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Sarah Chalke Q&A - Radio Times, April 2004 |
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The Scrubs star filled Benji Wilson in on the trials of filming the medical comedy drama.
BW: Scrubs makes out like
hospital life is hilarious;
ER says it's deadly serious.
Which do you think is
closer to the truth?
SC: It's a little bit of both. I've had
experiences like Scrubs in a
hospital - I once got put in two
plastercasts up to my waist by
mistake. But for the actual
procedures on the show we have
two doctors on set all the time,
because it's important to get it
right and accurate. Even so, in
the title sequence there's an x-ray
we look at - and we have so
many calls from doctors saying
it's back to front. We know!
Scrubs is quite a cult show -
do you get weird fans
following you around with
stethoscopes?
There are certainly interesting
discussions on the
messageboards - we check all
that stuff. We've had mail and
calls from doctors. They all say,
"Yeah, we have an ass box."
Er, I'll come back to that
later. Have you picked up
any useful medical tips?
I can do open-heart surgery
now. Well, I can take it out -
I don't know how to put the
new one in. My main tip
would be: don't go to teaching
hospitals, ever. If you're getting
stitches, chances are it's being
done on you for the first time.
How are you with needles?
Not so good - I always pass out.
And I pass out every single time
I have blood taken.
So you hate needles, you
hate blood…
I know what you're going to say:
hospitals are not a very good
place for me. But I'm starting to
get a slightly stronger stomach.
And what about the drugs -
do you have a favourite
prescription drug?
Ha! What? Personally?
No - I mean hospital shows
always have lots of gobbledegook when the doctors
just use long drug names.
Oh, I see - well usually the
script just says, "Insert large
chunk of medical jargon here"
because the writers only do the
comedy and the dialogue. The
two doctors will fill in those
gaps. If there's no time then
I'll just fall back on "superior
mesenteric insufficiency".
And what does that mean?
You know… it's the superior
part of your mesenteric and, er,
it's not doing its job. I think it's
something to do with your
digestive system.
Could you take my pulse?
Yes. Actually, I was just doing
an interview in Germany and
they brought out a pulsimeter
and I had to do it.
The Germans thought of
my question first? It's like
the beach towels all over
again. Anyway, your first
TV appearance ever was…
A toilet paper commercial.
I don't remember the brand,
but I was ten.
It wasn't an action shot,
was it?
It was. Well, for your first jobs
you have to start at the bottom.
One final question: what on
earth is an ass box?
There's an episode
when one of the doctors needs
a pen, so he gets one from the
lost and found box. Later a
nurse tells him that there's
no lost and found box - but
there's an ass box. Basically,
everything that's been, er,
plucked from people's butts
goes in there. And that's real -
all the doctors say so.
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