<P> Adam Bernstein, who directed the pilot episode, "My First Day", also directed 11 episodes up until season seven . Michael Spiller directed the most episodes, 20 during the entire series run . Ken Whittingham and Chris Koch both directed 12 episodes from seasons two to nine . Comedian Michael McDonald, who also appeared on the show, directed five episodes . Show star Zach Braff directed seven episodes of the show, including the landmark 100th episode "My Way Home", which won a Peabody Award in April 2007 . In 2009, Josh Bycel, a writer and supervising producer for the animated comedy American Dad!, joined the crew as a new executive producer for the ninth season . </P> <P> Scrubs writers worked with several medical advisors, including doctors Jonathan Doris, Jon Turk, and Dolly Klock . Their names serve as the basis for the names of characters John Dorian, Chris Turk, and Molly Clock (played by Braff, Faison, and Heather Graham, respectively). In the season eight finale "My Finale", the "real J.D.", Jonathan Doris, made a cameo appearance as the doctor who said "adios" to J.D. In addition, the show creator said that every single medical story on the show was handed to them by real physicians, whose names would then be written into the show . The show never used real patients' names, but Lawrence and his writers would make sure the doctors' names were written into the episodes . </P> <P> In the show, Sacred Heart is an inner - city teaching hospital located in California . The first eight seasons of Scrubs were filmed on location at the North Hollywood Medical Center, a decommissioned hospital located at 12629 Riverside Drive in North Hollywood, but the location of Sacred Heart Hospital within the fictional world of Scrubs is left ambiguous . Cast and crew on the show refer to the location as "San DiFrangeles"--a portmanteau of San Diego, San Francisco, and Los Angeles that is meant to encompass a large part of California . In season four's episode nine, "My Malpractice Decision", Turk's new phone number has the Sacramento area code 916 . For the ninth season, the show moved to Culver Studios . The building used for the exteriors of the new Sacred Heart Hospital is located at the intersection of Ince Boulevard and Lindblade Street in Culver City, California (34 ° 01 ′ 26" N 118 ° 23 ′ 29" W ﻿ / ﻿ 34.023988 ° N 118.391414 ° W ﻿ / 34.023988; - 118.391414). </P> <P> On November 5, 2007, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, which put the production of the show's seventh season on hold . When the strike started, only 11 of Scrubs' 18 planned seventh - season episodes had been finished . Lawrence refused to cross any WGA picket lines to serve any of his duties for the show, so ABC Studios had non-WGA members finish episode 12, which the studio had unsuccessfully pressured Lawrence to rewrite as a series finale prior to the strike . </P>

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