Wednesday, September 28, 2005

I liked how Sunday's episode of Grey's Anatomy touched on the gaping flaw in US medicine: a big chunk of the population can't afford it. The doctors on ER can work miracles, but we don't see anyone turned away at the door because they don't have good enough coverage. Of course, they wimped out in the end. The writers pulled a rabbit out of their, well, some part of their anatomy, and our beloved patient didn't have to lose his bar after all. But it was nice to see that at least one show is aware that not everyone is getting a crack team of doctors working on their life-and-death emergency. A lot of people are just dying.

In the Canadian version, of course, the teaser would be: the character collapses in the bar, and the doctors say, "You need an operation, or you'll die! What's your schedule look like next Spring?"

11:22 AM

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