ER' shows accurate pace of emergency rooms March 20, 2007 Galveston County Daily News, March 19, 2007 GALVESTON - The funny thing about medical students and doctors is that they don't have a lot of time to watch all those TV shows about medical students and doctors. Still, Dr. Angela K. Gardner has seen enough episodes of NBC's drama series "ER" to make a diagnosis about how true a portrayal it is of the real-life business of saving lives. While ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" is the fresh-faced medical show making the rounds, "ER," in its 13th season, is still one of the highest-rated dramas on television. Michael Crichton, who received his medical degree at Harvard Medical School, created the show, which follows the medical personnel and patients in the emergency room of Chicago's fictional County General Hospital. The show is pretty good at capturing how hectic an emergency room can be, Gardner said. "The pace feels right," said Gardner, assistant professor in the division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch. "But they get their scripts out and say all these things and they have no idea what they mean." But at the island emergency room, there's a lot more trauma and a lot less drama, Gardner said. « Back | The Newsroom »