Trauma on NBC

Cafe Society
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Were they expecting this to be the next ER? Hope not, because I think this one’s about to flatline.

I’ll keep checking in to see how bad they mess with the San Francisco addresses. For starters, Montgomery street isn’t as long as they portrayed, and the hotel in the opening sequence is the Union Square Hyatt on Stockton.

In reality, the “bridge” scene was shot about a mile or so away from SF General Hospital, it wasn’t on a bridge, and medevac choppers are rarely used here. If anything, they might fly a badly injured kid over to Children’s Hospital in Oakland, but that’s about the extent of it.

BTW, that electrician should have been charged (hah!) with voluntary manslaughter.

2

I watched the first 20 minutes to see how badly they messed with the EMS stuff. (I’m an EMT)

No. Just no. It’s way over the top and ridiculous. The paramedic starting an IO (Intraosseous vascular access) on the guy on the roof without even trying to find a vein? Criking him before even attempting to tube him? Dispatching a med-evac before anyone’s even assessed the patient? Patching a 911 caller through to the medics? No way.

I had to turn it off and go bang my head against the wall.

3

Don’t do that, it could cause an (quickly thumbs through The Hollywood Writer’s Guide to Medical Stuff) aneurysm!

4

Or would that be a concussion? Or a contusion?

Let’s split the difference: A Concoozhin.

I was mildly interested because of the SF location (as trauma teams, there’d be a ton of potential location shooting) and some of the cast, but I didn’t catch it last night and haven’t heard much good in the meantime.

5

Well, there ya go. Fancy new medical term for ‘headache and a bruise.’ :smiley:

6

But their CPR technique was flawless. :smiley: Even I as a non-medical type could tell that they were doing a bang-up job of well, banging up the patients but not so good at keeping them alive.

I’ve heard that the TV show *ER *spawned a generation of med students who “learned” techniques from watching the show. IIRC, intubation was one particular procedure where students were doing theatrically decent, but medically bad procedures.

Now it’s time for wanna-be first responders to get all screwed up. :rolleyes:

7

The first few minutes were very exciting. The rest of the show was very angsty. I want to like this show, because I used to love “Emergency” back in the day (with that dreamy Johnny Gage). I didn’t hate the show, but I didn’t love it, either. My husband is a trained first responder with advanced first aid, and he was just about at the “banging his head on the wall” stage, too (and as a construction safety officer, the way the guy got electrocuted also drove him crazy). We’ll probably watch again, but I don’t think we’ll be setting a taping on our very heavy Monday night schedule.

8

That’s exactly why I wanted to like it, as well. I loved Emergency, and I loved Third Watch.
This was just way too much.

9

Ugh. Ever since I started working in a hospital I cannot watch anything medical-related. HELLO NURSE JACKIE! You cannot pop off the top of a Morphine vial and swig it back like a Corona - you have to puncture a rubber seal with a needle, DUH. Bizarre.