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• I am a trauma/surgical ICU RN at a level 1 trauma hospital and I love, love this show. I really hope that Hopkins can continue!!

  Submitted by: Melinda, 08/31/2008 16:09:38

• YOU HAVE TO BRING BACK THE SHOW!! Thursday's won't be the same without it. Please?

  Submitted by: Sue , 08/30/2008 00:39:00

• I would just like to say thank you to everyone who was involved in making this incredible television show. I'm sure it was a major undertaking but this was quality, "real"ity TV. Thank You ABC.

  Submitted by: AJ, 08/27/2008 22:49:06

• What a great series! It was put together so well considering the thousand hours filmed being edited down to only 7! We are so fortunate to have been a part of the second episode airing my mom’s double lung transplant. What a WONDERFUL Hopkins team, the best! I cannot thank everyone enough for all of their care and support through everything. We just hope one day to be able to meet and thank the family personally for donating life. Thanks again to Johns Hopkins Hospital and ABC for such a moving series!

  Submitted by: Leah Loveless, 08/20/2008 22:11:24

• As residents & interns at a major teaching Hospital, I applaud the work that each of you do. Even "real" doctors make mistakes, and your career is still young enough that you'll at least admit the mistake. I have had the experience of being admitted to UTMB and was treated better by the residents & intern doctors than the attending doctor. Keep up the good work!!!

  Submitted by: Deana Turner, 08/16/2008 12:52:57

• an absolutely stunning show. thank you so much for making a great part of it available over the internet, or else i would have been stuck in my ideas about US health care and medicine somewhere between Dr Kildare and Dr House :) - just kidding.
  I'm not a doctor; just work in the administration departament of one of Poland's best teaching hospitals, so it was professional curiosity in my dropping by to watch - now I am hooked on this thing. MY doctors (i.e. these who work in the hospitals) are so similar to yours in their dedication to patients and professional excellence, although they haven't quite got the facilities you created in Hopkins. It will take us some time to upgarde, which we hope we will. And your show will I think help me to support them in their quest for better equipment, better shape of our premisses (we keep ours spotless in medical terms, of course - at great effort of the personnel, but they are an eye sore at places all the same while an appealing impression is important both to the patients and to the personnel). Thanks to this show I understand a little bit more about medical folk, and health care perfomance. I wish you all the success in your difficult work, your qualification gives you right to expect, and this stroke of luck, that allows to win against all odds Mother Nature cruelly built into our human existence.

  Submitted by: Angorca, 08/15/2008 04:02:43

• #1 medical show at America's #1 medical center - I don't think that ABC is crazy enough to NOT take advantage of the opportunity here. This website is evidence enough of how much interest we all have in discussing and learning more about our healthcare system/delivery, both its high points and low points.

  Submitted by: Thomas R., 08/14/2008 22:36:04

• I am a nurse, and I am absolutely obsessed with this show..for so many different reasons, but number one being that it is so real. Don't get my wrong, I am still a huge Grey's Anatomy fan, but when this show is on, I am glued to the television! It is eye opening, and it shows the real stuff that goes on in hospitals. At times, there isn't always a happy ending to every story and emotionally it takes a toll on you..and I 'm glad that this show depicts that. It is truly educational and entertaining at the same time. I hope there are more episodes in the future!

  Submitted by: Kate, 08/14/2008 18:18:40

• I really, really enjoyed this series. I was wondering when the 7th episode would be available for download on itunes. I bought the season pass but the final episode hasn't shown up yet.

  Submitted by: Charlotte, 08/14/2008 17:25:14

• are we getting q&a responses for the last few episodes from doctors featured on the show? will there be follow-up videos on where the doctors are now?

  Submitted by: sue, 08/12/2008 23:18:33

• I thoroughly enjoyed "Hopkins" and certainly hope that the show will be continued.

  Submitted by: Amy Martin, 08/12/2008 12:53:00

• This is a great show!! Please, please, please continue it. My husband and I really enjoyed watching it, and we looked forward to each new episode. Now that it's over, we hope it won't be too long before the ABC execs bring it back!

  Submitted by: Barbara, 08/12/2008 12:02:19

• This is without a doubt the best show on TV. I encourage your program executives to consider renewing this series for a longer run. Many of my friends take about the doctors, patients, and their treatment at the Hopkins Medical Center. The show is so informative with a since of feeling for your patients. We also enjoy the follow up provided for various ailments focused on the show. Thanks for a great program.

  Submitted by: Ronald J. Hunt, 08/12/2008 10:11:42

• Please, please bring Hopkins back. I realize it was intended to be a summer show only, but it was some of the best TV I have seen in a long time. I hope you will consider putting it back on. For those of us not in the medical profession, but who rely on it for our health, it gave us insight that we would not otherwise have. I am sure that it has flaws if you are a medical professional, but to us lay people, it truly was informative. I am weary of Gray's Anatomy, and I welcomed the opportunity to see what really goes on without the drawn out story line of the fictional show.

  Submitted by: Sue , 08/10/2008 15:28:07

• This is a GREAT show. Please consider doing more of them and keep the series running.

  Submitted by: Scott Romberger, 08/09/2008 16:06:15

• I received the gift of life, a live transplant on 7/15/06 after suffering from acute live. I went from being a completely healthly 31 year old to 3 weeks later in a coma waiting for a transplant. It is so awesome that this TV show is brining awareness to transplantation. I never believe in transplants until I had to receive one myself. I always felt I should leave this world with what God had given me. I am so glad that my donor family made the decision that they did and did not feel the same way that I did. You never know when you or a loved one may be in the same situtution. I went into acute liver failure from a perscription from my OBGYN for infertility and I followed the exact dosage. Acute liver failure can happen so quickly and sometimes for no particular reason. Please make the decision to be a donor as well but most of all tell your familly.

  Submitted by: Sarah, 08/09/2008 13:25:42

• I have just recently become a huge fan of the show. However, the past 3 episodes I have seen all touched on transplantation. I can't help but feel frustrated that although transplantation is discussed, the situation on the other side is not highlighted at all. Organ donation is one of the most difficult decisions that some families can make. Do you have any idea how many potential organ donor's families say "NO"? Do you realize how much shorter your recipient list would be if even half of these families said "yes"?
  
  An ideal organ is from someone who is healthy and young, therefore their families are rarely expecting this death. They have to make this decision, to think of others, to save lives, after they have just lost a child or spouse or parent. It is not an easy decision. The incredibly selfless decision that these families make should be recognized.
  
  I used to work with families making the decision to donate, and it was never an easy decision. You do an incredible job of recognizing the REASON people say yes to donation, because of these sick recipients that have families and loved ones, and they are is so much need. But you must recognize the willing families that say YES at the most difficult time in their lives. When a recipient goes home from the hospital after transplantation…another family goes home from the hospital as well. But while one of these families begins planning a vacation…the other is planning a funeral. They are trying to imagine how they will start their life again without their daughter or husband...and during this crisis, they are willing to think of the other family, that gets a new chance at life. The Donor Family deserves recognition and thanks.
  
  Sometimes, families say yes to organ donation and it can not happen. They are convinced that they could help someone and save a life...one glimmer of hope in the most miserable day. A reason for all of this tragedy. Sometimes those organs can not be transplanted. I can only imagine how hard that is for the recipient’s and their families. However, I was the person who had to tell a grieving family that their loved one is not able to donate...to crush their one last chance of hope. So each time that an organ can not be transplanted, please recognize that they only had that chance because a grieving, selfless family said “yes”.
  
  There was one episode that truly made me question whether even Hopkins understands organ donation. A beautiful little girl was at a birthday party and drowned in a pool. It was so sad, and her parents were told she was brain dead. I do not know the whole medical situation, but it upset me that this family was not offered the chance of organ donation. It enraged me that this family didn’t get the chance to bring a miracle to another child, and it infuriated me that all of the recipients on the transplant list had lost this chance. There are non-profit organizations that work with the families and doctors surrounding the option of organ donation. All over the country there are hospitals that do not educate themselves on who is a potential organ donors. I can not believe that Hopkins would make this mistake, so I am sure there were circumstances that the show did not cover…I pray that there was.
  
  Your show helps people understood the need of these recipients, but if this decision could be highlighted in your show, I believe that more people would say “yes” to saving recipients. They would see what a selfless and incredible gift of life this decision is, and they would put that sticker on their licenses and say “yes” to organ donation. The hospitals must actively work with their local organ procurement agencies to only offer organ donation to families in the best way and only when it is an actual possibility.
  
  It is the only way to get the best organs to the most recipients…and help the most families.
  

  Submitted by: Shelley, 08/09/2008 13:21:21

• I do not know if this has been said yet. I want to say thank you to all the patients, families and professionals that let us into their lives. This show has been amazing. I especially want to thank those families that let us see their grief. I am a nursing student, and this show just reaffirms why I am going through the sacrifices that I am to get my license. The dedication of the professionals, both doctor and nurse, really came through. Working at the local county hospital, I can see that same drive and commitment in many of the professionals around me. Every hospital has its share of Dr. Qs. I hope that the public gets a greater understanding of what it means to be a medical professional. Even the nurses who are not on call and leave the job behind when they clock out, never really leave it all behind. The emotions and mental toll are there.
  
  Once again thank you to all who shared their lives and let us see their victories and tragedies. You entertained us, but most importantly, you educated us.

  Submitted by: Debbie, 08/08/2008 19:16:54

• You do a disservice to the viewing public when you omit the reasons for liver transplant; when you send the message that a liver transplant solves all the problems. "Once you have the new liver, everything's going to be fine." Not true.
  
  Patients with liver cancer are ineligible for transplant; patients with Hepatitis-C, even if they get a transplant, will probably die from the disease; and patients with alcohol-induced liver disease don't really deserve another chance anyway but surprisingly they are the ones who usually survive.
  
  My son, who contracted Hep-C from tainted blood when he was a child, died in 2004 at the age of 30 after a successful liver transplant in 2003. He lived ten months post-transplant.
  
  Tell the truth.
  
  Carole Hughes
  18 Rockland Avenue
  Nanuet,NY 10954
  cjameshughes@post.harvard.edu

  Submitted by: Carole Hughes, 08/08/2008 09:53:28

• I hope the decision will be made to continue this series. The show tonight hit close to home. My husband had a liver transplant last year and died 5 months later from rejection. Three times the donor livers were unacceptable...once before he had his transplant and twice after he went into rejection. The doctors were unable to find another liver for him before he died. Tonight seeing what goes on behind the scenes of the transplant process was helpful to me. I also think this show helps to shed some light on how important being a organ donor is. I would like to thank the doctors and nurses at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

  Submitted by: Loree, 08/08/2008 01:05:41

• This show made Thursday nights the best night for TV in a long time. I just finished watching the final episode, and I'm so glad that I had the privilege of viewing all of the shows, but so sad that now it's over. I wish the powers that be could make this more than just a summer replacement. The emotions I felt were so varied, and I am in awe of the dedicated doctors, nurses and other caretakers. I must also complement the talented journalists who compiled the stories of the physicians and patients, and managed to make each episode so compelling. Please bring this show back!

  Submitted by: Maryann Dombrowski, 08/07/2008 23:37:40

• Pleeeaaase, continue to the series! I absolutely love it!!! Much better than ER or Grey's Anatomy!

  Submitted by: Denise, 08/07/2008 23:28:17

• I didn't watch the first two episodes of Hopkins, but when I saw the third episode I fell in love with the program. We need more programs like this. My son Steve passed away at age 13 and was a organ donor. I wish you would continue presenting this series to enlighten others out here about the necessity of organ transplants as well as to keep this a "true" meaningful insite of how life can be for those who need the "gift of life". God bless all the wonderful doctors and nurses who work together to bring another "blessed day".
  

  Submitted by: Laura B, 08/07/2008 23:22:16

• I'm so disappointed that this is the last episode. We want more Hopkins!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Submitted by: Nate, 08/07/2008 23:09:13

• Have only seen two episodes, but this is a great show. I am really liking it a lot. Hope it can continue.

  Submitted by: ann, 08/07/2008 22:49:13

• This is an amazing production. It should be continued as a series encompassing all aspects of patient care. Please don't stop now! Thank you for this insight into the workings of a Hospital.

  Submitted by: Anne and Irving Huss, 08/07/2008 22:48:56

• If there where more doctors like Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa around,with his dedication to his job, patients, staff, and family, Doctors would not be slammed for being rich and greedy, they would be admired and respected as they should be, many times Md's are too easy to give up on their jobs and patients, and have no regard for anyone's loss...way to go Dr.Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa you set the bar way up there, and it's up to all of these med students to acheive those lofty quality of life and service to patients, your the best.

  Submitted by: Jim Mellanis, 08/07/2008 22:41:05

• Since I saw the first episode, I thought this series lacks only one thing: It should have subtitles in Spanish. Imagine that this program is viewed by a family in South Florida, and the children understand everything, but los abuelos no entienden!

  Submitted by: Maryann Lofft Judge, 08/07/2008 22:34:23

• Behind the scenes at Hopkins Cardiology:
  http://adventuresincardiology.com/

  Submitted by: Bill Blaylock, 08/07/2008 09:34:47

• Terrence (or any member of the documentary team) - what was your experience like shooting in the hospital for several months? Did anyone feel ill while taping in the midst of surgeries? Did you develop friendships with the doctors you followed? What were patients reactions?

  Submitted by: Susan, 08/06/2008 22:17:39

• No more Avo after this week?? boooooooo!!!!

  Submitted by: Jazz, 08/05/2008 19:57:36

• I work in medical management for self insured employers..LOVVVVE this show!! I get so immersed in the story lines and it is great to see what REALLY goes on in the hospitals.
  Hate to see it end!!

  Submitted by: Lisa Brunemann, 08/04/2008 18:08:55

• does anyone know what song was played at the end of the 6th episode?

  Submitted by: brian, 08/04/2008 00:30:07

• Did we have one of the doctors from the show answer questions for episode 5?

  Submitted by: a fan, 08/02/2008 20:15:07

• "Hopkins" is a great series but why aren't there more episodes dealing with non-surgical medical interventions, other than just ER medicine? Yes, surgery is glamorous and exciting but other types of physicians are also responsible for the lives of patients. And, unlike surgeons, they often work longer hours for less money. For a Hopkins' medical student the "Medicine" clerkship is, without question, the most intellectually and physically grueling of them all, so why is there not more in this TV series highlighting the amazing breadth and skill of these other physicians - the infectious disease specialists, the cardiologists, the neurologists, etc.? For many patients who deal with chronic diseases it is the intelligence and problem solving abilities of these other specialists who make the difference between living and vegetating.

  Submitted by: Leslie (proud mother of Hopkins' medical student), 08/01/2008 20:32:29

• I just don't get it. Everyone that works in the hospital is important. Quotes like " Where are the nurses?" and "nurses are the ones that recover the patient ". How about the lab tech that saves the patients life by giving the correct blood type? They don't get any credit. How about environmental services that clean precaution rooms so that the next patient doesn't end up with MRSA or VRE? They don't get any credit. The thing is they aren't whining about face time either. Yes, nursing is a critical role in a patients recovery but so isnt every other hospital worker. I work in a hospital and see SOME nurses that think they are smarter and better than doctors. I laugh under my breath and wonder why they didnt just go to medical school. Let's face it almost every decision about a patient comes from the doctor. A nurse is there to follow through on what the doctor says so it would only be appropriate to have a show about the top person on the ladder. ( I know that is not the ONLY reason why the nurse is there so don't get upset over that). It is like this in every profession.
  The reality is that if there was a nursing show, or a lab show, or a janitorial show it would be boring. There are tons of people in those professions. These doctors are very special. They have dedicated their whole lives into their profession. Yes, there are good and bad doctors just like there are good and bad nurses, but to go through what these people have to save lives, is unbelievable. Thank god there are people that want to spend that much time and energy into a profession.
  So I thank all of you doctors, residents, med students. Hopkins is a great show just the way it is.

  Submitted by: Lynn, 08/01/2008 00:29:27

• Thanks for watching! Couple of answers:
  -The 7th episode will be on Thursday August 7th at 10p/9c as usual
  -I have a video on this website addressing the difficulties with making Hopkins a continuing series
  -You can watch previous episodes on this site by clicking the "Episode" tab and watch them full screen by clicking the high resolution arrow

  Submitted by: Terence Wrong, 07/31/2008 00:03:57

• My nephew is doctor in the Caribbean and underwent surgery for scoliosis at as a teen. From this experience his aspirations for becoming a doctor was intensified. He was recently told that he needs further surgery to correct the curvature which has created a hump in his back. Is there any way that this surgery could be performed by the team at Hopkins? If so, how would we pursue this possibility which would be a dream come true for my nephew?

  Submitted by: Vanessa Goodridge-Forde, 07/28/2008 19:24:05

• I just want to say that anyone who knows Dr. Q can tell you that he is a very caring Doctor. How many doctors do you know that give out their personal phone number to patients? Well Dr. Q does because he cares about his patients and wants them to be able to reach him if they have concerns. I know this because I was one of those patients. He is always available even when it is a Sunday night and he is home w/ his family. This TV show does not show the entire story and things are taken out of context to be dramatic. Some of you also think that he should "Go back to Mexico". Dr. Q has been a US citizen for over 10 years. He is married to a US citizen. He is NOT a "drain" on the US and never has been because he has always worked hard and paid taxes. He does not brag about coming to the US w/ out documents. He is simply stating the facts. I wish that more people had his work ethic and determination to succeed because the world would be a better place. We are all to quick to judge others.

  Submitted by: Jordan, 07/27/2008 11:25:23

• Can Terrance Wrong tell us when the 7th episode will be, so that we don't miss it. I have found this series to be fascinating and so true of Hopkins and other teaching hospitals. I have been in Hopkins and the care was great. A lot of doctors learning, but you have to begin somewhere.

  Submitted by: Janet Hoffritz, 07/26/2008 17:16:55

• I am so anxious for this next weeks episode. I spent the past 6yrs working at Hopkins and LOVE and MISS the wonderful people that are there, everybody from the secretaries, support staff, respiratory, residents, MD's ... It's an AMAZING place to be at and everyone works so incredibly hard. I took care of a transplant pt when ABC was filming and admittedly it was hard to have a camera right in your face when trying to do your job. Kuddos to ABC and the staff for making this show happen. I love to sit and watch old friends on TV!

  Submitted by: Mindy, 07/25/2008 22:09:34

• To answer some general questions that have come up:
  -Sadly, the elderly gentleman treated by Dr. Czarnik in episode 4 passed away. Mya's family in episode 5 eventually opts to disconnect life support. Dr. Fackler's remarks in the Peyton case are addressed with more context in a video on this site. There is a music page on this site with information about the artists and their songs and websites. DVDs can be obtained at the abcnewsstore.com Finally, there will be a 7th episode of the series. It cannot be a continuing series at this point because of the immense amount of time necessary to film and edit these stories (some cases happened over a year such as Brenda's lung transplant). Another issue involves the hospitality of the hospital. In other words, to have a production team there indefinitely was not something either party considered.

  Submitted by: Terence Wrong, 07/24/2008 23:54:37

• Guys this show is recorded over days or weeks and only showed to us for only less than 50minutes so why would you waste your time and critize everything and judge these human beings without seeing the behind the scenes and every single event. ABC edit things and shows us what is necessary and what will attract viewers. How about we concentrate on enjoying a show thats is close to real life and stop the unecessary critisism. I bet we all have jobs where our colleagues are so full of themselves and make the wrong decisions and the whole company suffers . Doctors and nurses are human no matter the amount of education and time they have spent, we all make mistakes unfortunately we get to watch theirs happen right before our eyes. Take it easy and stop working yourself up. Relax.

  Submitted by: kelinda matthews, 07/24/2008 23:30:13

• I loved the first series - Hopkins 24/7 and saw it for the first time as in the hospital (@JHH, of course) in March 2002 while having the whipple surgery to remove suspected pancreatic cancer.
  
  Delighted to 6 years later, still be well (no PC reoccurence) to view this latest series. Johns Hopkins Hospital is an amazing place.
  
  While anyone working in medicine must wonder at different times - is it worth the long hours and time away from family - my answer is yes, and thank you for your efforts and the sacrifices that you AND your family members make to be the professionals that you are.
  
  I would not be here today if Dr. John Cameron and the other Hopkins professionals had not dedicated their lives to the study and practice of medicine. Thank you all!

  Submitted by: Mary, 07/23/2008 11:03:14

• I agree with some of the sentiment conveyed by the previous commentators, but would like to correct their statements about ophthalmology. As with all specialties, there is a spectrum of training programs and practices and ophthalmology is no different.
  
  I am training at a program that would equal or even rival most other surgical sub-specialty programs. We cover 4 hospitals, 2 of which are overrun and under-resourced major county hospitals in LA; we drive thousands of miles each year just to cover these hospitals. We work easily as many hours as most other surgery specialties and see the trauma docs in the middle of the night all the time when we get called in to repair ruptured globes and retinal detachments among other things. In addition, the call volume for non-surgical, medical ophthalmic emergencies through the ERs we serve is in one-word: HEAVY.
  
  Finally, those who have no idea what makes an ophthalmologist different from an optometrist and those who don't consider ophthalmologists to be real surgeons do not know what they are talking about. Spend a day with a retina surgeon or cataract surgeon and see how challenging and complex performing microsurgery on an eyeball really is. Our patients may not be on the verge of life or death, but what you do to them either helps them or blinds them. With exceptions, the lifestyle is not any easier than most other medical specialties. This is because there are facets of each specialty that make it uniquely challenging and consuming. Details as to why this is the case for ophthalmology are too much for this posting.
  
  It's far wiser for all to realize and say that ALL physicians and surgeons, regardless of specialty, sacrifice an enormous amount monetarily and in our personal lives in order to be trained well for the profession and continue to sacrifice, albeit in different ways, for the rest of their careers. All of us in the profession are getting sideswiped by rising malpractice premiums, Medicare cuts, and insurance companies and at the same time are facing greater and greater demands from contemporary clinical practice.

  Submitted by: Al, 07/23/2008 10:50:42

• Another reality check for ppl going into medicine to get "rich". Nurses work 40hrs/wk and get paid $80,000. Residents work 80 hr/wk and get paid 40,000. Get it right, do pharmacy.

  Submitted by: william, 07/22/2008 19:23:54

• I agree with Ryan. I am doing my darnest to try to like any other field than surgery. I wish there was a way to be a part time surgeon, but then your skills will go down and you wouldn't get enough exposure to handle emergencies. Limiting hours sounds good on paper, but then you'd end up with a crappy, inexperienced, or out-of-practice surgeon. Still, I don't want to end up divorced. I wish to God I liked rads or derm, even internal medicine (they work hard w/ a lot of added bs too; I actually think IM is harder than surgery but with better hours. I just don't want to ever think that hard on a call night. ie I don't really want to be in charge of working up someone for new-onset seizures/status or handling a diabetic coma at 3am on a call night). sigh....

  Submitted by: Jonathan Naylor, 07/22/2008 19:20:44

• Just to finalize what I was saying below...
  
  If being a surgeon was really a great job with great pay, medical students would be flocking to it. Instead, it attracts only the hardest working, dedicate people who feel that they have something to contribute, but overall there is a severe shortage of people going into surgery, and surgery programs are having to take in foreign medical graduates in order to even stay afloat. Medical students dread their surgical rotation, and medical students are flocking to the primary care specialties, and dermatology and ophthalmology in particular, because it allows them to have a great lifestyle. Next time you see your surgeon, you should thank them for their sacrifice. I cannot think of anything harder than being a surgeon. My brother is a marine, and he spent the day with me, and he was blown away. He said it must be like when you sign up to be a cop, and then your first day you get in a shoot out with a criminal, and you barely survive, and you think, "I didn't sign up for this," and then you have to repeat that day after day. The pay is not worth the cost and abuse.

  Submitted by: Ryan, 07/22/2008 14:43:43

• Just to finalize what I was saying below...
  
  If being a surgeon was really a great job with great pay, medical students would be flocking to it. Instead, it attracts only the hardest working, dedicate people who feel that they have something to contribute, but overall there is a severe shortage of people going into surgery, and surgery programs are having to take in foreign medical graduates in order to even stay afloat. Medical students dread their surgical rotation, and medical students are flocking to the primary care specialties, and dermatology and ophthalmology in particular, because it allows them to have a great lifestyle. Next time you see your surgeon, you should thank them for their sacrifice. I cannot think of anything harder than being a surgeon. My brother is a marine, and he spent the day with me, and he was blown away. He said it must be like when you sign up to be a cop, and then your first day you get in a shoot out with a criminal, and you barely survive, and you think, "I didn't sign up for this," and then you have to repeat that day after day. The pay is not worth the cost and abuse.

  Submitted by: Ryan, 07/22/2008 14:42:43

• Just some interesting statistics in health care, which show that anyone who thinks physicians are paid too much doesn't know anything about the healthcare system:
  
  Less than 5% of money spent in healthcare goes to physician salary. The majority of spending is to insurance companies and hospitals, as well as pharmaceutical companies. Wouldn't you want your doctor to be well paid and well supported? Apparently not. You want the CEO of your insurance company to make $125 million a year (United). That's enough to pay 300 surgeons twice their annual salary. Last year I paid $3000 to my health insurance company, got sick once and broke a bone once, the insurance company refused to pay saying I got more care than was medically necessary, so I paid $3500 more dollars out of pocket. It actually would have been cheaper to not have any insurance.
  
  What's more, the healthcare system is way too overloaded. No one believes this until they go to a public or county hospital, or a tertiary care center, or an academic medical center, where (at least at one institution I know of, and I know of a couple that are far worse than this, but I don't know their exact data) the ER average wait time is 26 hours, where one doctor is taking care of 120 ICU and post-operative patients, where doctors are working 100 hours a week or more just to keep up with the demand. (Yes, there's a law that if you are a tertiary care hospital, i.e., a level one trauma center, you cannot refuse a transfer if the referring hospital says it is unable to take care of the patient. Yet, as you might suspect, no doctor wants to work at a tertiary care hospital, because it is super busy, super hard, all the patients are super sick, the hospital is way over-regulated by medicare, and the pay is on average half of what you can get at a private hospital. Despite this, many noble doctors have stepped up to the plate, and sacrificed their lives working in these run down, overwhelmed hospitals, earning nothing but perhaps, if they are lucky, the small reward of being recognized as leaders in their field.
  
  Stupidly, the healthcare system has changed in the last 20 years such that insurance companies will now only pay the same amount that Medicare pays for the same procedure. Furthermore, medicare's rules state that a hospital may not charge a patient more based on the ability to pay-- all charges are the same to all patients for the same care. The system is stuck in between a free market and a government regulated entity-- it needs to be either one or the other-- care for all or a free market (pay for what you want/get). If Medicare gets cut, not only would doctors not want to waste their days and nights caring for patients (yes, I do want to go home and see my kids... not take care of the smoking diabetic who hasn't given a crap about his health for 30 years and all of a sudden wants immediate care for his stroke or his cancer or his heart attack or his ischemic leg), but hospitals could even LOSE money for caring for medicare patients, because the costs would be greater than the re-imbursement for some procedures. On the other hand, Medicare is not sustainable as it is, so the healthcare system needs to break free from our governmental strong-hold... which may actually happen if Medicare cuts its reimbursement. We also need to produce more doctors... surgeons are in over their heads day in and day out, with patients who are on the verge of death. Someone needs to do a documentary or show on that. I see way more drama every day than what I've seen on the 'Hopkins' show. Go to a county hospital, not a self-entitled, self-promoting, self-righteous, rich, private hospital like Hopkins (they send most of their trauma to U-Maryland. I guess if you keep pretending you are better than everyone else patients will eventually believe you. Funny how the board scores for Hopkins residents are no higher than the national averages....

  Submitted by: Ryan, 07/22/2008 14:24:28

• Just some interesting statistics in health care, which show that anyone who thinks physicians are paid too much doesn't know anything about the healthcare system:
  
  Less than 5% of money spent in healthcare goes to physician salary. The majority of spending is to insurance companies and hospitals, as well as pharmaceutical companies. Wouldn't you want your doctor to be well paid and well supported? Apparently not. You want the CEO of your insurance company to make $125 million a year (United). That's enough to pay 300 surgeons twice their annual salary. Last year I paid $3000 to my health insurance company, got sick once and broke a bone once, the insurance company refused to pay saying I got more care than was medically necessary, so I paid $3500 more dollars out of pocket. It actually would have been cheaper to not have any insurance.
  
  What's more, the healthcare system is way too overloaded. No one believes this until they go to a public or county hospital, or a tertiary care center, or an academic medical center, where (at least at one institution I know of, and I know of a couple that are far worse than this, but I don't know their exact data) the ER average wait time is 26 hours, where one doctor is taking care of 120 ICU and post-operative patients, where doctors are working 100 hours a week or more just to keep up with the demand. (Yes, there's a law that if you are a tertiary care hospital, i.e., a level one trauma center, you cannot refuse a transfer if the referring hospital says it is unable to take care of the patient. Yet, as you might suspect, no doctor wants to work at a tertiary care hospital, because it is super busy, super hard, all the patients are super sick, the hospital is way over-regulated by medicare, and the pay is on average half of what you can get at a private hospital. Despite this, many noble doctors have stepped up to the plate, and sacrificed their lives working in these run down, overwhelmed hospitals, earning nothing but perhaps, if they are lucky, the small reward of being recognized as leaders in their field.
  
  Stupidly, the healthcare system has changed in the last 20 years such that insurance companies will now only pay the same amount that Medicare pays for the same procedure. Furthermore, medicare's rules state that a hospital may not charge a patient more based on the ability to pay-- all charges are the same to all patients for the same care. The system is stuck in between a free market and a government regulated entity-- it needs to be either one or the other-- care for all or a free market (pay for what you want/get). If Medicare gets cut, not only would doctors not want to waste their days and nights caring for patients (yes, I do want to go home and see my kids... not take care of the smoking diabetic who hasn't given a crap about his health for 30 years and all of a sudden wants immediate care for his stroke or his cancer or his heart attack or his ischemic leg), but hospitals could even LOSE money for caring for medicare patients, because the costs would be greater than the re-imbursement for some procedures. On the other hand, Medicare is not sustainable as it is, so the healthcare system needs to break free from our governmental strong-hold... which may actually happen if Medicare cuts its reimbursement. We also need to produce more doctors... surgeons are in over their heads day in and day out, with patients who are on the verge of death. Someone needs to do a documentary or show on that. I see way more drama every day than what I've seen on the 'Hopkins' show. Go to a county hospital, not a self-entitled, self-promoting, self-righteous, rich, private hospital like Hopkins (they send most of their trauma to U-Maryland. I guess if you keep pretending you are better than everyone else patients will eventually believe you. Funny how the board scores for Hopkins residents are no higher than the national averages....

  Submitted by: Ryan, 07/22/2008 14:23:50

• I wish my work was over when my shift was done. I could maybe actually get home to see my wife a little more often. As a nurse in a rural community, I am constantly being called back to work for ambulance transfers, delivering babies or trauma's in the ER. Physicians play their role in the hospital, but they are up to 30 minutes away, leaving the nurses to work on a patient until they show up. Often we will get patients coming into the ER at night that the physicians will not come in to see, so we have to manage them until the morning when the physician comes in to do rounds. That is not to say, physicians are not important, they bring a wealth of knowledge that nurses may not have. It is the nurses, however, who provide for the patient the majority of the time. The physicians come in make their diagnosis or perform their procedure and then leave. It is up to the nurses prep the patient, assist during the procedure (if we don't actually do it), pick up the pieces afterwards and help the patients recover from what the physicians put them through. If you want excitement in your TV viewing, show the nurses doing their job, not physicians posing in nursing positions.

  Submitted by: Karl, 07/20/2008 14:34:56

• As much as I think nurses should be profiled in the show, because they are the most important part of the medical team. We never give people their due. Perhaps janitors are really the most important part of a medical facility, can you imagine if there were no environmental services in an operating suite! At the same time, nurses must admit, putting in IVs, administering medication, carrying out doctors orders, giving enemas, etc is not what I want to spend 1 hr watching. I'm not trying to hate, I wouldn't want to see a doctor filling out paperwork, but I bet they just push it on nurses anyway--another reason why the show is probably doctor-centric. Secondly, nurses work incredibly hard but nursing is still a job not a lifestyle. You check out when your shift ends. You don't get paged in the middle of the night on your patients. Marriages don't break up over nursing. You get to see your kids. There isn't any drama to watch. Be thankful.

  Submitted by: Betsy, 07/20/2008 12:55:57

• Showing how doctors must work long hours, even to the point the put there job before there family is not heroic to me, it's frankly scary. If I wind up in the hospital, I want, even expect a well rested doctor, not an over worked on who is expected to work insane hours. We limit the time airline pilots can fly, doesn't it make sense to be sure our doctors are rested and fully able to think. There have been studies how doctors can and do make mistakes due to sleep deprivation, why does this nonsense continue is such a prestigious hospital?

  Submitted by: Grace M. Grady, 07/18/2008 17:30:45

• Growing up in Maryland I was always aware that Johns Hopkins Hospital was one of the best facilities in the nation, if not the world. It wasn't until my cousin was diagnosed with brain cancer almost two years ago that I truly realized how amazing the doctors are. The neurosurgeons at Hopkins have saved my 44 year old cousin's life on three different occasions. More than that, they made sure his 5 and 7 year old boys still have a dad!! This show is truly amazing and I hope it continues beyond the six episodes.

  Submitted by: Grateful for Hopkins Doctors, 07/18/2008 12:15:43

• As a surgeon just out of training, I’d just like to have a voice here (for what it’s worth). First, being a surgeon is hard. Everyone says that, but you will never know how hard until you go through it. Getting up at 4am everyday and coming home past 7pm, working for 30 hours straight a couple times a week, for seven or more years only partly describes it. I rarely get to sleep when I work overnight, and if I do, it is less than an hour. Most people would fall over from doing my schedule for a week, but try doing it for a year, and then for seven years, (all after the exhaustion of med school)… you have no idea. Some hospitals are worse than others. Hopkins is actually on the easy end of the scale, and many doctors look at Hopkins as one of the easier, “gentlemanly” programs. It is also the most “inbred” hospital in the nation. They talk themselves up a lot, but when it comes down to it, there are many doctors and hospitals and universities that have accomplished a lot more, but perhaps have not been around as long.
  
  Second, about pay, I just got hired out of residency at $190k a year, plus $800 for everytime I take overnight call in the hospital (so it will probably come out to $250k. This pay will hopefully go up over time. I made around $45-50k a year for the last 7 years. I am 35 and I have about $300k in tuition debt that continues to inflate. I will probably break even in a few years. I have already worked as many hours as the average person who is 65 and retiring, and my net worth is negative $300k. Anyone who says doctors make a lot of money obviously has no knowledge of the medical system, or of how long it takes before you actually do make that much money, or of how hard you have to work to make that kind of money, or of the cost on your life and energy to make that much money. If you quit at any point along the way, it is almost impossible to get back in.
  
  Third, medical specialties differ vastly from each other. General medicine (like pediatrics, family medicine, etc.) provides a nice lifestyle (8-5pm, no call, weekends, or at least you set your own schedule, etc.) plus you still pull in well over $100k a year. Surgical specialties, however, work twice the hours in a week (not because we want to, but because of the amount of work that has to get done—you have to take care of all your hospitalized patients early in the morning, then operate all day, then take care of all your patients in the evening, and in the middle of that take care of all the emergencies in the ER, the ICU, etc… sorry to burst your bubble, but unlike on tv shows, emergency medicine doctors do not do surgery). Plus residency for surgical specialties is at least twice the number of years of residency. Plus, at least at academic centers, there is pressure to publish and do research in your time off. Again, no one but surgeons will ever really understand.
  

  Submitted by: Ryan, 07/18/2008 10:20:23

• I'M VERY THANKFULL THAT THEY STARTED SHOWING HOPKINS, THAT WAY PEOPLE CAN SEE WHAT WE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS GO THROUGH EVERYDAY, I AM GOING TO SCHOOL TO BECOME AN EMT AND I'VE SEEN HOW STRESSFULL DOCTORS NURSES EMT'S ETC... LIVES CAN BE AND I THINK BECAUSE OF THIS SHOW NOW PEOPLE CAN MORE UNDERSTAND WHAT WE GO THROUGH AND WHY WE DO THIS EVERYDAY AND HOPEFULLY HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING.

  Submitted by: Noah Martinez, 07/18/2008 00:25:50

• First off, I want to say how grateful I am that shows like 'Hopkins' are available for everyone to have the pleasure of viewing. As an inspiring doctor who's only a sophomore in college presently, this show has definitely inspired me in ways that transcend what any words could hope to convey. To me, the doctors featured on 'Hopkins' are prodigal role models who overcome adversity and a myriad of complications that they face with their patients on a day-to-day basis. If you're reading this, God bless you for all of your work. You shape people's minds, touch people's hearts, and save people's lives, and there is no greater privilege that one can experience than to bring hope to the lives of patients and their families. I only hope that one day I am so privileged to carry out the miracles that you all make a reality.

  Submitted by: Benjamin, 07/17/2008 23:24:43

• I just watched tonight’s episode and I loved it. My son is a patient at Hopkins. My son is a cardiology patient and a hematology patient. My son has a birth defect in his heart and he also has severe hemophilia B. I am wondering why they don't do an episode on the pediatric hemophilia doctors and patients. Hopkins is the only hemophilia treatment center in Maryland. They have some very interesting cases and I think it would be a good episode. But then again I am bias.

  Submitted by: Christine Libertino, 07/17/2008 23:14:06

• I just watched tonight’s episode and I loved it. My son is a patient at Hopkins. My son is a cardiology patient and a hematology patient. My son has a birth defect in his heart and he also has severe hemophilia B. I am wondering why they don't do an episode on the pediatric hemophilia doctors and patients. Hopkins is the only hemophilia treatment center in Maryland. They have some very interesting cases and I think it would be a good episode. But then again I am bias.

  Submitted by: Christine Libertino, 07/17/2008 23:13:09

• Love the show. Best I've seen in quite some time. Very inspiring.

  Submitted by: K. L., 07/17/2008 23:12:18

• I really love hopkin!!! I am studying the medical field right now and i find that it is very interesting and everything i have learned i can understand, I want it every thursday.

  Submitted by: katie gilbert, 07/17/2008 22:27:54

• Daphne: Elza - Everything to me

  Submitted by: Christopher, 07/16/2008 00:17:07

• The web extra where we are shown the interaction between the lung/heart surgeons (Bethea, DeSimone, Meneshian, etc) in the fellowship program was great.

  Submitted by: Susan, 07/15/2008 23:07:30

• Fantastic show,finally something i love to watch and also can relate to.
  Wonderful facility overflowing with such warm and caring people.After a lung volume reduction which led to my stay of 30 days in aug./sept.2007 R660.The Nelson 6 nurses worked day and night to tend to my ever need and want.Dr.Yang is Awesome!! Dr.Meseshain,Brenda,Peggy and all of the Just wonderful nurses that number so many.Rest assure anyone having need,or intends to,or even thinks about a proceedure that is offered,this is the place to be.Thank you ABC and all those responsible for bringing such a compasionate program to the forefront for all to see.My next checkup visit i will be hunting "autographs" staff.

  Submitted by: Phil Stoltzfus, 07/15/2008 14:29:02

• Excellent show! I just discovered this past Thursday and all I can say is Wow! I have great admiration for anyone that works in the health care field! We take so many things for granted and to see just a glimpse of what it is like to work in a busy hospital like Hopkins is extraordinary. Great job to the show's filming crew, the director and the producers. Ya'll are doing a great job! Thank you!

  Submitted by: Stephen Altwies, 07/14/2008 21:54:07

• I love this show I think it is the best medial show ever. I hope that this show can have it's own regular slot on Prime time Television!!

  Submitted by: Toni Marie Gearhart, 07/14/2008 14:27:34

• I'm surprised that with all the knowledge that the Dr's have at the hospital, you don't have information on your web site about a medical condition that is becoming more common. Pseudotumor Cerebri aka Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension is a condition that I have suffered from for over 15 yrs. If more info was given about it on tv and web sites, we could find cures, support groups, more research and various other resources available for rare conditions such as this. Thank you for your show because it is educational and inspirational!

  Submitted by: Michelle, 07/13/2008 00:35:49

• Can we get more info on Drs. DeSimone and Avo? They strike me as characters that would be interesting.

  Submitted by: myname, 07/12/2008 22:55:46

• I love this show I think it is the best medial show ever and I hope that there will be more to come

  Submitted by: shavon, 07/12/2008 04:44:02

• Dr. Bethea:
  I am so happy that you and Amber reconciled. Not only did you save the life of a 19-year-old by giving him a new heart, you gave me a new heart when I viewed this segment of you and Amber reuniting. Your children deserve both parents to grow up with.
  ABC - I love this series. I hope you continue to run this program. Not much of good viewing on television. Kudos to all of the DRs and Nurses at Johns-Hopkins. Love to all and God bless each and everyone of you.
  
  

  Submitted by: Mary Ann, 07/11/2008 14:27:40

• Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa should have been deported for coming to this country illegally. (Along with all others). I believe this with all of my heart. He is a felon for coming to this country illegally.
  
  I know so many people who have come to this country legally to study from third world countries torn apart by war. They come here to study and they leave this country to go back to their country to make it a better place. (One has even died). They go back even knowing death may await them. Most love the USA for giving them a chance, but know they have a duty to improve their own country.
  Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa only came to this country for personal and financial gain. (His family in his country is probably living in squalor). He is a criminal without a conscience. If he was someone of integrity, he would have gone back to his country and served them, instead of his pocket book.
  
  We in the USA have many more doctors more qualified than him and he would not be missed ... but in his homeland, he would have been a godsend and a savior to his people. While being in this country illegally, he deprived the USA of any tax revenue, but more importantly ... as a Mexican citizen, he denied the Mexican Government of any taxes to benefit his own people. And now, as an MD, he is not contributing to the country that bore him.
  
  No one would die in the USA if he never became an MD - let's not kid ourselves here. There are over 1,000 surgeons in the USA more qualified than him. But in Mexico, there are probably only a handful. Hence, he is a killer of his own people. When Americans go to other countries and stay illegally, and don't pay taxes, the United States lables them criminals and tax evaders. Why should Mexicans be treated any different? The USA thumbs its nose at the Mexican Government and turns felons into USA citizens. We have no right to superceede another country's sovereignty over its citizens.
  
  All Mexicans should be deported. They only care about their own personal, financial gain. I have NOT ONCE!!! ... heard ANY MEXICAN say that they want an agreement to work in the USA as a MEXICAN CITIZEN and pay the Mexican Government taxes to improve the situation of their homeland. They all want to be USA citizens just for the money. (I don't care how poor or corrupt your country, you should want to do some good and try to help your own people).
  
  I have gone to school with so many noble Mexican citizens who check in on their "illegal" bretheren. For the most part, they are very saddened at how well they live illegally in this country and how little money they actually send home to their families - less than 1% of their income. (That's not bad when you don't pay taxes in the USA or Mexico. I would love to skip taxes and send 1% home to my starving family).
  
  JUST THINK OF HOW MANY MEXICAN PEOPLE ARE DYING BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD A SURGEON; BECAUSE THE USA IS HARBORING THIS CRIMINAL!!!

  Submitted by: lr tus, 07/11/2008 00:48:28

• I had prostrate cancer, the dr suggested removal, i concurred, my family lives till about 95 ! so this was the best treatment we agreeded. I had ed before the operation, my question is the following: how long after the surgery should a 67 yr old man in good health, about 40 lbs over weight but active and i bowl 25-30 games a week also do all my own house work , mow the yard and keep the house repaired.
  I have tried the kegel exercises sitting, standing and now laying on back 30 times a day, sometimes more. When i bowl i have little control of my bladder. What could be the next thing to try. Thanks, in advance, Bud Haselden

  Submitted by: bud haselden, 07/10/2008 17:15:45

• Good luck if you think Hopkins is #1. I have been on the liver transplant list for over 5 years. The way it looks right now I will not get an organ in time. They lied to me saying I would have a new liver in three weeks. By the time this series end I maybe dead, Transplant surgeon turnover is high. Their living donor program has been suspended.

  Submitted by: Bubba1290, 07/09/2008 18:36:23

• Hello Dr Quinones-Hinojosa,
  I was wondering about your family ancestors, you happen to look almost like my father-in-law. We do not know alot about my father-in-laws side of the family, but there is a very strong resemblence.
  Also it is very impressive and exciting to see your work. I cannot think of the right words to express how amazing it all is, thank you for letting us see into your world of medicine.
  Respectfully and very humbled
  Mrs. Astrid Hinojosa

  Submitted by: Astrid Hinojosa, 07/09/2008 16:50:43

• This show is AWESOME!!! I'm looking for the soundtrack to purchase...love the music. Anyone know where I can find it?

  Submitted by: Bridget , 07/08/2008 17:10:01

• Vivien T. Thomas was a key player in pioneering the anastomosis of the subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery.The surgical work he performed with Alfred Blalock paved the way for the successful outcome of the Blalock-Taussig shunt.
  
  In January 1930, Vivien Thomas, a young African-American who was forced for lack of funds to leave his first year of college, came to work for Blalock in his laboratory. At that point Blalock's increasing obligations were cutting into the time he could spend in the laboratory and he needed a surgical assistant. A more fortunate choice could not have been made. Vivien Thomas learned to perform the surgical operations and chemical determinations needed for their experiments, to calculate the results, and to keep precise records; he remained an invaluable associate throughout Blalock's career.
  
  Thomas supervised the surgical laboratories at Hopkins for over 35 years, and in 1976 he was appointed instructor in surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 1979, upon his retirement, he became instructor emeritus of surgery. Vivien Thomas's achievements were widely recognized by his colleagues. In 1976, he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Laws, by the Johns Hopkins University.
  
  For more information see: http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/vthomas.htm

  Submitted by: Ed, 07/04/2008 16:50:27

• On November 29, 1944, a small, frail child was wheeled into an operating room at the Johns Hopkins Hospital for the first attempt to treat tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart malformation that robs the blood of oxygen. This life-threatening condition is often signaled by a bluish or "cyanotic" cast to the skin, hence the term, blue baby. The procedure joined an artery leaving the heart to an artery leading to the lungs, in an attempt to give the blood a second chance at oxygenation. It was the first blue baby operation and came to be known as the Blalock-Taussig Shunt.
  
  For the full story see: http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/page1.htm
  
  
  

  Submitted by: Ed, 07/04/2008 16:32:48

• Does anyone know the name of the bar/restaurant that the doctors go to that was portrayed in the show? I can't place it...

  Submitted by: JR, 07/04/2008 14:25:22

• More medicine and a bit less focus on the personal lives would make this show more educational, but maybe that's not good for ratings. I admire the dedication of the highly trained doctors, but was not impressed with comments like "where are all the hot nurses" by an MD who is unsure if he can continue his commitment to his wife. Nurses are not sex toys to play with while you are having marital problems.

  Submitted by: RN student, 07/04/2008 13:22:16

• My wife and I work different hours, so we DVR our shows we want to watch. Saturday mornings are when I usually catch up on my television shows and Hopkins was one that I was looking forward to. Last Saturday morning, my wife and I got into a fight when I was dropping her off to work. After I got home I watched the first episode of Hopkins. The show made me realize how difficult it is sometimes to try and juggle both work and family, especially with conflicting schedules. It made me realize that all relationships need a bit of work, sometimes lots of work. The show also made me realize the little time we have together and not to take them for granted. In the end it didn't matter who's fault it was or who started the fight. A simple effort can go a long way towards the road to recovery. Upon finishing the show I decided to pick up the phone and give my baby a call.

  Submitted by: dave, 07/03/2008 23:58:22

• To Mr. Wrong - If you wish we didn't live in a doctor-centric world, why do you perpetuate their centricity by focusing on them? Are you that tied to generating viewers? Are you so constrained by ABC that you cannot deviate from this? Your apologetical view on this is almost insulting since you recognize the bias and offer "but that's just how it is". Would some of the greatest producers exist if they didn't push the boundaries? Did you ever consider the idea of nurse practitioners or physician assistants, which occupy a large portion of family practice? There are many people that see these professionals and diagnosed under their care. This is especially becoming true since, as explained in the "MD money crisis" clip, doctors are not making enough in family practice and are pushing into specialization where they are often paid more. We are all waiting to see what the next episodes will bring, and hopefully you're right that you generously allowed the nurses more than 3 minutes. It would also be nice if the nurses weren't lumped together under Doctor Profiles, since you do understand their role. It would be nice for a producer to push the boundaries of our centric world and follow other health professionals. But like you said, that's the way it is. Thanks for this inspiration.

  Submitted by: mh, 06/29/2008 21:52:32

• I was very gratified to hear from two of the nurses who will be portrayed in this series how much they liked the first episode. I wish we didn't live in such a doctor-centric world but we do. Patients go to see their doctor, choose a surgeon, etc. so alas, yes there are more doctors than nurses profiled. However, nurses are in many scenes and occupy far more than three minutes of the series and their role is both understood and appreciated by the producers.

  Submitted by: Terence Wrong, 06/29/2008 01:38:00

• I was quite anxious to see this show get rolling. I am a junior in high school and am amazed how the medical field does what it does day in and day out. Surgeons, you rock! What you do is hard core and nothing is better than saving a life. Kudos to all who helped with the show. Its a pleasure just to watch.

  Submitted by: Mohammed Naeem, 06/28/2008 19:11:47

• It is brave let people into your lives and tell the truth about the challenges you face while working to save and improve the lives of others. My wife and I applaud your courage and your honesty and we wish you the best.

  Submitted by: Coleson, 06/28/2008 13:43:06

• Well definitely not for residency - I have to wonder about that clip though as it seems heavily edited. Many sources estimate surgeon salaries to be well over 200k and into 600k+ depending on experience and location. Not that they don't deserve every penny of it. But...so many go into medicine for the money and learn the hard way.

  Submitted by: mh, 06/28/2008 13:22:03

• i just started my residency... believe me, not only do we not make 300K, we probably make less than someone at Mcdonald's... watch that video 'Money Woes for MDs'... so true.

  Submitted by: ck, 06/28/2008 12:13:48

• This show should have been about Hopkins nurses - the ones that actually see the patient. Who wants to hear someone that makes over $300k a year whine about their divorce?

  Submitted by: mh, 06/28/2008 08:14:45

• Dr Quiñones-Hinojosa is not the only surgeon qualified to operate on a brain tumor. Following the logic discredits all of the other skilled neurosurgeons in this world. Johns Hopkins attracts top doctors in almost every specialty, so if he wouldn't have jumped the fence it's almost certain that they would have someone with equal clinical outcome. He performs a job that requires skill and precision, but he is NOT a miracle-worker. The show seemed to be a way for him to showcase his achievements and brag about hopping the fence. I honestly didn't care, but I think they should have left it out. It really discredits his work for a lot of people. I felt that he was more centered around his reputation and self rather than the patients. The fact that he told the patient's relative about the blood splash first rather than their condition really indicates where is mind is at. I also found it funny that he was the only doctor that bragged about attending Berkeley/Harvard/UCSF. I guess the others didn't feel a need to justify any illegal activities. It got boring listening to him talking about overcoming his past. He's just another doctor with a god-complex. This shouldn't be a surprise. And for people defending this man, did you know or care about Dr Quiñones-Hinojosa before the show? Didn't think so.

  Submitted by: ehh, 06/28/2008 06:39:08

• To all of you who criticize Dr Quiñones-Hinojosa for coming to this country illegally: What would you do if you or someone you love had a brain tumor and Dr Quinones - Hinojosa was the only one who could save them? Would you turn away his help just because of his past? Just think of all the lives he has saved! It is really sad that people can be so mean.

  Submitted by: Sandy, 06/28/2008 01:58:20

• Great show! I am planning on going to school this fall,I hope to be a radiologist or an RN. Watching these wonderful doctors save so many lives really inspire me, Especially Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa, if he can overcome so many hurdles then I know that I can too. I can't wait to see all 6 episodes!

  Submitted by: Sandy, 06/28/2008 01:47:57

• Did anyone notice that in the beginning of the show when one of the doctors is typing a letter he makes a grammatical mistake and states "I are getting a divorce." I thought is was kind of funny coming from a doctor, but the poor guy probably hadn't slept anything which is why he wasn't thinking clearly....

  Submitted by: mrqz, 06/28/2008 01:02:06

• Wow the ignorance of some is shameful.... how could someone accuse Hopkins as an institution that hires criminals? The brain surgeon portrayed in the episode has thus become a U.S. citizen and was hired as a legal resident. This doctor has saved an incredible amount of lives and is a valuable asset to the hospital and to every one of his patients, which is why he is one of the most respected brain surgeons in the nation. had he not came into this country my question then becomes how many people may have died because he had not been here to help them? I am glad this doctor is a major part of the show as he is an inspiration to me and others who have a dream of succeeding in life despite life's roadblocks! my question to the person who is critical of this man then becomes, are you one of the most respected brain surgeons in the nation? I think not so before being so ignorant as to criminalize a person who is doing good for our country think about the contribution you make in comparison to this man. I am absolutely certain that you don't make such in impact in the lives of others and for that maybe it would be better if you left this country since you are of no benefit to it in order to make room for people like this surgeon who do have a positive impact in our nation.

  Submitted by: natalie, 06/28/2008 00:57:30

• I have recently been informed that I have a Meningioma tumor, as depicted on the episode. The reaction of the pathologist, as well as the surgeon and his staff, disgusted me. I'm very happy for the pt that he didn't have cancer, however, a Meningioma is nothing to be happy about. Mine has totally encased my carotid artery and the nerves to my right eye. There are long-term effects from a Meningioma that can be horrific, such as blindness, stroke, seizures, paralysis, and etc., but that is if you come out of the 6+ hour surgery ok. I haven't found anything to cheer about. Please ABC educate the people about this horrific and life-threatening brain tumor. Not so much Hollywood drama next time, but how about a lot more compassion.

  Submitted by: Myrna, 06/27/2008 16:54:52

• Grey's Anatomy meets Real World meets the One Tree Hill Soundtrack thrown in at awkward moments. The only thing real about this show are the patients and their medical conditions. Doctors with overinflated egos must be the new hook for these networks. I apologize to other health professionals like physical therapists, nurses, or pharmacists who sometimes do more and don't get miniseries. Like any other show, this one focuses on perpetuating the idea that doctors run the entire show. ABC needs a reality check.

  Submitted by: yawn, 06/27/2008 14:37:47

• To Susan, author of "hated this show"--how dare you criticize these people, especially the thoracic surgeon. It must be really easy to pass judgement on someone who is obviously distraught and torn, while you're sitting on your couch at home. Do you actually think that he WANTS a divorce? That he WANTS to break his daughter's hearts? How many hours do YOU work per week? As soon as you work over 80hrs/week, see gunshot victims at 4am, perform cardiac bypasses, or remove lung cancers, maybe you can have a sliver of understanding of what he and others like him go through. Shame on you. If you need to go to the emergency room at 3am, I hope that someone looks at you and tells you that they need to go home instead of treating you.

  Submitted by: Jenny, 06/27/2008 14:27:58

• Hated this show. First, none of these doctors are likeable in any way. The brain surgeon has this incredible Napoleon complex, treats his underlings like dirt, and doesn't seem remotely concerned about any of his patients, especially the poor kid who's blood got in his eye, and the guy who has been waiting 6 months to see him. That's his responsibility. I'm assuming he got a referral letter 6 months prior for that patient, but because he is so important, he didn't bother to read it.
  The thoracic surgeon whines about his lack of sleep, yet feels no guilt leaving his wife home with his 3 kids while he's out getting trashed at a bar with his icky friends. The scene with his oldest daughter was great as she reminds him that it's ok he doesn't spend time with her or her sisters because some day he will be making lots of money. Nice thing to teach your kid.
  Then urologist is happy to reverse her patient's vasectomy even though the guy already has 3 small children from a previous relationship. What's with the guys in this show?
  And finally, the music is totally inappropriate. It turns the show into a sappy soap opera.

  Submitted by: susan , 06/27/2008 13:25:58

• I clicked on the one to watch, Iraq War Vet donates portion of liver to save brotherinlaw. WOW! can you believe that one? i've been on a liver transplant list for 14 months, and have never been told by my doctors about a live donor transplant. I never heard of it. I thought I had to wait until my meld score was high enough (sick enough) then wait for a cadaver liver, if one comes available, or else i die. I can't wait for that episode, the world needs to know about live donor liver transplants. Keep up the great work ABC, please post, when this show will be on, I do not want to miss it. I WANT TO LIVE. I pray that Randy and Michael made it through alright, and are doing well.

  Submitted by: On Liver Transplant List, 06/27/2008 12:53:18

• I liked it! I have so much respect for the doctors and nurses, for all they had to go through to get where they are. I'm particularly interested in this program because my daugher, Megan, is in her last year at JHU and she'll be going into this field of work (Hi Pumpkin!)

  Submitted by: Karen Solomon, 06/27/2008 12:46:19

• This was a typical medical reality doctor-drama, no different from prior. The producers, as routine, choose to follow surgeons and emergency medicine physicians for the shock value...leaving the lay public with the impression that the most common diseases need an operation. There was no mention of the non-surgical generalists and specialists that make up the overwhelming bulk of physicians caring for patients in the inpatient and outpatient setting. No focus on the research driving medicine. No focus on the intricate support staff (pharmacy, nursing, physical therapy, etc) that are absolutely essential to how any hospital works. No focus on how health care workers struggle everyday against preventing errors. No focus on the ICU or the people who work there...where up to 70% of people who die in the hospital...will die. No...what we have is ABCs storyboard for Grey's Anatomy....disappointing, superficially narrow focused, incomplete and anachronistic....

  Submitted by: Anonymous, 06/27/2008 12:38:09

• One thing I don't understand is why nurses are listed under Doctor Profiles. It's already pretty evident that the producers really have no clear understanding of healthcare roles. Can we get some kind of variety and include other people like nurses that impact these patient's lives? Oh wait, those don't fit the McDreamy doctor prototype this show attempts to replicate. Let's just throw in another flirty nurse or one that knocks over something.

  Submitted by: nc, 06/27/2008 12:35:53

• The filming was only 4 months in length end of Feb thru mid June - they shot hrs and hrs and hrs of film - taking almost a complete year to edit and put the series together.

  Submitted by: Someone who was actually there, 06/27/2008 12:29:32

• Awesome series.I would love for this to go beyond six weeks. Terrific reality show that we can all appreciate. No reporters, no scripts, just real life. What I don't understand in reading all of these above comments is this.People are giving a lot of feedback and criticism about what the show has NOT presented yet.Give me a break! It is the first show out of six for pete's sake! It did not even get out of the starting gate yet and people are complaining already. A baseball player get's 3 strikes before he is out. Give the show time to get rolling.

  Submitted by: Al, 06/27/2008 12:16:09

• Wow! Great show -- sad though as I have just moved back to Minnesota after having been in the Baltimore DC area for ten years -- I had a lot of experiences with Hopkins and it was always positive (accept, perhaps driving through Balto from Annapolis to get there -- the first time had me thinking I would never, ever see my car again once it was parked -- lol).
  
  Thanks for putting this together ABC -- no easy fete to be sure and a very heartfelt thank you to all the doctors and staff who have to give up so much to make this happen. Hoping this type of programming could go on forever!
  
  In love -- peace and joy to you all...Jeannie in "Mayo" land

  Submitted by: Jeannie Granaas, 06/27/2008 12:12:36

• The show was amazing!! My family has been and is going through a medical situation involving my 18 month old niece. She had open heart sugery (which did not work) and here recently suffered 2 major strokes. It was dealing with her medical issues, that encouraged me to watch your show. I wish there was a way that we could send my niece to your hospital, because there, the staff truly seems to care about the well being of their patients. You just don't get that type of bedside service everywhere.

  Submitted by: Lynn, 06/27/2008 11:13:22

• Thanks MEDSTUDENT. 16 months is a long time, I thought it was only 6 months last winter/spring of 2007. Can you tell me when they started shooting and what the time frame was?

  Submitted by: jj, 06/27/2008 11:11:53

• Not Bad, but here's how we do it at MY clinic: The Gross Clinic

  Submitted by: Dr. Gross, 06/27/2008 10:55:02

• I stumbled upon, and enjoyed, the first episode and will continue to watch every week. And, while I do not like the fact that Dr. Q came to our great country illegally, I am sure the people he works on and their families are very greatful! Just one more thing...Could you please cut back on the background music?? One an hour would be fine..it is too distracting because I find myself listening to the words of the songs. Thankyou

  Submitted by: Marsha, 06/27/2008 10:10:46

• The surgeon from Mexico certainly had an inspiring story and I'm sure he's talented but, I could not believe that the first thing he told the mother of his patient who just had major surgery when she asked "how did it go?" was about what happened to HIM. He said there was some trouble when blood squirted in his eye and she (the patient) may have had a blood transfusion, etc....WHAT? I thought patients come first. The mother wanted to know if her daughter was alive and he talks about the perils of his work. Very unprofessional...someone should show him that clip again. No wonder people think doctors are mega-egomanics with God complexes....we just saw it on a reality show!

  Submitted by: christy, 06/27/2008 10:10:23

• thank you for the spelling lesson........sorry. Dr. MD ( who makes decisions) but stays what for 5 minutes and let the nurses clean up their mess.
  

  Submitted by: Hopkins RN, 06/27/2008 10:05:10

• where can I view/download this episode?

  Submitted by: susan, 06/27/2008 10:04:29

• I had valve sparing aortic root replacement surgery at Hopkins in August 2005. Dr. Bethea was one of my Dr.'s. He was wonderful. I had some complications and "bounced back" to CICU 2 times after being moved to Nelson 6. Dr. Cameron's surgical team was phenomenal, as was the care I received at Hopkins. I was at Hopkins last week for an annual visit and asked about Dr. Bethea. The residents' going away party was that night, June 20th. I wish him the best in Texas!

  Submitted by: Kelly Toohey, 06/27/2008 10:02:59

• Featuring nurses as a blur in the background does not cut it. Johns Hopkins is a wonderful hospital and I am proud to be a student here in the medical center. I agree that the doctors should be profiled, as they make end-decisions for a lot of these patients, but they are certainly not the only ones making decisions. Where are the nurse practitioners that are diagnosing alongside these doctors??

  Submitted by: NP, 06/27/2008 10:02:01

• a 20 gauge (not gauze, as stated by the "Hopkins RN") EJ is WEAK!!!!

  Submitted by: M.D. (makes decisions), 06/27/2008 09:57:03

• Brian Bethea and his friends at the bar came off as being total tools. If he was so tired, why didn't Brian go home to his family and rest?

  Submitted by: Bud, 06/27/2008 09:25:45

• Where are the nurses?

  Submitted by: Erika, 06/27/2008 09:17:41

• First of all, in response to the inproper insertion of a "central line", if you look closely and paid attention, it was not a central line. It was a 20 gauze catheter that happened to be placed on the neck.....external jugular vein to be specific. I am a Hopkins nurse and I work with these residents and surgeons. Though the lack of nurse representation in the series are obvious and many have complained, I am still excited about this series. Nurses are appreciated at Johns Hopkins in many ways and I am proud to be a Hopkins Nurse. I don't see myself being anywhere else than where I am right now. Looking forward to see next week's episode.

  Submitted by: Hopkins RN, 06/27/2008 09:13:09

• My husband has been suffering from 3 pituitary tumors for going on 7 years now. After 8 surgeries, and one of them being a craniotomy; I would love for him to be able to see Dr,Hinojosa and see if there is some sort of plan that can be made to maybe erradicate these tumors. He has been seeing Dr. Laws at U.V.A but he has left the area and has opened a clinic in L.A. How can we get an appointment or at least get info on how to see Dr. Hinojosa?

  Submitted by: Tewonia K Ranson, 06/27/2008 09:10:38

• I have worked as a nurse for over 15yrs now - 10 yrs of which I have spent at Hopkins. I've seen many many med students become residents, residents become fellows and fellows become attendings. One thing I can say about all of them - they come in scared, frightened, overwhelmed, but dedicated - I watch them mature, become aware of there own sense of self, and become confident in what they do. They sacrifice everything in becoming a doctor. That means no sleep, very little pay, next to no relationships, and the lucky ones that do have a family sacrifice time with their wives, husbands and children. They love what they do - they are 100% dedicated to becoming the best physicians they can be and for that all other things must take second place in their lives. As I read the comments by many people on this site who criticize Dr. Bethea's actions I ask them to spend a day, a week in his life - Being a doctor is not all glitter and glamour - life and death decisions are made on a second's notice and what you do in those seconds can change not only the patient's and their family's lives but yours too - forever. Just remember they are human, they have feelings too and that they have sacrificed to be there for you and your family when you most need them.

  Submitted by: Teresa, 06/27/2008 08:26:11

• where exactly can I download episode1?!!

  Submitted by: Vivian, 06/27/2008 07:20:07

• For a true account of life at Hopkins from the patient's perspective you should Google "Adventures in Cardiology"

  Submitted by: Mister Muckle, 06/27/2008 07:11:44

• where can I download episode1?

  Submitted by: Vivian, 06/27/2008 06:58:08

• REMARKABLE SHOW, LOVED IT!!!!! I only wish there were more than 6 episodes. I am already hooked and will be sad to see it end.

  Submitted by: Clint, 06/27/2008 05:42:48

• I personally liked the show a lot and cant wait until next week! I had encephelitis its probalbly spelled wrong but I hope u understand. Anyways, I was 23 married with a 4 year old. I was in a coma state for 4 months and after a lot of fights with my mom and ex husband I woke up in San Antonio Texas were I had moved with my husband. Im now re-married and just had a little boy who is 6 months. My problem is that since then my life changed, I have epilepsy, and I am un able to walk. I would really like to meet Dr. Alfredo Quinonez-Hinojosa or get a consultation with him to see if I will ever walk again. I am also mexican like him and would love to meet him how do I get a hold of him?

  Submitted by: Laura, 06/27/2008 02:54:42

• Excellent! I generally dislike reality shows, but this one is refreshingly different. I can't wait till next week. Well done!!

  Submitted by: Rick, 06/27/2008 02:24:32

• Thanks for another show, which highlights the wonderful work that physicians do...while completely ignoring the contributions of nurses and other staff.
  
  I suppose a nurse who has to go home to a "normal" sized house; who wouldn't be able to talk about how wonderful they are and who wouldn't go out drinking with their super-studly college buddies just wouldn't be as exciting.
  
  Ah well!

  Submitted by: John, 06/27/2008 02:06:12

• where can I download episode1?

  Submitted by: Vivian, 06/27/2008 02:03:47

• Great promotion for physicians, but where are the nurses?
  I teach nursing students and they have been waiting in anticipation to see how the show Hopkins was going to portray nurses.
  So far I have seen a nurse bump into a machine in the OR.
  Anyone who has ever been in a hospital knows that nurses are an integral part of the organization. Hopefully the next episodes will provide a better representation of what really happens in a hospital.
  Having said that, it is a show with much promise.

  Submitted by: June, 06/27/2008 01:55:38

• Dr. Quinones should stop bragging that he entered this country illegally. It is nothing to be proud of. Instead of pointing out the illegal immigrants standing in front of the 7-11 like prostitutes offering their physical services for money, he should be trying to get them to learn English and get real tax-paying jobs.

  Submitted by: Ann, 06/27/2008 01:46:29

• This is definitely a TV show well worth watching. I believe that is is true a 'reality' show because it is unscripted and provides a real view of what patients are undergoing and the personal and professional lives of doctors. It is raw emotion and documents the emotional and psychological side of medicine and the struggle to help others in life. It offers a perfect mix of hope and inspiration but is also terrifying because life can really change in just moments. I really appreciate and admire the patients and doctors who are willing to expose their lives on public television. I am so thankful for all the hospital staff who do their best to help others with their compassion, skill, expertise and ability. At the end of the day, we are all human and we experience fear, excitement, pain and love and family whether we are the doctor or the patient.

  Submitted by: Anon, 06/27/2008 01:32:15

• Coming from a family of doctors (I am not one)...this show is great. I like how they show the relationships that doctors have with everyone. Even if the relationships seem bad, it sheds a light. It makes me proud of my dad and sister and everyone else in my family in the medical field.

  Submitted by: JJ, 06/27/2008 01:30:57

• I completely disagree with Dr. Yang's assertion that there are no good simulators for medical students other than operating on animals. Extensive research shows that non-human animals are a poor substitute for animals in medical research and training. His statement at the end of the video clip asks, "What's best for the patient? What's best for the medical student?" How about considering what's best for the animal? A pig's intelligence has been estimated at equivalent to a 3-year-old child. What parent would allow medical students to practice surgery on their toddler who would then never wake up? We've evolved as a species to be able to put a spacecraft on Mars and yet we're still practicing vivisection back on Earth. Animal experimentation is detrimental to human health in that it generates information that can lead researchers away from more tenable solutions to illness or, conversely, create false approaches that ultimately waste time and resources (men are not mice). A suitable substitute for teaching anatomy and surgical techniques is human cadaver labs using bodies from persons who made a conscious decision to donate their body for medical research. At least they exercised their free will, a choice not offered to pigs and the other 25 million vertebrate animals killed annually in research and education in the U.S. As a nation, we're better than this.

  Submitted by: Tracie, RN, 06/27/2008 01:30:43

• Wow this is what reality show's are about. real life in and out of the hospital. where we only see the doctors as doctors when we visit the hospital here it shows ther life outside the walls. i can't wait to see the transplant episode. i have had my kidney transplant for two years and doing great i wish more people would donate there organs every one watch for the episode of the transplant.

  Submitted by: jay lamb, 06/27/2008 01:24:38

• Another EXCELLENT Hopkins show produced by ABC!Hopkins is a MIRACLE Hospital that is unexplainable until you experience the brillance of the Drs and dedicated nurses and all staff! I was injured in 1999 from an injury, bedridden for 1 year and my husband Phil and I went to 15 Drs. (neurosurgeons in the state of CO) all told me I could'nt get a spinal cord stimulator, face the fact Ms.King you'll never walk again,paralyzed from the waist down and no stimulator!!!Dr. Richard North who has since retired from Hopkins , one of the top Neurosurgeons in the world but in a Spinal Cord Stimulator in amazing, baby steps and a long rehab and 6 weeks later spread to my hands and another successful stimlulator put in,a miracle from God!!!My whole body is working with limitations,JOHNS HOPKINS IS A MIRACLE FROM GOD! People can make negative comments but until you experience the brillance of the top Drs. in the WORLD and the training residents.EVERYONE TO the janitor,cook should all be commended for their care compassion,hard work,etc. We are all here all the planet to contribute to society and that's what everyone does at that GREAT MEDICAL CENTER!

  Submitted by: Laura King, 06/27/2008 01:18:25

• I'm going to stick up for Dr. Bethea. Possibly because he seems like ah-mazing. Is anyone else here running on 2 hours of sleep with 3 kids at home and an insecure wife? Yes, yes, she's been there with him through all this. Congratulations, but to have have a real achievement, stick with him through his residency. He's in surgery, dealing with life-threatening diseases and can't always be there. He may have fallen a little bit out of love with her and shame on him but he seems to rarely see her. My gosh, I'm talking myself out of becoming a surgeon. Never mind! Really? When college friends come in to town after not having seen them for a while aren't YOU going to go get a drink with them? Really? And shame on you for assuming it's all his fault. He loves his kids and he said it, or the neurosurgeon did. I forget. Family, Friends, other things, become second to Being A Surgeon.

  Submitted by: Abigail, 06/27/2008 01:06:09

• I hope an ABC exec reads this post because I felt the need to share the fact that this show is one of the most refreshing things I have watched on television in a very long time (years...even). It has the unscripted/raw quality of reality TV and the dramatic/comedic narrative of a scripted series. It is brilliant. Thank you thank you thank you!!

  Submitted by: Bess, 06/27/2008 00:49:05

• I'm unable to watch the episodes as they are on, can't afford TV, so I watch the video on the following day. I did, however, watch the clip on ECT. It rather took me by surprise as I have undergone extensive ECT with a positive effect in the beginning and an increasing depression later. My diagnosis is now Bipolar with treatment resistant depression. I've spent 10 years in treatment, including talk therapy, behavioral therapy, DBT, yoga, meditation, and at this time 7 medications. And...as the patient in the clip said, "There is no quality of life." My days begin and end rationalizing why I should remain alive. If anyone can make suggestion or give me guidance I would be grateful.

  Submitted by: Laura Jean Griffiths, 06/27/2008 00:43:01

• For all the nurses at Hopkins and throughout the USA, you guys kick butt, wherever you are. You are the fore front before the patients get to the doctors. So, remember, you are definitely appreciated!

  Submitted by: Roberto, 06/27/2008 00:30:30

• I would like to say that Dr. Brian Bethea seems like a nice guy but is in insensitive side towards his wife's needs. He seems to be a great doctor but has forgotten that his wife has been there from the beginning. So, Dr. Behea, if you are reading this, love your wife with all your heart and stop being a sour puss. It going to take alot of work because as a man, we have to be the leaders or head of household for our family showing by example. Fortunately, womean are born leaders in the area. As for Dr. Bethea, he needs take a page from Dr. Hinojosa's family life. Sorry cannot remember the rest of this Drs' name, has two last names. By the way, hat's off to Dr. Hinojosa for following his dream and being a great doctor, family man and great example for other people to imitate in life.

  Submitted by: Roberto, 06/27/2008 00:26:09

• I loved the show and can't wait until the next episode. In 1999, I was diagnosed with Bells Palsy and it was a severe case...never went away leaving the left side of my face paralyzed. I've been to several doctors but no one was able to help me. Could you possibly help me? I know that my problem is not cancer or lift threatening but to me, it has been life changing.

  Submitted by: Karen, 06/27/2008 00:24:34

• 1. That was a 20 g EJ, 2. i agree with the bar girl, anesthesiologists ARE the coolest doctors ;) 3. there will be many nurses represented in the episodes to come (even tonight, look at the one that bumped into the microscope!!!! thats gotta be embarassing)
  
  till next week...........
  
  rock on.....

  Submitted by: Anesthesia, 06/27/2008 00:18:05

• Are they going to show this episode again or at least put the full episodes up on the website? I hope they sell these in a series.

  Submitted by: Edgar, 06/27/2008 00:17:34

• I am a student in high school, and I actually watched this because I thought it would be like Grey's Anatomy. How wrong I was! I have wanted to be a doctor when I grew up for maybe the last two, three years, and drama-heavy shows like House and Grey's Anatomy just don't cut it these days for a teenager curious about the inner going-ons of a hospital. Thank you, thank you, thank you ABC for this great documentary. I realize that being a doctor isn't all glamour and glory. Dr. Quinones was especially inspiring, because I aspire to be a neurosurgeon one day in the future.
  
  Six parts for this amazing show is too short. Please extend it! I'm quite sure that you have more than enough tape for several more episodes of the intriguing doctors, nurses, and patients at Johns Hopkins hospital.

  Submitted by: Jenny, 06/27/2008 00:16:19

• One word about Brian Bethea: Ah-mazing.(By the way, yes I know he's a cardiothoracic surgeon, not a neurosurgeon, but he's still awesome) Yes, it is evident that I'm 13 but the fact that I've fallen in love with just about every medical show and I am going to tag along one day a week with a neurosurgeon so I can find out what it is like seeing people sick and in need of surgery is cool. I have the huge dream of becoming a world-renowned neurosurgeon. I don't know what I would be facing, like the long hours and pressure but that makes me want it more. What's better than saving someone everyday of your life?! This show is going to rock my world. Along with Grey's Anatomy(very fictional). Ironic they're both on ABC? I think not. I can't wait to be enveloped by another love of a medical show!

  Submitted by: Abigail, 06/27/2008 00:10:18

• jj, I'm a med student at hopkins. crews were here for about 16 months.

  Submitted by: med student, 06/26/2008 23:55:50

• Good:
  The idea of profiling doctors
  Taking a look inside the health care system in the US since I think so many are running scared from it...
  Showing a doctor getting on his staff about being lax in returning a patient's request for an appointment
  
  the bad:
  no history of hopkins
  doctors who are not typical hopkins doctors. Is the show about hopkins or some fictitious place where all of the most unlikely people are who they are on the show?
  The cardiothorasic surgeon with all of the problems and the chest tube that was less than fabulous...sure, his personal life makes for good TV
  The female urology surgeon...again with the a-typical doctor. why? yes, women can be urologists just like men can be ob/gyn's. why didn't you profile one of those?
  Too many commercials...they interfere with the show.
  No mention of the amazing medical procedures that have been pioneered at Hopkins. There's one that I'm sure your urology doctor would be happy to talk about....
  

  Submitted by: Daniel, 06/26/2008 23:55:15

• At least I don't need a night light. I glow in the dark. I also have tinnitus too. My dad who is an Oncologist believes it is due to scar tissue from the radiation therapy.

  Submitted by: JP W, 06/26/2008 23:48:04

• Where are the asian physicians? Why does it matter? If it does, then why don't you ask were the african-american physicians are? Or the native american physicians?
  
  

  Submitted by: John, 06/26/2008 23:46:12

• I liked the soundtrack. Where can I get it?

  Submitted by: Mary, 06/26/2008 23:46:00

• Can you tell me when this was made - over what course of time/ how many months it took to shoot the stories/episodes?

  Submitted by: jj, 06/26/2008 23:43:31

• What a self centered bunch of doctors. (Except for the Urologist.) The highlight of a major brain surgery case is that the physician got splashed with blood? As a medical professional I understand the risks, but that would NOT be shared with the patient's family. And the resident whining about his failing marraige, but the only night off he had in this episode was spent drinking with college buddies and flirting with girls? PUH LEEZ!
  
  And just like Grey's Anatomy, the support personnel were non-existent or highlighted only when they made errors. Also, whoever is doing the music cuts for your episodes sucks. Heavy handed all the way around. I think the producer's name says it all: WRONG!

  Submitted by: Katie , 06/26/2008 23:42:38

• I absolutely love the show. It is by far the best show of 2008.

  Submitted by: Judy in INDY, 06/26/2008 23:42:05

• I have seizures and am very tired of them not being able to get my medicine straight. I am so tired of having these seizures. When I have them I really hate having to deal with the getting over them.
  I hate not having the memory that I use to have.
  The one thing that I really don't like is how that my daughter is having to deal or live with what is going on with me.
  She is fifteen and having to not having the chance to go be with her friends.
  

  Submitted by: penny sumner, 06/26/2008 23:41:19

• I liked this show very much. It was very interesting. I had an Astrocytoma when I was 2 years old in 1971. I had radiation therapy that caused partial paralysis on my left side. I also have partial complex seizures. I take Trileptal that makes me sleep for 15 hours a day. I would like to find something natural and does not make me so tired.

  Submitted by: JP W, 06/26/2008 23:35:39

• i LOVE the show!!! can't believe that it has been 8yrs since "hopkins 24-7" first aired. i wish this would be a weekly show and not just this summer. a real life "grey's anatomy". don't wait too long to bring it back next time ;).

  Submitted by: mkg1098, 06/26/2008 23:31:37

• I enjoyed the show and look forward to watching again. i really enjoyed the urologist portion. keep up the good work.

  Submitted by: cecil wilson, 06/26/2008 23:31:11

• i'd like to see the follow up about tiffany. i met her and her family about two months out from her accident. it was wonderful to see the progress. i think that not just the doctors but the family's and patient's state of mind really has to do with te level of recovery. tiffany's mom never gave up hope she is a rock and truly is an example of strength.

  Submitted by: lisa, 06/26/2008 23:29:03

• I absolutely loved this show!!! Talk about reality TV, as a healthcare professional I think this is as real as it gets. Sorry to say though, In one scene a physician inserted a central line (an IV in the neck that goes directly into a large blood vessel) and neglected to follow central line insertion bundle precautions for prevention of infection. The MD did not wear a a mask or a gown. He did not cover the patient in a sterile drape.

  Submitted by: Lesie, 06/26/2008 23:28:26

• I LOVE the show! It's great! There are no actors, no scripts it's real life. it's great! I think it is all perfect! I love how ever episode shows a different doc and specialty each time so we'll see everyone! This isn't Hollywood...this is real! it's about time! thanks!

  Submitted by: Megan , 06/26/2008 23:23:44

• I counldn't believe my eyes when I seen Dr. Q although I think it was his kids I noticed first on the previews. I met him at my uncles wedding and didn't know he had left CA I am glad he and his family are doing well. I would like to see a doctors BLOG or something from the also

  Submitted by: Brandy, 06/26/2008 23:20:20

• I thought the show was great!! I think we all know that behind a good Dr. is a great nurse, so I don't see the problem that other nurses have with it. The answer to the question about the song that Mike sang is "The Dance" by Garth Brooks.

  Submitted by: Mary, 06/26/2008 23:17:25

• I think this is a great learning opportunity that's being missed. In patient safety circles it's no secret Johns Hopkins is a leader in quality improvement initiatives, and therefore the exception to the rule. I wish ABC had done this in almost any other hospital, to demonstrate how it REALLY is. We got a glimpse when the medical worker jostled the machinery while the doctor had instruments in the patient's brain. I agree there's too much focus on physicians. Treatment and modern medicine comes from physicians, true patient care comes from nurses and family members. A day in the life of a nurse, now there's an eye-opener. 108DAYS.com

  Submitted by: Lisa Lindell, 06/26/2008 23:17:05

• Lose the soundtrack! Lose it before the next installment. It cheapens the show and keeps you from hearing what the participants are saying.

  Submitted by: doug connzh, 06/26/2008 23:16:49

• I'm a nurse, and I have to say it's kinda annoying to hear people complain about wanting more face time for us. Hopkins is more than just doctors, but I was under the impression from the beginning that it was about them specifically - a real-life grey's anatomy. I love the time I spend with my patients, and I do spend more time with them than most doctors - well pretty much all doctors. But the fact is that it's the doctors making the hard decisions in the hospitals - they put the patient's lives, and their reputations (and these days careers and livelihood) on the line. The show does a good job of showing what their lives are - a bunch of difficult, complicated decisions (professional and personal). When it's all said and done, I'm the messenger - I deliver the care the doctors have decided on.
  And I'm ok with that. Because I can sign out my patients and go home at the end of my shift without having to worry about them. Everyone has a role in medicine.

  Submitted by: Dom, 06/26/2008 23:15:49

• Background music too distracting.
  
  A docudrama, with too much drama, and not enough docu-!

  Submitted by: Bruce, 06/26/2008 23:13:34

• Thanks Lisa!
  
  PS Loved the episode! I'm already hooked. What a tear jerker...

  Submitted by: Katie, 06/26/2008 23:11:04

• Dr. Brian B.: please don't rush
  into a divorce with your wife Amber.
  This would break your children's hearts.
  

  Submitted by: Ann, 06/26/2008 23:09:36

• I am here to answer any questions.

  Submitted by: Michael Larson, 06/26/2008 23:08:37

• Katie-"The Dance" by Garth Brooks 108DAYS.com

  Submitted by: Lisa Lindell, 06/26/2008 23:08:36

• Are the shows available online? I'd like to see them but missed #1 and will have to miss others.

  Submitted by: Jay, 06/26/2008 23:06:04

• Loved it! Especially Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa.

  Submitted by: Rebecca, 06/26/2008 23:06:02

• Had successful minimally invasive heart valve surgery at Hopkins last November. I'm feeling better than ever thanks to the exemplary absolutely top notch skills of Dr. David Yuh and the entire cardiac surgery staff. Excellent, Excellent, Excellent !

  Submitted by: Rob, 06/26/2008 23:05:46

• Does anyone know the name of the song that Mike, the brain cancer patient at the end, was singing at the bar?

  Submitted by: Katie, 06/26/2008 23:04:28

• The show is okay. There is an excessive focus on physicians and not enough on the critical role nurses play in patient care. Hopkins is also a top-notch research hospital. There is no mention of the valuable contribution the research community makes to world-class patient care by giving doctors increasingly sophisticated tools to do their job well. Too much emphasis on dramatization and not enough on helping people understand how patients get the cutting-edge care that Hopkins provides.

  Submitted by: Imran, 06/26/2008 23:00:30

• The music is good, but seems really inappropriate for this show. It is too loud (so makes the show hard to watch in an apartment), but it is really a shame that abc has followed a trend that there cannot be one moment of silence. The subject would be so much better served by at least a more sparing use of it.

  Submitted by: jj, 06/26/2008 22:37:41

• A female urologist! I wish there were more. Male urologists and female patients have nothing in common. They have no compassion for women suffering from kidney stones, or any other urinary problems. If I hear another urologist say, "Well, at least you don't have cancer"! I will vomit on them. Patients come first?

  Submitted by: Karen Bjellum, 06/26/2008 22:31:32

• I'm watching the the first epesode it is amkrksmdjsihtfy dttdtzjyx
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  Submitted by: ufhhfjhjdhfudh, 06/26/2008 22:30:12

• Chris, that show was called "Houston Medical" and that physician with brain cancer didn't survive. 108DAYS.com

  Submitted by: Lisa Lindell, 06/26/2008 22:29:17

• I think this was tried before, it was called "Houston Medical" about Memorial Hermann Hospital. I'd like to see the show "Hopkins" find a patient whose going to be there awhile and stick with them. Head for the ICU. The only way you're going to depict what's really happening inside those walls is to put the camera at the bedside. 108DAYS.com

  Submitted by: Lisa Lindell, 06/26/2008 22:27:30

• Excellently depicted. Very honorable. Professional, emotional and humanitarian. Thank you, as a medical professional who had to endure many of these emotions.

  Submitted by: Michelle Nelson, 06/26/2008 22:27:07

• This is all well and good, but when are you going to profile the medical oncologists. I have to go to sleep way to early to watch the show, so I'll record it on my Comcast DVR.

  Submitted by: Paul Fishkin MD, 06/26/2008 22:10:25

• Hi - As a new grad nurse in the ICU - its a little like medical doctors going through residency because nursing practice is a lot different than taking the boards. I would like to say that Hopkins is a great medical institution staffed with several medical geniuses - its like heaven for nurses to work at because Hopkins sees everything. Its so much fun. This show is going to be just awesome - thanks for making my summer.

  Submitted by: Sachin, 06/26/2008 21:51:09

• Do we know if these episodes will be available online?

  Submitted by: Jonathan, 06/26/2008 21:44:15

• My DVR is set and I'm ready to sit back and watch the stories unfold. Half a century ago, my parents were helped to conceive by an esteemed fertility specialist at Hopkins. Almost 22 years ago, my daughter was born at Hopkins and today my son is a medical student there. Tonight, as I watch my television, I'll be bursting with pride for sure!

  Submitted by: Leslie , 06/26/2008 21:31:30

• I am so looking forward to these episodes of Hopkins. My 15 year old daughter Tiffanie was treated at Hopkins for Uterine/Ovarian Cancer by Pediatric Surgeon Dr. Paul Colombani and featured on the 3rd episode of Hopkins 24/7. Him and his staff went over and above the call of duty in treating my daughter including paying for her CT-Scan that they were having a hard time getting approval for. Dr. Paul Colombani, lab personel, nurses and staff who go beyond the call of duty making you feel like family from the moment you walk in the door. I just want to say thanks for giving me 2 more precious years with my Tiffanie.

  Submitted by: Deneen Gethouas, 06/26/2008 15:01:38

• Where is Oscar's profile? Hes a stud.

  Submitted by: SURGERY, 06/26/2008 11:36:36

• Im sure there will be plenty of nurses on the show. In fact they have trailers dedicated to nurses and their social lives. I wonder if that nurse is still hooking up with the tugboat driver she met at a bar? I cant wait to find out!

  Submitted by: JP, 06/26/2008 11:32:45

• Dr. John Cameron has been a pioneer in the treatment of pancreatic disorders for his entire career. I am personally indebted to Dr. Cameron for a successful Whipple procudre in July of 2006. My life is back to normal and I have a whole new view of life. The man is the epitome of bedside manner. Thank you, Dr. Cameron.

  Submitted by: sean sullivan, 06/26/2008 08:57:30

• Are you planning an episode about the psychiatric department at Hopkins? Mental health is an issue that needs positive attention.
  

  Submitted by: Barbara Geistwhite, 06/26/2008 08:56:19

• there are nurses... look at the profiles page

  Submitted by: kc, 06/26/2008 08:19:45

• I think "Hopkins" looks like a great show but I have a question. "Where are the nurses?" I am a nurse and I get really frustrated when shows only focus on the doctors/residents/interns. Nurses are with patients 24/7 and know a good deal more about the patient then the doctor. You see doctors do a organ transplant and that is wonderful but the nurses are the ones that recover the patient and watches that patients every breath. I would love to see a nurse reality show; that portrays us as the hard working, caring, comitted individuals we are.

  Submitted by: Carlotta Fendrich, 06/25/2008 18:08:17

• I am excited to see the piece on brain surgery as a recent patient of Dr Q. He was amazing and extremely concerned about my health and the affect on my family. I am blessed to have Dr Q to be my patient and a friend that was doing the best for me and all that were associated with me in trying to control this affliction (brain tumor GBM IV) He was sent to us by God and my whole family are happy to have met him.

  Submitted by: RWD, 06/25/2008 15:00:34

• regarding the comments on the lack of asian doctors - please stay tuned to the site and the series. we'll be adding more doctors and nurses to the site. in our series, you will meet south asian medical students who talk openly about racial stereotypes, as well as asian attendings and bi-racial doctors.
  I also wanted to say, as one of three asian-americans who were in baltimore working on the project (and our team wasn’t very large), i am very concerned about the representation of diversity. growing up, i felt pitifully underserved when watching television and movies, so when i joined abc news, i felt absolutely obligated to always accurately, fairly and completely cover all segments of our communities.
  in baltimore, we talked and met with countless medical staff and patients, cutting across all lines of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, generation and geography. we went to great effort to find and cover interesting, important, compelling people and stories that we knew– for you, the viewer --it would be worth taking time out of your day to watch.
  this is where the complications of television and the public realm come into play. my own asian family can be very private-- they aren't going to be as open and willing to let cameras follow their every move as others might. not to say people from all asian cultures are like my family, but in baltimore we shot over a thousand hours of tape and, as it often goes in visual storytelling, sometimes it is those doctors which we have more access to that translates simply into more of them on tape. of course there are many, many different factors that go into making a series like this, but I just wanted to stress again our efforts to meet with as many people as we could. but how much they were comfortable with being part of a national television project was an individual choice that we had to respect. on many of my projects, there are often tons of people i wanted to have participate or include but couldn’t, for those reasons.
  in any case, this concern I am seeing in the community to see more asians in media and to speak out about it is very heartening to me.
  

  Submitted by: mtd, 06/25/2008 14:40:33

• Is this show a "reality" type series or is it just a drama television series? Thank you!

  Submitted by: K.C., 06/25/2008 14:10:57

• Daphne the song is from elza called everything to me

  Submitted by: noreen, 06/25/2008 13:53:00

• Some of these residents ARE NOT a true representation of Hopkins residents......

  Submitted by: HOPKINS ALL STAR, 06/25/2008 12:43:07

• Why is anybody surprised by the serious lack of Asian representation? Hollywood is one of the remaining areas of society that supports racism through direct and indirect means. You combine that with the overwhelmingly white advertising industry and voila, an all white cast with a few token people of color.

  Submitted by: Matt, 06/24/2008 22:45:32

• Yes, where are the Asian doctors?

  Submitted by: Matt, 06/24/2008 21:21:33

• I was a transplant recipient on April 27, 2007 from an incompatible Bi-Coastal 3-way swap. It was really amazing how it was done and thanks to my favorite Dr. Montgomery who made it happen, more and more incompatible transplant are happening all around the country. I do hope they were able to use some of our footage so the world could see and convince people that donation does work, is simple and you can still live a full life as before. I believe people just do not know a lot about transplantation and this is why some people are very reluctant to donate. Hopkins 24/7 hopefully will enlighten people to come forward and donate.

  Submitted by: Robyn Brandon, 06/23/2008 17:27:21

• Marnie Rose, MD the doctor on the first hopkins series, died in 2002. See the website: http://www.ridinfortherose.com/about.htm

  Submitted by: Joe, 06/23/2008 15:10:19

• I had the pleasure of working @ Hopkins (General Surgery) for several years, met and married my husband there, and had 2 kids! We left the area in 2002, so I'm really looking forward to seeing the changes that have taken place since we moved.

  Submitted by: Paula, 06/23/2008 15:06:32

• I had my aortic and pulmonary heart valves replaced via open heart surgery in 2005. That said, I'm pretty excited to see how "real" this show is. I would say that the drama of Grey's Anatomy really takes away from the truth of the experience. I hope this show stay on tracks and helps people understand the reality of heart surgery

  Submitted by: adam, 06/23/2008 10:00:20

• Chris and Sue,
  Unfortunately, the young woman doctor you speak of (whose name I can not remember off the top of my head) died shortly after the season wrapped up. I was really routing for her.
  You may be interested to know that the wonderfull gynocologist-oncologist with the great bedside manner and heart of gold also sadly passed away. I believe I heard he had a heart attack while out running.
  
  Glad to see the first episodes were as inspirational to others as myself.
  
  Tammy

  Submitted by: Tammy, 06/22/2008 20:45:53

• I'm very excited about this. I agree with Darshan--I hope this show I hope this show illustrates the part that society rarely sees--the sacrifices that we make throughout our entire lives to get to the point of becoming doctors..and THEN being a doctor in itself, with all of the moral and personal issues to tackle. Especially with the current status of health care..

  Submitted by: Christine Chung, 06/22/2008 18:57:34

• So excited to see this show! I read an article about the doctor who was an illegal immigrant (can't recall his name) a few months ago on th Hopkins website. It's so inspiring. I hope to work at Johns Hopkins in a year and a half after finishing my nursing degree so it'll be nice to learn a little about the hospital.

  Submitted by: Brittney, 06/21/2008 22:08:12

• Why would they showcase the nurses - everyone knows it's all about the doctors.............................

  Submitted by: No Name just observation, 06/21/2008 04:28:37

• Are there seriously no nurses featured in this series?

  Submitted by: meg, 06/20/2008 09:29:14

• the song in the trailer is by Mathew Puckett and was composed for this series...check his music links on this site...and to Alfredo's niece...we love him too...

  Submitted by: Terry Wrong, 06/19/2008 21:52:46

• I hope this show sheds some light on what we give up in our lives to be doctors. It's not some easy ride with big dollars waiting at the end plus some Mercedes. It's a lot of work, and I can only wish that this series displays to the public why we are worth every penny. We give a lot of our 20s up to do things most lay people take for granted in today's entitlement ridden culture.

  Submitted by: Darshan, 06/19/2008 19:29:45

• This show looks amazing. Being in the medical profession, I am very much looking forward to it. It appears to be a well rounded and very professionally done show. Kudos to the producers.

  Submitted by: Can't wait, 06/19/2008 14:26:15

• Given the wide prevalence of Asian-Americans in the medical profession and their great contributions to patient care, I was saddened to see that ABC's trailer contained no Asian faces. Given that 20% of medical students (AAMC, 2005) are of Asian descent, how can a show that purports to be a realistic view of the medical profession ignore such a large portion of working medical professionals? It appears that ABC is simply following the larger Hollywood trend of neglecting Asians.

  Submitted by: vince, 06/18/2008 15:28:36

• In the series trailer, does anyone know the song? The lyrics go
  
  "all i want is this moment, there's so much to say, so much to say.
  ...save the day...change your mind...there's so much to say, so much to say"
  
  I missed some of it and it may be a bit inaccurate, but he definitely says "so much to say".

  Submitted by: Andrew, 06/18/2008 00:03:50

• look under Music and click on Elza. it's the last song on the list.

  Submitted by: it's elza, 06/17/2008 21:11:54

• In the trailer that I saw on television, there is song sung by a female that I really like. Does anyone happen to know the title or artist of the song? I believe part of the lyrics is "I want to be your savior". Thank you in advance!

  Submitted by: Daphne, 06/17/2008 14:00:21

• I am also curious about the doctor who had cancer. I am looking forward to watching the show. I think Hopkins is a wonderful hosptial. They really helped my son transition into my daughter with knowledge and a gentle kindness that I have never experienced before. Doctors Chis Craft and especially Dr. Kate Thomas Thank You so very much for all you have done and continue to do!!!!!!!!!

  Submitted by: Sue Lynn Peffer, 06/17/2008 01:56:04

• Can't wait to watch the show!
  We are all proud of my uncle Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa! We love hims o much!

  Submitted by: xenia, 06/16/2008 20:19:00

• The original Hopkins show followed a physician with brain cancer. What was her outcome of her illness? Her story was so moving.

  Submitted by: chris, 06/13/2008 13:04:53

• Hey John, you should check out the Hopkins encyclopedia

  Submitted by: Kenneth Chu, 06/11/2008 20:45:21

• Just curious about any information anyone has on cysts, and non-surgical ways to remove them. I have quite a few, and the surgery would be VERY expensive because of the amount. Has anyone tried wart freezing treatments, or "self-surgery"?

  Submitted by: John, 06/11/2008 18:44:09

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