![]() ![]() When we`d take a shot at radiologists-saying they have no personalities-right away we`d get letters.'' But people are sensitive, and when we`d do jokes about the hospital food, nutritionists threatened to bring a class-action suit. Most of the complaints were about diagnostic procedures. ''We`d get complaints after every episode,'' said Paltrow, now working on a new NBC show called ''Tattinger`s.'' ''But we`d get accolades as well. ![]() Earlier this year, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons took MTM Enterprises and NBC to court, seeking $10 million in damages for allegedly portraying the organization as ''devoted to adultery, philandering, male chauvinism and law-breaking.'' It was a show to offend, especially those in the medical profession. This spring`s nude-surgery episode was loosely based on a Swedish study reported in a medical journal that suggested that fewer bacteria would be dispersed by naked operating room personnel than those in scrub clothes. Its tools were compassion, pathos, double entendres and latrine humor, and the writers would keep up to date by checking out such periodicals as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and Lancet. The reconciliation of surgical chief Mark Craig and wife Ellen is threatened when she accepts a job at a hospital in Cleveland-prompting characteristic caustic comments from her husband, who dismisses the beckoning institution as ''a place where you wouldn`t send Gadhafi`s mother'' and the Ohio city as ''a land of billowing smokestacks. Before heading off to Nicaragua, Fiscus treats an opera singer who is dressed as a Valkyrie. Daniel Auschlander, who is also trying to keep the hospital from closing up, finally bloom. Eligius, the seedy South Boston teaching hospital whose derisive nickname, of course, gives the program its title. ''They were dying for this stuff.''ĭuring other, more-obvious moments in the curtain-time segment (9 p.m. ''We did those things for our own enjoyment, and also for the 1 percent of our audience who would get it,'' executive producer Bruce Paltrow said in a phone interview last week. ![]()
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