Surgical Resident Breaks Down 49 Medical Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

Annie Onishi, general surgery resident at Columbia University, takes a look at emergency room and operating room scenes from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate they really are. Would the adrenaline scene from Pulp Fiction actually play out that way? Is all that medical jargon we hear in shows like Grey’s Anatomy and House true-to-life? Is removing a bullet really a cure-all for a gunshot wound? Correction: We misidentified the type of worm in the Grey’s Anatomy episode