Watching Travelers 2x06 a copule of days ago, I noticed this howler:
(There was something else I saw recently were someone was stabbed or shot in the liver via the lower gut, but I can’t recall what.)
So whatcha got?
What are you saying is the error there, that the liver is mid-abdomen rather than lower abdomen? I’m not sure I’d quite call that a “howler”.
Well, this is historical, but it relates to medical stuff. MAS*H spread the false story that Charles Drew(a huge researcher in blood transfusions) died because of he was rejected for a blood transfusion due to his race.
It’s not true, though I read that when the tv episode of MASH aired, it had not been debunked for sure, so they were less guilty than if someone tells it today.
Too many to list for HOUSE…but mostly, there appear to be only 6 or so people in that hospital. I mean they have the lead characters going to somebodies house and trawling litter boxes.
Pretty much every use of a defibrillator.
I used to laugh at the length of pregnancy in soap operas. Either very long or very short. And seems like the kid would be a angsty teen before you knew what happened.
When performing resuscitation techniques, it is not actually necessary to shout “Breathe, damn you! Breathe!”
And as a corollary, every use of CPR. And it’s clearly something that has spilled over into people’s perceptions of likely outcomes if someone’s heart stops in any situation where they can’t get very prompt and well-equipped expert medical attention (or likely outcomes even when they can).
I thought it was “Live damn you, LIVE!”
To elaborate, CPR doesn’t make people recover. It just (hopefully) keeps people barely alive for long enough for some other sort of medical intervention (at least a defibrillator, possibly more depending on why CPR was needed to begin with).
Though outcomes are a lot better nowadays, with automatic defibrillators usable by a layman all over the place in public spaces.
Yes, if Miss Mapp is not adhering to the modern standard of care, she can’t expect a good outcome.
I believe that’s more common for CPR, or before or after shouting “Clear!” when applying defib paddles to someone’s chest.
Any time anything is injected into a neck or worse, directlt into a heart. Something wrong with their arm?
Or, from The Abyss:
“Goddamn you bitch, you never backed down from anything in your life! Now fight! Fight! Fight!”
There’s at least an echo of reality in that. Intracardiac injections were used historically, and fell into disuse only in the 1970s.
Tarantino likes his medical treatments retro, I guess.
Of course, the bigger howler with CPR is not that it works, it’s that they dramatically come back to life 15 seconds after you ***stop ***doing CPR.
If you stop CPR for more than 30 seconds, the prognosis is poor, and the “Live damn you” technique may be inadequate when you resume resuscitatation efforts - which of course you only do if the patient is sufficiently hot. Much louder shouting and violent slapping is required at this stage.
If the person has already used up all their arm veins, yes.
TV shows always depict pharmacists wearing those Nehru-jacket things. They were obsolete long before I went to school in the early 1990s, and I once had a conversation with a classmate where he said, “If I ever interviewed for a job at a place where I had to wear one of those, I’d turn it down outright.”
Doctors also do not sit by a patient’s bedside, waiting for the family to show up, nor do they inform families of a death or terrible prognosis in the parking lot or a crowded hallway.
The relationship between a cast-iron pan and amnesia due to a crack on the noggin (and subsequent memory recovery via a second crack) needs further study, ergo a large grant is required. I’ll send you my address.
Well duh; you have to slap the patient’s face before yelling “Live, damn you!” This is, of course, much more important than maintaining a steady rhythm of chest compressions.