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!! ?
Trauma pt comes into ER from helicopter, his eyes are half open and hes conscious and they intubate without him even flinching. Ummmm I dont think so...
I have been watching old episodes of ER lately. Just watched one from 1998 where a teenager comes into the ER with a subarachnoid hemorrhage and is found to be brain dead. Later in the episode, a teenager in liver failure awaiting a transplant comes in. Parents say she's status 2A. Upon hearing that they both have type AB blood, a med student introduces the brain dead kid's mother to the liver failure kid's parents and they arrange a direct liver transplant. Because that's how cadaver organs are allocated. UNOS isn't involved at all and blood type is the only thing that needs to be matched.
Was watching Grey's Anatomy this past week when the patient went into a full tonic clonic seizure. They not only rolled him on his sides, but rolled him on the sides WITH NO SIDE RAILS, AND LEFT the suction in his mouth. I was literally screaming at the TV and my SO told me to shut up (he's a NP, LMAO).
The "new" X-Files, Scully rushes to the hospital to see her critically ill mother. Scully enters the room where her mother is intubated, the nurse says something about "She was asking for Bob."
I love it when patients can talk when an ET tube is shoved down their throats!
Well....playing devils advocate...I guess mom could have said it prior to intubation? But I doubt that is what they meant to imply.
The "new" X-Files, Scully rushes to the hospital to see her critically ill mother. Scully enters the room where her mother is intubated, the nurse says something about "She was asking for Bob."
I love it when patients can talk when an ET tube is shoved down their throats!
Well....playing devils advocate...I guess mom could have said it prior to intubation? But I doubt that is what they meant to imply.
How about in the very first episode (the only one I've watched so far) where the smoking man talks and smokes through his trach hole at the same time... you know... without ever occluding it? Somehow, air comes both in and out of his trach hole and over his vocal cords and out of his mouth at the same time.
How about in the very first episode (the only one I've watched so far) where the smoking man talks and smokes through his trach hole at the same time... you know... without ever occluding it? Somehow, air comes both in and out of his trach hole and over his vocal cords and out of his mouth at the same time.
I was watching The Walking Dead and the town they were in was attacked. Not by zombies, by other people. Anyway, a woman is carried into the clinic with a large slash wound to her abdomen. The lady who was the "doctor" (she was actually a psychiatrist, but at least she'd been to med school, right?) says "She's severed her femoral artery."
Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
Grey's Anatomy this week.... the new surgeon walks into the OR from the scrub sink area while tying up his mask behind his head, then puts his CLEARLY NOT CLEAN ANYMORE hands straight into the gown that is being held for him.
They also showed an X-ray of a 3D-printed rib-and-sternum prosthesis that looked COMPLETELY different from the actual device they showed being implanted earlier in the same episode. They really should have their graphic artists converse with their props technicians....
Specializes in Pediatrics/Developmental Pediatrics/Research/psych.
I was watching old episodes of Scrubs, which is awesome if you ignore anything medical. So much to write about, but my favorite is that JD keeps his car door in the radiology/MRI room.
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Trauma pt comes into ER from helicopter, his eyes are half open and hes conscious and they intubate without him even flinching. Ummmm I dont think so...