The main stories I heard of note from friends who worked in ERs was objects lodged in places they had no business being.
"It was a million to one shot, doc! Million to one!"
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
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.
Sue - Jan 28, 2005 10:25:17 am PST #1751 of 10002
hip deep in pie
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2005 10:25:20 am PST #1752 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Abby moves me. Pratt and Chen move me. Neela moves me, when she's working with Chen.
If only they'd give Luka something interesting to do, I bet he'd move me too.
Old school ER made Benton move me. Made the moving parts not so dependent on affection for the characters. The writing was more complex.
Nutty - Jan 28, 2005 10:25:42 am PST #1753 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I give Homicide: Life on the Street major points towards realism.
The funnest part of that show is that they took stuff from real life. But, like, not "Ripped from the Headlines!" type of stuff; but stupid kids dropping a bowling ball off an overpass and killing a driver below, and the kids never getting caught.
Even Homicide had to go with the fulminating stunt now and then, but somehow they tended to persuade me to forgive them each time they did it.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 28, 2005 10:27:58 am PST #1754 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I need to say that there is no "fun part" to a limb being torn off.
Doesn't that depend on if you're the tear-er or the tear-ee?
Topic!Cindy - Jan 28, 2005 10:28:36 am PST #1755 of 10002
What is even happening?
So, if we take GWB to an ER, they could get his head out of his ass?Damnit, tom. They're doctors, not miracle workers.
Kathy A - Jan 28, 2005 10:37:35 am PST #1756 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My mom was a pediatric nurse when she first got out of nursing school, but her worst shift was when she was called in to help out in the ER the night a couple and their ten kids were in a car crash. The parents both died, as did a few of the children, and the other eight kids were in pretty bad shape. (This was in the late 1960s, so no seat belts or airbags were in the van.) Even worse was the fact that, Joliet being a relatively small town despite its official population, Mom knew the family, as did others on the hospital staff. When she talks about that night, she mostly remembers handling the surviving kids and trying to help them even though the kids just knew that their mom and dad were dead.
Trudy Booth - Jan 28, 2005 10:38:48 am PST #1757 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
But there was long term consequences to Kellie Martin's character's death -- the whole John Carter becomes a drug addict arc was founded on that incident.
Because Carter was attacked too though.
msbelle - Jan 28, 2005 10:39:07 am PST #1758 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
jesse insent.
Scrappy - Jan 28, 2005 10:42:32 am PST #1759 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Quick, I forgot my ex-SiL's 50th birthday was today. She's a good person and I want to send her a greeting. Anyone know of nice free ecard places online?
msbelle - Jan 28, 2005 10:43:01 am PST #1760 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
blue mountain and egreetings
opps - corrected.