Healthcare on TV
This popular tv show has been running for 22 seasons and previously featured main character Dr. Meredith Grey.
What is Grey's Anatomy?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This healthcare professional assists doctors and provides patient care in hospitals.
What is a nurse?
This hospital department treats life-threatening or urgent situations.
What is the Emergency Room (ER) or Emergency Department (ED)?
The world "shut down" during this period, beginning in 2020. We are still seeing the effects of this today.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
This show has been praised for its realistic portrayal of medicine as each episode follows the emergency room staff for one hour of their day.
What is The Pitt?
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
This specialist uses X-ray equipment to help diagnose and treat diseases or injuries.
What is a radiologic technologist?
This law protects patient health information privacy in the US.
What is HIPAA?
As of February 2026, the United States is experiencing a surge of this disease.
What is measles?
This show, popular in the 90s and early 00s, is often considered the "model" for contemporary medical dramas.
What is ER?
This system controls the body using electrical signals.
What is the nervous system?
This specialist is able to use imaging devices to produce diagnostic images, scans, videos, of 3-dimensional volumes of anatomy and diagnostic data.
What is a sonographer?
This life-saving procedure restarts the heart using chest compressions.
What is CPR?
This organization has been in the news frequently as the nation's leading science-based service organization that protects the public's health.
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
This sitcom, following characters at Sacred Heart Hospital, is being revived in 2026.
What is Scrubs?
This part of the eye controls how much light enters.
What is the pupil?
This healthcare worker responds to emergency calls and provides pre-hospital care.
What is an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)?
This practice is the most effective way to prevent the spread of infection in healthcare settings.
What is hand washing?
This medication has rocketed into the mainstream in the last two years, as it mimics a natural gut hormone to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity by stimulating insulin and suppressing appetite.
What is GLP-1?
This mockumentary sitcom follows doctors, nurses, and administration in an underfunded, fictional hospital in Oregon.
What is St. Denis Medical?
Normal adult resting heart rate falls within this range.
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
This nurse specializes in providing trauma-informed care, evidence collection, and clinical evaluation for victims of violence, abuse, and trauma.
What is a forensic nurse?
This individual is considered the most famous nurse and is known as the "Founder of Modern Nursing."
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This neurotoxin, now widely discussed in Hollywood, is used both cosmetically to smooth wrinkles and to treat chronic migraines, severe sweating, and muscle spasms.
What is Botox?