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Week 12 Blog Post

Our discussion of procedurals thus far has focused on television police and forensic procedurals.  However, as we have discussed, these are far from the only types of procedurals on TV.  Medical procedurals, in particular, tend to be just as popular.

In class today, we will be viewing an episode of a classic medical procedural.  I would like you to apply the characteristics of the procedural we have determined through our discussion of CSI to the episode to see how closely it follow the same pattern.

Furthermore, since medical procedurals are just as concerned with trauma and the body as their law-enforcement counterparts, I would like you to consider whether the issues of procedural realism, body images, and psychic reassurance addressed by Tait and Lee apply equally to this branch of the procedural genre.