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 One very popular tv show that has been airing since 2005 is Greys Anatomy. This show is focused on a close to similar life of a young striving girl, Merideth, and four other interns who hope to become a doctor. With a legacy as her last name, she goes through trials in the hospital to reach the top. Among this show you are able to ride along as you see how stressful and drama-filled the life of a doctor can be — its also a little exaggerated on the drama end. This show includes everything; love, alcohol, plane crashes, social hierarchy, and loss of loved ones.

Greys has stayed popular and continued to grow into 16 seasons of endless stories and medical miracles. As part of the audience, you are always kept on your feet as the story and plot thickens over time and there are surprise twists that change the show completely. I believe people continue to watch this show because it was a look in on what doctors of different departments go through, personally and also medically. It shows that they are humans and that it takes hard work and dedication to remain in a specialty of medicine that can consume your whole life.

Many social issues are also present in this show like health insurance issues, probono surgeries for those who are financially unstable but need care, cancer treatments, developmental issues among children caused by parental influence, and many more. It attacks a new look at how you view doctors and how you should be aware of the care they can have for such people and healing individuals.

There are significant loses through this series that show how hard it is to lose a loved one as a doctor because there seems to be this idea that doctors are just doing a job and have no emotional attachments to those around them that they lose. But this show challenges that and provides a look at how there are medical people who act on affection and struggle just like ordinary people.

Personally, I feel like this show may slightly glorify how doctors are when in reality it’s not as exciting and there are not as many medical breakthroughs, but this show has slowly made an impact on those who want to become a doctor. Resulting from this is an increase in the need for people to want to become a doctor, similarly to those who watch cop shows and all of a sudden want to be a cop.

Overall, I love this show and binged it so hard over the summers of my high school life and have followed the roller coaster of emotions you feel when watching this show. It may be for you if you like medical genre and enjoy a drama-filled growth of the start/struggle of five interns in their life journey of becoming the best doctors.