Internal medicine had always been the less glamorous of medical specialities, especially compared to surgery. All those soaps featuring cardiothoracic surgeons, neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons - they are all about heroic surgeons.
Forget American TV, even British one are mainly about surgeons or A&E.
Now there are two medic centric ones - scrubs and House. House always makes me angry - outlandish medicine and even more outlandish residents who do everything from pathology to angiography. Nobody has heard of specialisation in House let alone subspecialisation.
Scrubs is my favourite medical serial at the moment. One of my young nephews now wants to do internal medicine - all due to scrubs. Couple of years ago all of them wanted to surgery, Scrubs has made it cool to be a medic again.
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