Real life medical shows. Fascinating or gross?

I'm about the only one in my family who can watch those shows. I remember just describing to my dad about the guy whose legs and feet were pretty much like tree trunks, and how a doctor went to his village and told him that he could just saw the 'trunk' like growth as it grew on his feet. And they showed his brother-in-law just sawing what looked like part of his feet off. And I was just telling him about it, not making him watch it, and he got mad. The only time I couldn't watch something was the other day. I think it was Trauma in the ER or something, and a homeless guy's leg and foot was covered in maggots. They had done the recreation, and I admit I had to turn that off.

lol... you sound just like me and my husband! i will sit there and watch even if it is so gross because it is fascinating to see how they fix the problems. and some of the problems on these shows really are very interesting! (i saw the 200 lb tumor, also). but my hubby will sit there and act like a 10 year-old girl, whining until i turn the channel! i don't know how he ever sat in on my two c-sections! lol

I actually really like watching shows like this. The more gore the better. It actually is a learning experience to see how procedures are done. Like it or not, that is how it's done and some might be more comforted to see it done, others may be frightened after seeing it. I would rather know what is being done, and how it is done, then to have a procedure done to me and be left in the dark about it.

I also watch real life medical show. I dont consider it as gross but i consider it as educational. It makes me understand more about how the operation was done. And it is an eye opener for me how hard it is to be working in the medical field. It takes a lot of courage to undergo a surgery knowing that the life of the person is at stake. As a medical practioner it made me appreciate more my job and the people who work in this field.

I actually enjoy real life medical shows. There are few instances when they are doing a surgery when I will get sick, but that's once in a blue. It shows me that the doctors/nurses really love their job- and I commend them for it.

Its gross but its fascinating as well coz i cud learn a lot from this shows and besides it maybe gross now but once u get used to it..it isnt that gross anymore..you focused on the learning side

I like to watch real medical programmes such as medical detectives. My wife does not like to watch such programmes that illustrates the gruesome details. She says that tv must be entertaining and not showing blood and other gruesome details. So most of the times I have to switch it on another tv station. I have to watch these programmes when she is not around.

hi wotfpatty wow what a user name lol. Oh i am with you, I love medical shows specially real life ones. I look at it in a scientific way and it doesnt gross me out.i spent too many years working as a nurses aid in various hospitals to get grossed out over our own bodies. we should learn all we can about them, after allwe dont have any spares! I do notthink you strange at all. 'some people cannot handle it but we look at it as fascinating and a learning experience. even childbirth to some people is gross but its sure a natural expereience

Anything like that i find amazing. I think that it is so cool the way that cures can be found when there is no answer at first. My son had a surgery when he was born, the doctors did not know what it was, and had to send him to a specialist, a huge hospital, with a lot of specialists in it. When the ambulance got him there all of the doctors had to come by and look at what was wrong, and take pictures so that they can teach upcoming doctors about it. It was a very scary experience, although, the information about the surgery compells me. The chance of it happening to any child was 1 in 3,000,000 That is a heck of a chance that my son had it. The specialist told us going into the surgery that they did not know what it was, noone has even see it before, and that he had to look in a book about 5 inches thick to find out what it could be. When they had an idea they let me know that it could be one of three things. And they told me of each and the different affects it would have on my son. Fortunetly, it was one that had little affects and only requires yearly checkups for the surgery. I think that my son will be so interested in what happened to him that he will be compelled to become a doctor. He has already told me that he is going to be a doctor lol and he is only 3 years old! Great discussion.

I think it's fascinating! It's really strange for a man to feel that way whenever they watch those kinds of tv shows. Me and my husband are very much fascinated by how the writers and the directors they do the storyline of the show. Although I sometimes while watching you will see me making faces while they do the surgery, but that's what I always do when I watch a show or a movie. It's how I enjoy it. But to think that those are just prosthetic I wouldn't walk away because of that.

I find them interesting :D You might learn a thing or two :d Have a nice day..

Your husband is a smart man... it is gross... it makes me shutter to think of it.

It is not available in our country though like on your experience watching a medical show where a 200 pound tumor was removed, it must be realy, really interesting because i think for me, it is way beyond normal and in my lifetime i won't be encountering so much like that. At least i would be able to watch it on television.

Well i dont see them, but instead i do that.... Im a doctor by profession....

Wow! We do not have any such real life medical shows. Though at times in some of the medical programs they do show snippets of some procedures conducted, but the details are usually hidden. As being from the field, I would not really mind seeing these procedures being executed. But, I do know that both my wife and my mother would be shouting at me to change the channel as they would find it difficult to digest the blood and the muscles. It is funny though that you are able to cope and your husband finds it difficult :) Cheers! Ram

I really like medical shows! I don't catch them on that often, but I find them very interesting when I watch them. Between the real life medical shows and Grey's Anatomy I feel like I would really like to go back to school and do something in medicine. It looks hard, and maybe sometimes gross, but it looks like a rewarding career and one that isn't going to be outsourced anytime soon. My mom worked for a pharmaceutical company as a word processor for a long time, so when I was a kid she would teach me big medical terms from her medical terminology class. I am somewhat squeamish when it comes to certain things, but I have found that I can watch pretty much anything on the medical shows, even the surgery. I also like the mystery diagnosis shows, I recently watched that a few times and it was crazy how people had fairly common illnesses but doctors kept misdiagnosing, I know I'd be upset if that was me!

I normally don't track down those type of shows to watch, but if I come across it while switching channels and it's an interesting procedure, I'll stop and watch it. I don't find it gross and much as I find it intruging as what modern medicine can accomplish these days. me

personally,i dont enjoy this kind of real life medical show.i dont think fascinating,nor do i think its gross.i may simply switch the channel. but when it comes to somthing really amazing,i may watch it for a while.

Yeah, I love seeing all the gory details and evidence of doctors fixing internal bleeding, medicine type shows, baby births, doctoral complications during surgeries etc... My favorite shows to watch now are Grays Anatomy, ER and Private Practice. Although PP doesn't show that much blood and other really cool stuff, I know the other two do. I can't watch all of the details though, as I might faint. I remember the birth of my last child, I was standing up momentarily and saw some of what the doctor was doing. I had to immediately sit down. Luckily the doctors didn't see that little episode, neither my wife. It could have been because I hadn't eaten earlier that day. Maybe your husband has been traumatized by some sort of incident in his childhood that makes him not want to watch those type of shows with you now? As long as you aren't watching a show that you both disagree that either person should not be watching alone, it's fine. Don't know if you guys have children, but maybe that will be something that you will come to share with your kids as they are older and not like to think that "mom" is a freak or gross. We don't subscribe to cable anymore so the only blood and guts shows I get to see are from the TV sitcoms I mentioned above.

I too love watching those live medical shows. Some of them can be quite disturbing to watch though! There's the example of a live separation of conjoined twins! This is absolutely horrendus to watch but, it is real life. The guys that carry out these surgical procedures, they are heroes in my book! I find the procedures very fascinating and they don't make me feel sick, I don't have to change the channel or anything like that. I think that the most graphic scenes to watch are where an individual suffers from some condition that affects the face, very bad disfigurement and so forth, I sometimes find these hard to watch. These need to be shown though, it's all based on real life. Andrew