Yeah, I realize a radiologist wouldn’t perform a brain surgery (or a brain surgeon wouldn’t run a CT scan), but, again, I didn’t seem much bothered by it in House. I think it would have been difficult (and expensive and probably boring) to stick to reality, just like it would have been tedious if Holmes needed to consult all kinds of people to solve his mysteries.
Good thing you didn’t make it into NASA, macgyver. At least you can enjoy Star Trek.
LOL you’re right. It’s difficult not to nit pick when you know too much
John Q gets his info from TV and the Internet because everything on the Internet is true! Here’s my date, a French model, Bonjooor! I just had a student challenge me over aliens. Her proof was a YouTube video showing a real alien ship!
Cap’t Jack
This is why we can’t have nice things!
Seriously though, we atheists/rationalists/skeptics have our biggest challenge right here; people who may be otherwise very likable, but their worldviews are based in magical thinking.
I’ve never actually seen Doc Martin. I had never heard of it until a few months ago when a friend brought it to my attention. I understand its a British show about a doc in a small town. I’ll have to see if they have it on Netflix when i get a chance.
Yeah, that’s correct. From the few episodes I’ve seen, it’s slightly comparable to House, but more witty and with less emphasis on “shock appeal”.
I’m a fan of “Doc Martin”. I really have no idea about whether the show is medically realistic or not, but one of the most interesting aspects is the way the public is shown using the British medical system. In the U.S. you could base a whole series about the crisis middle and low income face in just trying to get and pay for medical care, in Britain access to basic health care is a given, it’s really not even a plot point in the show. Yeah, no one needs to tell me that the British health system is far from perfect, and one of the major points of the show is the difficulty of getting a really good physician to work in a small remote town, but as a person who has struggled to even get health insurance, and lived in the fear of any even moderately serious illness or accident creating a financial catastrophe, it sure looks better than what we have.
I’m a fan of “Doc Martin”. I really have no idea about whether the show is medically realistic or not, but one of the most interesting aspects is the way the public is shown using the British medical system. In the U.S. you could base a whole series about the crisis middle and low income face in just trying to get and pay for medical care, in Britain access to basic health care is a given, it’s really not even a plot point in the show. Yeah, no one needs to tell me that the British health system is far from perfect, and one of the major points of the show is the difficulty of getting a really good physician to work in a small remote town, but as a person who has struggled to even get health insurance, and lived in the fear of any even moderately serious illness or accident creating a financial catastrophe, it sure looks better than what we have.
Hmmm, I thought Doc Martin was a type of boot. Never heard of the show but my favorite hospital show of all time is St. Elsewhere. It’s probably not accurate but they did deal with real life situations and I liked the way the writers treated the patient-doctor relationship. Also learned a lot of medical terminology. As to affordable health care (Obama care, ha!’ that epithet backfired on the reps.) it gives a much needed boost to the lower middle class and poor, the 47%ers.
[Hmmm, I thought Doc Martin was a type of boot. Never heard of the show but my favorite hospital show of all time is St. Elsewhere. It’s probably not accurate but they did deal with real life situations and I liked the way the writers treated the patient-doctor relationship. Also learned a lot of medical terminology. As to affordable health care (Obama care, ha!’ that epithet backfired on the reps.) it gives a much needed boost to the lower middle class and poor, the 47%ers.
I found the show on Netflix and watched the first episode. Its hard to say from one episode but it seems entertaining. Doc Martin reminds me a bit of a short lived American TV series called Becker. Ted Danson played this down and out physician who set up a GP practice in a poor area of the Bronx. He had an irascible temperament and a hilarious tendency to tell patients exactly what he thought which I was always a bit envious of.
I found the show on Netflix and watched the first episode. Its hard to say from one episode but it seems entertaining. Doc Martin reminds me a bit of a short lived American TV series called Becker. Ted Danson played this down and out physician who set up a GP practice in a poor area of the Bronx. He had an irascible temperament and a hilarious tendency to tell patients exactly what he thought which I was always a bit envious of.
Funny… I was just thinking how politely and verbosely my doctor told me yesterday: “You’re fat, you need exercise and stop eating crap food.”
I remember one patient of mine, an older woman had watched an episode of ER where a transplant team drops a heart on the floor. Apparently it skids across the floor and under a cabinet where it is then fished out and implanted into the patient. She was very upset and wanted to know how often that sort of thing happens in the OR in real life. I can’t blame her for asking since she has never worked in this field and can’t understand how much is wrong with that scene but I do blame the producers of the show for throwing all sensibility out the window just to create a shocking image. It seems to me there is enough drama in real life that they shouldn’t have to exaggerate and distort things like this to make it interesting.
I believe that was a ‘scrubs’ episode. Lol! No, but once at a hospital where I used to work, they sent a newbie to pick up an organ and he brought back the wrong one. Luckily, they never remove the old organ until they re-examine and re-approve the old one. Luckily, someone was able to bring back the correct organ in a timely manner and the transplant was done. He never lived that mistake down.
I have also seen cases where they pick up the heart (each team harvests their own organ, because there is a specific way the surgeon wants it done (from my understanding), and the harvesting doesn’t begin until all teams are present and proceed in a set order) and after bringing it back, it is rejected and the patient is brought back to the ICU. The Thoratec ventricular assist device has enabled the surgeons to be a lot pickier.
