Top 5 TV Doctors (and What They Teach Us)

By: Kirsten S., who is working towards becoming a forensic scientist by taking online courses within the field.
Practically every time you turn the television on, you are greeted by some sort of medical drama. All these shows are entertaining and some show some truths and insights to the medical world.
Here are the top 5 TV doctors that have graced our small screens:
5. Dr. Addison Montgomery - Dr. Addison was first featured on Grey's Anatomy as the scorned wife of Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shephard. Dr. Montgomery may have made some interesting personal life choices (affairs with her husband's best friend!) but she has always been an advocate for woman and babies. As a neonatal surgeon with board certifications in Obstetrics and Gynecology, watching her both on Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice is a refreshing course in woman's reproductive health.
4. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce - M*A*S*H has been off the air for a long time, but its episodes are timeless. While this television show is mostly comedic and ridiculous, it displays some of the hardships of being a medical team during a war. Hawkeye works hard to get supplies that the team needs, makes his patients feel comfortable and eases the tension in the most uncomfortable, war torn circumstances. At the root of his antics, the patients are always his priority and making them comfortable and safe is his number one concern.
3. Dr. Leo Spaceman - 30 Rock's celebrity resident doctor is nothing but a joke. His tagline is "Fertility | Meth Addiction | Child Psychology - A Fine Doctor, and a Pretty Good Dentist!” If you ever come across a doctor like this, run - don't walk, the other direction. All too often horror stories are told about bogus medical advice a friend or family member received, Dr. Spaceman rolls all those stereotypes into one hilarious (and completely inappropriate) celebrity doctor.
2. Dr. House - If I ever had something mysteriously wrong with me, I would want Dr. House to be my diagnostician. He picks up on small details, like simple conversation and subtle insights in the way the patient moves, to make a correct diagnosis. Despite the fact he is always breaking hospital policy and that he is generally disagreeable - it's hard to argue that he's not a good doctor. Dr. House is indifferent to his patients, which makes people uneasy, but it's what allows him to diagnose so well. By making the patients seem unimportant, he can focus on their symptoms and save their lives.
1. Nurse Jackie - Ok, she's not a doctor. But, she's essential to the hospital staff. She makes herself more valuable than the doctors at her New York City hospital by being an expert diagnostician and having a superior bedside manner. Nurse Jackie does play fast and loose with some ethical rules, she herself is addicted to painkillers and has an affair with the hospital pharmacist to obtain her dose of pills. But even with her questionable morals and her drug addiction, Nurse Jackie proves over and over again that she knows what she is doing. Having a biting sarcastic wit with the doctors and administrators on staff, but a calm, kind and soothing tone with patients and worried loved ones, she immediately is a favorite among patients and their family members. Doctors are unable to do what they do without nurses, Nurse Jackie hits that point home every single episode.

5 Signs You’re Addicted to New Technology

The author, Jessica S., has attended sonogram technician school and has written for onlinecollegedegrees.net We’re living in a new age. For many of us, the term "Internet" had just been invented when we were kids. It was a cool thing some adults were into, but certainly not a way of life. Nowadays the Internet is not only an information highway; it’s part of a lifestyle. New technology is taking over not only the way that we get our information, but how we act and socialize and think about the world around us. For some it’s troubling, but others find this new way the world works refreshing. For those who relish the idea of a night on Facebook or could not live without the latest Apple apps, good for you for keeping up with the times. But if you’ve taken it a bit further, if you live and breathe new technology a little too much, you might want to consider this a bit more than a thing you do. It's ok though; we’re all addicted to something!

1. You live the Apple lifestyle. You don’t just buy Apple products and like the design of the new stores, you adhere to the lifestyle connected to it. You’ve painted your house all bright, bright white and turned the lighting up so hard that people have a hard time seeing. Where there’s not white paint, there’s glass or metal. You hang on everything Steve Jobs says and you make sure that all your apps are up to date.
2. You know every obscure artist on MySpace. Or Facebook. People used to listen to what MTV told them to listen to; now people have branched out. New media has made it possible for the little guy to get a break, but you want every little guy to get every break.
3. You have 1,526 “friends.” That old buddy from high school, sure you still know him. The woman across the hall, you two know as much about each other as a brother or sister might. The mailman, he’s on your friends list; that man who sold you sneakers, you just found out he’s “feeling under the weather today.” You’re connected to everyone you’ve ever met, and you know more about them than you do your own mother, who never was so hip as to subscribe to this kind of new technology.
4. You spend more time checking Twitter than working. Sure you have a job, sure they pay you, but why dedicate all that time to work, especially when there are Twitter posts to check and even more to update?
5. Your friends know you better by screen name than real name. To your friends your name is "greatgreengummy" and not Ted or Cynthia. Ted? Cynthia? Who are they?

Surviving the imaginary zombie epidemic

Guest post written by Walter Brooks
One thing that I'm really obsessed with in pop culture right now is zombie fiction. I just love it. There are all kinds of things that people constantly worry about in regards to epidemics. I even joked around when the swine flu was something everyone was worried about that that was really code for the zombie disease. But I guess that's what happens when you read a whole bunch of zombie fiction.
I went online about a week or so to find some news in the world of zombie fiction and when I was looking up that I ran across the website ClearwireWimax4g.com and after I looked through all of it, I decided to sign up for one of the internet packages I found on there.
I know it's really just a matter of fiction, but I do about know the The Zombie Survival Guide from cover to cover just in case. It's really cool to see what exactly you are supposed to do to get rid of these imaginary creatures that pop culture is so fixated on now.