Operating on Accuracy: Medical dramas turn to experts to teach actors the difference between arrhythmia and arteriosclerosis.(Brief Article)

From: Newsweek | Date: September 30, 2002| Author: Kalb, Claudia | Copyright information

Byline: Claudia Kalb

It's a Thursday morning on the set of "ER" and actress Alex Kingston (Dr. Elizabeth Corday) is tripping over her lines. "I need 30 'migs' per kilo of methylprednisolone," she says, rushing to a gunshot victim. "Entry wound left mid-, sterno... cleido... uh... I'll never get that," she says, smiling at Jon Fong, an osteopath and one of "ER's" on-set medical advisers. "Dr. Jon" sounds it out: "Sterno-cleido-mas-toid." Soon, everyone, including Noah Wy...

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