Good well-acted series with one humongous fatal flaw:
a) these folks are supposed to be phenomenally good at what they do, which is diagnostic medicine
b) but we never, ever, see them being good at what they do
Hmm, lowered blood pressure in combo with racing heart, no white blood cell count rise and blood volume is higher than normal. And green skin. And sudden growth of long toenails. Folks, this is obviously Hidgekin’s OsteoFreakonoma. Start infusion of myeloquasibloopothome, STAT! And raise those feet!
< all hell breaks loose >
Wow, I was wrong, how unusual! I am a highly paid weirdo doctor without peers in the rarefied world of diagnostic medicine, I haven’t made a diagnostic erros this severe since last episode! OK, it’s obviously reverse mengiocytowhatchamacallititis with pleuro-blowout. Inject Cheerios into the bloodstream. Have little girls walk barefoot up and down his spine. He will be good in no time! Oh, and I want an MRI.
< patient stops breathing and has cardiac arrest and goes into seizure in the MRI machine, which is something that more or less happens to everone who goes into the MRI machine >
Oh, fuck! Well this is so unusual, I was wrong! I know I was wrong about the same patient already in this very same episode, but this really stands out as unusual, even though all our patients’ fall apart when we stick them into the MRI machine or infuse them with anything. Anywhat, obviously what we need to do is remove the patient’s skin and fill the patient’s lungs with Play-Doh. This is obviously a rare case of Upper Kurdistan Roach-infested Fermented Alcohol Depressive Psroxymal Spiderweb Dystrophia by Proxy. THIS will force the patient to come clean that the real victim has been hiding under the bed this whole time!
::real victim comes climbing out just as the Play-Doh begins entering the hospital bed’s patients’ lungs::
See?