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I just saw a preview on TV for Trauma and Mercy. Some lady it looks like intubated with a straw. Great... Now people are going to expect us to be able to do it with a straw.

Do you think NBC will get it any closer to reality this time?

I gotta admit that the medical research that goes into "House, M.D." is well thought out even if Chase always intubates backwards and the doctors always break into other people's houses and treat only one patient at a time!

And "Scrubs", while medically inaccurate for the most part reflected the real life of medical residents in a satirical fashion. (The medical advisor for the show based the show on his own residency and some of the stories are adapted from real stories of his own residencyH
 
WuLabsWuTecH said:
I gotta admit that the medical research that goes into "House, M.D." is well thought out even if Chase always intubates backwards and the doctors always break into other people's houses and treat only one patient at a time!
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Medical research? Did you see the episode where they did a hypothermia protocol?

While medicine is some trial and error, usually the methodology is better. Other than that there is not very much realism to House. It is pure entertainment.

They just recently filmed another scene in SF for Trauma. It looked more like the Keystone Cops' comedy hour.
 
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Do you think NBC will get it any closer to reality this time?
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when has any fictional show on any television network been accurate with its subject matter?

The answer is never. Every cop show, legal drama, medical/forensic type show, any show or movie depicting war, any show dealing with supernatural matters and even reality shows have nothing to do with reality. Even Seinfeld which dealt with nothing did handle nothing with reality.
 
Some of the stuff that goes on in house is just preposterous. I just watched an episode where a woman had some mild SOB and he glances at her neck, sees a distended neck vein, screams at everyone, pushed chase out the way and stabs the woman in the chest with a 10cm syringe like he's planting a flag on Iowa Jima. Quite dramatic.

But year I get what you mean, there's a difference between a show like house that makes an effort to communicate the intrigue of a medical mystery (albeit with the odd silly dramatic moment) and shows like Trauma that appear to be Steven Segal movies set in an ambulance.

That said, I like Steven segal movies. They're funny as hell. Trauma will be as well. I can't wait to see that bloke in sunnies tubeing a puppy while he parachutes into North Korea to free the US women's beach volley ball team, held captive by the evil Archduke Buzz Killington :ph34r:

A doc reviews house regularly, its quite a lol:

http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html
 
WuLabsWuTecH said:
Great... Now people are going to expect us to be able to do it with a straw.
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You're kidding! Are you telling me I won't be able to do that when I become a paramedic?:sad:
 
medichopeful said:
You're kidding! Are you telling me I won't be able to do that when I become a paramedic?:sad:
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Not in Massachussets!

It's only in the protocol for California and even there, you have to be between two parallel lattitudes where one is divisible by 7 and the other by 13. The exception is if the sum of the numbers of the products of the latitudes squared is an odd number AND it's a tuesday!

^^Doesn't that sound like it would be something taken from a california protocol though!
 
Like I said last week, I'm sure it's just going to be a bunch of explosions while the medics are yelling "c'mon, STAY WITH ME!" while pounding on the guys chest with a closed fist. But hey...if there's a fight scene with Steven Segal and Buzz Killington, I'll watch it.
 
WuLabsWuTecH said:
Not in Massachussets!

It's only in the protocol for California and even there, you have to be between two parallel lattitudes where one is divisible by 7 and the other by 13. The exception is if the sum of the numbers of the products of the latitudes squared is an odd number AND it's a tuesday!

^^Doesn't that sound like it would be something taken from a california protocol though!
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I was having a terrible day, but this helped cheer me up a bit B)

And yes, it DOES sound like an actual protocol :wacko:
 
I want a thread or dept just about funny HOUSE MD bon mots.

He's in the general clinic area where his eloped pt has collapsed seizing after a Valium OD (say what??!), he reaches into a drwaer, takes a beat like he's looking into his golf bag, then pulls out a preloaded syringe and shoots the pt with a paralytic (yeek!:ph34r:).

Or did I dream that? I liked the acting....
Try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRRTL2-zEi8
 
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You know Trauma is going to be BS, when their tagline is, "Most people run away from danger. We run into it!" Run in -- good strategy.
 
berkeman said:
You know Trauma is going to be BS, when their tagline is, "Most people run away from danger. We run into it!" Run in -- good strategy.
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haha, my initial thought when I first heard that: "Scene safety...not important."
 
berkeman said:
You know Trauma is going to be BS, when their tagline is, "Most people run away from danger. We run into it!" Run in -- good strategy.
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I may be a relative n00b but even I know enough to not place my safety below anyone else's. I'm no good to the patient dead. Besides, that's the fire fighters jobs... oh wait, I'm one of those too (but not when I'm working EMS). :p

I saw a preview of those show at a movie yesterday and LOL'd when they showed a conscious person with an OPA and they weren't gagging. My wife thought I had lost it.
 
Yeah, i just saw some more previews (I need to stop watching NBC!)

and I hear: These people run directly at it
but see: 4 EMTs running AWAY from a bursting tanker

I hear: They don't panic.
but SEE: a small woman in uniform thumping on a chest one handed while screaming looking like she's about to lose it.

Great timing of the voiceover and picture guys!

And i've never known of a small woman strong enough to do CPR one handed. Heck, I can't do CPR one handed.
 
WuLabsWuTecH said:
Yeah, i just saw some more previews (I need to stop watching NBC!)

and I hear: These people run directly at it
but see: 4 EMTs running AWAY from a bursting tanker

I hear: They don't panic.
but SEE: a small woman in uniform thumping on a chest one handed while screaming looking like she's about to lose it.

Great timing of the voiceover and picture guys!

And i've never known of a small woman strong enough to do CPR one handed. Heck, I can't do CPR one handed.
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I wasn't even watching NBC and I saw that. I was at the movies and they snuck that into the TV previews before the movie previews. You just can't escape it!
 
When I went to NYU, there was a tv show called Felicity. NYU received phone calls from teenagers who thought the show was real.

99% of people in NYC do not have 2 story apartments.
 
That doesn't happen to you guys on a daily basis? Just the other day, I was jumping off a high rise. While doing CPR, holding C-Spine, controling bleeding, and doing a double pits to chesty.
 
VCEMT said:
That doesn't happen to you guys on a daily basis? Just the other day, I was jumping off a high rise. While doing CPR, holding C-Spine, controling bleeding, and doing a double pits to chesty.
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It happens to me only once a month.
 
WuLabsWuTecH said:
Not in Massachussets!

It's only in the protocol for California and even there, you have to be between two parallel lattitudes where one is divisible by 7 and the other by 13. The exception is if the sum of the numbers of the products of the latitudes squared is an odd number AND it's a tuesday!

^^Doesn't that sound like it would be something taken from a california protocol though!
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Wrong. Only if the moon is in the seveth house and only if the medics name ends in a vowel, but was born in an even number year...
 
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