"British Medical Dramas: We Don't Make Things Up"

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"Clunes said that he has picked up some medical knowledge from the seven years he has worked on the show and from Doc Martin's advising medical expert: 'You have to remember that British medical dramas are obliged to be accurate. You can't just make things up as they do on American shows.'"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10243503/How-TV-doctor-Martin-Clunes-saved-wifes-appendix.html [bolding mine]

Well okay then.