Understand that I have never seen the TV show, “Grey’s Anatomy.” Based on the title of the show, I assumed (correctly, it turns out) that it is a medical drama program. It has been running for fourteen seasons. That’s a total of 305 episodes through February 8, 2018, including five special episodes. If you are familiar with the program and think it is unseemly for a Christian to watch it, understand that I have never watched it. I have no idea what its content is.
But, I received an email from a fitness website with an article attached, entitled “What Actual Surgeons Think of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Will Make You Laugh.” So, I had to peruse the article, written by Leah Groth. Miss Groth draws our attention to an article published in the medical journal, Trauma Surgery and Acute Care, which suggests that viewers may walk away from “Grey’s Anatomy” with unrealistic expectations of treatment in hospitals. The problem is that patients, based on their viewing medical dramas on TV, can have unrealistic expectations if they are actually admitted to a real hospital. Unrealistic expectations can cause hospital stays to be less than ideal.
The study author is trauma medical director of a hospital in Phoenix. He and his team examined 269 episodes of the program. They took copious notes and then examined those notes from real research available from the National Trauma Databank. TV drama is more dramatic than real life hospital stays. Are we surprised? It is also more glamorous. “Grey’s Anatomy” patients tended to be younger and skewed toward a female demographic than reality. Recovery times on TV are shorter than reality. The death rate is higher in a fictionalized world. On TV, 22% of the patients die while only 7% do so in reality.
What is my point in bringing this up? It is made by Miss Groth: “just don’t base your medical expectations on” the TV show. “We don’t watch ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to be educated. We watch it for entertainment value,” the study doctor observed.
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Having said all of this, here’s what I want to emphasize. We cannot and we absolutely must emphasize to family and friends that we cannot get our theology from any TV shows or movies that we watch. If the program comes out of Hollywood, it is probably made with an agenda and the writers and producers probably have little knowledge about or little respect for the Word of God.
At the same time, we do not get our theology from preachers and teachers either (including yours truly!). We can only get our theology from the Word of God. So many people get their “knowledge” of God or Christ from TV shows and movies, or even preachers, and they have unrealistic expectations of the Father and the Son.
No, don’t get your theology from what you watch on the screen, big or small.
Paul Holland
