Question for lawyers and/or doctors.

Lawyers, do you like watching shows like Law and Order or The Practice or Boston Legal?

Doctors, do you watch shows like ER, House, even Scrubs?

I always wonder if people in those professions like those shows because they're in the same field or dislike them because they are (probably pretty) inaccurate.

Just curious.

You mean doctors don't have singing day at the hospital scored by the writers of Avenue Q? I am so disappointed right now.

House is my hero...

i like to think they do. or rather, hope.

I'm neither a lawyer nor a doctor, but I like giving misguided legal advice on the internet, and I have definitely had conversations in the executive bathroom with CGI babies. I might have also been dipping into the pharmacy's supply of ether while doing this.

are you a doctor?

Well, I don't know about all that, but I do know a chef. And she's always watching those darn cooking shows!

I can't watch Scrubs. Six years I've worked at the same hospital, and Scrubs just makes me yell at the screen, "Hospitals have no comedy! They're soul-sucking voids of anti-life which drain the humanity from their occupants!"

Scrubs is like my own personal "Mirror, Mirror" universe. Other medical shows I just don't watch. Scrubs, I can't.

Also, I'm a Tennessean who doesn't watch Law and Order, despite the Thompson-ness. Hope that helps.

yeah, but it's like that everywhere. in the navy we make a game out of stealing other people's happiness only because there's such a short supply at every command. give it a shot, it works (albeit temporarily).

i like to think they do. or rather, hope.

I see that and I raise you the best song ever:

I'm a lawyer and I thoroughly enjoy Boston Legal... but I think that has more to do with the comedy than anything else, since I pretty much loathe The Practice.

I was training to be a teacher, and I hated programmes about teachers.

Then I gave up wanting to be a teacher... and hated them even more.

As a doctor/lawyer, I can honestly say I don't have time to watch TV.

But as an asshole, I'm sure you love House.

I watch Law & Order all the time. Love it. I should watch stuff like Boston Legal more, but I don't. Regardless, yes.

I artificially inseminate cows for a living.

Where the hell is my show???

Here you go.

While not in the requested professions my father was a lawyer/superior court judge and my sister is a lawyer and myself as an airline pilot I can tell you that most of these shows drive us crazy. For any show aviation related they can't get 10 min. in with out a big fuck-up or such an over simplification of a complex procedure that makes it wrong to down right unbelievable. Same goes for most of the legal shows, especially time line issues, what you see in an hour takes months if not 1+ years to happen in real time. Some are better than others, the early L&O were/are good they at least hinted at how long/how much effort went into the investigation/prosecution of a criminal case. For aviation the shows "Seconds to Disaster" on Nat.Geo. and there is another one, can't remember the title are very good. They don't add anything to the event and every thing you hear from the pilots mouth is from the voice recorder transcripts. And the animation is good enough to make me uncomfortable when I watch one.

Is that what the cool kids are calling it now?

I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.

Cold Case makes me want to go to police academy and work homicide.

Spoiler that shit, man!

Oops. Duly noted.

(Though, to be fair, that shit was a couple seasons ago. )

I was kidding.

I do like that show, though, and didn't know her mom died, but it was fairly obvious it was coming. I watch it in reruns, y'see.

Back on topic ... I had some dealings with the police and some DA people back in the day when 'The Practice' was still on the air and they were borderline obsessed with that shit.