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Specializes in Intermediate care.

I don't know how many of you guys watch those medical shows like Greys anatomy, private practice, house, nurse jackie etc.

I have a hard time watching them because of all the False and un-researched stuff that occurs on the shows. If they want these shows to sound legit, they need to do more research on them!

Couple examples:

(Dont remember what show exactly) But doctor gave the patient a glascow coma scale of 3, but yet the patient was responding to voice and answering yes/no questions by blinking eyes....hmm???

Greys Anatomy: Dr. Grey was listening to a patient who had SOB, and she listens, but her stethoscope is not in correctly....Highly doubt you hear crackles in the lung fields Dr. Grey.

any others any one notices??

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funny I notice them wearing their stethoscopes backwards all the time!! Pet peeve!! lol

I noticed watching Private Practice the other day that they were not up to date with their terms......... they were seeing a pt who they were saying had been diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder. Ummmmm not called MPD any longer. It is now called Dissociative Personality Disorder--pick up a DSM, ask a psychiatrist.....lol.

I agree they need to have both MDs as well as nurses on the sets now and then as consults to point these things out.......Hell I am sure there are a lot of nurses in the LA area who would love to drop to Part Time and work some hours on the set of these shows giving them feedback about things being done incorrectly, pronounced incorrectly, portrayed incorrectly.

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Specializes in ER/ICU/STICU.

I find house the most amusing because the doctors do EVERYTHING from running MRI's to drawing blood and giving meds. I'm always amazed at the "experimental" test they do and how proficient they are at them.

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Yeah, on House the docs even do the ultrasounds and CT scans. My pet peeve is code blues on medical shows. Dr. Smith to the ICU. Code blue ICU. Stand back. Clear. He's gone. Whole code takes about 30 seconds!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ED, ortho, urology.

Yeah seeing docs do IV's and stuff on TV. Doesn't happen in real life. The only time I see a doc routinely do IV's or bloods is in emergency. Actually the only time I see a doc routinely do anything practical with their patient (aside from assessment and writing drug orders) is in emergency.

But in the shows, the nurses are nowhere to be seen or at the very least in the background. Funny the reversal isn't it.

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Specializes in tele, oncology.

I had a pt years ago who absolutely refused to allow the nurses to draw her blood or start her IV. She wanted the doc to do it. God bless her hospitalist. He told her, "Honey, this isn't TV. I haven't done that since med school. But your nurse has stuck over a dozen people just this week and you have bad veins. Do you really want to be my first stick in over ten years?"

She never made that request again.

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Specializes in Intermediate care.
I had a pt years ago who absolutely refused to allow the nurses to draw her blood or start her IV. She wanted the doc to do it. God bless her hospitalist. He told her, "Honey, this isn't TV. I haven't done that since med school. But your nurse has stuck over a dozen people just this week and you have bad veins. Do you really want to be my first stick in over ten years?"

She never made that request again.

haha thats so funny :-D

yea..its my pet peeve too where on House (esepcially) Doctor's do EVERYTHING My fiance is a total nut case when it comes to house, it's his thing. He refuses to watch it with me because i criticize everything they do. "Normally they would have an X-ray technician do this" stuff like that. But yet...he comes to me and says "Why do hospitals even have nurses? They don't do anything." Clearly he too has been brain washed by the media.

Greys Anatomy, just last night, had a doctor doing a dressing change.

The only thing you see Nurses do on these shows is bring in the crash cart during their 30 second codes. Yep...thats clearly what we went to school for, to wheel in a crash cart and thats it.! Nothing else.

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I love House, Scrubs, and some British hospital shows we have. But they do drive me insane. I one where a nurse was wheeling a patient in a wheelchair and she suddenly shouted out "She's crashing! Her B/P is 80/60, pulse 140!". GREAT skills, I wish I could do a pulse and BP without actually having to do it!

Then I remember seeing one where a "code" was 2 squeezes of the ambu-bag and about 10 compressions and the patient was up and talking. Crazy!

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I love House, Scrubs, and some British hospital shows we have. But they do drive me insane. I one where a nurse was wheeling a patient in a wheelchair and she suddenly shouted out "She's crashing! Her B/P is 80/60, pulse 140!". GREAT skills, I wish I could do a pulse and BP without actually having to do it!

Then I remember seeing one where a "code" was 2 squeezes of the ambu-bag and about 10 compressions and the patient was up and talking. Crazy!

Wow, that must be a REALLY good hospital. They know BPs without actually doing them and patients only need 10 compressions to come back from coding. Awesome :) No medications, difibrillation, cardioversion....amazing!

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Specializes in tele, oncology.

Last time my mom was in the hospital, her doc actually replaced the dressing he had removed with a new one! I asked what he was doing, and he said "the nurses have got better things to do...I'm a surgeon, I can manage a sterile dressing change." He was also tall, blonde, young and really cute. If I wasn't married....

I did try to convince him to come to my hospital and inservice the docs on how to do dressing changes, since it seems none of them remember how.

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Specializes in Intermediate care.

Wow, thats pretty impressive. Surgeon, doing a dressing change?? nice! the closest i have ever seen to that is a PA did a dressing change on my patient's chest tube. "I noticed it needed to be changed and saw you were busy so i just did it." AWESOME!!! THANKS!

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No one will watch those shows with me either! I can't stop pointing out what's wrong!

The worst I saw was actually not a med show, it was "Criminal Minds" I think...

the pt. was lying in bed in obvious respiratory distress and no one thought to even put her in High Fowler's - then when she coded the camera focuses in on her face as her doctor is lovingly stroking her face DURING the code?! While someone in the background says "paddles....CLEAR!" *zap* and that loving caress never flinched!

My mother has the same trouble watching lawyer dramas, too many years in the biz :)

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