الدراما الطبية

Today Kaz and Louay are talking about television medical dramas.

Love them or hate them it has to be said that television medical dramas are very popular.

But new research from Belgium shows that watching medical dramas in 'high doses', i.e. frequently, can be bad for your health.

A three year study with 1300 teenagers in Belgium has found that teenagers who watched lots of these programmes were more worried about their own health than teenagers who didn't watch as many.

A psychologist says that people sometimes imagine that they have the same symptoms as the actors in the medical dramas.

If these people hear a complicated diagnosis, they become convinced that they are ill and start to worry.

This worry is not a good thing!

The researchers say that medical dramas can be educational but we need to assess the effects they are having on people watching them.

They might be doing more harm than good.

What do you think of medical dramas? Write to us in English.

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medical dramas
أعمال الدراما الطبية

bad for your health
مضرة بالصحة

teenagers
المراهقون

psychologist
الأطباء النفسيون

symptoms
أعراض

complicated diagnosis
تشخيص طبي معقد

convinced
مقتنع

educational
تعليمي

assess
تقييم

harm
ضرر

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