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Thursday, September 09, 2004McDonough is Dr. Stephen Connor, the obsessively dedicated head of an NIH mobile medical team. We know he's obsessive because he's willing to disappoint his son by flying off in the middle of the kid's baseball game, though you have to wonder what kid wouldn't think it was kind of cool to see his game called on account of a military chopper landing in the outfield. Whoa. I thought the NIH was more of a research-oriented bureaucacy. Isn't it the CDC that has the mobile investigative team to make on the spot diagnoses? Yes, that's correct. "Sorry, kid. Gotta go. Senator Byrd wants me to open a new hospital in Rockville, West Virginia, right away!" UPDATE: Ross at Public Health Press says that the show's creaters chose the NIH to add flexibility. He points out this article: Laurence Andries, the show's producer, emphasizes that the series is intended as fiction, and the hybrid NIH and CDC agency will work well with a plot line that includes a participant in a clinical trial, which is an NIH specialty. Hmm. But if you're going to be "creative" doesn't it make more sense to use the CDC team as the basis of the show and just sometimes have them look at clinical trial subjects? I suspect they didn't realize the difference between the CDC and the NIH until the pilot was in the can. posted by Sydney on 9/09/2004 07:02:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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