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I'm watching Oz... Great show. The prison doctor sedates an agitated patient with Haldol 1 mg IM, with gasps from the other healthcare workers: "you'll snow him!" And then the same patient later "overdoses" on that Haldol dose and has to be intubated. Then, he is saved by "having his stomach pumped."

I was laughing my a&@ off...

Any other such medical show bloopers come to mind?
 
First episode of “the resident” when someone goes down in an airport and the star of the show decides he needs to macguyver his way into a procedure so he runs to airport security....and with them standing there saying no he steals a knife from the seized weapons bucket and runs back to the patient and performs the procedure without interference by security
 
sb247 said:
First episode of “the resident” when someone goes down in an airport and the star of the show decides he needs to macguyver his way into a procedure so he runs to airport security....and with them standing there saying no he steals a knife from the seized weapons bucket and runs back to the patient and performs the procedure without interference by security
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Did you mean the Good Doctor or did both shows have very similar scenes?
 
sb247 said:
First episode of “the resident” when someone goes down in an airport and the star of the show decides he needs to macguyver his way into a procedure so he runs to airport security....and with them standing there saying no he steals a knife from the seized weapons bucket and runs back to the patient and performs the procedure without interference by security
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The Resident had the scene in a class room where the IM resident MacGuyvered a stethoscope. Prior to that, he introduced himself as an "internist," which immediately made me throw the douche flag.
 
Siggy said:
The Resident had the scene in a class room where the IM resident MacGuyvered a stethoscope. Prior to that, he introduced himself as an "internist," which immediately made me throw the douche flag.
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Back to good doctor.....the entire hospital board having a meeting and discussing whether or not they would an autistic resident... (eyeroll)
 
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Not medical, but I re-watched the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" last night. Nancy tells her father to come over and arrest Freddy in 20 minutes. She then sets up several booby traps in the house (to include a hanging sledgehammer and a lightbulb filled with gunpowder), tuck in her mother, and prepare for the final confrontation with Freddy by allowing herself 10 minutes in the dream to snare him. Are we to believe Nancy made all those preparations in 10 minutes? Come on. Although if she is able to do all that in 10 minutes, then in a Battle Royale between Nancy, Kevin from Home Alone, and Jigsaw, I think Nancy would mop the floor with those guys.
 
sb247 said:
First episode of “the resident” when someone goes down in an airport and the star of the show decides he needs to macguyver his way into a procedure so he runs to airport security....and with them standing there saying no he steals a knife from the seized weapons bucket and runs back to the patient and performs the procedure without interference by security
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Haha I saw this too— it was from the Good Doctor.

I was wondering why EMS took forever to get there, and how long it took our surgical resident to secure the ABC’s, lol.

My wife gets annoyed when we watch shows like this, because “you always ruin it! Can’t you just watch and enjoy!?” Nope!
 
Angry Birds said:
Haha I saw this too— it was from the Good Doctor.

I was wondering why EMS took forever to get there, and how long it took our surgical resident to secure the ABC’s, lol.

My wife gets annoyed when we watch shows like this, because “you always ruin it! Can’t you just watch and enjoy!?” Nope!
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Exact same with me. Our wives need a support group
 
Any medical show where there are more hot-steamy, slightly-wrong hookups intermixed between patient care activities such as abscess I&Ds or necrotic decubitus-ulcer debridements than are humanly possible or stomachable from a sensory standpoint. Which is pretty much all of them.
 
GeneralVeers said:
Any medical show where the physicians sit next to the patient and spend more than 5 minutes talking to them. Also every episode of House.
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Yep, two fellows going to someone’s house to investigate causes for their hospitalization?!?!?
 
yeah, I actually loved watching that show, but definitely not for its portrayal of medicine, just thought hugh laurie's character was great.
 
Luke Cage spikes a fever but they can't get through his super hero skin with a needle to figure out why, nurse bedside shouts THERE's NO TIME FOR ANYTHING ELSE and jabs a needle through his eye to get CSF which somehow gets him better fast.

Also, in Luke Cage, same character looks at a microscope and recognizes unusual cellular properties and someone amazed asks how the hell she knows cellular microbiology =>

I'm a nurse. From the Bronx.

Know it's a super hero show but cracks me up everytime to think bout.
 
miacomet said:
Are you guys serious? I probably spend at least that on every discharge. And I sit...
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Whaaaaa? >5 min with each patient for every discharge? Who has time for that? 30sec-1 min is plenty for almost everyone. Hell, a good 10% of my patients I tell them what the plan is and what I think they have going on and that if the tests show something unexpected I will let them know, otherwise they can expect to see the RN with their DC once the results are back.
 
Thankfully, I have time to do this where I work. I realize not everyone does. Not a newbie, out a decade, we have great patient satisfaction. Patients came to see a doctor and have their questions answered. That's what I'd want as a patient. Wouldn't you?
 
Having watched all of House, Grey's anatomy and first eight seasons of ER, I can say most of them are laden with medical errors, ethical issues and larger than life portrayal of things. House was the worst. But then, being medically accurate was never the requirement of these shows. Except for the first few seasons of ER. I think Michael Crichton was particular in that regard.

A doctor once watched all House episodes and reviewed the medicine in each episode, pointing out the mistakes and grading it on a scale. He did a pretty good job, I used to watch House and read up his reviews when I was starting med school. Can't insert the link here, so the website name is politedissent.
but it looks like the website is broken now, and I am unable to access those pages.

If you choose to watch these shows, you should be ready to close your eyes and let some stuff slide. I highly recommend ER to the uninitiated. It is a bit dated but is a really entertaining watch.
 
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Redrox said:
Luke Cage spikes a fever but they can't get through his super hero skin with a needle to figure out why, nurse bedside shouts THERE's NO TIME FOR ANYTHING ELSE and jabs a needle through his eye to get CSF which somehow gets him better fast.

Also, in Luke Cage, same character looks at a microscope and recognizes unusual cellular properties and someone amazed asks how the hell she knows cellular microbiology =>

I'm a nurse. From the Bronx.

Know it's a super hero show but cracks me up everytime to think bout.
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I like that other people watch luke cage
 
I’ve seen some old MASH episodes from some random cable channel and it seems sometimes that the patients are being operated on but no one seems to be getting anesthesia. I guess it could be a nurse giving it since there isn’t an anesthesiologist among the five or so doctors in the camp but they are acting as surgical assistants instead
 
TorMed said:
I’ve seen some old MASH episodes from some random cable channel and it seems sometimes that the patients are being operated on but no one seems to be getting anesthesia. I guess it could be a nurse giving it since there isn’t an anesthesiologist among the five or so doctors in the camp but they are acting as surgical assistants instead
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The nurses or one of the surgeons acted as anesthetist. That was part of many of the plots and may have been accurate for the time and place. I know in wartime contingency planning dentists would have been used to provide anesthesia in some (non-dental) surgical cases.
 
From my understanding (standing in hallway listening to everyone talk) that is what gave the rise to CRNA's. 🙂 Not enough Anesthesiologists to go around.
 
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