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.

 

[Tribaligenesis]

Why isn't this stickied? This is probably HBO's best show since succession.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I enjoyed the hell out of this. Exceptional TV which has been hard to come by over the last 18 months.

 

[THE 101]

This is the best first season of a show in a very long time.

 

[THE 101]

I know them after work beers they were having in the park hit like crack

 

[jwinfield]

I know them after work beers they were having in the park hit like crack

You know it's the second one that's

 

[Mission249]

This is the best first season of a show in a very long time.

Yeah but now I'm wondering where do they go from here. They ran thru about 7 seasons of medical drama material in one go.

I admire them for leaving it all on the court, but how do you up the ante higher than a mass shooting without getting silly?

 

[Trav]

Yeah but now I'm wondering where do they go from here. They ran thru about 7 seasons of medical drama material in one go.

I admire them for leaving it all on the court, but how do you up the ante higher than a mass shooting without getting silly?

2nd season supposedly going to take place over the course of a July 4th weekend...

That's a lot of fukkery to get into fr.

4th of July tales from the emergency room

It's probably best to leave the fireworks to the professionals.

abcnews.go.com

While the firework was being lit at a backyard party, one of the explosive mechanisms -- a metal ball about four inches in diameter -- misfired, Coleman said. Instead of launching the firework into the air, the metal ball came out of the side of the firework and became lodged inside the patient, she said.

Since the explosive did not detonate, it still had the potential to explode, and the bomb squad had to be present during the man's emergency surgery to remove it, Coleman said.

Multiple injuries reported after July 4 fireworks malfunction in stadium, report says

The accident occurred during the opening ceremonies of the Stadium of Fire event at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah.

www.kktv.com

Videos posted on social media show individual fireworks veering off from the cluster sent into the sky over the field and landing among rows of spectators in the stands at the outdoor arena. About 45,000 people attended the sold-out show, Cook said.

Fireworks to the face and missing fingers: Doctors share July 4 horror stories

From missing fingers to burned faces, San Francisco doctors and EMTs shared the worst injuries they've had to treat on the Fourth of July.

sfstandard.com

One Bay Area EMT said he remembered treating a man in his early 20s who had a firework go off in his face, splitting his skin open above his top lip. Soot and blood poured from his mouth and nose after the explosion.

But it’s not always direct injuries from fireworks. Schorr added people sometimes drink and climb onto roofs or step onto their balconies to watch fireworks. And then they fall, sometimes “one or two floors” down.
Schorr said falls are most common during Fleet Week when people watch air shows. In September, a woman died while watching a Fleet Week airshow after falling four stories from the roof of a Russian Hill apartment building.

Although some of the stories might sound crazy, it's not any crazier than real life so I think this is a layup to up the stakes without gettin' too cartoonish from my purview. I think with the built in chaos of this holiday, it's a layup as far as tension/stakes is concerned. I'm more concerned with them maintaining the pacing and small character moments and making sure those don’t get drowned in the process.

And not just that, aside from all of that, there is a lot of internal arcs to still be developed or addressed. Wrappin' up broadies stealin' dem meds from pts instead of entering em on the MAR, and how some of the new residents have been shaped by that trial by fire shift. And as a healthcare IT person myself---systems going down during treatment + it's still mad stuff to talk on inter-department wise just from the stories my wife (MedSurg nurse) be tellin'.


TL;DR;

Dey really don't need to go bigger fr, just expand & get deeper wit da exploring.
July 4th weekend setting = perfect for fukkery aspect.
Plenty of unresolved character arcs still in play