We've all heard it: nurses can't watch medical shows without getting annoyed about how inaccurate they are. Lately, I'm finding that the most ridiculous medical mistakes happen on police procedural dramas (Law and Order, Criminal Minds, etc.); at least the medical shows have people with medical backgrounds advising them.
Anybody have some funny tv medical mistakes to share??
Last week I was watching a rerun of Criminal Minds. The victim had been drugged with haldol by her kidnapper. When the police rushed in to save her, the EMS gave her a bolus of narcan and she magically awoke. It was a flipping miracle!! ?
In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the character Kayla (Wolverine's wife) is killed, but not really. She reappears later only to say that they gave her a "shot of hydrochlorothiazide. It reduces the heart rate so low it appears to have flat-lined." I can only say....What???
She must have been peeing so much they forgot to look at the heart monitor.😃
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
It burns my liver something fierce to have to watch (via PD pt's TV preference) Dr. Unbelievable, Medicine Woman. I don't buy ANY of it!
A beautiful Dr. in the pioneer West, so very femininistically advanced, so very PC, and so entirely too knowledgeable about all the "latest" medical opinions that you swear she had a smartphone concealed in the folds of her long skirts.....
Everything about that show galls me, including the actress getting to have an intimate relationship with her co-cast member Joe WhoseyWhatsis.
Private Practice: a patient has a seizure. Doc orders 10mg lorazepam. Geez..surely they will stop seizing cause they will also stop breathing!
Grey's cracks me up. Tons of docs everywhere ready to do anything all the time. Surgeons that are also ER doctors. They never ever seem to need nurses either....yeah right.
Well since a bolus means to give the medicine as a single dose all at once, I can say that I've given many narcan boluses and seen heroin (and other opiate) ODs magically wake up to live another day of drug addiction. (But not before they curse us for killing their buzz and eloping)
forgive if a repeat: an episode of ER I remember, Goose (Dr Greene but he'll always be goose to me) was intubated nasally during brain surgery and was awake and speaking.
This was on "Young Frankenstein"...when Peter Boyle plays the monster and 'gets away'. As Gene Wilder is playing the violin and the monster (Peter Boyle) approaches, Teri Garr (Inga) and Marty Feldman (Igor) drop a net on the monster. Inga gives the monster a shot to calm him and it is given in his upper back and he is immediately calm.
i always say, either to myself or to everyone in the room..."you don't give a shot in the back...number one and secondly, if
medication were being given IM, it WOULD NOT act that fast.
Aint Hollywood grand!! 'Shame real life doesn't work the same way!!
I was watching reruns on Netflix of CSI:NY and almost stopped watching the show it so aggravated me. They had a guy who died because his wife switched the label on a regular box of chocolates to sugar free and then switched his insulin to sugar water. And of course the guy just keeled over and died from that. I have 2 diabetic kids so this one is a particular pet peeve of mine. Very annoying. Like anyone would die even if they ate an entire box of chocolate with no insulin. It takes much longer to die from noncompliance than a few hours!
JLP,RN
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She must have been peeing so much they forgot to look at the heart monitor.😃