Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
Ask "why" until there is no more "why."
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.