What nursing or medical pet peeves drive you bonkers in movies or on TV?
I find myself yelling at the tv and huffing about how wrong they got everything.
For example, when people rip out their IV's but don't bleed. Or ETT that are not taped down. AT ALL. Or when they shock a flatline. Or when nurses and doctors run for even the most minor things. Code patients who wake up looking refreshed and alert/oriented. Oh! And when doctors do things like start IVs or clean up vomit (yeah, right).
I had the honor of meeting Dr. Walter D. Dishell once. He was the grand PooBah of medical advisors (MASH, Trapper John MD, Hospital, etc.) Look him up on the IMDB. He told me that when there was a question between what the director wanted to show and what was accurate; the director is always right.
It's not a medical show but the episode of American Gothic when a major character is murdered by his wife by simply pinching off his nasal cannula in the hospital. He was of course dead from this in moments. It was so ridiculous for such a major plot point that I kind of lost interest after that.
Haha! That bothered me a lot too, especially how dramatic he looked as he died and it was a really a major point in the show. Unfortunately I'm still watching to figure out who in that crazy family is SBK.
There was an episode of Chicago Hope where the patient (a VIP of some kind) was found stone cold dead in her room, and the nurse was getting chewed out by the medical director of the hospital. He said, "Why didn't you check on this patient?" The nurse says, "This patient was a DNR, doctor, there was no order to check on her." !!!!
^ that is terrible. so now when people hear DNR, instead of dying in dignity or pain free comfort care, they'll think "throw them in a corner and let them rot"
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As as for docs & Foleys -- I used to work in urology/oncology & as punishment for his ineptitude the brand new R1 had to put in a Foley on an elderly gentleman with BPH & bladder ca. Noooo!!! I nearly lost my poop when I asked what size sterile gloves & he insisted it was "NOT a sterile procedure". I started getting hyper & he said, "maybe it is at this hospital but not anywhere else". Uh, it's a sterile procedure EVERYWHERE!!!
When a Greys doctor goes from touching a patient with gloved hands to TOUCHING THEIR FACE with the same nasty gloves OR BETTER YET they go from touching their patient to touching/brushing their hair out of their face which should have been freaking tied back out of their face to begin with for that reason!
Drives. Me. Nuts.
how about the episode where Bailey tells Karev to change the time on the wall clock in the OR just as they're about to start the surgery. He just reaches up with his sterile gloves, takes it off the wall, adjusts the thing on the back to change the time, then puts it back up on the wall. next stop, reaching into an incision!
When a patient is in ICU "in a coma and on life support" and the patient is just on a nasal cannula..
I keep going back to grey's anatomy but it's so easy lol. how about when Meredith drowns, they're doing crazy heroics to get her back to life, she's pretty darned dead and they give up bagging her even, but then miraculously her heart starts up again. ten minutes later she's talking and smiling, laughing with Cristina. and then what a few days later she's back on the floor, top of her game. yeah that happens!
^ that is terrible. so now when people hear DNR, instead of dying in dignity or pain free comfort care, they'll think "throw them in a corner and let them rot"
just like they do no!. even have to explain this to some staff that dnr does not mean Do Not Treat.
how about the episode where Bailey tells Karev to change the time on the wall clock in the OR just as they're about to start the surgery. He just reaches up with his sterile gloves, takes it off the wall, adjusts the thing on the back to change the time, then puts it back up on the wall. next stop, reaching into an incision!
Has anyone seen Three Rivers? It's free on Amazon Prime Video and I have had the misfortune of stumbling upon this show. I can't even begin to list all of the ridiculous things that go on in this show. But I'll try.
First of all there is literally like ONE nurse for the entire Hospital which is supposed to be the number one transplant hospital in the nation. And somehow the main Dr on the show is a transplant surgeon, an adult trauma surgeon, a pediatric trauma surgeon, an ER doc, and a cardiovascular surgeon. And that's only in the first few episodes so who knows what else the guy is an expert in.
These doctors literally do everything from cleaning up vomit to wiping away patients tears to performing THE worst CPR I have ever witnessed. Like, I'm positive a toddler could do chest compressions more effectively.This show is a serious train wreck that I just. cannot. look. away. from.
Has anyone seen Three Rivers? It's free on Amazon Prime Video and I have had the misfortune of stumbling upon this show. I can't even begin to list all of the ridiculous things that go on in this show. But I'll try.
First of all there is literally like ONE nurse for the entire Hospital which is supposed to be the number one transplant hospital in the nation. And somehow the main Dr on the show is a transplant surgeon, an adult trauma surgeon, a pediatric trauma surgeon, an ER doc, and a cardiovascular surgeon. And that's only in the first few episodes so who knows what else the guy is an expert in.
These doctors literally do everything from cleaning up vomit to wiping away patients tears to performing THE worst CPR I have ever witnessed. Like, I'm positive a toddler could do chest compressions more effectively.This show is a serious train wreck that I just. cannot. look. away. from.
you just described every one of the medical shows on this thread lol!!!
I think it was Chicago Hope when the nurse dropped the donor heart which skidded across the floor and they just picked it up, rinsed it off and transplanted it anyway. Probably the ER doc who also did neuro surgery!
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I had the honor of meeting Dr. Walter D. Dishell once. He was the grand PooBah of medical advisors (MASH, Trapper John MD, Hospital, etc.) Look him up on the IMDB. He told me that when there was a question between what the director wanted to show and what was accurate; the director is always right.