A Look Inside the Lives of SGH Interns... From a Real-Life MGH Intern
When it comes to covering America's best TV drama, Grey's Anatomy Insider never stops looking for vantage points. Recently we set out to determine how realistic the show is, and how it is perceived among actual surgical interns. Since we don't know any such people, we settled for the next best thing.
A pediatrics intern.
Dr. Heather Diskin a first-year intern at Massachusetts General Hospital after graduating from UMass Medical School. As a longtime friend of the Insider and a devoted fan of Grey's Anatomy, she was generous enough to endure an interview with our annoying staff. Below are her thoughts on Seattle Grace Hospital's medical realism, interns and attendings fraternizing in the real world, Dr. Shepherd's McDreaminess, and so much more.
THE INSIDER: How realistically does the show portray the medical conditions and sequences? Please explain.
DR. D.: The first two times I watched the show, I found it painfully unrealistic. But then I became totally hooked because of how great the characters are. The various personalities definitely exist in every hospital -- especially among surgeons. But the patients, their conditions (i.e. the woman with spontaneous orgasms), and the interactions between interns and attendings do not.
The other unrealistic feature is how much free time the interns have. There is no time for eating lunch everyday, no midday quickie in the call room, no watching surgeries from above the O.R. There is just too much work!










