Well, I'm certainly not going to argue that SGA was better with the medical realism. It was at least as bad if not worse. On the other hand, the previous two Stargates tended to push the laughable-lack-of-credibility in the other direction -- having characters survive things they couldn't possibly have survived, or bounce back from broken legs and things in apparently a matter of days. Which is very eyeroll-worthy, but, you know, given the choice ...