Seeing Our Name in Lights

By Patrick Bigsby. Last season, Grey’s Anatomy averaged 8.22 million viewers weekly, though the number of active medical practitioners in the U.S. is only about one-tenth of that number. In the same season, How To Get Away With Murder pulled in an average of 9.76 million pairs of eyeballs each week. This viewership dwarfs the national population of 1.3 million attorneys. While plenty of people like to watch fictional versions of doctors and lawyers, far fewer lay claim to the titles. Read more...