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

10) Lone Doctors In The ER

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In medical dramas, the storyline often shows a single heroic doctor making critical choices on his own in the ER. The truth is that an ER is a team effort with many different types of health workers working in coordination to get the job done efficiently. The show, The Night Shift constantly portrays Eoin Macken's Dr. TC Callahan dealing with multiple critical cases single-handedly, making life-and-death decisions with limited input from the rest of the team. While this is compelling TV, that is not how ERs operate in reality.

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