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Grey's Anatomy Simplify Her Condition

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After hearing Ariel’s experience with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome I was curious to hear how much did Grey’s Anatomy truly simplify her condition? After reading a book about this disease it gave me more insight to what these individuals go through on a daily basis. The young woman easily popping her joint back into place is not how they actually live, once that happens they are excruciating pain, without the ability to just place it back. Several who become ill with EDS have pulmonary issues, suddenly causing death? Patients with this dominant disorder have shortened life due to complications from ruptured vessels or hollow organs (Acton 7). Grey’s Anatomy brought EDS awareness, but slightly touched on the actual affects of having it.
After having showing the EDS case, I was curious if they had done an episode on a condition I had when I was younger, Kawasaki’s. Both cases were glamourized, and …show more content…

I am truly thankful for nurses, and doctors who care about their patients, and their job. You have to have a certain heart to be in the medical field, and Grey’s Anatomy makes it seem as if everyone can be in health care. Many people get into healthcare just for the money, and it makes the whole situation complicated. If the doctor is just there for the money, not enjoying his or her job, then they are unhappy. If they are unhappy that reflects as to how they treat the nurses, and assistances. If their boss is coming down on them, then it makes their own job less enjoyable reflecting that to the patients. It is a chain of reaction. They do not show the true dedication, hard work, or motivation. Most of the events that happen in the work place of the Seattle Grace hospital are not realistic, and would actually never happen. And, I know that it is television, but they have made the medical field become as if it is some easy, fun ride into a

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