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

16) Unrealistic Recoveries

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In medical dramas, patients, after whatever severe injury or illness, rapidly recover or at least appear to be recovering miraculously. Such unrealistic quick recoveries raise false expectations of the speed and likelihood of recovery in actual health care. In shows like House, patients more often present rare and immediately life-threatening conditions that, after a dramatic journey of diagnosis, make quick and complete recovery. By depicting unrealistic recoveries, medical dramas create a distorted view of the healing process and the challenges patients face.

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