One of the most popular shows on television this year is ER,a Chicago-based drama that depicts the professional and personallives of medical students, residents, and attending physiciansworking in the emergency department of an inner-city publichospital. ER, of which I am coproducer, and other current medicalprograms on television, including Chicago Hope and Rescue 911,are dramatized, not documentary, accounts of doctors' and patients'lives. In its depiction of a busy trauma center, ER presentsexciting cases of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), includingthoracotomies and defibrillations, often performed in youngvictims of violence. Chicago Hope details the perpetually . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Markert R. J., Saklayen M. G., Mulcahy H. E., Ellison M. M., Farthing M. J.G., Wallack E. M., Bingle G. J., Chheda M., Hauptman P. J., Troy A., Borowsky S. A., Wootton D. G., Byrne J. M., Loo L. K., Fisher F., Diem S. J., Lantos J. D., Tulsky J. A.
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