Grey’s Anatomy has been a widely popular television series on ABC for many years and continues to get attention. Grey’s Anatomy is a television series that focuses on the lives of doctors, their relationships, and their experience in overcoming challenging surgical procedures. Many people tune in to watch the drama unfold, watch relationships grow, obstacles arise, and find a way to relate in one way or another. Throughout the twelve seasons, the audience has watched racially diverse characters come and go. Some might connect the show’s popularity to its racial diversity, while others might connect it to the entertaining medical drama. Although Grey’s Anatomy is a television series that is well-known for being racially diverse using the blind …show more content…
One of those differences being that one is clearly about doctors and saving lives, while the other shares incarcerations stories of the female inmates and their daily lives behind bars. In comparison to Grey’s Anatomy, The Netflix series: Orange is the New Black provides 100 percent equal racial or ethnic representation, while Grey’s Anatomy has yet to improve. Despite Grey’s Anatomy and Orange is the New Black having completely different story lines, genres, and settings, they are not as different as they may seem. Both series have white lead female actresses. Meredith Grey represents Grey’s Anatomy, While Piper Chapman represents the female lead in Orange is the New Black. The lead characters of each series can be easily identified through their pilots. Both series despite having lead characters still equally share the stories or backgrounds of each character that in one way or another that interact with the main character. Although they both use the same concept of incorporating the history of its characters, they both incorporate them differently. For example, In Grey’s Anatomy, the history of each doctor is being shared verbally to one another, while in Orange is the New Black, the history of each female prisoner and how they ended up where they are, is shared by including flashbacks scenes and some verbal sharing among characters by asking what they are in for. These two shows can easily attract multi-cultural views due to its overall diversity, which not only includes racial variety, but also can appeal to the LGBTQ audience. Grey’s Anatomy includes lesbian characters like; Dr. Callie Torres, Dr. Arizona Robbins, Dr. Erica Hahn, Dr. Leah Murphy, Dr. Penny Blake, and Dr. Eliza Minick. While in Orange is the New black, its lesbian characters consist of Piper Chapman, Alex Vause, Nicky Nichols, Poussey Washington, Lorna Morello, Suzanne Warren known
By the third year, their patient increased from 10% to 40%. Many are African Americans and Hispanics. The staff, however doesn’t reflect the patients’ diversity. The staff is 85% Caucasian, including nurses, laboratory technologies, pharmacists, and therapists. There are two African American and one Hispanic managers.
In the two novels they have similarities, as well as differences. They both were enslaved when they were a small child and they both have family and love ones that care for them. These are a central themes that are similar in both slave girl in california and the narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. However there are a lot of opposing themes such as between the two novels only one has a death of a family member and in one of the novels the main character had to suffer for mostly his whole life without ever being free.
One of the first notable similarities are their speaking style. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave and Slave Owners, they all spoke in an olden english kind of accent, used the old language writing style and similar harsh words. One of the quotes from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave is: “I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness.” and a quote from Slave
Minorities in sitcoms were less portrayed in contrast to an accurate representation of the time period. Ironically, minorities in sitcoms were not always represented by minority actors and actresses. Sometimes makeup was used on a white actor so he could portray an African man. It was not until the 1950’s when African Americans were shown on television. African Americans were often portrayed as crooked people with poor English and less education.
Before answering the question of “Should physicians pay attention to “race”?” lets first discuss why it is necessary for a physician to know the “race” of the patients. The first reason is in regard to pathogenic reasons leading to the field of pharmacogenetics. The second is more social reason and leads to racial division among a population. In considering of the latter reason, one should note that it may not the physician’s intention to cause any racial division.
In this article, researchers noticed that racial disparities in health care are still prevalent in the United States and the outcome and treatments that blacks and Latinos, when compared to those of white patients, receive are as big as they were 50 years ago. The article looks at several different ways that institutions, such as the University of California, San Francisco, are introducing new methods to training programs that allow doctors in training to realize their own prejudices when working with patients. The article also discusses a 2007 Harvard study that shows that the traditional diversity training used in the 80’s and 90’s was not working and reinforces and confirms racial bias. In this study, researchers studied the disparities
All six of the main characters in Friends are white. In Breaking Bad, the main protagonists, Walter White and Jessie Pinkman are Caucasian. In Grey’s Anatomy, the majority, save for a handful, are also white. These three programs have some of the highest rating in television history, yet include very few minority characters in them. Does this mean that the most favored programs can’t have minorities in them?
(Black, 2013) Numerous reports have been presented by medical professionals regarding this discriminatory issue and will be cited throughout. Poor health and higher than average death rates can be
In regards to the real world, Elliot was depicting the idea that blacks are no different from whites, whites are no different from Asians, and that Asians are no different from Indians,
Racism is still immensely prevalent in today’s medical field. No matter which way society spins it, people are racist, sexist, and homophobic to everyone who does not look or act exactly like them. Doctors are the people in this world who are supposed to help everyone. They’re here to save lives,
Meredith Grey from “Grey’s Anatomy” is a positive role model for young adults due to her self-determination, courage, and perseverance. Many individuals believe characters from T.V. shows have a powerful influence on young adults, due to the fact they can relate to them. In Grey’s Anatomy, Meredith Grey goes through many resilient situations, some of which we experience ourselves. Therefore, going through those situations, Meredith Grey always showed, self-determination, courage, and perseverance.
During it 's two hour runtime it depicts the both the hardships of pioneering in uncharted territories of medicine as well as the racial discrimination and segregation of America in the 40s. It is a mirror of both great capacity for good and progress as well as inhumane detachment from one another based on race such as with Vivian Thomas or even gender such as with Dr. Helen Taussig. The struggle to advance the discipline of medicine with all cost and at the same time bringing us closer together as human beings under the same purpose no matter the differences is worthy of discussing. The ethical dilemmas depicted on the movie can be divided in two categories; social and medical.
For example, there is a group of alien women that are trying to get the Continuum Transfunctioner and they form a vee shape with five women. In the middle, you have a white woman. In the back-left, there is a black women. And in the middle of the right side, there is an Asian follower along with white women everywhere else. Even though minorities are almost always in the background, it’s quite intriguing that they are some of the only characters that have legitimate
It is very clear to most that Grey ’s Anatomy is an inaccurate depiction of medicine and the healthcare industry. Though heavily dramatized and ‘doctored’, there have been moments of learning, especially with this ethical issue.
What I mean is a African American may view this film as a means to diminish their culture, a white person may believe this film makes them look evil and a police officer may believe this film makes officers look like they are above the law or feel like they should be above the law. These differences can cause conflict when