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What are some awkward differences that would happen if an episode (pick an episode, any episode) of a medical drama or police drama took place in the legal environment where you live?

I've noticed both medical dramas and police dramas rely heavily on Californian legal practice, because Hollywood. For example, I just watched the episode of Doc (it's literally just called Doc) where a doctor saved someone on the "DNR list" and almost got suspended, and so here I was thinking "the patient's perspective would never fly in my environment". Of course, though, the US (and definitely California) are not the whole world. So I was wondering, what's an episode of a medical/police drama you could think of where, in your legal environment, the characters would seem crazy for diving into the topic of how they did?

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Not directly related to the question, but Brazilian medical drama is nurses fighting to keep shit up and running on hospitals while medics clock in then head off to their particular clinics.
Brazil also still has separate military and civil polices, the former doing the legwork and shooting people, the latter doing actual investigations, so any USA-like police drama just wouldn't work here.
- Makes me wonder when someone is going to make a military drama.
  
  They did, it was called MASH. I guess it was more of a comedy but still... It could be pretty dramatic

- Doctor Mike is a real doctor with a youtube channel. He reviews multiple episodes of House and they're hilarious. It's like every time House has some epiphany and orders some new radical treatment he winds up yelling "WHY!?" into the ether.

a doctor saved someone on the "DNR list" and almost got suspended, and so here I was thinking "the patient's perspective would never fly in my environment".
Assuming you mean a Do Not Resuscitate order; not list
\ Curious what you mean by it not flying in your environment.
- The conceptualization behind them isn't treated everywhere equally. I'm not as traditionally-minded as the people around me, but I live somewhere that's far more traditional than progressive California. Now maybe I'm not updated on the norms (and to be fair, I'm still new here), but I think I remember reading it's viewed as an omen of a shortage of therapy here, in the same way as its more self-destructive alternatives.
  
  Are you saying that a DNR would be viewed as the same as euthanasia? Because those are very different things legally and a DNR is a very standard document in most developed countries.
  
  It seems like there’s some disconnect here on what a DNR order is. I’m not an expert but my understanding is it’s a legal statement the patient made prior to becoming a patient defining what lengths should or shouldn’t be taking to keep them alive.
  So I don’t see what that has to do with California being progressive.
  When you say “omen of a shortage of therapy” it sounds like you’re maybe talking about being an organ donor?

I guess it wouldn't really change at all since I am in California. I'll still have free healthcare (that isn't very good) from the state, and all the doctors are super sexy because that's actually how it is here. Everyone thinks Hollywood is bullshit; they've just never been to California. 🤷🏻‍♂️
- Wasn't The Resident in Georgia?

Basically none of the police drama coming out of Hollywood would hold up in the real world. Not even in California.
- They do draw heavily upon references to their norms though.

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