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　　—什么?!还在看《越狱》呐?你也太OUT了!

　　不知从什么时候开始，美剧这个词对于我们已经不是那么陌生，很多人都熟识并痴迷上了各种美剧。从经典的搞笑剧《老友记》到帅气惊险的《越狱》，再到近期还在热播的《吸血鬼日记》、《绯闻女友》、《生活大爆炸》等等。美剧风暴已经在世界上刮起来了，看美剧，有的是因为故事情节好，有的是因为里面有帅气、漂亮的明星主演，而有时候美剧对于我们这些非英语国家的学习者来说是个很好的锻炼和学习口语的机会。但是，下面这种情况您一定很少遇见：10岁的小姑娘在发现妈妈昏厥在自家地板上就凭借着看美剧《实习医生格蕾》里的方法成功的将母亲实施了急救。

　　Girl aged 10 brings her mother back to life thanks to 'Grey's Anatomy' techniques

　　A 10-year-old girl brought her mother back to life after she blacked out and stopped breathing, using resuscitation techniques learned from watching Grey's Anatomy.

　　Madisyn Kestell drew on years of wisdom gleaned from watching the popular television medical series to save her mother, Kandace Seyferth, after finding her unresponsive on the floor of their home in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

　　After dialling 911 to summon help, she and her friend Katelynn Vreeke, 12, performed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation while they waited for the ambulance to arrive.

　　"Me and my mom watch the show every Thursday and I learned it from there," Madisyn told her local newspaper, The Sheboygan Press, explaining how she gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while her friend performed the chest-thumps.

　　Paramedics arrived within four minutes to take over, and took Ms Seyferth, 36, to the local hospital.

　　"They pretty much said if Maddie didn't remain calm and call 911 and so what she did, I wouldn't even be here to talk about it," she said.

　　Grey's Anatomy follows the life and death dramas of medical staff at a fictional Seattle hospital and draws an average 19 million viewers an episode. It was the fourth highest-earning show on US television last year, behind Desperate Housewives, Two and a Half Men, and American Idol.

　　Its popularity stems less from its attention to medical detail than its fast-paced story lines, romantic entanglements and cast of glamorous characters and heart-throbs, played by actors who have included Patrick Dempsey, Eric Dane, Katherine Heigl and Ellen Pompeo.

　　Ms Seyferth, who suffered lung damage from a severe bout of pneumonia earlier this year, collapsed after going upstairs to fetch her inhaler during an asthma attack that had left her struggling for breath. With her fiance, Dusty Poisson, at work, the two girls sprang into action. "We have to chuckle afterwards to find out they learned it from Grey's Anatomy".

　　It is the second time in a matter of days that the show has been credited with saving a life. Erin Taylor, 30, a nurse in Edmonton, Canada, was inspired by a story line in the drama to sign up to a national organ donor programme in a move that resulted in her donating one of her kidneys to a critically ill stranger.