Season 4 Episode 5

Medicine's Front Line Soldiers...

It's not a doctor you see first if you're involved in a medical emergency. It's an Emergency Medical Specialist... a first responder who stabilizes you and keeps you alive for transport to the hospital.

December 2010

Video by Gary Olsen, audio by
Gabe Schumacher

elcome to the fourth season of Doctor! Doctor! It's a show that provides kids with hands-on learning opportunities in a real hospital. Hosted for the fourth year is Dr. Gregory Grotz. Dr. Grotz is a radiologist with an excellent knowledge of the entire human body since it's his job to interpret visual imagery of all areas of the human body for doctors to determine the extent of an injury, a disease, and to decide upon a course of action in treatment of the patient.

Not only does Dr. Grotz accompany our students throughout the hospital, meeting physicians, technicians and specialists along the way, but he is an artist and model maker, creating working models of human organs and organ families. "Nothing teaches students better than a 3-dimensional model," explains Dr. Grotz, who for past episodes has built a functioning model of a human kidney out of items found in a hardware store's plumbing department, an eyeball out of a hatbox, a magnifying glass and Christmas lights. Other doctors get into the act creating exciting surgical simulations that allow students the opportunity to engage in surgical procedures without, of course, endangering a patient.

There is no program like this on television that we know of. It is a non-nonsense look at medical professions and procedures. Sometimes real patients are involved, and the show is designed to expand students' knowledge of medicine and medical careers.

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