Has anyone seen TNT's "Monday Morning?" (Spoilers below)
I am watching it now. It is well acted, but the pilot episode is melodramatic as anything. MELODRAMA!!!
I did not realize that the show is all about doctors going through questioning when their patients died. It is such high-minded bullshit, I can't even. I generally like medical dramas, so I will watch the 2nd episode, but this was so unrealistic that I was wondering if this was on SyFy.
One key segment of the program featured a doctor being called on to the carpet because he gave a woman complaining of hip pain tylenol. Well she actually had bone cancer. (He's a surgeon or an ER doctor, I don't know which and the patient was a runner). So, what happened to her primary care doctor? You aren't going to tell me that she died of metastatic cancer 4 months later (she was admitted to the hospital with a broken leg and that's when they discovered the bone cancer) and a surgeon is responsible?
If you are in agonizing pain enough to go to the doctor and you are taking tylenol for it for a few days and it doesn't get better, I think I would see another physician. Not sure I would just let it go for months and then boom.
So it is unrealistic (it seems to me) for the doctor to be called on the carpet for that. Maybe he should have told her to come back in a week if she isn't better, but she is a grown ass woman with 3 children, I think she might have been able to figure that out.
The second case was a more realistic one in that it seemed the physician was more clearly at fault, but it seemed kind of an easy way out since the end result for the patient would have been the same, but the patient died sooner as opposed to a week or month(2) later.
I'm interested enough to see ep 2, but this show is on notice.
I'm interested enough to see ep 2, but this show is on notice.
The old saying among farmers was that once a dog had a taste for chicken you had to put them down because they'd go back and kill more. Once a show has a taste for melodrama it doesn't get less.
That's the one with Chi McBride? I was tempted a little on his account but just the ads seemed too LIFE AND DEATH for me.
No, it's Alfred Molina and Ving Rhames, and others. They were showing the promos relentlessly during SPN reruns in the morning.
Huh. Just looked at a promo for it on Youtube. Alfred Molina and Ving Rhames and Jamie Bamber! That's a pretty ace cast. Apparently it was based on book by Sanjay Gupta. The stuff shown in the promo looks to be in the format of M&M (Morbidity and Mortality) Rounds, except dialed up to 11 in terms of melodrama. Hmm, I wonder if the the alliteration in the title "Monday Mornings" is a nod to M&M (most big hospitals have several of those happening weekly in their large divisions.)
Those are the ads I was thinking of (not specifically during SPN reruns, but that's the network). Now that I have looked up the Chi McBride show, I realize I have a totally different reason for not watching that.
I guess not being able to keep the shows I've decided not to watch straight is not too remarkable, right?
you know, I have yet to watch one episode of that show.
Count yourself lucky. The star does the most annoying prance/giggle thing ever, constantly. And the courtroom scene in Ghostbusters 2 was more believable than the ones on that show.
once a dog had a taste for chicken you had to put them down because they'd go back and kill more.
ha ha! you aren't wrong about this. MM is not on my "must see" list. I need to save space for that new Zero Hour (or whatever it is called) show with Anthony Edwards. It looks like it will only last 13 eps, but this will be a 13 ep interesting trainwreck.
I was going to try Monday Mornings for sheer love of Bamber, but the commercials just kept appealing less and less, and from your remarks I think I made the correct call in skipping it. Ah well, maybe I can find some L&O:UK reruns...
