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Vsmart
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02-10-2003

Friday, June 27, 2008 - 7:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vsmart a private message Print Post    
Similar to the old series at Hopkins Hospital of following real doctors around, but with the production values of "Grey's Anatomy". Loved the music, but could do without the drs' personal problems. The illegal farm worker who becomes one of the 4 best brain surgeons in the country felt preachy.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Friday, June 27, 2008 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I enjoy this kind of program -- both the medical and personal stuff.

But I always wonder . . . it's fantastic that that illegal migrant farm worker became a brain surgeon. But if he's one of the four best in the country, why haven't I heard of him? One of the four best according to who (whom?)? Himself?

Mack
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07-23-2002

Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 6:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mack a private message Print Post    
John Hopkins Hospital obviously has a great reputation and attracts some of the leading specialists but it's hard to say if they are in the top this or that. Having worked with surgeons as a clinical psychologist for the 30+ years I've come across more than one who thought they were pretty special. Actually thought he was pretty mild, you should see some of the egos.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 8:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Mack, I'm a retired legal secretary. Some of them . . . . There are truly good ones too -- personality-wise. Out of all that I worked for, only one or two were not. The last attorney I worked for was so very nice, but he got himself disbarred!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
My hometown hospital. I've never been in it though. My dad did get his Phd from JHU though.

Tvclubber
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06-22-2008

Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 5:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tvclubber a private message Print Post    
I liked the first episode. The neurosurgeon didn't seem like a prima donna to me. I liked his confidence, his bedside manner, and his surgical skills. He didn't scream at the OR staff or the scheduling staff when things went wrong. He firmly told them how he felt and that was that.

The urology scenes were interesting because male patients were featured.

Panda
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07-15-2005

Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 7:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
when does this come on?

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 8:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Thursday nights at 10 on ABC. The blonde doctor guy was on GMA this morning and he said he and his wife are still together and have rekindled their marriage. He had tears in his eyes after they showed a clip of his oldest daughter saying she was worried what would happen if they did divorce and who would get custody of them. I am glad that they are working on their marriage and hope they are successful.

Cathie
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08-16-2000

Friday, July 04, 2008 - 12:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cathie a private message Print Post    
That's nice to hear, Beachcomber. The daughters are so beautiful, and the oldest one seems wise beyond her years!

Cathie
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08-16-2000

Friday, July 04, 2008 - 12:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cathie a private message Print Post    
That's nice to hear, Beachcomber. The daughters are so beautiful, and the oldest one seems wise beyond her years!

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Friday, July 04, 2008 - 8:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Does anyone know the song / artist that was playing while Dr. Bethea (blonde doctor) was driving in his car with his daughters? There's a page about the music on the ABC web site. Figure it could have been Elza? But doesn't seem to be one of the songs listed.

Cathie
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08-16-2000

Friday, July 04, 2008 - 11:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cathie a private message Print Post    
I think the song is "Picture", a duet by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow. Here's a YouTube of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kskFvErnVQ

Tvclubber
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06-22-2008

Saturday, July 05, 2008 - 6:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tvclubber a private message Print Post    
I'm glad to hear that the thoracic surgeical resident and his wife are still together. It would be devastating to lose a spouse you've known since early childhood. All the best to them and their lovely children.

The storyline with the lung-transplant patient had me crying. Everything about it was sad, yet hopeful. The scenes that featured organ harvesting
made me cringe. I kept thinking about the young widow from the first season of the ladies in the Chicago house. I can't remember the show's name--the one where women lived in the house to work on life skills with life coaches. Anyway, she talked about her husband's organ donations . . . and was concerned because he didn't get anesthesia. She couldn't help but worry that he felt pain. I've wondered the same thing about organ donors ever since I heard her say that.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Saturday, July 05, 2008 - 8:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Tvclubber, it was the daytime show "Starting Over" and the housemate was Lori.

Cathie, thanks. I think that was the song. Still have the eppisode in my TiVo. I'll have to check it out.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Saturday, July 05, 2008 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Lori3
Lori

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, July 05, 2008 - 11:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I happened to be home Thursday night for the first time in a while, and I liked this show. Kinda just seems like aNOTHER version of all those hospital shows that used to play on either TLC of Discovery (I forget which). Real life doctors and nurses....yeah it's been done before.

The organ donation story was so sad. It give a real insight to how hard it is for the family...get all the way right up to pre-surgery, only to find the lungs aren't good enough. I LOVED the husband and how positive he was for the family. My mom is like that in hard times; she's the one always putting a more positive outlook on things, but not in an insincere way. I loved when the husband was saying "nothing but the best for you" about possible transplant lungs. It was so sweet. I was almost in tears, but my bf was in the room, so I swallowed hard.

Vsmart
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02-10-2003

Sunday, July 06, 2008 - 8:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vsmart a private message Print Post    
My father died 40 years ago on Catalina Island west of Los Angeles. 2 people were prepped to receive his corneas (only transplant done then). But the fog came in & the plane couldn't lift off in time. I still think how sad it was for those patients to have their hopes to see dashed. (He had a heart attack while we were fishing).

Cricket
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08-05-2002

Sunday, July 06, 2008 - 7:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cricket a private message Print Post    
Thursday nights at 10 on ABC. The blonde doctor guy was on GMA this morning and he said he and his wife are still together and have rekindled their marriage. He had tears in his eyes after they showed a clip of his oldest daughter saying she was worried what would happen if they did divorce and who would get custody of them. I am glad that they are working on their marriage and hope they are successful.

Thanks for posting that, Beachcomber. I, too, am very happy to hear that. He seemed so lost and forlorn and yes, his oldest daughter is such a beauty. As first I thought his wife wasn't that pretty, but at the end of the last episode when they showed her standing in the door or talking with him, I saw so much of her older daughter in her. She, too, is a classic beauty. I so hope they stay together. I'm sure it's very hard being married to a doctor, but I hope she hangs in there. I like him a lot. Besides being a doctor, he's a man, and if she decided to divorce, she would soon find out none of them are perfect...doctor or no.

Gee, sorry about your Dad, Vsmart. How awful that must have been for you at the time.

Tvclubber
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06-22-2008

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 6:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tvclubber a private message Print Post    
Yes, that's it, Color! Starting Over. I wonder how Lori is doing.

I have friends who are treated at Johns Hopkins, which is part of the series' attraction to me. They see practicing physicians who aren't on the show (so far!).

Cathie
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08-16-2000

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cathie a private message Print Post    
I wonder how long they have been filming this. The lung transplant patient was followed up with a "one year later" ending to her story for us. These people cpuld all be in different jobs and different hospitals by now.

Tvclubber
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06-22-2008

Friday, July 11, 2008 - 11:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tvclubber a private message Print Post    
Last night's episode highlighted a young man (i.e., 19 or 20) who had a heart transplant and the reconciliation of the thoracic-surgical resident and his wife. One of the sideline stories showed three of the surgical residents leave the hospital early to tour a nearby historical site. While there, one of the residents answered his cell phone and had to tell a surgical nurse that, no, he couldn't come and close a patient who was on the table because he wasn't in the hospital. It was pretty funny. Shocking, too, that he was on call and left the building.

Vsmart: I;m sorry to hear that your dad died unexpectedly and that his corneas couldn't be used.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, July 11, 2008 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I was kinda surprised how quickly the heart transplant patient was walking around. Then again I don't think it really said how long after surgery it was.

Vsmart
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02-10-2003

Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 7:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vsmart a private message Print Post    
Obviously, this is PR for Hopkins, so we saw the rare patient who survived the heart transplant & was able to get out of bed. But if he kept disobeying his doctors he will not keep taking all the anti-rejection meds on time.
Also the cute dr. had to be shown getting back with his family.