Why do Deaf people watch Hospital dramas on TV

[Grummer]

PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY

Do you watch enjoy watching hospital dramas? like ER, House, Grey's Anatomy, Chicago Hope ??

But before you might say 'you just did a thread on this before!' well I do apologise in advance but I think perhaps I wasn't phrasing the thread questions as accurately in order to hopefully gain some insight on why do we, d/Deaf people enjoy this genre.

As you see, I am curious about what sort of feedbacks we might have so I might be able to gauge some connections of similarities of how we all as d/Deaf Tv viewers (using subtitles) experience when watching hospital dramas. The main findings would be gathered for my television studies assignment. This will be very helpful.

So here goes;

Have any of you thought of explaining what is like to be d/Deaf watching these hospital dramas, put differently does it reassures you as a 'normal' person in such a way that viewing these shows provides you an escape from the existence of being a d/Deaf person and perhaps even use it as an oppurtunity to pretend to be one of the doctors/nurses in the series, or perhaps identifying with the characters or settings?

So you find hospital depicted as nurturing caring or hostile environment?
how do you find the depiction of deaf or Deaf or hard of hearing paitents fairly accurate or not ? why not or why you think so also lastly do you find the knowleges of medical terms and practice depicted to be empowering? (as so you learn something or already knows but also see difficult ethical dilemmas as very intellectually inviting? Or does certain characters/stars attractive giving appeal to the show worthy to watch or perhaps what about environmen cleaniness and ordered? or bloody and infested in the midst of chaos? Like does disorder seem more appealing to watch?

Also when watching hospital dramas do you find it imperative to have subtitles on for the contents to be fulfilled with proper access to script dialogue?

Which are;
A) how important for us to use subtitles, how does it enable us to connect with lofty medical terms and diagnosis made in the scenes as well as the complex (and interesting?) interaction between staffs which often cross over the boundary work and social.
B) Does watching hospital drama makes you temporary as a superior individual as 'borrowed' god-like watching over the doctors' prognosis and diagnosis?
C) does the realness of medical mishaps and tension in saving a life makes for dramatic escapism superior to action / conventional dramas? put in another way, does viewing something morbid seem to give 'balance' in TV watching, as opposed to sanitisied entertainment as where perfectionism is thrown out for instance, displays of luxuary items becomes less important, or indeed more important/emphasied in "Nip and Tuck" series where the dramas surround cosmetics sugery of the wealthy?

NB; As for word, sanitisied- I'm spelling correctly, we use 's' instead of 'z'

I hope you dont mind me asking all this, as there seem to be void of scholarly material at hand to support what I might write about why I enjoy these show in the essay. I dont wish to write "for myself /about myself" so I try be more accurate, that is, I would like to try demonstrate how and/or why d/Deaf people might find hospital dramas appealing.

Many thanks in advance and hoping you will enjoy this thread as much as I do.
Cheers

 

[Frisky Feline]

i stopped watching any hospital dramas. it is all same to me after i quitted watching the old ER when julianna and george left ER. They are too much for me like its in real life. I am into scific aka syfy. good enough for me. sorry to spoil your thread ha

 

[Frisky Feline]

wait a min! i lied. i realize that i do watch the HOUSE. just because he's a hottie guy. =X Well, he's so hilarious for twisting people's mind for good reasons.

 

[sara1981]

i love watch hospital dramas expect grey's anatomy my favorite show!! Because my mom is nurse

 

[omegaman]

I have no interest in hospital drama's. Such shows are too exciting for me.

 

[Jasmine4lakshmi]

Grey's Anatomy is basically the only hospital drama show I will watch, mainly because the guts and gore is minimal and the drama with the character is not too boring and the medical terms is not unrealisitc, and the characters have grown on me.

 

[Grummer]

ok thanks everyone for so far responding but please read the first post carefully so you know exactly what I am after

 

[Bottesini]

Have any of you thought of explaining what is like to be d/Deaf watching these hospital dramas, put differently does it reassures you as a 'normal' person in such a way that viewing these shows provides you an escape from the existence of being a d/Deaf person and perhaps even use it as an oppurtunity to pretend to be one of the doctors/nurses in the series, or perhaps identifying with the characters or settings?

All television dramas provide and escape from everyday existance. And yes, it is nice to put oneself in the shoes of the powerful lead characters.

So you find hospital depicted as nurturing caring or hostile environment?
how do you find the depiction of deaf or Deaf or hard of hearing paitents fairly accurate or not ? why not or why you think so also lastly do you find the knowleges of medical terms and practice depicted to be empowering? (as so you learn something or already knows but also see difficult ethical dilemmas as very intellectually inviting? Or does certain characters/stars attractive giving appeal to the show worthy to watch or perhaps what about environmen cleaniness and ordered? or bloody and infested in the midst of chaos? Like does disorder seem more appealing to watch?
I usually think deaf characters are not accurate. They are always great lip readers and have few communication problems. The ethical dilemmas do provide food for thought.

Also when watching hospital dramas do you find it imperative to have subtitles on for the contents to be fulfilled with proper access to script dialogue?

Which are;
A) how important for us to use subtitles, how does it enable us to connect with lofty medical terms and diagnosis made in the scenes as well as the complex (and interesting?) interaction between staffs which often cross over the boundary work and social.
It is necessary to use subtitles just so we understand the words and know what people are talking about.
B) Does watching hospital drama makes you temporary as a superior individual as 'borrowed' god-like watching over the doctors' prognosis and diagnosis?
I am a little more detached and don't put myself that much in the drama.
C) does the realness of medical mishaps and tension in saving a life makes for dramatic escapism superior to action / conventional dramas? put in another way, does viewing something morbid seem to give 'balance' in TV watching, as opposed to sanitisied entertainment as where perfectionism is thrown out for instance, displays of luxuary items becomes less important, or indeed more important/emphasied in "Nip and Tuck" series where the dramas surround cosmetics sugery of the wealthy?
The puzzle of what is wrong is the interesting part of medical drama. I have never seen Nip and Tuck .

NB; As for word, sanitisied- I'm spelling correctly, we use 's' instead of 'z'

I hope you dont mind me asking all this, as there seem to be void of scholarly material at hand to support what I might write about why I enjoy these show in the essay. I dont wish to write "for myself /about myself" so I try be more accurate, that is, I would like to try demonstrate how and/or why d/Deaf people might find hospital dramas appealing.

Many thanks in advance and hoping you will enjoy this thread as much as I do.
Cheers

Hope this is of some help to you.

 

[Grummer]

Hope this is of some help to you.

I like the way you laid out your response botts! wish others would do the same
Cheers for that

 

[somedeafdudefromPNW]

Have any of you thought of explaining what is like to be d/Deaf watching these hospital dramas, put differently does it reassures you as a 'normal' person in such a way that viewing these shows provides you an escape from the existence of being a d/Deaf person and perhaps even use it as an oppurtunity to pretend to be one of the doctors/nurses in the series, or perhaps identifying with the characters or settings?

No, that thought have not come across my mind yet. Only because the medicare they display on TV is very much different compared to my experience in the healthcare system. So since I never had experience with the American healthcare system, I can't really answer this question properly. All I know is that the procedures in these shows are completely different compared to what I have experienced.

So you find hospital depicted as nurturing caring or hostile environment?

I never really had a positive experience with the hospital or any medical agency, especially in regard with the Red Cross, so I am biased in saying this. I don't view the shows as nurturing or caring. Yeah, the writers are making them look nice, but I always felt like they were wolves in sheep's clothing.

how do you find the depiction of deaf or Deaf or hard of hearing paitents fairly accurate or not ?

False. I wish they include ASL more often. House's portrayal of a Deaf patient was interesting however. Not entirely accurate, but given the show's history and previous subplots, I am not surprised.

I do get tired of Deaf people being portrayed as perfect lipreaders or Hard-of-Hearing hearing perfectly with hearing aids.


why not or why you think so also lastly do you find the knowleges of medical terms and practice depicted to be empowering? (as so you learn something or already knows but also see difficult ethical dilemmas as very intellectually inviting? Or does certain characters/stars attractive giving appeal to the show worthy to watch or perhaps what about environmen cleaniness and ordered? or bloody and infested in the midst of chaos? Like does disorder seem more appealing to watch?

Also when watching hospital dramas do you find it imperative to have subtitles on for the contents to be fulfilled with proper access to script dialogue?

Unusual question... the only thing I don't require subtitles or closed captioning for are movies that I have already seen before more than once like the Nightmare Before Christmas or silent films.[/quote]

Which are;
A) how important for us to use subtitles, how does it enable us to connect with lofty medical terms and diagnosis made in the scenes as well as the complex (and interesting?) interaction between staffs which often cross over the boundary work and social.

Very important!

B) Does watching hospital drama makes you temporary as a superior individual as 'borrowed' god-like watching over the doctors' prognosis and diagnosis?

More like those people who stand behind mirrored glass like in CSI or NCIS during interrogation.

C) does the realness of medical mishaps and tension in saving a life makes for dramatic escapism superior to action / conventional dramas?

Wish they don't display the immediate medical mishaps as extreme as they are, or try to downplay the long-term consequences of them.

put in another way, does viewing something morbid seem to give 'balance' in TV watching, as opposed to sanitisied entertainment as where perfectionism is thrown out for instance, displays of luxuary items becomes less important, or indeed more important/emphasied in "Nip and Tuck" series where the dramas surround cosmetics sugery of the wealthy?

Never seen Nip/Tuck, so I can't say. I am not sure what kind of answer you want here though since it is dependent. If it is in a hospital, sterile environment is expected. If it is field surgery, like with paramedics or combat medics, or even surgeons in hospital bases, as displayed on military drama and certain shows like The Listener, then I am expecting it not to be so sterilised.

Hope that help!

 

[Grummer]

this is really good reply souggy, if we keep it up there might be a chance for a light debate on how close or distance is realism is portrayed in hossy dramas, in so saying basically debates on what is 'quality' of TV programmes i can just smell it.... lol

 

[Jolie77]

Have any of you thought of explaining what is like to be d/Deaf watching these hospital dramas, put differently does it reassures you as a 'normal' person in such a way that viewing these shows provides you an escape from the existence of being a d/Deaf person and perhaps even use it as an opportunity to pretend to be one of the doctors/nurses in the series, or perhaps identifying with the characters or settings?

Sure, It does provide an "escape" to watch the entertainment but it also does shed some reality that is illusioned by trending in-between of portraying the view from another side. By that, I mean, I can identify with some of the character in relation of having some experiences that can hit home, to at least.

So you find hospital depicted as nurturing caring or hostile environment?
how do you find the depiction of deaf or Deaf or hard of hearing paitents fairly accurate or not ? why not or why you think so also lastly do you find the knowleges of medical terms and practice depicted to be empowering? (as so you learn something or already knows but also see difficult ethical dilemmas as very intellectually inviting? Or does certain characters/stars attractive giving appeal to the show worthy to watch or perhaps what about environmen cleaniness and ordered? or bloody and infested in the midst of chaos? Like does disorder seem more appealing to watch?

I'd say I find it in the between of a hospital on the drama tv shows that can be remotely nurturing or hostitle. It is not by how the hospital staffs that runs it but by how the administrations that handles the idea of shoo-ing things or speeding it up in order to meet it's own quota.

As for the medical terms and practice - I don't think I find it empowering but in a sense, I find it enlightening to get a glimpse of learning something new or some things that I am already familiar with but yet it's up to date. Since I work in a health insurance field, I see various medical terms on a daily basis and at most, it piques my curiosity for it.

There are times that I find it fascinating to see the midst of chaos underlying there and with the storyline that has a conflictual/intellectual issues which can also be captivating.

Also when watching hospital dramas do you find it imperative to have subtitles on for the contents to be fulfilled with proper access to script dialogue?

Which are;
A) how important for us to use subtitles, how does it enable us to connect with lofty medical terms and diagnosis made in the scenes as well as the complex (and interesting?) interaction between staffs which often cross over the boundary work and social.

Yes, It is very imperative. Without it, We would not be able to gain some knowledge of what was being said or to find some new terminologies

B) Does watching hospital drama makes you temporary as a superior individual as 'borrowed' god-like watching over the doctors' prognosis and diagnosis?

No, It doesn't make me feel like I'm a superior or anything like that.

C) does the realness of medical mishaps and tension in saving a life makes for dramatic escapism superior to action / conventional dramas? put in another way, does viewing something morbid seem to give 'balance' in TV watching, as opposed to sanitisied entertainment as where perfectionism is thrown out for instance, displays of luxuary items becomes less important, or indeed more important/emphasied in "Nip and Tuck" series where the dramas surround cosmetics sugery of the wealthy?

As for basing on a life-saving making decision; It gives the sense of how it is handled but granted, there are times that it is over-exaggerated, or I would like to think so. The reason why I think at times it is over-exaggerated is because there are times they will infuse the morbidity of it's drama to make it attractive to balance things out.

NB; As for word, sanitisied- I'm spelling correctly, we use 's' instead of 'z'

I hope you dont mind me asking all this, as there seem to be void of scholarly material at hand to support what I might write about why I enjoy these show in the essay. I dont wish to write "for myself /about myself" so I try be more accurate, that is, I would like to try demonstrate how and/or why d/Deaf people might find hospital dramas appealing.

Many thanks in advance and hoping you will enjoy this thread as much as I do.
Cheers

I hope you're finding it satisfying and I'm curious, What prompted you to ask those questions? Is it because you find yourself fascinated with these sorts in order to separate the reality of a Hospital Drama TV shows or is it in general of how a deaf person would be well received to incorporate into this?

 

[Cheri]

I don't watch any of those shows and yes I'm being very honest with my answer also.

 

[somedeafdudefromPNW]

this is really good reply souggy, if we keep it up there might be a chance for a light debate on how close or distance is realism is portrayed in hossy dramas, in so saying basically debates on what is 'quality' of TV programmes i can just smell it.... lol

No worries. Thank you for posting! It is only when people speak up, we find out more about things.

I hope I admited all of my biases... at least that what a trained/good historian should do: admit their biases in their own writing.

 

[Grummer]

I hope you're finding it satisfying and I'm curious, What prompted you to ask those questions? Is it because you find yourself fascinated with these sorts in order to separate the reality of a Hospital Drama TV shows or is it in general of how a deaf person would be well received to incorporate into this?

I would say its partly of both, but more on the latter. I said it right in the beginning;

As you see, I am curious about what sort of feedbacks we might have so I might be able to gauge some connections of similarities of how we all as d/Deaf Tv viewers (using subtitles) experience when watching hospital dramas. The main findings would be gathered for my television studies assignment. This will be very helpful. .

 

[KarissaMann05]

I used to interest in those. Now, not anymore.

I hardly watch a tv show. I like wife swap, doctors, and a several others.

 

[Grummer]

I used to interest in those. Now, not anymore.

I hardly watch a tv show. I like wife swap, doctors, and a several others.

Wife swap??? :jaw:

 

[shel90]

Have any of you thought of explaining what is like to be d/Deaf watching these hospital dramas, put differently does it reassures you as a 'normal' person in such a way that viewing these shows provides you an escape from the existence of being a d/Deaf person and perhaps even use it as an oppurtunity to pretend to be one of the doctors/nurses in the series, or perhaps identifying with the characters or settings?

Yes, I do watch House but I never thought of it as an "escape" from my deafness but as an "escape" from my everyday responsibilities and to take my mind off of more serious subjects. Just a way to enjoy and relax.

So you find hospital depicted as nurturing caring or hostile environment?
how do you find the depiction of deaf or Deaf or hard of hearing paitents fairly accurate or not ? why not or why you think so also lastly do you find the knowleges of medical terms and practice depicted to be empowering? (as so you learn something or already knows but also see difficult ethical dilemmas as very intellectually inviting? Or does certain characters/stars attractive giving appeal to the show worthy to watch or perhaps what about environmen cleaniness and ordered? or bloody and infested in the midst of chaos? Like does disorder seem more appealing to watch?

I am always fascinated by mystery so "House" is about solving medical mysteries. That was what attracted me to the show. As for displaying deaf people correctly, there was one episode about a deaf man who was forced to have a CI. I thought a lot of things were innaccurate but many ADers pointed out that is typical of the show itself so I thought more about it and realized that was the case. So, I disregarded that episode and not take it seriously.

Also when watching hospital dramas do you find it imperative to have subtitles on for the contents to be fulfilled with proper access to script dialogue?

Which are;
A) how important for us to use subtitles, how does it enable us to connect with lofty medical terms and diagnosis made in the scenes as well as the complex (and interesting?) interaction between staffs which often cross over the boundary work and social.

I need the captioning to understand anything being said on the show.
B) Does watching hospital drama makes you temporary as a superior individual as 'borrowed' god-like watching over the doctors' prognosis and diagnosis?

No
C) does the realness of medical mishaps and tension in saving a life makes for dramatic escapism superior to action / conventional dramas? put in another way, does viewing something morbid seem to give 'balance' in TV watching, as opposed to sanitisied entertainment as where perfectionism is thrown out for instance, displays of luxuary items becomes less important, or indeed more important/emphasied in "Nip and Tuck" series where the dramas surround cosmetics sugery of the wealthy?
Yes although I never had thought of it that way.



I dont think my deafness has anything to do with why I watch the show. My husband is hearing and he enjoys watching it too.

 

[Mrs Bucket]

PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY

Do you watch enjoy watching  hospital dramas? like ER, House, Grey's Anatomy, Chicago Hope ??

"HOUSE"

But before you might say 'you just did a thread on this before!' well I do apologise in advance but I think perhaps I wasn't phrasing the thread questions as accurately in order to hopefully gain some insight on why do we, d/Deaf people enjoy this genre.

As you see, I am curious about what sort of feedbacks we might have so I might be able to gauge some connections of similarities of how we all as d/Deaf Tv viewers (using subtitles) experience when watching hospital dramas. The main findings would be gathered for my television studies assignment. This will be very helpful.

So here goes;

Have any of you thought of explaining what is like to be d/Deaf watching these hospital dramas, put differently does it reassures you as a 'normal' person in such a way that viewing these shows provides you an escape from the existence of being a d/Deaf person and perhaps even use it as an oppurtunity to pretend to be one of the doctors/nurses in the series, or perhaps identifying with the characters or settings?

I must admit I fantasize being a nurse because growing up my aunts on both sides of the family are nurses and my Gma was a nurse. Growing up & seeing/hearing tales of the patients' trials & tribulations as well as seeing the nurses' outfit change over the decades is quite interesting.

So you find hospital depicted as nurturing caring or hostile environment?

They are quite nurturing for me because it is those people behind the Nurse/Doctor coat that makes it caring.

how do you find the depiction of deaf or Deaf or hard of hearing paitents fairly accurate or not ? why not or why you think so also lastly do you find the knowleges of medical terms and practice depicted to be empowering? (as so you learn something or already knows but also see difficult ethical dilemmas as very intellectually inviting? Or does certain characters/stars attractive giving appeal to the show worthy to watch or perhaps what about environmen cleaniness and ordered? or bloody and infested in the midst of chaos? Like does disorder seem more appealing to watch?

I still find the d/Deaf patients on the shows disabling because they all always rely on the interpreter, why not show one patient using pen/paper? The doctor or the nurse are saying "Oh the patient needs the interpreter." I sometimes wish for less blood and more complex situations with strategy thinking.

Also when watching hospital dramas do you find it imperative to have subtitles on for the contents to be fulfilled with proper access to script dialogue?

Closed captioning is to the deaf and subtitling is to me. (big smile!)

Which are;
A) how important for us to use subtitles, how does it enable us to connect with lofty medical terms and diagnosis made in the scenes as well as the complex (and interesting?) interaction between staffs which often cross over the boundary work and social. 
B) Does watching hospital drama makes you temporary as a superior individual as 'borrowed' god-like watching over the doctors' prognosis and diagnosis? 
C) does the realness of medical mishaps and tension in saving a life makes for dramatic escapism superior to action / conventional dramas? put in another way, does viewing something morbid seem to give 'balance' in TV watching, as opposed to sanitisied entertainment as where perfectionism is thrown out for instance, displays of luxuary items becomes less important, or indeed more important/emphasied in "Nip and Tuck" series where the dramas surround cosmetics sugery of the wealthy?

I feel it is very important for subtitles because I enjoy watching the candor between staff as we can see they're humanised rather than the frenetic crowd in the ER room.

NB; As for word, sanitisied- I'm spelling correctly, we use 's' instead of 'z'

I hope you dont mind me asking all this, as there seem to be void of scholarly material at hand to support what I might write about why I enjoy these show in the essay. I dont wish to write "for myself /about myself" so I try be more accurate, that is, I would like to try demonstrate how and/or why d/Deaf people might find hospital dramas appealing.

Many thanks in advance and hoping you will enjoy this thread as much as I do.
Cheers

Hope this helps.

 

[Mrs Bucket]

Wife swap??? :jaw:

Yup, there's a wife swap and I don't like this show! It's nucking futs silly!