Which of these two medical show is the most accurate?

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what are your opinions?

How about least inaccurate?

I don't know, man; I'm more partial to character development and complex stories than medical accuracy. House is a great character, though.

spent a lot of time in hospitals.......i'll assume you have not....sorry if i assume incorrectly.

comparing tv hospitals to real hospitals is like comparing sheriff billy bob in small town alabama to batman. 'ain't none.' no opinion necessary.

jesus, to be 16 again. may you never have to spend any length of time in a hospital. rude awakenings are tough.

What about ER? St. Elsewhere? Grey's Anatomy?

Well, I'm going with House anyway because in my experience, medical treatment is exactly like it in one respect... In the time they are willing to give for patients they barely care about, the average doctor looks at your symptoms and chooses the most likely cause and may or may not trouble to perform necessary tests to confirm the diagnosis before choosing the most likely cause of all symptoms and dismissing any that don't fit and then treating you for their pick... Only if the treatment doesn't work, in the real world, they're just as likely to prescribe it over again as if it will suddenly start working the second time, but either way they are going to move on at some point to the next likely guess and treat that, and all along will be one common truth... you're sent home to continue suffering and hope they guessed right while they get on with their day.

This cynical attitude towards medicine brought to you by repeated cheap band-aid treatment approaches to chronic, perpetually itchy infections that the doctors didn't actually have to feel.

Neither. I would not like to be treated by a doctor who was trained by watching scrubs or House.
They are tv programmes I don't think the writers tries to be accurate.

I would say House is more medically accurate. I've been diagnosed with two conditions that were portrayed on the show. While they usually dramatize the conditions to show the worst case scenario or the least common symptoms shown in patients, it is stuff that can actually happen.

And Scrubs...I just can't really say. I've watched a lot of it, but it's so much more about storyline than medical that it doesn't get into the conditions enough for me to know. But House is becoming more drama, less medical.