Surgical Resident Breaks Down 49 Medical Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

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Published 2018-03-14

Annie Onishi, general surgery resident at Columbia University, takes a look at emergency room and operating room scenes from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate they really are. Would the adrenaline scene from Pulp Fiction actually play out that way? Is all that medical jargon we hear in shows like Grey's Anatomy and House true-to-life? Is removing a bullet really a cure-all for a gunshot wound?

Correction: We misidentified the type of worm in the Grey's Anatomy episode at 5:23! It was actually Ascaris lumbricoides,not Strongyloides

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Surgical Resident Breaks Down 49 Medical Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

All Comments (21)

@pantaloonicone 6 years ago

Hearing smart people talk is fun
@joseh583 5 years ago

“Yelling at a person or cheering them on has never brought a patient back to life” 😂😂😂
@JaimeWarlock 4 years ago

I want to see a movie where they remove the bullet, everyone cheers, then the patient dies, followed by "maybe we should have repaired the damage instead".
@hopeworld_2190 4 years ago

"Totally unrealistic, Surgeons don't read the Atlantic Monthly. They read the New Yorker." I love her so much 😂😂😂
@fishmorgue 5 years ago

“These instruments look very futuristic and also medieval. .... they’re probably used in gynaecology.” lmao
@amshazow 4 years ago

in distant i hear Dr. Mike screaming “CHEST COMPRESSION CHEST COMPRESSION CHEST COMPRESSION”
@ayt3877 4 years ago

"That guy would have been tackled by six tiny pre ep nurses" 😂
@Finkelfunk 4 years ago

The actual reason why "The Knick" was so accurate as a show was because they had Dr. Stanley Burns on staff who is an actual surgeon and medical historian which ensured that things were kept medically realistic.
@kilppa 4 years ago

I was operated on and they put on some music and asked me if I minded it before starting. I was so drugged and happy that I just said "no, put it louder". They did and it was a good experience all around. Turned out my growth wasn't cancer.
@davesmurf6693 6 years ago

I love her Brutal yet almost “dry”humoured take on everything. Would 10/10 watch again
@ChristlBolongaita 4 years ago

"Those buckets are actually plastic, so... less impressive" 🤣
@jessicabaird7707 4 years ago

"Surgeons are one of the most competitive people on planet earth.... My personal time for a cholecystectomy is twenty two minutes" brushes shoulder 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 best line e-ver lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this girl is a queen
@heartworkbykitty7933 5 years ago

“It’s like being a ‘little bit’ pregnant you’re either in VTAC or not.” Lol
@aw.wowee33 5 years ago

this video made me realize two things: 1) A surgeon's job is incredibly complex and scary 2) Netflix should have NEVER gotten rid of Scrubs
@Al-qb6iv 4 years ago

doctor holds the mesentery and shows it to the screen her: i love this part
@halldorherm 2 years ago

"it's like being a little bit pregnant" This chick cracks me up.
@MrGoldInfinity 6 years ago

She has a graceful fury. Shes pretty cool
@alex0589 6 years ago

Make this a regular thing please.
@refsmithy 3 years ago

When she said "something tells me these guys are not real doctors" at 1:40, I suddenly had flashbacks to Toy Story: "I don't believe that man has ever been to medical school!"
@ella17734 4 years ago

"Somebody should really be giving chest compressions while they're trying to go figure it out" 🤣