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In article , "jmcquown"
wrote: Howard Berkowitz wrote: In article t, Tanada wrote: Howard Berkowitz wrote: thing when "Star Trek" babbles about diverting the flux capacitor to the deflector array, in a future where they have apparently lost the technologies of seat belts But then they wouldn't have gotten to pretend the ship was tilting! LOL , terminals that don't explode, circuit breakers in general, etc. In "Medical Investigation", not only were they wrong on substantive detail, the acting isn't very good. There always seemed to be a guarantee that the team chief would call for an instant airlift of a drug that was inappropriate to treat the condition. Oddly, the clinical presentations were consistent with the diseases -- I usually could diagnose within 10 or 15 minutes, while the cast would fumble around for the next half hour. What do you think of this new medical show (if you have seen it) 'House'? The team spends an hour discussing and trying different treatments on weirdly obscure (sorry, can't happen) diseases and conditions. Dr. House finally makes an appearance and the patient and his/her family have no idea who this dude is. Not only that, he's constantly popping pain pills for his leg (he uses a cane). And, the times I've been in the hospital I didn't have 4-5 attending physicians. It's ridiculous. Haven't seen it. Depends on how you mean "attending" -- both for myself and others, I've encountered situations where many specialties were involved. At one point, my ex and I went through the list of primary specialty boards, and, IIRC, we had just missed seeing someone in aerospace medicine and one or two others. We cheated a little -- we had no furless children, but her allergist was dual-boarded in pediatrics. |
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:08:04 -0500, "Kim Walters"
yodeled: "Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... in article , John F. Eldredge at wrote on 1/30/05 7:15 PM: On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:32:36 -0600, "jmcquown" wrote: Howard Berkowitz wrote: In article t, Tanada wrote: Howard Berkowitz wrote: thing when "Star Trek" babbles about diverting the flux capacitor to the deflector array, in a future where they have apparently lost the technologies of seat belts But then they wouldn't have gotten to pretend the ship was tilting! LOL At a science fiction convention, I once saw the blooper reel from the original Star Trek series. One out-take had one of those scenes where all of the bridge crew topple out of their chairs, in order to suggest that the ship has just been jolted hard. Unfortunately, one actor got his left and right confused, and thus fell in the opposite direction to everyone else! Another of my favorite out-takes was one where Kirk and Spock were striding towards the elevator doors. The show was operating on too low a budget to have actual hydraulic doors, so the doors were operated by stage crew pulling on ropes. Unfortunately, whomever was operating the ropes missed their cue, and William Shatner walked right into the door, which was supposed to be open by the time he reached it. He turned around, rubbing his nose and grinning. I saw that reel! James Doohan came to speak at a local college when I was a pre-teen and I made my sister drag me to it. His talk was very interesting and then he showed the blooper reel. I love those. Me too - He came to my college. He really is a class act. I wonder if I still have a copy of that tape. A group of us travel down to SUNY O a year or so later when George Takai was speaking there. Spare a thought, and some purrs for dear old Jimmy Doohan, as he is now suffering from Alzheimer's. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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"Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:08:04 -0500, "Kim Walters" yodeled: "Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... in article , John F. Eldredge at wrote on 1/30/05 7:15 PM: On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:32:36 -0600, "jmcquown" wrote: Howard Berkowitz wrote: In article t, Tanada wrote: Howard Berkowitz wrote: thing when "Star Trek" babbles about diverting the flux capacitor to the deflector array, in a future where they have apparently lost the technologies of seat belts But then they wouldn't have gotten to pretend the ship was tilting! LOL At a science fiction convention, I once saw the blooper reel from the original Star Trek series. One out-take had one of those scenes where all of the bridge crew topple out of their chairs, in order to suggest that the ship has just been jolted hard. Unfortunately, one actor got his left and right confused, and thus fell in the opposite direction to everyone else! Another of my favorite out-takes was one where Kirk and Spock were striding towards the elevator doors. The show was operating on too low a budget to have actual hydraulic doors, so the doors were operated by stage crew pulling on ropes. Unfortunately, whomever was operating the ropes missed their cue, and William Shatner walked right into the door, which was supposed to be open by the time he reached it. He turned around, rubbing his nose and grinning. I saw that reel! James Doohan came to speak at a local college when I was a pre-teen and I made my sister drag me to it. His talk was very interesting and then he showed the blooper reel. I love those. Me too - He came to my college. He really is a class act. I wonder if I still have a copy of that tape. A group of us travel down to SUNY O a year or so later when George Takai was speaking there. Spare a thought, and some purrs for dear old Jimmy Doohan, as he is now suffering from Alzheimer's. Yes, I know he is not doing too well. It's really a cursed disease. |
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In article ,
Howard Berkowitz wrote: What do you think of this new medical show (if you have seen it) 'House'? The team spends an hour discussing and trying different treatments on weirdly obscure (sorry, can't happen) diseases and conditions. Dr. House finally makes an appearance and the patient and his/her family have no idea who this dude is. Not only that, he's constantly popping pain pills for his leg (he uses a cane). And, the times I've been in the hospital I didn't have 4-5 attending physicians. It's ridiculous. I watched it tonight. There was some good acting here and there, but the medicine made little sense. I remember one exchange where one of the junior doctors suggested a vasculitis, and House said no, it was Wegener's granulomatosis. But--Wegener's is a spscific type of the class of vasculitis diseases. Yes, in a teaching hospital, you very well may have teams of doctors, but there is only one that has formal responsibility as the primary physician. Some people use "attending" as interchangeable with the primary, but in many hospitals, "attending" means a fully certified physician, while a senior resident may the primary physician. Even with a DNR order, you do NOT turn off the respirator on a conscious patient, whom you believe to be respirator dependent, without significant sedation. Yes, I know of a few cases where a knowledgeable patient requested no terminal sedation, but those were extremely special cases. Turning off a ventilator on an aware patient means a very horrible death. Unless there was an extremely specific informed consent, witnessed patient request, and probably review by the hospital ethics committee, that would be malpractice if not felony. With tonight's episode, some of the test results were vague enough that I couldn't figure out what they were describing. The type of the pneumonia remained vague, and I couldn't understand why they wanted IVIG for that. For some of the other diagnoses, the treatment is the same. I don't think I'll watch it again. |
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