Nurse Linda

See Link at bottom to read the entire article in USA Today about the new TV show “House” and the contribution to its success by my niece, (my sister Doris’ daughter) Linda Klein.

Excerpt from the article, read below:

Hospital shows always face the challenge of portraying illness and treatment as accurately as possible within the confines of a drama.

“That’s a battle I have fought forever,” says Linda Klein, a medical consultant who has worked on other TV shows and movies for 24 years. “This pilot, House, I’m on now, every time it comes to surgery and scrub-room scenes, they want to play these actors doing all this dialogue at the sinks without masks on. I tell them there isn’t a surgeon in the world who would scrub their hands before surgery without masks on.”

She’s also working on ABC’s new Sunday hit Gray’s Anatomy. She tells producers what’s accurate; then, she says, it’s up to them to decide what to do. “We’re not doing documentaries, we’re doing dramas.”

David Foster, a House staff writer and medical consultant, says NBC’s ER raised the bar. “It has created an atmosphere where audiences demand a certain amount of realism from their medical shows.”

On House, the accuracy presents a particular challenge because the show is built around a doctor who is so brilliant only the most difficult cases are sent to him. Four medical advisers are listed in the credits.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/…