Inaccuracies that bother you most and least

[mbh]

You used to see commercials for TV programs. “Thursday night at 8 o’clock, 7 Central and Mountain.” People in Central watched stuff broadcast from the east coast, people in Mountain watched stuff broadcast from the west coast.

[Loach]

@Tibby

I believe any subject that you are adept at or is your career are the subjects whose inaccuracies most pull you out of the story. Medical dramas do so for me, particularly those that are soap opera-ish, like Grey’s Anatomy (which my daughter tortures me to sit through).

Residents and interns don’t deal with a hospital full of the most obscure deadly medical conditions on a daily basis and have only seconds to save the day. They don’t regularly have sex with each other in the broom closet. They don’t stay with patients every minute of their hospital admission. They don’t have fistfights with each other and with patients and administrators. They don’t print 3D replacement organs. They don’t operate without eye protection/visors. They don’t drop their hands below their waists after scrubbing in for a procedure. And they don’t operate on themselves (as I recall, one episode of GA had the former chief of surgery direct abdominal surgery on himself in the OR).

But, I get it. Portraying a realistic hospital setting would be pretty boring (same with law enforcement shows I suppose). If I think of these shows as rom-coms instead of a dramas, I’m good.

They don’t interact with patients all day.

I’ve unfortunately had to stay in the hospital more than I had hoped the last few years. A doctor never spent more than 5 minutes a day once a day with me. On TV doctors are constantly hanging out in patient’s rooms.

[RivkahChaya]

When I was a candy-striper in the mid-1980s, I walked into a patient’s room (probably either bringing lunches or refilling water pitchers), and there was a guy in there talking with the mom, and playing with the baby. The patient’s chart was on the bed.

I said that someone must have left it, and I could take it up front.

The guy sitting on the bed playing with the baby said it wasn’t necessary; he was the doctor.

I had never seen a doctor in a patient’s room before, other than once when one was having some kind of emergent situation, and he went in to look at something briefly. Usually, doctors went in, thumbed through the charts at the nurses notes, asked the nurses a few questions, make some lame jokes, occasionally sexually harassed a nurse, and left.

I noted this doctors name.

It was 20 years before I was looking to get pregnant, but I remembered that doctor’s name. He practiced in town still, but didn’t do OB anymore, just the Gyn side of the equation, in semi-retirement. However, he recommended that OB practice I did use, and I had doctors who came into my room every day, talked to me, and played with my son.

[california_jobcase]

There is an episode of CSI: Miami where some hot rodders have tapped into a fuel pipeline running to an airport. They’re using it in their cars. It was definitely stated the fuel being stolen was jet fuel.

Jet fuel is basically a good grade of kerosene, and wouldn’t work in the cars shown in the episode!

[CaptMurdock]

My question is (since I don’t remember that episode): Is New Asgard formally recognized as a sovereign nation by the US Government, and have diplomatic relations been established? It’s not an automatic process, to my understanding.