Saturday, January 24, 2009

Private Practice: Researcher's Blog

As part of a project I'm working on right now, I was trying to generate a list of health-oriented shows (in terms of focus or context) that are likely to be popular with the general public. I was looking through the major networks to check out all their shows, and I found something interesting on the Private Practice website - the Researcher's Blog. It includes notes and thoughts on each episode in terms of the medicine/science behind the show, ethical implications of the plot, etc. I wasn't expecting that, and I'm curious what kind of traffic that blog generates.

In terms of the survey my list currently includes:
  • Grey's Anatomy
  • House
  • Discovery Health
  • Scrubs
  • Private Practice
  • ER
  • Nip/Tuck
  • Law and Order: SVU
  • General Hospital
To anyone out there, am I missing any shows that should be on this list? Those seemed to be the biggies on some of the major networks, but I'm sure I'm missing something still.

2 comments:

Melissa said...

Maybe some of the shows like Birth Story that are about, well, giving birth! I don't know the names of the others but I know they are out there!

Mackert said...

Oh, great point. I wasn't even thinking of A Baby Story or that stuff on TLC. That's a great suggestion, thanks!