1. You're Not Going to Have Sex on Your Deathbed
Dying is not as sexy as it looks on Greyness'southward Anatomy or ER. A existent nurse is overworked. She'south non wearing that tight uniform for your benefit. Don't button it: You may lose your bedpan or your spleen.

ii. An Intern Won't Save Your Life
You'd better hope an intern isn't the one running your resuscitation try or operating on y'all. Interns—fifty-fifty ones who expect like Meredith Grayness—are not supposed to manage actual cases.

3. A Donor Organ Won't Get in in the Nick of Time
On TV yous get the organ of your choice. In existent life you grow weaker and weaker, you lot try to buy an organ from someone, or you endeavour to procure 1 from overseas. You can hands die while waiting.

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4. You May Die of Something Silly
In House and other flashy diagnostic shows, it's always the rare blood disorder that kills you, but in your own medical drama, it may be the toothpick yous swallowed.

5. You Could Also Die in the E.R.
The waiting time in the small-screen East.R. is brusque, especially if you lot're a guest star. Show up at an bodily emergency room and yous could wait in an alcove vomiting claret before anyone notices.

6. Flesh-Eating Leaner Won't Become You lot
Sure, just like on Scrubs, there are some bacteria in the world that can gobble up your skin and threaten your life, but that's why we have antibiotics. And while drug-resistant bacteria are a growing problem in real hospitals, they won't consume you.

7. You Won't Dice Right Away
Chock-full arteries can be bypassed again and over again, chemotherapy tin can ho-hum the accelerate of cancer for months or years, and feeding tubes and respirators are able to do all your eating and breathing for you. It'due south only on TV that everything is wrapped up between commercials.

8. A Doctor Won't Deliver a Verdict
Fifty-fifty if you're dying, statistics show that your doctor may non be the i to tell yous right away. He may not want you to lose all hope. He may non know how to treat your pain. We doctors are human and flawed. Most of us are not every bit bold every bit Ben Casey or as dewy-eyed as McDreamy.

ix. Yous Won't Come Back from Cardiac Arrest
On TV, Meredith Grey's heart stops beating for over an hour and her body temperature slips below 90°, nevertheless she fully recovers. Don't bet on it: Your bodily take a chance of surviving cardiac arrest is less than xviii pct, and brain damage is likely fifty-fifty if you do recover. If yous encounter ghosts like Meredith does, they're probably real.

x. Yous May Die Watching Idiot box
Being sedentary leads to beingness overweight, which affects ii-thirds of Americans and endangers their lives in innumerable ways. Then if you want to lookout man shows depicting illnesses you won't dice from, at least do it while exercising.