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

5) Overuse of CPR

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While medical dramas tend to portray CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) as almost always successful, often with characters making miraculous recoveries, the reality is the opposite. CPR, in general, has a low success rate for resuscitation, and these miraculous outcomes are rarely the case. For instance, in shows like Grey's Anatomy, a character might perform CPR on a patient, and after a few chest compressions and breaths, the patient miraculously wakes up and starts talking. By overusing and oversimplifying CPR, medical dramas create unrealistic expectations about its effectiveness.

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