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'Grey's Anatomy': Real-Life Doctors Dissect the Drama

From left, Vanessa Ngakeng, Ben Gbulie, Michangelo Scruggs, Gautam Siram and Mustafa Loiy watch the ABC show in a Howard University Hospital lounge.
From left, Vanessa Ngakeng, Ben Gbulie, Michangelo Scruggs, Gautam Siram and Mustafa Loiy watch the ABC show in a Howard University Hospital lounge. (By Bill O'leary -- The Washington Post)
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"The first day, you don't even know how to hold a scalpel," Ngakeng says.

And all the show's back-talking of superiors?

"The way they talk to the attendings is just wrong," Scruggs says.

How about dating a patient? Several residents respond:

"No way." "It's not allowed." "You could you lose your license."

Scruggs, the podiatrist, has a somewhat different take.

"The thing is, after seeing a patient in a certain way, I don't want to see anything else.

"But I deal with feet."

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Many lascivious scenes later, Dr. McDreamy -- who is a neurosurgeon -- has to open up a patient and perform something a cardiothoracic surgeon would actually do. The room is riveted.

Gbulie: "He's aspirating . . . That's good TV!"

Scruggs: "Thumbs up!"


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