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Why’s there so much melodrama in soap operas? It’s because it works for them.

People watch soap operas because of the melodrama. The more melodramatic it gets, the better their ratings are.

Soap operas have learned that their audience enjoys watching the melodrama, so they do everything they can to create it. They know what the viewer wants, and they give it to them.

Soap operas are characterized by their use of melodramatic storylines and emotional plots which often feature families who have an abundance of problems, most notably marital discord caused by infidelity, hidden identities, and other complex and dramatic personal relationships.

These elements may be found across the gamut of soap operas, from those set in suburbia to those set in the inner city. Soap operas have also been called melodramas, or “weeper” dramas.

Although many soap operas begin with a “whodunit” technique which reveals little information about a central crime until late into the storyline, they typically employ this structure and others only as a means to advance the plot or stories involving multiple characters and/or subplots.

Stream the SoPE Opera now on your favorite device where you will see:

1. Medical specialty turf wars
2. Greedy corporations
3. Physician entrepreneurs battling the sick care corporate bureaucracy
4. Intrigue and corruption
5. The dark underbelly of medicine
6. Lots of steamy scenes with entrepreneurs and vendors who will do anything to get a hospital system to pilot their solution
7. The trials and tribulations of a non-profit and its members battling the medical-industrial complex riddles with conflict, drama and feuds
8. Corporations who claim they are families with lots of problems
9. Hidden identities manifested as imposter syndrome with a fake it 'till you make it.
10. Lots of entrepreneurial psychopathology
11. Family intrigue when the doctor comes home and tells her family that she is quitting medicine to pursue a non-clinical career
12. Chaos when the startup financial system implodes

I guess I have drama in my blood. The handsome guy in the picture, John Forsythe, born John Lincoln Freund (uncle Lincoln to me) is my relative.

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Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs

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