Volume 3 Issue 2

Since at least the 1950s, medical dramas have been a staple of television programming, and MDs have been enlisted as consultants to help lend these programs a sense of reality. To find out what it takes to help produce medical dramas that are both accurate and entertaining, we spoke with consultants from two of the most popular examples of the genre in recent decades.

Rather than being a force for depersonalizing medicine and driving a wedge between patients and physicians, it turns out that information technology and social media offer new opportunities for deeper communication and interaction.

Even at a young age, Lu-Jean Feng, MD, was on a fast track.

The authors recount their trip to Trondheim, Norway.