Another fun exchange of emails yielded some very good points about medical dramas today.
Bill (in ref to House):
...and the kind of costs necessary to perform the level of care shown per patient in the show is unrealistic considering: Four FTE physicians and an untold number of tests, medical staff, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical supplies and malpractice insurance.
Dave (in retort):
You want to see unbridled money loss depicted in a television hospital drama, watch 'ER'. My god, having spent the time here that I have I can see why doctors panned the show's medical depictions when the series started. At any given point in time a patient in trauma will have 2-4 doctors, 3 nurses, a resident surgeon (seriously?) and various aids working in the trauma room.
One trauma room.
In reality, you'd get one, MAYBE two doctors, 1 nurse, and a nursing aid. There also wouldn't be mass chaos in the room as they would work together trying to save the patient's life. There is no yelling. The word "dammit" isn't used ad nauseam.
Also, according to the show, a horrifying number of surgical procedures are performed on the fly in non-sterile rooms. The reality is that even under extreme trauma there is no way in hell someone's chest would be ripped open, heart exposed, and standard, non-sterile medical equipment used, to resuscitate a patient. Emergency surgical procedures occur in (sit down for this one) a surgical ward, commonly known as an operating room.
Go figure.
If they wanted to show the gore and finer details of emergency surgeries then perhaps they should have named the show 'OR' and built the program around those complicated cases.
Oh wait, they did. It was called 'Chicago Hope'"
Bill (in ref to House):
...and the kind of costs necessary to perform the level of care shown per patient in the show is unrealistic considering: Four FTE physicians and an untold number of tests, medical staff, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical supplies and malpractice insurance.
Dave (in retort):
You want to see unbridled money loss depicted in a television hospital drama, watch 'ER'. My god, having spent the time here that I have I can see why doctors panned the show's medical depictions when the series started. At any given point in time a patient in trauma will have 2-4 doctors, 3 nurses, a resident surgeon (seriously?) and various aids working in the trauma room.
One trauma room.
In reality, you'd get one, MAYBE two doctors, 1 nurse, and a nursing aid. There also wouldn't be mass chaos in the room as they would work together trying to save the patient's life. There is no yelling. The word "dammit" isn't used ad nauseam.
Also, according to the show, a horrifying number of surgical procedures are performed on the fly in non-sterile rooms. The reality is that even under extreme trauma there is no way in hell someone's chest would be ripped open, heart exposed, and standard, non-sterile medical equipment used, to resuscitate a patient. Emergency surgical procedures occur in (sit down for this one) a surgical ward, commonly known as an operating room.
Go figure.
If they wanted to show the gore and finer details of emergency surgeries then perhaps they should have named the show 'OR' and built the program around those complicated cases.
Oh wait, they did. It was called 'Chicago Hope'"
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