This is incredibly common. In my experience as a research scientist that has followed clinical data and interacted with a lot of healthcare professionals, a lot of nurses go off of purely anecdotal evidence instead of actual empirical evidence in a lot of things like that. That doesn't dissuade from their ability to provide care, which is totally what they are properly trained to do. But a lot of the times their opinions on things come out regarding that, it is totally left field of the research community's census.
Chiropractors are not real doctors. The entire field is essentially pseudoscience. It’s deeply concerning that it’s so normalized and accepted in modern society. I think a lot of people just assume that it’s basically on the same level as something like physical therapy
It’s getting worse, especially on social media when anyone with a doctorate is naming themselves “Dr” then their name and wearing white coats. If you see DC, the word “functional” or “wellness” in the name or bio, run. MDs or DOs will put it there if they have it. Honestly don’t wanna be snarky but that goes for NPs too.
Still got a gut feeling that one of the characters is gonna get seriously hurt or maybe even killed by a patient this season. It's dark but I feel like they've been telegraphing it a ton all season, even moreso than the motorcycle stuff. My guess if it does happen is either Donny (they're mentioning him being a new dad a lot), Ogilvy, or Emma
I hope we don’t get something like that, it would feel out of tone for the show. Something like Dana getting sucker punched but just coping with it last season was about as much as I need of that kind of storyline. Not one where suddenly one of the doctors ends up one of the major patients
I think the most obvious scenario so far this season is a doctor (my guess Dr. Robbie) makes a reckless, fatal error with a patient. OR - someone makes an innocent fatal error due to the stupid AI charting feature (that clearly showed has some bugs)
It wouldn't be out of tone with the spirit of what they're trying to do at all because that happens in real life to medical staff. "Suddenly one of the doctors/nurses ends up a major patient" happened at least once per season on ER. Literally did it in the pilot episode. Classic John Wells shit. There was one episode I think in season 2 or 3 in ER where they killed off a med student character in a particularly dark and brutal way.
I have a 3 year old 1 year old so a lot of my past winters have been late night trips to the ER and I have seen so much abuse towards the nurses and medical assistants. Especially the ones who are there just to have something to do, get food, etc. They split the waiting room into pediatric side and and adult side (without walls just a sign) but the only bathroom was on the pediatric sign and you'd get some characters coming over. They swapped sides for the kids, but now its right in front of the involuntary psych hold entrance so it's all bad.
“Our little secret.” Me: with the door/curtain completely wide open!?! Robby walks by and gives a “what is happening ?” face haha
Shit is gonna be real interesting for the rest of the season. Feel like they were foreshadowing that with all the tech failures up till now
Talking to them without an interpreter would be an ADA issue. Frankly they shouldn’t have even bothered trying to have Princess do it last ep. And the last one just seemed to be that she had to go to the bathroom lol
Robby is genuinely a bad boss. I get that he has huge issues with Langdon, but actively avoiding discussing them with him and then being weirdly passive aggressive to him is just childish behavior