I’ve noticed both medical dramas and police dramas rely heavily on Californian legal practice, because Hollywood. For example, I just watched the episode of Doc (it’s literally just called Doc) where a doctor saved someone on the “DNR list” and almost got suspended, and so here I was thinking “the patient’s perspective would never fly in my environment”. Of course, though, the US (and definitely California) are not the whole world. So I was wondering, what’s an episode of a medical/police drama you could think of where, in your legal environment, the characters would seem crazy for diving into the topic of how they did?
Not directly related to the question, but Brazilian medical drama is nurses fighting to keep shit up and running on hospitals while medics clock in then head off to their particular clinics.
Brazil also still has separate military and civil polices, the former doing the legwork and shooting people, the latter doing actual investigations, so any USA-like police drama just wouldn’t work here.
Makes me wonder when someone is going to make a military drama.
There was an episode of The Good Doctor where two of Shaun’s patients were teenagers who had a one night stand, and the doctors are arguing over the ethics of it, and Shaun has the last word when he mentioned it’s legal in California for consenting teenagers to do it up if they were both teenagers and consented, and he shuts down the debate. This is bold and alarming for a TV show within California, but things get worse outside of California and especially outside the US where people can be more conservative. Some people poke the bear, but they were striking the bear with a frypan here with walking the lines that would get the show banned in places like Korea where the show’s predecessor originated in the first place.
I mean, Shaun isn’t wrong.
Is the controversy because they’re having sex in the hospital?
Basically none of the police drama coming out of Hollywood would hold up in the real world. Not even in California.
They do draw heavily upon references to their norms though.
I guess it wouldn’t really change at all since I am in California. I’ll still have free healthcare (that isn’t very good) from the state, and all the doctors are super sexy because that’s actually how it is here. Everyone thinks Hollywood is bullshit; they’ve just never been to California. 🤷🏻♂️
Wasn’t The Resident in Georgia?
