Is there a real life Derek Shepard?

"It's a good day to save lives." - Derek Shepard

When you spend years running around hospitals, appointments, clinics, medical professionals, and pharmacies, it can be difficult to look at tv shows like Grey's Anatomy and not think 'if only real life doctors were like this.' Yes it's fiction but is it really a fairy tale, or can there be some truth to it?

For those who aren't familiar with Grey's Anatomy or medical shows in general, the basis is someone comes in with a symptom or a diagnosis which has been deemed as terminal and the doctors at the hospital do everything and anything to help the patient. They spend a long time going over possibilities and testing treatments whilst consulting and each other and, advise the patient they will do what it takes to find out what is wrong. If there's already a diagnosis, the TV doctors will find ways to operate or treat the issue, and this is usually innovative.

In reality, you become unwell and go to your GP (if you can get an appointment), you then attend a few appointments before they agree to refer you to a specialist (again, this is only if you're lucky, otherwise it goes round in circles of the GP saying it's nothing, and you getting worse.) Most doctors, GP or specialists, will tell you it's nothing, then do tests and if they show nothing they won't look into anything more and advise you to stress less and seek therapy.

I think the questions that we need to ask are, how can we, as a society, achieve this? What is stopping us? What are the challenges and what can we do to overcome them?

It is something that can be done easily and it is not 100% achievable unless we use AI to invent a Derek Shepard and Grey Sloan hospital, but we should try to see what can be achieved.