{"id":20903,"date":"2008-09-11T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/09\/11\/for-a-place-thats-supposed-to-be-full-of-doctors-they-sure-dont-look-like-doctors\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T10:00:01","slug":"for-a-place-thats-supposed-to-be-full-of-doctors-they-sure-dont-look-like-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080911-01\/?p=20903\/","title":{"rendered":"For a place that&#8217;s supposed to be full of doctors, they sure don&#8217;t look like doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2008\/09\/04\/anthony-edwards-returning-to-er\/\"> Anthony Edwards is returning for a guest spot on his old series <i>ER<\/i><\/a>. I don&#8217;t watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/ER\/\"><i>ER<\/i><\/a>, but when I happen to stumble across it, the thing that strikes me most is that for a where most of the characters are supposed to be doctors, they sure don&#8217;t look like doctors. They look like models who have been forced to wear scrubs and white lab coats.<\/p>\n<p> Except for Anthony Edwards. He actually looks like a doctor. <\/p>\n<p> One of my cousins is a doctor, and for some reason, we were watching an episode of <i>ER<\/i> in which the medical student was put in charge of a patient and made a bad medical decision. My cousin&#8217;s reaction: &#8220;There&#8217;s no way you would leave a med student alone with a patient, much less put them in charge. And never, ever pay any attention to a med student&#8217;s diagnosis. If you ask med students for a diagnosis, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/02\/14\/1676656.aspx\"> they will tell you that the patient has whatever disease they studied last week<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> (Yes, I&#8217;m recycling a story, but I like that story, so nyeah.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Edwards is returning for a guest spot on his old series ER. I don&#8217;t watch ER, but when I happen to stumble across it, the thing that strikes me most is that for a where most of the characters are supposed to be doctors, they sure don&#8217;t look like doctors. They look like models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-20903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Anthony Edwards is returning for a guest spot on his old series ER. I don&#8217;t watch ER, but when I happen to stumble across it, the thing that strikes me most is that for a where most of the characters are supposed to be doctors, they sure don&#8217;t look like doctors. They look like models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}