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Solice Kirsk posted:It was about hobo stabbings wasn't it? Snipe of the day
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Jun 22, 2018 14:18
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How I love the hobo life, Stabbing folks with my hobo knife
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Jun 22, 2018 14:43
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Stabbing folks with my hobo knife Still one of my favorite Simpsons lines despite being from the decline.
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Jun 22, 2018 14:48
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WebDog posted:Didn't Omar Epps' character have brain surgery and despite major cognitive issues kept on trucking like it wasn't a big deal a couple of episodes later? No, that was Dr Greene on ER. Had a brain tumor that was causing cognitive and speech issues. Had it excised on Christmas Eve, and was back to work full time by Valentine’s Day. There was a brief story that questioned his competency, but he took a quick test and it was all good!! I have an irrational love of ER and will defend it to anyone, but even that seemed a wee bit unrealistic to me.
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Jun 22, 2018 14:50
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Not Operator posted:Scrubs also accurately showed that people doing their residency are permanently exhausted. Also that the less people respect your job, the more you can just gently caress around all day so long as you're competent enough to get enough work done when necessary to make people assume you're pulling your weight. Lessons to live by.
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Jun 22, 2018 14:52
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GPTribefan posted:No, that was Dr Greene on ER. Had a brain tumor that was causing cognitive and speech issues. Had it excised on Christmas Eve, and was back to work full time by Valentine’s Day. There was a brief story that questioned his competency, but he took a quick test and it was all good!! It happened to Omar Epps' character too but it was parasites in his brain IIRC, and at the end of the episode it showed either his toes were paralyzed or his brain thought his right hand was his left hand or some insane poo poo like that, but he continued working in a full capacity and it was never brought up again.
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Jun 22, 2018 15:01
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food court bailiff posted:It happened to Omar Epps' character too but it was parasites in his brain IIRC, and at the end of the episode it showed either his toes were paralyzed or his brain thought his right hand was his left hand or some insane poo poo like that, but he continued working in a full capacity and it was never brought up again. Yeah he had trouble making coffee or something but somehow was able to practice medicine an episode later no problem lol
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Jun 22, 2018 15:09
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A lot of long running shows do stuff like that, not just medical dramas. I remember there was an episode of Star Trek where Miles spent a few (simulated) decades living in a torturous prison where he ended up murdering his cell mate for a scrap of food, and then spent the last years of his sentence in complete isolation. He went all crazy for the one episode, then by the next one it was business as usual.
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Jun 22, 2018 15:29
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Araenna posted:I actually was going through old bookmarks and saw this site was down a few days ago. One of his reviews is how I figured out why my dad's urostomy bag was turning blue/purple. None of his doctors had any clue. Um... I'm sorry but I'm too curious not to ask, was it some kind of medication side effect? food court bailiff posted:It happened to Omar Epps' character too but it was parasites in his brain IIRC, and at the end of the episode it showed either his toes were paralyzed or his brain thought his right hand was his left hand or some insane poo poo like that, but he continued working in a full capacity and it was never brought up again. I thought he got Rabies from that homeless woman that drew comic books and bit him. Or maybe they just thought it could be Rabies. I remember going back and trying to binge House a while back when I found out it was on Netflix but it really does get tedious trying to watch it that way. I think a lot of more formulaic shows like that just age more awkwardly because of the change in format now that I think about it.
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Jun 22, 2018 15:33
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All those fancy medical dramas are just one level removed from soap operas like General Hospital where you’ve got a stable of recurring plot lines (brain tumors, martial problems, evil villains) that propel the story rather than characters. So everyone’s marriage ends at some point or they get brain clouds because after 4 or 5 years you’ve run out of original storylines. Any real person dealing with these kinds of problems would be screaming all the time. Meredith Grey should be permanently cowering in a corner rocking herself back and forth.
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Jun 22, 2018 15:44
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I want a medical drama in the style of The Wire that's all about making the weekly metrics, dealing with funding, and all the bureaucratic BS that's in the health field. Absolutely zero scenes of practicing medicine or surgeries.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:03
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WebDog posted:Didn't Omar Epps' character have brain surgery and despite major cognitive issues kept on trucking like it wasn't a big deal a couple of episodes later? I think I remember the surgery switching his left and right sides of what his brain processed on his own body, but a few episodes later they just handwaved it away with "Oh, it was just temporary, it wore off" but it's been a while.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:04
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Mu Zeta posted:I want a medical drama in the style of The Wire that's all about making the weekly metrics, dealing with funding, and all the bureaucratic BS that's in the health field. Absolutely zero scenes of practicing medicine or surgeries. Featuring one scene where the head surgeons stand around looking at x rays for ten minutes and the only dialogue is the word ‘gently caress’.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:12
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Mu Zeta posted:I want a medical drama in the style of The Wire that's all about making the weekly metrics, dealing with funding, and all the bureaucratic BS that's in the health field. Absolutely zero scenes of practicing medicine or surgeries. I, too, want to see a Garth Mehrenghi's Darkplace spinoff all about Thornton Reed.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:54
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Danger - Octopus! posted:I, too, want to see a Garth Mehrenghi's Darkplace spinoff all about Thornton Reed. He fears only one man: Won Ton.
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Jun 22, 2018 17:19
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Danger - Octopus! posted:I, too, want to see a Garth Mehrenghi's Darkplace spinoff all about Thornton Reed. No one ever mentions the Dean Lerner Talk show, Man to Man.
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Jun 22, 2018 17:44
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Blackfyre posted:No one ever mentions the Dean Lerner Talk show, Man to Man. Did that ever air in the US anywhere? I thought only Darkplace did. Also you can't watch Darkplace anywhere now because it's behind some British streaming site only. 
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Jun 22, 2018 17:55
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Mu Zeta posted:I want a medical drama in the style of The Wire that's all about making the weekly metrics, dealing with funding, and all the bureaucratic BS that's in the health field. Absolutely zero scenes of practicing medicine or surgeries. I was really hoping that Cuddy episode of House was a backdoor pilot, to be set in the fascinating world of hospital administration.
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Jun 22, 2018 18:44
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I enjoyed houlse when it aired, but I really have no desire to watch it again. I thought the season where house was in an asylum was good, but that the one where house was in jail (and the events that led up to it) were not good. I keep meaning to watch one of those early modern medical shows like the knick, but I have not done that yet.
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Jun 22, 2018 18:51
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House was great until I also had the hugest crush on Cuddy too.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:12
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duck trucker posted:I also had the hugest crush on Cuddy too. 
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Jun 22, 2018 19:14
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duck trucker posted:House was great until Agree. I also liked the House in the asylum episode, but the rest of that season is what made me stop watching the show.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:14
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Kind of funny how his roommate from the asylum (?) went on to become Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:22
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Dixville posted:Um... I'm sorry but I'm too curious not to ask, was it some kind of medication side effect? I specifically remember the diagnosis of this episode, Naegleria, which eats the victims brain, because I was terrified after watching the resolution and less than a couple of weeks later we had a case of it in my region which was a very "oh no  " moment for me. Also, they kinda show him struggling with the recovery. The end of the episode has him messing up his body's left and right side movements and the next two or three have him working with some sort of memorizing cards deck to regain his functions and generally being frustrated that he might have permanent damage, but that's it.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:29
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Dixville posted:Um... I'm sorry but I'm too curious not to ask, was it some kind of medication side effect? It was due to some sort of bacteria interacting with the plastic of the bag. He had chronic infections due to having a catheter because of a stricture in his ureter. Also, I stopped liking House when they decided to mix up addiction and dependence. As someone who suffers from chronic pain, them pushing the idea that if you are physically addicted to a medication means you should detox and live in pain made me pretty loving angry. Like, he was usually shown as not abusing them for fun, but just being in horrific pain. Maybe instead of sending him to a rehab and therapy and then back to work, they could have shown him also seeing a pain specialist? Or something other than just basically having him just deal with the pain suddenly without the pain killers he had to take just to function?
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Jun 22, 2018 19:31
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Araenna posted:It was due to some sort of bacteria interacting with the plastic of the bag. He had chronic infections due to having a catheter because of a stricture in his ureter. That wouldn't be very dramatic though. Realistic dramas were not in vogue at the time.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:34
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The asylum stuff was decent except they had that moment where "House is better then the professionals because he realizes a paitent is staring at a box".
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Jun 22, 2018 19:46
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"Administration said we need to cut costs, starting with the highest cost department." "What department is that?" "Pediatric Oncology." Torquemada posted:Featuring one scene where the head surgeons stand around looking at x rays for ten minutes and the only dialogue is the word ‘gently caress’.
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Jun 22, 2018 19:58
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Araenna posted:It was due to some sort of bacteria interacting with the plastic of the bag. He had chronic infections due to having a catheter because of a stricture in his ureter. Taking the amount of Vicodin he took was pretty much slow suicide, though, if only because the APAP half of the pill is great at loving up your liver. They did some interesting stuff with his pain earlier on, though, like how the ketamine treatment he did after getting shot made it go away, albeit temporarily. Putting people in K-holes has been shown to actually do that.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:01
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CannonFodder posted:"Administration said we need to cut costs, starting with the highest cost department." A medical show centered entirely around the billing department of a hospital.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:07
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e X posted:A medical show centered entirely around the billing department of a hospital. Clerks wait someone did that already Transplant Accounting? First Bill Cuts the Deepest? Zil has a new favorite as of 20:12 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 20:09
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Samuringa posted:I specifically remember the diagnosis of this episode, Naegleria, which eats the victims brain, because I was terrified after watching the resolution and less than a couple of weeks later we had a case of it in my region which was a very "oh no ...They picked that to be the brain problem? gently caress, that kills over 90% of people who get it and otherwise I think is basically guaranteed to cause damage. It's pretty rare fortunately but really I get that it's dramatic but I can't imagine coming out of that with no damage at all.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:10
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I'm glad Olivia Wilde does not actually have Huntington's. poo poo's rough.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:42
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CannonFodder posted:"Administration said we need to cut costs, starting with the highest cost department." This really seems like the one department that would never be cut, since I imagine children with cancer are probably the best donation-getters of any group, but I’d be curious to know if that’s true or not.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:57
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Samuringa posted:I specifically remember the diagnosis of this episode, Naegleria, which eats the victims brain, because I was terrified after watching the resolution and less than a couple of weeks later we had a case of it in my region which was a very "oh no Ah, the brain eating amoeba. I remember when there were some cases where people got infected from using neti pots. I think we may be talking about 2 different episodes though. This is the one I was thinking of: http://house.wikia.com/wiki/Histories I like that they have a "zebra factor" for each episode (as in, "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras")
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Jun 22, 2018 21:20
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Dixville posted:Ah, the brain eating amoeba. I remember when there were some cases where people got infected from using neti pots. Yep, the Foreman goes all cross one is this two-parter http://house.wikia.com/wiki/Euphoria_(Part_1)
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Taking the amount of Vicodin he took was pretty much slow suicide, though, if only because the APAP half of the pill is great at loving up your liver. Oh yeah, I'm not saying taking that amount of Vicodin is good. But treating it as an addiction problem and not a pain problem bothered me. I did like some of the earlier stuff with the pain, that's one reason it bothered me when they did a whole arc about his not being able to take opiates and sort of.. hand waved the consequences. Actually finding a way to deal with pain without opiates is difficult and affects your functioning quite a bit. It's probably not going to be solved with therapy and a hobby, and would affect his functioning quite a bit, if he's in so much pain he was eating Vicodin like candy. I mean, I know it wasn't a real deep drama that would want to linger on that after doing a whole season about his pain already, but they could have depicted more of that stuff as even an occasional subplot.
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Jun 22, 2018 22:10
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Arivia posted:Yep, the Foreman goes all cross one is this two-parter http://house.wikia.com/wiki/Euphoria_(Part_1) Oh so they gave the neurologist brain disease MULTIPLE times. Nice. Now that I look at that I remember that one too. Lol I love that the article says they called to tell Cameron not to do the brain biopsy because they figured out what it was but she said she "already knew" because she already did it. Biopsy samples have to fix in formalin for a while so unless she used some other test on the tissue she wouldn't know that quickly. Ugh great now I'm a medical nerd that ruins the show for the normal people 
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e X posted:A medical show centered entirely around the billing department of a hospital. Oh, Jesus, give a trigger warning, will ya? I've been fighting with Bon Secours billing for the past year over a hospital stay last year. Of the eleven months of bills, they've sent ten "Your account is severely overdue, pay full amount NOW!" notices. In every case it was due to either them not posting the payment for weeks after we made it, or in two cases flat out losing an electronic transfer. Every time they end up going "Ooopsie... my bad. Carry on". The capper was when I was told to fax them info from the bank. I called to follow up, and the guy on the other end literally said "Can't find it. Any leftover faxes at the end of Fridays are discarded." 
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