Hollywood movie called "awake"

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Be prepared for a movies coming out starring Jessica Alba called "Awake". Apparently it is a full length movie about a man experiencing awareness while have heart surgery. As if we don't have enough with shows like Gray's Anatomy, E.R. etc...Now Hollywood will be advertising every surgical patients worst fear via movie trailers on the 6:00 news.

http://movies.about.com/od/christensenhayden/a/awake090105.htm

Some of you may have heard the phrase "there is no such thing as bad publicity." It seems to me anesthesia is often underrepresented in medical dramas.... so maybe we could use a little press. Anyhow, a movie about a bad anesthesia experience doesn't seem great, but we can all use it as an opportunity to promote ourselves as the educated, compassionate professionals that we are, while hopefully allaying some fears that people may have.

Another bright side.... Anesthesia is the new Jaws! Just think of the exciting Halloween costumes that can come out of it. Tiny children dressed up as.... (GASP!) an ANESTHETIST!!! A laryngoscope never seemed so fierce.

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Anyhow, a movie about a bad anesthesia experience doesn't seem great, but we can all use it as an opportunity to promote ourselves as the educated, compassionate professionals that we are, while hopefully allaying some fears that people may have.

How can you possibly think that bad publicity is good publicity?? Scaring the public about anesthesia is not the right way to get anesthesia into the picture. People who don't know anything about the health care field will beleive anything they see in a movie. They will look at something like this and think that it is something that happens all the time. Then right before surgery they'll be asking you about it, "I saw this movie......" It's not good for anyone practicing anesthesia to have something like this presented as the only means of information that a lot of people have about the profession.

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I like having JWK here so I can here so we can see how what it's like on the the other side of the tracks without autonomy and independent practice.

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......... right before surgery they'll be asking you about it, "I saw this movie......" It's not good for anyone practicing anesthesia to have something like this presented as the only means of information ...........

Same thing happened way back when Robin Cooke's COMA came out. Let's hope people don't restrict their sources of medical info to movies only! Look at how bizzarely CUCKOO'S NEST portrayed ECT.

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Same thing happened way back when Robin Cooke's COMA came out. Let's hope people don't restrict their sources of medical info to movies only! Look at how bizzarely CUCKOO'S NEST portrayed ECT.

No kidding........until I took psych nursing, that movie was the only picture I ever had in my mind about ECT..........the movies can influence a lot.

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for you younger members, check out the movie, AWAKENINGS with robin williams, circa 1990.

a must for all student/new nurses!

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How can you possibly think that bad publicity is good publicity??

I never said bad publicity was good publicity. The phrase "there is no such thing as bad publicity" is an aphorism.

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I never said bad publicity was good publicity. The phrase "there is no such thing as bad publicity" is an aphorism.

Aphorism - Literally, a distinction or definition, a term used to describe a principle expressed tersely in a few telling words or any general truth conveyed in a short and pithy sentence, in such a way that when once heard is unlikely to pass from the memory. :uhoh21:

In English for those of us so inclined to understand prior text.......Specifically, an aphorism is a statement which defines a perspective by illustrating or describing the horizon of that perspective. Instead of standing outside a veiwpoint and describing the veiwpoint, and aphorism adopts a veiwpoint and identifies the things which are only visible from that perspective. Usually an aphorism is a very concise statement of a phenomenology.

Phenomenology - A current in philosophy that takes the intuitive experience of phenomena (what represents itself to us in concious experience) as it's starting point and tries to extract from it the essential features of experiences and the essence of what we experience.

Don't quote me on this but I think what i can deduce from the reading above (Thanks to wikipedia) is that you made a very consice statement that describes the horizon of your veiwpoint to make known the essence of what you've experienced in order to convey your perspective on the topic.

Maybe not, I dunno, I think we've determined that you are more educated than I am in that area.

However, I feel as if though most third graders are well trained in the application of implication, e.g. A parent gives their child a look from across the room when they are making noise.......they know to sit down and shut up or they are in trouble. As I am much older and have experienced more than your typical third grader I feel as though I can consider myself quite proficient in realizing what is actually being implied through abstract statements.

Yes, you are correct you did not say "bad publicity is good publicity." But if that's not what you implied, please, enlighten me.

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If anything this movie is good for the anesthesia world. Think of Joe Uninformed's reaction:

"Oh man, anesthesia is dangerous! > We can't cut funding for anesthesia materials > competent providers are very valuable and should be paid well > I shouldn't piss off the CRNA or else I may end up like that guy in the movie"

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Yes, you are correct you did not say "bad publicity is good publicity." But if that's not what you implied, please, enlighten me.

No, that is not what was implied. For enlightenment, apply this aphorism to current subject: "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

Listen, I'm a "glass half-full" kind of person. Take my posts for what they are.... it's not personal.

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No, that is not what was implied. For enlightenment, apply this aphorism to current subject: "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

I'm a little more proactive than that, I'd rather prevent something bad from happening in the first place than to let it happen and clean up the mess created, or just "deal with it." But we are each entitled to our own opinions.

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I'm a little more proactive than that, I'd rather prevent something bad from happening in the first place

Too late, the movie is already in post-production.

Anyhow, I resign from this thread....

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