The Resident, an interesting TV series that deals with the ethical conflicts of human beings seen from the perspective of the practice of medicine
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Ethical dilemmas are present at any stage of our lives, regardless of the trade or profession we have chosen as a way of life.
A few days ago I was visiting my mother's house in the city of Valencia, Venezuela. I spent a week there and tried to make the most of the time with her.
I confess that I am not exactly a person of those television fans; However, while I was with my mother a TV show (which she faithfully follows) caught my attention. Specifically I am referring to the “The Resident” Series that the Fox Life Subscription Channel projects.
The plot of the series seems to me very well achieved since it gathers the necessary ingredients to capture the attention of the spectators (romance, action, intrigue, the resolution of crises and personal fears, among others) and especially in a topic of interest collective as is health.
Checking on the web information about this series that is in its 2nd. Season, I got that the audience levels per chapter are at the negligible figure of around 5,000,000 million viewers.
One of the most striking issues discussed in the Series is the approach given to health as a business by large corporations; In other words, the commercialization of medicine and the ethical dilemma that this implies for health professionals of different generations who make life in the series.
These ethical conflicts occur at different levels of the hospital institution. In a Directive that seeks the highest possible profit, Specialists (Cardialogy, Traumatology, among others) who seek the best technical performance in their field of knowledge in safeguarding the health of their patients; as well as, Resident Physicians exposed to the stress of idealism in the practice of medicine and the immediacy of medical practice in emergency services. In contact with all of them, the suppliers of services and supplies with their proposals that involve for the protagonists the conflict with their personal values, the struggle between the life and death of their patients.
Other themes such as racism, the war of egos among medical professionals also underlie the plot; and even the trade war between the United States and China.
If you are among the viewers of this series I would like to know your comments about it and this post; and if you are not yet among them, I invite you to observe it and form your own opinion.