospital policy.

Throughout the show watchers will see how the characters try to keep their love life and work life separate. From marriages, cheating, and love triangles, Grey’s Anatomy has it all. New medical cases are presented in each episode of Grey’s Anatomy. This brings something new and exciting to each episode, which is something not a lot of television shows have to offer. With each new medical case introduced watchers will learn to love the patients and see the surgeon's build relationships with them.

     Another theme is maintaining your humanity. The oppression the Big Nurse wields over the patients, shrinks them down until they’re no longer human. “No. You were right. You remember, it was you that drew our attention to the place where the nurse was

Science plays a major role in the story line of NBC’s police-procedural drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; more specifically, forensic science. From beginning to end, the characters depend on the use and their understanding of forensic science to uncover the mysteries of each examined case. The advancements in technology along with the psychological approach used by detectives to solve each case make the serious and critical role that science plays more than evident to the audience.

The 18th Amendment of the Constitution which prohibited the sell of alcohol was first proposed in 1917, and then would get approved 2 years later in 1919. One year later on January 17, 1920 the Amendment would start to be in effect. Even before it was passed over half of the country had already banned it. Publically many had denounced it yet privately almost everyone thought the decision would be one they would soon end up regretting. With this law now in effect, there ended up being a rise in crime due to a rise in bootlegging which is the transportation of alcoholic beverages. The government was starting to face a dilemma because there was still a demand to drink, but people had no other option aside from obtaining it illegally.

Greys Anatomy is a fiction show surrounding the professional and personal lives of a group of surgeons at Seattle Grace-Mercy West (SGMW) hospital in Seattle, Washington. The main character in show is Dr. Meredith Grey, who is a surgical resident at the hospital. Meredith was hired by Dr. Richard Webber, an older surgeon who was the Chief of Surgery. Hired in the same year as Meredith was Alex Karev and Cristina Yang; Cristina Yang is Meredith’s best friend and desires to specialize in Cardiothoracic surgery and currently trains under Dr. Teddy Altman, who has a past friendship with Christina’s husband, Dr. Owen Hunt, who is the current Chief of Surgery at SGMW. Teddy Altman also just recently lost her husband, Henry, in a surgery performed by Cristina.

Grey’s Anatomy is a drama medical show that has been airing on TV since 2005. The show is based on the surgical unit of Seattle Grace Hospital. Throughout the show, we have seen characters evolve from interns to residents to fellows and to attendings and maybe if the character is lucky, they become head of a surgical department. Characters also develop multiple relationships with their colleagues. Some of these relationships are appropriate for the work setting like friendships while some are inappropriate like having a romantic relationship with a colleague.

Grey’s Anatomy appeared on ABC in March 2005. Five surgical interns, Meredith Grey, Cristina Yang, Isobel Stevens, Alex Karev and George O’Malley, competing and negotiating their work and relationships with each other and their three supervisors, Derek Shepherd “McDreamy,” Preston Burke, and Miranda Bailey. Rhimes described her hit show on the Tavis Smiley Show saying, “Grey’s Anatomy is more than just a medical drama. It is about people who are starting a job, and on a bad day you kill somebody...and on a good day, you save a life” (Rhimes 2005). Grey’s Anatomy is a large ensemble drama with a very diverse cast where race is solely limited to the colors of the character’s body.

Grey’s Anatomy has a realistic feel. The series indicates actual circumstances. For instance the main setting takes place in a hospital were surgeons spend the majority of their time. Throughout all thirteen seasons you are watching doctors treat and diagnose patients. Doctors are going through the steps of running tests, coming up with treatments plans and performing all kinds of surgeries from an Appendectomy to a heart transplant. The television series shows when running tests or the doctors common knowledge with medicine doesn’t seem to work or treat the patient properly they research the symptom’s, the causes, and why something would work for one patient and not another then they find the best way to treat each patient just as you would see or experience if you were an actual patient being seen in your town hospital. The viewer can get a sense of what it takes to become a surgeon. Starting fresh out of medical

In Sympathy, a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the narrator speaks of his feelings that sympathize with how a caged bird feels and why he does what he does in his cage. The author uses style to convey the theme of oppression and imprisonment and the tone of pain and agony through the use of imagery, diction, and repetition.

The documentary The Waiting Room presents a safety-net hospital located in Oakland, California. In the film, director Peter Nix follows patients, doctors, and staff throughout a typical day. Furthermore, the film displays how the staff is overworked, causing an impact regarding how the American health care system is affecting millions of uninsured patients who try to cope with injury and disease. The film utilizes techniques from the observational mode such as long takes, crisis structure, and documenting unplanned everyday experiences to convey the cruel realities of Americans seeking hope and treatment.

The documentary The Waiting Room, is about a safety-net hospital called Highland Hospital located in Oakland, California. In the film, director Peter Nix follows patients, doctors, and staff all throughout a typical day at the hospital. Furthermore, the film displays how the staff is overworked, and how the American health care system is affecting millions of uninsured patients who try to cope with injury and disease. The film utilizes techniques from the observational mode like: long takes, crisis structure, and everyday experiences that unfold spontaneously to transmit the cruel realities of uninsured patients who go to Highland Hospital seeking hope and treatment.

There is always new life lesions integrated into each storyline. There is also a perspective of life and personality placed with each character. Behind each and every scene there is a greater purpose that the producer embedded into it. This subconsciously has the watcher learn a lesson while watching the series and having them more attached to the show. This is all within the production Grey’s Anatomy. Incorporating that there is a way for one to be successful in whatever they dream whether they are male or female, young or old, rich or poor. The message that any person no matter who they are can do what they put their mind too even if it is a high status career. Explaining the work that it takes to get there and obstacles they will have to overcome. With this accomplishment of a great career due to their hard work it is also possible for them to have great relationships and family life outside of work. Grey’s just as any other well created series can help sculpt the minds of this generation. Television is an adequate way enforce much needed societal messages to the population, trying to help change the wrong doings present in this

Small patient groups within the wards, along with large community meetings, there feelings are shared and patients' comments taken seriously, and work assignments, recreational activities, are assigned to make the hospital less like a "holding" environment. .

Patients who present with a traumatic brain injury (TMI), are at greatest risk of developing respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), which increases their death rate. The study of this article is to show the comparison of respiratory mechanics and the death rate with patients who present with a TMI and RDS with those patients who have RDS without a TMI, but other medical causes of the RDS. This study was performed in a 14-month period in a general intensive care and teaching unit in Brazil. It looked at patients who were in the ICU due to RDS with or without the cause being a TMI. A total of 85 patients were assessed in this timeframe: 30 of the patients presented with a TMI without RDS, 17 were present with a TMI and acute RDS, and