Fictional television medical dramas...

Fictional television medical dramas regularly address many important national health care issues, as it is as patient's rights, managed care, the right to die, and racial disparities in health care, according to a July 16 2002 stranges release from the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation. A investigation of the 2001-2002 television season also establish however, that other issues, as it is as prescription medication coverage for older adults and insurance coverage for uninsured persons were not featured on these shows

The thought found that an average of undivided scene per episode of television medical dramas dealt with a health care policy issue. The exhibits generally did not express a bias toward either side of an issue, with approximately half of the shows presenting both sides of an issue. The other shows were split evenly between spectacles that favored the current policy upon an issue and those that oppos it.

TV Medical Dramas Address Health Policy Issues, recent Study Finds (news release, Washington, DC: The Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, July 16 2002)

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