There is a show that used to be on Sy-Fy (the science fiction television channel) called Monster created by Naoki Ursawa that I believe misrepresents the nursing field. The show is about a surgeon and at the beginning of the show a scenario plays out that I do not believe would happen in real life, granted the show is fiction. A young boy is about to go into surgery for removal of a bullet injury to his head. Since Dr. Tenma (who is the best neurosurgeon) is on duty he takes the job and is about to undergo the procedure. Right at that moment though the mayor of the city is admitted to the hospital for a heart attack and the hospital staff wants Dr. Tenma to treat him before treating the young boy. Tenma refuses to leave the operation room and is about to continue his work on the boy when the hospital director threatens him to losing his job if he does not leave the boy and treat the mayor. In the end Tenma treats the boy and the mayor ends up passing away, and Tenma is fired from his position at the hospital.
There are a lot of things that are wrong with this scenario that would never happen in a real life hospital. Firstly, a hospital director would not interrupt a open head surgery that was already being done. This is just simply not the right thing to do, one should never interrupt a surgeon while he is operating, the director simply would have called the next most capable doctor to operate on the mayor. Also, there is no possible way that the director would threaten the top surgeons job if he doesn't abandon the operation he is performing. Hospitals run on a high level of professionalism and this scenario would be like children complaining that they did not get their way. It would be unheard of for the leader of the hospital to make decisions in this manner, and is a huge misrepresentation of hospitals.
Another thing that is wrong about this scenario is Tenma being fired for the mayor dying. The director fires him because he thinks the hospitals name will be tarnished because the mayor of the city died in it, but the truth of the matter is people die in hospitals all the time, its just reality. And also he saved the young boy from a bullet wound to the head, if anything he should be getting congratulated instead of fired. When you are a part of a hospital staff your main goal is to help whoever comes in the best that you can, it is not possible to save everyone, so in real life someone would not get fired for this reason.
All references are from episode 1 of Monster by Naoki Ursawa.
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