'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The main stories I heard of note from friends who worked in ERs was objects lodged in places they had no business being.
Yeah, I heard those stories too. Of course, she was a nurse in a San Francisco hospital so there was a bit more of that. The most wince inducing was the guy who had a long flourescent lightbulb protruding from his person. The trick being how to remove it without it shattering.
The main stories I heard of note from friends who worked in ERs were about objects lodged in places they had no business being.
So, if we take GWB to an ER, they could get his head out of his ass?
So, if we take GWB to an ER, they could get his head out of his ass?
Rectocranial inversion. Happens all the time.
Hec, I swear I've seen that on TV, and I can't remember how they got it out.
This is gonna bug me. I can't even remember the show. Scrubs, maybe?
eta: no, not the same, now that I think. It was a bulb but not flourescent.
I give Homicide: Life on the Street major points towards realism.
David, they did that scenario on one episode of Scrubs. Camera fades in on three doctors staring at an x-ray.
Dr. Cox: "Well, either this guy's colon had a very bright idea, or he's got a lightbulb up his ass."
I give Homicide: Life on the Street major points towards realism.
I agree. Even things that didn't seem realistic to me (like the kid getting tricked by a copier) actually happened in real life.
Hee. Love Dr. Cox. I haven't see the show in ages, though.
I need to say that there is no "fun part" to a limb being torn off.
I am not looking for reality from my scripted tv. believablity sure, but reality? nope. There is news and documentaries and non-fiction books for that. I avoid most of them also.
The other place you have seen Eion Bailey was chowing down on Principal Flutie in the hyenas episode of Buffy S1.
I think early ER was strong because it had a stated policy of undercuting "drama" in favor of humor, connection, or other surprising moments. The best parts of the Bradley Whitford episode are parts like Carter manually pinching arteries in Mom's belly, while everyone else is trying to save the kid, and the obstetrician bustles in (too late to help) and asks Carter what the hell he is doing. It's notable that in that episode, the big emotional "Hey, we accidentally killed your wife" moment is something we see silently, through a glass door, and the episode ends as the moment is only getting started.
Late ER is melodrama. It hasn't moved me in a long time.