Code Black - they actually have a code and procedure for “there’s a bomb hidden inside a patient”? Seriously, at your next meeting where you work, suggest your workplace needs a policy on that and see what kind of looks you get. And if everyone else knew about this, why hadn’t anyone told the interns?
Alex comes to the OR door to tell Dr Burke about the bomb. Dr Burke needs to pass the word to the head nurse. Does he tell Alex, whose standing right there and already knows what’s going on, to do it? No, he calls over Meredith and gives her the message to relay.
Hannah pulls her hand out and Meredith sticks her hand into the patient. And this doesn’t set off the bomb. Nor does the patient bleed out like was supposed to happen. Too bad he died anyway because they all forgot to keep pumping his airbag.
Izzy saying she needs to be a “do-er” and take charge of her career. So she goes to another intern and gats laid. This is going to advance her career how?
Tucker Jones is doomed. He’s going to die in a montage series intercut with his son being born. They’ll probably even have him flatlining as the baby takes his first cry. Birth=death - the writers really will make it that obvious.
And while I loved the opening, how gratuitous was that?
I think Code Black=Bomb, no matter where the bomb is. I can see why they wouldn’t want code black to be commen knowledge lest some idiot think it’d be fun to play a practical joke and call the code.
As far as bomb guy, I think they had really already given up on him living. All that talk Burke gave to Christina Ricci about her keeping him alive was only so that she wouldn’t remove her hand. I don’t think for a minute they actually thought he’d still live.
No, they do think the guy can live or else they would have just buttoned Christina Ricci up as much as possible and had her take her hand out. The reason they wanted her to keep it in is because they’re still trying to save the patient’s life.
I think this show is by far the most stupid show I’ve ever seen in my life. I TiVo it every week just to watch the first 20 minutes or so and delete it, or have it on while I clean or work on the computer and pay half attention. I guess I am still kind of watching it but it is mostly cause I like to bitch about it. This is, surprisingly, a pretty common view in the hospital. The junior medical students seem to like it until they realize how people really interact and behave. Everyone else seems to watch it out of morbid curiosity. Someone should really make a list of implausibilities and inaccuracies and just stupid writing/plot devices they use. Worse than that, the heavy handed, preachy writing style “beat me over the head with the idiom” that Little Nemo points out is pervasive. It may have even been downplayed in this episode.
Here’s a list off the top of my head:
-Are there any other services in this hospital? What the hell are surgeons doing around quintuplets? (earlier this season). If I ever have multiples, I’m not going to let surgical residents anywhere near my babies, unless they need a diaphragm repair or something. Certainly not in the C-section or in the NICU. Everything gets treated by these moronic surgical interns – cardiomyopathy, trauma, gyn, OB, medicine, infectious disease, whatever.
-Why is a neonatal surgeon/gyn surgeon whatever-the-hell-she-is doing cervical exams? Don’t they have an OB staff? Even if she is gyn, she seems to be closely associated with surgery. And does pedi work. And OB. She triple boarded?
-They must exist in an alternate universe where there are no rules/regulations/laws about duty hours or professionalism. Seems every week it is an intern/attending affair or a doctor/patient affair. And they all work now-illegal 48 hour shifts.
-I understand that they want to focus on the core group, but they rarely show any other doctor, no other surgical interns or residents, no other attendings.
-There seems to be only neurosurgery and CV surgery cases. What about all the lap choles? What about all the appys? I must have missed all the bread and butter stuff.
-Is the Suave African American attending a CV surgeon or a general surgeon? I get that Caucasian Hair is a neurosurgeon. Why are both Dr. Hair and Dr. Suave up for chief of surgery?
Contrast this to ER or even Scrubs. Both work pretty much like real hospitals. The central characters are members of a team. Other teams and other doctors and services get called for appropriate consults. I know the general populace doesn’t know or care exactly how hospitals or doctors work, but it is really minimal effort to have things make sense. Most people have a general idea that if they are pregnant, they aren’t going to see a surgeon unless something is drastically wrong. Or if they are having a heart attack, they don’t go to the surgeon.
They were keeping an eye on the quints since each one needed surgery right after birth (heart defect, internal organs growing outside the body).
She’s a neonatal/pediatric surgeon and seems involved in most potentially complicated births. Of course Bailey is her friend so she must have been taking a look.
I agree that the messing around is unprofessional (and I imagine in happens in places where you’re basically living there) but they did make a point of sending the residents home after long shifts due to the new regs.
Yeah, they just focus on this group of renegades. They did go through a number of other residents who were unable to fill the gap left by Bailey.
Not sure on the details, but while Dr. Burke had worked there for years and felt like he was next in line for COS, Dr. McDreamy was brought in from the East and supplanted him. That’s why the tension between the two.
edwino, you’re correct that this show has no relation to an actual hospital. If that means you can’t watch it, c’est la vie (I never could watch Ally McBeal without getting pissed off). But if you forget that all the details (which don’t matter anyway) are wrong, it’s still a good show in the well-acted bubblegum soap-opera genre. Plus Katherine Heigl is in her underwear sometimes.
I’ve never watched the show before, but seeing the commercials during the SuperBowl looked like it might be an exciting medical show.
So, what’s the first thing to come on the screen? Three lesbians taking a shower together, soon to be joined in the shower by a naked man. :eek: :eek: :eek:
This is what they’re calling family entertainment these days? It sure didn’t stay on any longer in my family. If you’re going to have crap like that on TV, at least put it on late at night.
Heh! You’re kidding, right? If not, the show is on at 10 PM, long after little impressionable kids should be in bed. I don’t believe that hour is considered family entertainment time, as shows often get steamier/more violent after 10.
I personally like the show… but in a guilty pleasure, almost Melrose kind of way. (OK, not that bad…)
For me, the big plot hole was when of the surgeons (forget whether it was Burke or McDreamy) solemnly declares there’s a code black and anyone who wants to leave can go. The problem is, up to that point it is pretty clear that “code black” is a secret phrase known only to a few. So I’m thinking, “that’s not realy giving people much of a choice.” How about saying “This patient has a bomb inside of him. Anyone who wants to skee-daddle can go.”?
Little Nemo pretty well summed up what was wrong with this episode. Gray’s Anatomy has definitely had a propensity for improbable situations, but this one was completely ridiculous even by the standards of previous episodes. Yeah, all the characters are kinda dumb, but usually not this dumb. The shark may have been jumped here, folks.
I normally absolutely adore this show. The character development is great, and even though they might not work as an actual hospital might, it is still interesting to learn about the different parts of a hospital.
This episode was a true dissapointment though. Whoever thought that putting a bazooka shell inside someone and calling it a code black and then hyping it up this much is a good idea should be fired. This episode was totally unlike the others, in that it was more of a pseudo-action-drama thing, rather than a character development/learning show that it had been. I will tune in again next week, but I am not holding my breath about how good it will be.