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While we can ask producers and writers of these medical TV shows to conscientiously depict medicine more accurately, this may never occur. [...]it is simply important to understand that medical TV shows serve as a source, accurate or not, of medical information for patients. Number of patients Kappa scorea (n = 300) Gender Males 201 (67.0%) 0.993 Females 99 (33.0%) Race Whites 216 (72.0%) 0.975 Non-Whites 84 (28.0%) Age group Pediatrics (0–18 years old) 50 (16.7%) 0.976 Adult (>18 years old) 250 (83.3%) Etiology of pain Non-traumatic pain 88 (29.3%) 0.968 Trauma-related pain 212 (70.7%) Severe trauma 143 (67.5%) 0.947 Mild trauma 69 (32.5%) Assessed for pain 9 (3.0%) 0.94 Any pain analgesics administered 51 (17.0%) 0.998 Opioid analgesics administered 29 (9.7%) 1 Table 2 Demographic data of pain patients in current study. Number of pain analgesics administered Odds ratio (95% CI) Number of opioid analgesics administered Odds ratio (95% CI) Gender Male (n = 201) 34 (16.9%) 0.98 (0.52, 1.86) 25 (12.4%) 3.37 (1.14, 9.98)a Female (n = 99) 17 (17.1%) 4 (4.0%) Race White (n = 216) 43 (19.9%) 2.36 (1.06, 5.26)a 28 (13.0%) 12.36 (1.65, 92.38)a Non-Whites (n = 84) 8 (9.5%) 1 (1.2%) Table 5 Pain management compared by demographics in current study.