elcome to the Doctor! Doctor! TV Series headquarters on Dubuque Community Schools' web site! Click on the logo above for a high res copy for posters and publications. Doctor! Doctor! is a show about kids and medicine.

The formula is quite simple: Put some middle school kids in doctor's coats in the middle of a hospital, and let them explore and ask questions about everything from medical technology to specific procedures. Young people may only know hospitals as places where you go if you're injured or sick, but they are also places where we can learn to stay well.

Hospitals such as The Finley Hospital have expanded their role in our community's total health picture. Their campus has expanded to include care for cancer and diabetes patients. And then there are the jobs and professions in medicine that we want to explore. There are hundreds of people employed in health care in our community. We will learn all bout them.

 
Wally Brown is our executive producer of Doctor! Doctor!, and he is a member of the Dubuque Community Schools Foundation Board and The Finley Hospital Foundation Board of Directors. For the past two years, Wally has been working with Gary Olsen, media developer for Dubuque Schools, on original cable television shows including the popular Kids in the Kitchen and The Garden Organic.
Gary Olsen is producer of Doctor!Doctor! Gary has produced national award winning series television including Kids in the Kitchen, The Garden Organic, and High School House among many others. Gary brings creativity, wit and a practiced technical ability to create interesting and dynamic television for young people.
Our host for Doctor! Doctor! is Dr. Greg Grotz. He's a radiologist, so he knows quite a lot about the human body, but he also has a great general knowledge of many different medical specialties. Dr. Grotz serves them all as a radiologist
Jim Barefoot is a producer with Mediacom, and he's been working with Gary Olsen for more than a decade in one capacity or another. On this show Jim is the sound engineer on location, a difficult job considering the large cast members and often tight quarters we find ourselves in during a shoot.
Sue Chapman is co-executive producer on Doctor! Doctor!. Sue is a professional marketing and communication executive for The Finley Hospital, This is one of her first ventures into television.

Paul Hemmer is our musical director on Doctor! Doctor!. This celebrated composer and local radio personality has written an orginal theme song for the show. We hope this is the first of many such creative collaborations.

 

 

Lisa Meyer is our logistics manager on set. Lisa is a public relations and communication coordinator at The Finley Hospital.

We have completed our second season this year, and it is still, we admit, a grand experiment. We knew we wanted to produce some sort of show about health and medicine in general, but we didn't know exactly the route it would take. We met with hospital administrators and doctors on the topic, and we arrived at a basic concept that would provide lots of options and opportunities for kids to explore.

How We Do What We Do...

The second season concentrated more on organ and groups of organs in the body. The plan was to start each episode in the radiology and medical imaging area of the hospital, and then move to the lab for pathology, and then on the physicians and technicians that work with treatments of those organs.

However, as we got into this new format, we found it was better to put imaging on the end of the show. Instead, Dr. Grotz, in a burst of creative enterprise, prepared incredibly details models of organs and organ groups for students to interact with. Wait till you see the kidney simulation! It actually works!

What makes the show so exciting to watch is the guest physicians on the show and how they prepare to teach these young people about their profession. It's an extraordinary chemistry that occurs on screen, and it's completely spontaneous and unplanned. The students have no idea what they will be seeing or doing from week to week.

To many producers, this is unheard of. No scripts? No cards? No teleprompters? Nope. We fly the the seat of our scrubs. The results are often unexpected but always entertaining. Do we make mistakes? Occasionally, but we learn from them, obviously.

Gary Olsen with the Tiffen Steadicam on the set of cable TV's Kids in the Kitchen

What makes the show interesting to watch is the point-of-view of the camera that literally brings the viewer into the action. Our show is what's called a "single camera" production. We actually employ our camera on a Tiffen Steadicam, a camera that is worn by the operator and which hovers along following the action suspended on a spring-actuated armature that dampens camera movement and shake. The device allows complete movement of the camera in any and all directions as the students make their way from venue to venue.

The result of shooting episodes with the Steadicam is you simulate a person's point of view of the proceedings. The camera lens stays wide angle and does not zoom (our eyes don't zoom unless, of course, you're Superman). When we want a close up, that camera operators just walks up to what we want to see just like you would if you were in the scene.

We use the Steadicam in all of our productions, and it is precisely for that reason. A static camera, one on a tripod, can be a very boring shot. If the performers in front of the camera aren't doing much, the resulting footage becomes uninteresting, and this is largely due to the static camera view.

But film the same scene with the Steadicam, which is constantly moving, and suddenly things become a bit more interesting. There's a visual tension that exists, and the viewer doesn't know what's going to happen next, but he is aware that something is about to happen. It becomes observational for the audience, and it becomes more realistic or naturalistic.

We are grateful that you have discovered our show, and we hope you will enjoy the episodes we've provided on this site so far. More are on their way, so stay tuned.

--Gary Olsen, Producer and Director of Doctor! Doctor!

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Season 2 Episode 2

 
Season 4 of Doctor! Doctor! is available on demand right here!
Students learn about life as an EMS professional. This episode goes from the hospital to the fire station where emergency medical staff are deployed. If you become injured or require emergency medical treatment, you will see one of these pros before you see a doctor. They are responsible for stabilizing you and getting you safely to the hospital. Click here.
Students use an endoscopic tool used in the examination and extraction of an obstruction in the gall bladder. This tool uses a camera, a light, and is able to carry special surgical tools right to the gall bladder through the patient's mouth without having to make an incision as with traditional surgical strategies. A spectacular simulation was crated by Dr. Joe Jenkins just for this episode. Click here.

We have a wound specialist on the show, and the topic is burns. Tissue can be seen variously damaged by fire or burning chemicals in what is called a "moulage," a stunning recreation of wounds using makeup and special effects. Jordan plays the victim, and we discuss the extent of the 4 degrees of burns and their effect on tissue. Click here.

Pathology is our topic in this episode. Dr. Timothy Timmerman is on hand to show us what healthy tissue is supposed to look like. When it comes to lungs, the circulatory system and the heart, smoking can be devestating. Students see precisely the ravages of smoking on healthy tissue. Click here.

How did the Beatles hasten the development of the CT Scanner? This is a reprentative of the company that installs and services a revolutionary piece of imaging equipment, the CT Scanner. It provides incredibly details views of tissue, bone and the circulatory system. But how did the Beatles, a Rock'n Roll group from the 1960s, hasten the development of this incredible piece of technology? You must watch the video. Click here for Episode 2.

We are the cast for Season 4. In this episode we discuss the anatomy of the eye, and our guest physician is an opthalmologist, Dr. Pecous. Below, Dr. Pecous examines the eyes of one of our student physicians. Click here for Episode 1.

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