John, John, John. One can love both House and Grey's Anatomy at the same time. True, I'm more entralled with my dear Hugh's grumpy cane-wielding doc-savant, but I do love Sandra Oh's perpetually snarky brilliance. As one who writes occasionally, I find the writers' blog interesting - just to see where they're coming from.

One thing that troubles me about both shows is that they seem to operate (literally and figuratively) in public - disaster hits and the family's still standing around watching, etc. Has something changed in hospitals in the last couple of years that I don't know about? Can you just stand around watching the medical team do their work. Um. Germs? Um. Mental/emotional trauma? Um. In the way. (None of you are invited into the room to watch the doctors work on me, by the way. This comment serves a binding legal agreement.)