Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on Television — Exaggerations and Accusations

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One of the most popular shows on television this year is ER, a Chicago-based drama that depicts the professional and personal lives of medical students, residents, and attending physicians working in the emergency department of an inner-city public hospital. ER, of which I am coproducer, and other current medical programs on television, including Chicago Hope and Rescue 911, are dramatized, not documentary, accounts of doctors' and patients' lives. In its depiction of a busy trauma center, ER presents exciting cases of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), including thoracotomies and defibrillations, often performed in young victims of violence. Chicago Hope details the perpetually . . .