The new TV show “Eli Stone” should be pulled off the air because it perpetuates a myth about vaccines causing autism, a pediatricians group says.
The group says many people make their health decisions based on information from fictional shows, which is totally true. Without TV, how would we know that the first diagnosis is always wrong? Or that doctors always fall in love on the job? Now we’ll have to question some assumptions from other shows:
“Grey’s Anatomy”: That you should ask for exam rooms to be sterilized in case the doctors have been using them for anything McNasty.
“ER”: That hospitals stay open long after the good-looking doctors leave and people forget about them.
“House”: That you should expect to be put in a coma, given a brain biopsy and have doctors break into your house before they figure out you have a cold and give you Tylenol.
In other news, the mayor of an Oregon town is being subjected to a recall because she posted revealing pictures of herself in lingerie on MySpace.
“It has nothing to do with my mayor’s position,” she was quoted as saying on a TV news Web site. Her opponents, however, say it has everything to do with their mayor’s … um … position.
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