As seen on TV

I just love looking at the IV pumps and the cardiac monitors during the TV shows. Pumps not powered on. Cardiac monitor showing perfect sinus rhythm when all of the sudden a "code" is called and the patient needs to be shocked..... Injecting people with pipettes... Injecting people at 90 degree angles into the neck/chest/ac. The amazing skills untrained criminals have at finding a vein good enough to inject with no effort at all (at a 90 degree angle)..

It actually stresses me out how long it takes them to get on the chest in a code situation. Instead of cpr, the just stand there talking

"Casino Royale" where James Bond self-shockes himself into NSR

All My Children, 1970's. Cop is rushed into surgery after being shot. GLASS bottle of blood. Drip...drip...drip...follow the tubing down and it is being infused into his NG.

Some character did 5 chest compressions (yes, slowly with bent elbows) then pronounced, "I'm sorry, but he's gone."

Have any of you seen "The Good Doctor"? I told my husband that I can't stand that show being on when I'm home. I swear they have not a single medical consultant for a MEDICAL SHOW and no writers have ever stepped foot into a hospital. My favorite scene was a bus on the way to a wedding crashed and a doctor got a list of everyone who was on the bus. She was walking around the ER and realized one person was missing so SHE went out to the crash site and searched for the woman. Then upon finding her she decided she had increased intracranial pressure so she asked a nearby firefighter TO LEND HER HIS POWER DRILL. First she "sanitized" it by pouring a gallon of alcohol on it AND THEN SHE SCREWED INTO THIS LADY'S HEAD IN A FIELD WITH A RUSTY OLD SCREW DRIVER. So much no.

In the end of season 2 of Stranger Things. No spoilers, but they have to "sedate" Will for reasons. Will's mother does this by plunging an IM needle ALL THE WAY INTO HIS AC. I'll be surprised if he has a working elbow in season 3, honestly.

Can we include movies? I love watching While You Were Sleeping during the holidays, but it gets me every time when I hear a vent in the background of Peter's ICU room. Peter, who's in a coma, is not intubated and does not have a roommate. I guess the sound people thought it wouldn't be "real" enough if there weren't medical sounds.

There also is an episode of ER where the nurses strike except for Carol (I think because she was management). A trauma comes in and the patient winds up dying because Carol hung the wrong blood. Turns out the patient in the trauma room earlier that day needed blood and something happened (can't remember what), but the blood wasn't given. New patient comes in and Carol accidentally hooks up the prior patient's blood. In addition to being the wrong type, I cringe at the thought of how long the blood was sitting there (and how poorly the room was cleaned)!

A common thing I notice is how patients, especially those in comas, are always on their backs (unless plot dictates - a Grey's Anatomy episode comes to mind). There must be tons of HAPIs in TV hospitals!