Friday Fun Fact: I Hate Private Practice
Posted by realityrounds on January 22, 2010
Why didn’t someone warn me? I have never watched this show, but for some reason I watched it last night. Why do I hate it? Here are some reasons:
- Storyline of a mother “forcing” her daughter to get an abortion.
- Making fun of a woman wanting natural childbirth.
- Doctor stating she could only help a pregnant woman if she wanted surgery.
- Nurses saying asinine things like “dead infants are God’s Angels” to a grieving mom.
- Lit candles in the delivery room next to an oxygen tank.
- A resident helping the natural child birth mom labor. Nurses nowhere in sight.
- Resident repeatedly asking natural child birth mom if she needs pain meds.
- Teenagers roaming the halls un-escorted in L&D while viewing stranger’s labor in pain.
- Doctor mom who drags her pregnant teenage daughter into a NCB delivery so she can see how it would ruin her life. (HIPAA hello!).
- Resident delivering NCB mom with no nurse in sight.
- OB’s living in a house on a private beach in California.
I could go on, but I won’t. Why didn’t anyone warn me about this show?
RR
Sarah said
This show is absolutely terrible though I often watch it anyway. (And feel slightly sordid, but that’s my own issue.) Actually, Dell is supposed to be a midwife, not a resident. Which doesn’t help with the pain meds part. The sad part is, this isn’t nearly as bad as some of their pregnancy/childbirth plotlines.
Stassja said
Yikes, sounds like an episode to avoid! Not a show I watch religiously but I do from time to time and yeah, with their super-awesome-high-risk-OB starring the show they end up with alot of pretty abominable hospital story lines.
One stuck out in my mind, of a woman who had recently lost her husband and was being induced at the clinic, but was in water for the labor and having alot of emotional distress over the father of her child which as I recall caused alot of stress over the baby and they were really pressuring her to do this or that and she was being “bad” and insisting on doing things a certain way. It somehow ended with one of the doctors in the tub with the mom and hugging her and I don’t even know. Nice thought, but this would happen, um, never?
Stassja said
*I meant abominable birth story lines!
mommymichael said
Yes I remember her saying something like “you need to do such and such or else your baby could DIE!!”
lawschoolwife said
The only point I will disagree with is the last one about the OBs living on a private beach. Addison comes from family money and has a multi-million dollar trust fund (ridiculous in its own way), and Sam is a best-selling author of some book called Dr. Feel Good or something, so presumably his money is not solely from his practice. Also kind of ridiculous
I don’t even know why I am sticking up for this show! Sorry!
storytellerdoc said
I’m with you…I get asked referral questions from patients all the time after they’ve seen another unrealistic, ridiculous storyline. They could use better consultants on the show,like us! LOL
realityrounds said
Damn straight they should use real medical professionals (who are currently practicing) as consultants. As far as I know there are no nurses writing or consulting for any medical shows, including that Nurse Jackie show.
Andrea said
This is why the only medical-themed show I watch is Scrubs.
Kristie said
LOL. Dell is actually a midwife, and they never have nurses for the deliveries that happen in the clinic.
realityrounds said
LOL is right! Who the hell is Dell? Some sort of hapless midwife. ugh
BB said
Haha..you should try watching the NBC show “Mercy.” It focuses on Nurses…who are so high strung and seem emotionally unstable I would never ever want them any where near me or any other patient! My mom in law used to be a registered nurse…one of the down to earth person you could meet..all the nurses I’ve met have to be calm under really high stress situations..so yeah not buying the stuff on TV
nycrn said
The best medical shows out there is United States of Tara and Dexter. However, please note one of the best RN performances ever done on film is “WIT” which stars one of the gals on the blog mentioned TV show.
Trish said
Maybe that’s what Amy is doing with her offline time.
MomTFH said
Ha, I know so little about it, I figured it was a law show. Yuck. Thanks for the warning. My head would have exploded during that episode.
Sean said
Heh heh.. don’t you just LOVE Hollywood medicine.
Darcie said
oh, some one else in my house (not me, watches that dumb show), few weeks ago I was laughing out loud when a pregnant woman trapped in a car (in passenger seat, husband unable to move on the ground) went into labor, Addison crawled into the drivers seat and found her to be dilated and in labor when ALL OF A SUDDEN the car started rolling down the hill and when it crashed now not only are they both trapped THE BABY FLIPPED TO BREACH FROM THE IMPACT!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA, but wait Addison (trapped in the drivers seat) was able to perform an external version and FLIP the baby again AHAHAHAHAHA(amazing!!!), she then pushes her baby out easily (declares to name her Addison) only then to have the rescue team arrive and while they were using the jaws of life to get her out of the car they stab her in the torso with a chunk of car and she bleeds to death….WHO WRITES THIS CRAP!!! really….
Erin said
This show is horrible! I stopped watching it last year because I couldn’t stand the inaccuracies anymore.
morgan said
A candle next to an oxygen tank?!? Wow, you’d think the producers would be a little brighter than that. That show (along with another certain doctor show) makes hospitals and doctors look really bad.