This is… kind of surprising.
Someone tell me this isn’t so.
I know the phrase, “Watch one, do one, teach one” is not uncommon for certain medical procedures, but I think they need to emphasize that you watch a real physician, not a TV one. 
And yes, I heard this on the news before April 1, so it’s not a joke. (Unless someone’s republishing off The Onion again.)
Uh…I find that a little disturbing. Did that ever really sound like a good idea?
This is just too stupid for words.
OK, you start medical school and you have some wrong ideas from watching tv shows, but shouldn’t those misconceptions be rectified during studies? Why would they be let loose on patients without being shown and tested on such an often performed procedure?
I’m not sure where the fault lies, but it’s not tv, because people smart enough to get into med school should know ER or any other such drama is not a good replacement for textbooks and in-class instruction.
You mean it is lupus?
It often is, yes.
I guess I probably shouldn’t have filed all those motions I saw on “Law and Order,” then.
Paramedics have a really hard time with intubation, too. The error rate is over 20%.
I think the issue is that intubation technique is poorly understood by lots of people teaching and practicing it, and there just aren’t enough occasions where you have to intubate to keep your skills honed. A paramedic is more likely to have to intubate in a stressful emergency situation than a doctor, too, so I would expect screwups from doctors to be an even higher percentage.
This is why They don’t allow TV shows about tax lawyers.
I would just like to say I cannot take the word intubate seriously. It sounds like crap you would make up if you didn’t know a damn thing about what you are doing but are trying to impress.
“Ok first you take this tube and umm in…tube…ate them, then you look for the wound and de-hair-ify around it before you grab the scalpel and inter-blade-acate through the skin.”
Well that and with all the trim and excitement in a tax lawyer’s life, they’d have to put it on HBO.
Nah, it’s because they don’t have as many sexy affairs with their co-workers.
slow zoom over the shoulder of Burly Manly Lawyer, reading a complicated looking paper
flash to his eyes suddenly going wild
“But… but this is WRONG ! He can’t do that ! ASSISTANT ! Bring me a 387B-2 form, NOW ! I can still salvage this !”
I’d totally watch it.
It really isn’t a big deal for the students to start out clueless. It is pretty standard for medical schools to require medical students to rotate in anesthesiology to practice doing intubations under controlled circumstances on healthy patients before there is any chance they’ll be doing emergency intubations.
My own school required us to learn how to intubate properly at the end of our 2nd year (before we had any contact with hospital patients at all).
Do you have a similar issue with “incarcerate”?
QtM, who as intubated the incarcerated, and also reduced the incarcerated hernia of the incarcerated patient.
[Gives QtM his best Leo DiCaprio “serious” look]
Do you concur, doctor? Do you concur?
About all that porn I’ve been watching…
Well, actually, the Stuart Markowitz character from L.A. Law should be an inspiration to tax lawyers everywhere. He bagged the tall hot blonde and when thrown into a paintball game, turned into (in the words of his coworker Douglas) “Rambowitz.”
In a world where a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court uses the actions of a fictional character to justify the torture of non-fictional, Real Life human beings, it certainly doesn’t surprise me. Much.
The pendant in me wants to point out that Scalia is a Associate Justice of the SCOTUS, not Chief Justice of the United States. But since Scalia really said that a TV show is a model for the law, I find it difficult to continue my pendantry and refer to him as “Mr. Justice”. If some bonehead falsely accuses me of being a terrorist, I shan’t expect much justice from Scalia. Even if I can use Gilligan’s Island as precedent. :rolleyes: