Hopkins (TV series)

Hopkins (TV series)

Hopkins is a seven-part documentary TV series set at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, a teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland (USA).cite news | coauthors = Josef Adalian| title =ABC schedules checkup at 'Hopkins'| work = Variety Online| language = English| publisher = Reed Elsevier Inc.| date = 2008-03-16| url = http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982502.html?categoryid=1236%02cs=1&cs=1| accessdate = 2008-06-24] [cite news | last = Zurawik| first = David| title =ABC News producer on what makes Johns Hopkins great| work = The Baltimore Sun| language = English| publisher = Tribune Company| date = 2008-04-01| url = http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/critics/blog/2008/04/abc_producer_on_what_makes_joh.html| accessdate = 2008-06-24] cite press release| title = HOPKINS 24/7| publisher = The Futon Critic| date = 2008| url = http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings.aspx?id=20080610abc01| accessdate = 2008-06-24] It premiered in the United States on June 26, 2008 on ABC.

Created as a real-life adjunct to the ABC hit Grey's Anatomy, it follows the professional lives of hospital caregivers and their patients. The show is a follow-up to the ABC Special Hopkins 24/7, from 2000. [cite news | last = Carman| first = John| title = Hospital Delivers A Dose of Real Life| work = San Francisco Chronicle| language = English| publisher = Hearst Communications Inc.| date = 2000-08-30| url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/30/DD9144.DTL| accessdate = 2008-06-24]

Controversy

The fourth episode of the series featured a young boy with a serious, irreversible heart condition. His heart was barely functioning at a level high enough to keep him alive, and he went into cardiac arrest during a heart biopsy. During a discussion among the boy's doctors about the course of treatment, Dr. James Fackler, a pediatric critical care specialist, was shown saying "It's my opinion that we should just let the child die". This comment incited controversy among viewers, who considered it insensitive.In a video on ABC's Hopkins website, Dr. Fackler elaborated on what he meant, explaining that if the boy required a heart transplant, mechanical life support (ECMO) would not keep him alive long enough for a new heart to become available.

Some viewers also took offense to comments made by vascular surgeon Dr. Tom Reifsnyder, who (jokingly) commented that all allergies were "undealt-with childhood issues" and suggested that they should be treated psychiatricaly.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://abc.go.com/specials/hopkins/ Website]
* [http://hopkins.abcnews.com/ Official Website - hopkins.abcnews.com]


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