ER the TV show

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just wondering, how come nobody talks about the show anymore??

did anybody watch the show last night? i dont pay much attention to the procedures that they do, mostly because i dont understand. haha. but last night i happen to know what they were talking about. they had an alcoholic on the show and i guess he was going through end stages of liver failure and was bleeding all over the place. they put a scope down his throat and stricture the varices, while the pt was trying to talk to the son via speaker phone. i thought that was really ridiculous. they also had to put a blakemore tube to control the bleeding and tied the thing to what looked like an IV pole. it looked very uncomfortable, but is that how its really done in the hospital? sorry i sound like an idiot, i wouldnt know coz im a student.

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Frankly, I have not really seen ER since a year or so ago when Carter and that other girl got knifed in the the ER.

I started watching a little again this year when they added Shane West as a new character. Shane was in the League of Extrodinary Gentlemen movie with Sean Connery. My daughter is the one that called my attention because she is a BIG Shane West fan. He has a band called Jonny Was.

(http://www.jonnywas.com by the way) She has met him, and seems like a nice guy.

Anywho, last night, did you notice that they sprayed his left nostril for the NG, but put it down the right!!

There are always innacuracies in shows, sometimes real medicine is not exciting enough for TV, I guess. Don't let accuracy get in the way of ratings you know. I did find it interesting that they had a resident taking notes because there was no nurse available. A slap at the nursing shortage????

My personal favorite was a few years ago when they defibrilated someone through their shirt!! Darn censors!!

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Frankly, I have not really seen ER since a year or so ago when Carter and that other girl got knifed in the the ER.

Sheesh! Carter subsequently developed an addiction from taking opiods for the pain from his injury and was "confronted", with Carter being down to some rehab for impaired physicians, accompanied by...um, the black surgeon. (I haven't had a working TV in my house for YEARS, so Carter is one of the few names I remember...). I think that happened "between" seasons...but I'm not certain, since I don't watch much TV any more...

This should be ER's 11th season, since I remember the first season starting in fall '94. As far as unrealistic, it started with Julianne Margolis coming into the ER being treated for an OD (upset from her treatment by George Clooney). It surprised me that any hospital would let her return to being a charge nurse in the same ER after that (although I think attitudes toward depression have improved greatly among medical professionals since that time...)

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I think Carter might be gay and repressing it all. After all he can't keep a relationship, and look how devoted he was to Luka...there was something there..... :imbar

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haha. intresting storyline.

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I think Carter wants to get with the new social worker. I don't like how that one kid always tells his interns to "feed the nurses" to get what they want and he had no empathy for the wife of the guy who was in a jet ski accident. He just said, "the social worker will be here to talk to you." Like he was too good to comfort anybody. What ever happened to Sam's crazy baby daddy? I thought her and her son were running away from him.. but I don't think they showed him again. What ever happened to those filipino nurses? They cracked me up.. talking in tagalog.. I love it.. and I hope Pratt never leaves; he's so hot!

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i think carter might be gay and repressing it all. after all he can't keep a relationship, and look how devoted he was to luka...there was something there..... :imbar

lol!!!

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Sheesh! Carter subsequently developed an addiction from taking opiods for the pain from his injury and was "confronted", with Carter being down to some rehab for impaired physicians, accompanied by...um, the black surgeon. (I haven't had a working TV in my house for YEARS, so Carter is one of the few names I remember...). I think that happened "between" seasons...but I'm not certain, since I don't watch much TV any more...

This should be ER's 11th season, since I remember the first season starting in fall '94. As far as unrealistic, it started with Julianne Margolis coming into the ER being treated for an OD (upset from her treatment by George Clooney). It surprised me that any hospital would let her return to being a charge nurse in the same ER after that (although I think attitudes toward depression have improved greatly among medical professionals since that time...)

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I remember the very first episode (gotta love reruns on TNT, when I'm not studying - of course!) when they're wheeling a fully-clothed, laboring woman down the hall, and Carol Hathaway yells to Doc Greene, "Are you going to do an episiotomy?" LOL The writing and reality has come a LONG way since then!

Thursday's episode was memorable for me, because we were just learning to drop NG tubes in lab on Thursday morning. I even remember saying to my daughter's 14yo friend, "They didn't measure the tube, or check for placement!" Got some strange looks from them! LOL

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I thought Thursday's episode was unusually affecting and well-acted. Yes, there were a number of procedural errors, but in the unfolding of Ray Liotta's character's life story, there was an unmistakable lesson for all of us in health care. We tend to get so jaded from seeing humanity at its worst, day after day and year after year........it's good to be shown, even through the medium of network television, that it's PEOPLE we're caring for and that every single human being has value. Everyone, even the most unloved among us, has at one time in his/her life been someone's child, parent, lover, sibling, friend, co-worker etc. and deserves our compassion. I salute the producers of 'ER' for reminding us of that.

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I thought it was ridiculous that the nurse Sam was so into calling the pts son on the phone. I am sure there was absolutely nothing else more pressing for her to be doing at that time. It WAS sad, but I switched channels after that part. I think that show has always been skewed in the way it makes nurses look(like idiots who stand around) and how docs are drawing blood, putting in IV's and NGT's,defibbing etc... The nurse always looks like a pushy broad who thinkd they know everything but don't.

When the original cast left, it was over for me.

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I too watch the show for the drama, and try not to pick out the stuff that's wrong....I did watch and, as usual, liked the episode. its entertainment...its not ment to be "real" or it would be on the discovery chanel. :)

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