Though the new ABC reality series Hopkins is produced by the network's ABC News unit, it undoubtedly is piggybacking on the success of Grey's Anatomy, the fictional hospital drama that names characters by adding "Mc" to an adjective. The fake show is set at Seattle Grace hospital; the real show is set at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Also, while the fake show only portrays horrific medical scenarios, the doctors on Hopkins actually earned their medical license and, in fact, do put people back together again while mitigating their personal relationships. Okay, okay, so you understand the difference between fact and fiction. So what's the real difference between these two shows that viewers who bother tuning in are going to care about?

These real-life physicians appear to maintain professional boundaries that their fictitious counterparts on medical dramas do not. Unlike the characters on "Grey's Anatomy," the "Hopkins" doctors aren't — as far as viewers can see — dating their supervisors, having sex in the on-call room, or fantasizing aloud about threesomes with their co-workers. "The residents don't sleep with attendings; the residents don't sleep with nurses," one resident explains.

And also, none of the doctors look like this.

[NY Sun]