Noah Wylie returns to the ER....The Pitt(Max)

[Trav]

 

[NinoBrown]

Would make some beautiful brown babies with her....

Plays the fish out of water role so well...

 

[987654321]

The only thing close to a “TV mistake”, I remember, was the “bougie” intubation. It looked like he did a horizontal or diagonal cut, where everyone knows to only do vertical.

Also some of their scalpel work is a little inconsistent with real skin, especially for the chest tube procedures. We always lightly sliced/hacked at the insertion site until the skin pulled itself apart. Then small forceps to hold the skin apart. Then we hacked at the muscle/intercostal tissues until we could get the big forceps to spread the ribs. Then we took the pre-beveled tube and pushed it through the pleura, towards their feet, with steady pressure until it popped.

Those were stupid complaints though. They mostly had everything right, even down to the thinking out loud amongst each other. It just seemed like some procedures were completed a little too easily lol.

Some of their IO’s didn’t make sense too. Like why not go for the menubrium with a fast1 or just get a 16/14 regular stick in the auxiliary jugular. It was always much faster and had less chance for error. But I also remember that everyone has their own sop’s and we never had an IO drill. We had the fast1 and a little hand held device that you had to basically brute force through the bone by pushing and twisting back and forth. I died laughing when dude gave the IO to a conscious patient lol.


I was also waiting on a “never pull back on the laryngoscope” gag, but it never happened lol.

Again, I only noticed little shyt that was pointless to even acknowledge. This is the best fictional medical TV show I’ve ever seen, and one of the best overall TV experience I’ve had the pleasure of digesting.

 

[feelosofer]

This is the best medical “drama” I’ve ever seen. I was a line medic in Khost, Afghanistan. most of the trauma I dealt with was on my own, packing, and getting ready to send off. Most were already dead or dying.

I helped out with MassCals every now and then. We caught US wounded and KIA, Afghan soldiers and Police, other locals including whole families blasted to shyt, even an entire blown up busload and market place full of people.

I really felt that mass shooting shyt, deep. Even down to Robby going way too far for an expectant, especially feeling like the flow of patients were never going to end. Medical workers having to donate blood on the spot, having to make shyt up on the fly. Getting mad at yourself because you still allow yourself to have a little hope, only for it to be crushed again and again.

It’s hard to even call this a medical drama. “Medical drama” makes it sound so much more trivial than what it is. I could physically feel the last few episodes, and I hate to say it, but my eyes teared up a little when the MassCal ended and it all went back to normal.

This was the “Saving Private Ryan”, “Zero Dark 30”, “Band of Brothers”, “The Pacific” of “Medical Dramas; all of those, yet more realistic than any of them combined. Entertainment wise it was “The Wire” of medical dramas.

Yea. I actually learned better how a hospital works in sync because of this show and it made not only the doctors important but the nurses, social workers, desk workers etc.

 

[987654321]

Yea. I actually learned better how a hospital works in sync because of this show and it made not only the doctors important but the nurses, social workers, desk workers etc.

lol I have to convince my girl to watch it. The few times she, our kid, or I’ve had to go to the ER she gets frustrated at the wait times. She even gets mad that I’m not mad at the wait times lol.


It’s hard to explain their triage evidence vs her feelings of impending doom. There’s always worse off people who need the help, and there’s never going to be enough staff in an emergency clinic.

 

[987654321]

Don’t we have like two or three current doctor/nurse/Emt brehs? I’m curious to see how they felt about the show. If anybody remembers who they are, tag them if you can.