19 things medical dramas tend to get wrong about the healthcare industry

11) Working Under Influence

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Medical dramas often depict doctors working under the influence of alcohol and drugs, providing storylines with an added dimension of drama. In real life, this behavior is highly unethical and dangerous and warrants serious disciplinary action, including the loss of a medical license. For instance, in Nurse Jackie, the central character Jackie Peyton, played by Edie Falco, is a nurse struggling with an addiction to prescription painkillers. That sets up the tension of watching a woman with dragons of her own personal issues be a good nurse while showing the impact of the addiction itself.

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