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Not Your Grandmother’s Doctor Show: A Review of Grey’s Anatomy, House, and Nip/Tuck

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  1. Turow, Playing Doctor: Television Storytelling and Medical Power (New York: Oxford Press, 1996).

  2. Ibid. 1241.

  3. Malmsheimer, Doctors only: The evolving image of the American physician (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988).

  4. Ibid, 130.

  5. Pfau, M., Mullen, L. & Garrow, K., “The influence of television viewing on public perceptions of physicians,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 39, No. 4 (1995): 441–58.

  6. See Chory-Assad & Tamborini, “Television doctors: An analysis of physicians in fictional and non-fictional television programs,” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 45 (2001): 499–522; Chory-Assad & Tamborini, “Television exposure and the public’s perception of physicians,” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 47 (2003): 209.

  7. Vanderford, “Television and Human Values: A Case Study of ‘ER’ and Moral Ambiguity,” in Religious Values at the Threshold of the Third Millennium, ed. F. Villanov, PA: Villanova University Press, 1999) pp. 33–73.

  8. Information on Grey’s Anatomy’s cast, producers and storylines found at http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/index and http://www.zap2it.com/news/zap-greysanatomywinsfirstthurdsay,0,4203002.story

  9. Rimes and Beers, “Into you like a Train.”

  10. Information on the show, producers, characters, and actors found at http://www.fox.com/house/showinfo/

  11. Information on the show, producers, characters, and actors found at http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/niptuck_s4/

  12. See Vanderford.

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Strauman, E., Goodier, B.C. Not Your Grandmother’s Doctor Show: A Review of Grey’s Anatomy, House, and Nip/Tuck . J Med Humanit 29, 127–131 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-008-9055-3

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