I cannot get over Hopkins.
Hopkins is the new "medical drama" on Thursday nights on ABC. It's not really a medical drama - it's a reality show about cases, doctors, and nurses at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. It's just amazing to me.
The show has documented two heart transplants in as many weeks - one on a 19-year-old and this week one on a 2-year-old. I'm completely interested in the real pictures - even the gory ones - and seeing a heart beat just makes me gasp. Seriously? That's what makes us work? And it just does its thing, most of the time? Wow.
Hopkins also makes me happy that people make the generous choice to donate their organs to others. When I go to the DMV I will be sure that the State of Illinois knows I want my organs donated too!
I'm also completely astounded at what doctors and hospitals can do. Since I love organization the fact that doctors in Baltimore can go pick up a perfect match heart in Puerto Rico in six hours and transplant it into someone else is just mind-blowing. It makes my filing system (complete with checklists and Post-its) seem short-sighted.
Each week as I watch Hopkins (the only show, besides Seinfeld, that I'm loyal to right now) I feel convinced that I must work at a hospital, doing who knows what. But I'm pretty sure I'm hooked.
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