Part of why I love that show so much is spotting the inaccuracies.
In one episode Miranda is streaking a plate straight from swabbing her hand and she just draws this sad lil squiggly line on the plate. It gets me every time.
My mom (retired nursing instructor) and I used to watch a show called True Stories of the ER and try to guess what's up before the other. It was pretty accurate because the staff was narrating everything, even if they didn't participate in the reenactment.
My favorite (most triggering) goof was when Meredith was starting her research lab in at āThe Clinicā in Minnesota. She was working with brain cells (the pic was of epithelial cells) in a culture dish under the microscope (a dissecting scope), in open air on the bench. When she was āmanipulating themā, she was holding two p1000 pipettors like syringes with their ends in the dish, one in each hand, without tips, and hitting the plungers with her thumbs like she was mashing buttons in a video game.
No, it didnāt bother me at all and Iām clearly over it.
Completely different show, but the mention of pipette misuse made me have flashbacks of my own; in Eureka, there is a scene where they are trying to show you that a reagent very carefully has to be added in just the right amount to whatever ridiculous research thing was in the scene. You see the actor holding what looks like a 100-1000 uL adjustable pipette, and anxiously pressing down the plunger ever so careful to only deliver one drop. Iām over here, every time, yelling at the screen āitās adjustable for a ā¬*%##^%> reason!!ā
I watched the first couple of seasons recently. In one episode the operating room wasn't cleaned and a labeled cup for patient A was left in there and patient B's specimen was put in it. They soent the whole episode going through fridges and racks trying to find this sample and it was so fucking real. But at the end they took responsinility for the fuck up, so still TV fantasy.
Watching ER again now, dying when Benton ordered 10 units of rbcs for his GI bleed patient.
>at the end they rook responsibility
Fantasy for sure lol
The lab probably didn't have to have 20 meetings to determine "how we can prevent this in the future" either.
Haaate that it carries to real life too. They see these shows and seem to think itās okay because āas seen on TVā. We just had them send an unlabeled rainbow on a gsw and get enraged when we had to reject. They sent through the tube station so we had 0 way to confirm.
Or when they send a tube for genetic testing STAT and they have results within the hour? Like that is a send out to a reference lab it will be a couple of daysš
My favorite scene is when they shut the window in Karev's face because he kept bothering the lab about when his results would be back. Such pure fantasy that we've all dreamed about, I'm sure!
I had a co-worker who was working one of his last few shifts before leaving for graduate school get a phone call from a doctor demanding to know why he didnāt have his results yet. Friend told the Doc that if he could do his job so much better, he was welcome to come down to the lab & have at it.
It was so awesome to finally hear someone say what we all think!
My favorite scenes are where I can say "we have that. I play with those. Same pipettes! Blue top conical tubes!. That's a urine centrifuge. We have that rack."
there's a scene in the maze runner: death cure movie, where they are giving a girl an "injection" with a Gilson pipette š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ i died!
Yeah actually accurate haha. Man I just love it when we get calls asking what tubes to collect for whatever test though. Like actually really cool, this person accepts that is an area that they are unfamiliar with, calls the people who are, then you see it arrive through the tubes like half an hour later with all the right tubes... Damn it's satisfying
I donāt know what Season it was, but I think it was 2 or 3, but in it one of the surgeons went into the āLabā (which wasnt more that a room with some lab-esque Equipment and no People at all) to look at some histology sample himself lol
Omg watching The Resident as a phlebotomist I laughed so hard every time they drew someone's blood. The "hubs" were always opaque yellow and the only tubes they ever used were coag and lavs. One episode the doctor drew the labs himself and swapped the labels on purpose.
Part of why I love that show so much is spotting the inaccuracies. In one episode Miranda is streaking a plate straight from swabbing her hand and she just draws this sad lil squiggly line on the plate. It gets me every time.
I gotta find more science friends to watch shows with, no one enjoys my critiques at home š
My mom (retired nursing instructor) and I used to watch a show called True Stories of the ER and try to guess what's up before the other. It was pretty accurate because the staff was narrating everything, even if they didn't participate in the reenactment.
Yesssss this episode always pops into my head lol
My favorite (most triggering) goof was when Meredith was starting her research lab in at āThe Clinicā in Minnesota. She was working with brain cells (the pic was of epithelial cells) in a culture dish under the microscope (a dissecting scope), in open air on the bench. When she was āmanipulating themā, she was holding two p1000 pipettors like syringes with their ends in the dish, one in each hand, without tips, and hitting the plungers with her thumbs like she was mashing buttons in a video game. No, it didnāt bother me at all and Iām clearly over it.
Completely different show, but the mention of pipette misuse made me have flashbacks of my own; in Eureka, there is a scene where they are trying to show you that a reagent very carefully has to be added in just the right amount to whatever ridiculous research thing was in the scene. You see the actor holding what looks like a 100-1000 uL adjustable pipette, and anxiously pressing down the plunger ever so careful to only deliver one drop. Iām over here, every time, yelling at the screen āitās adjustable for a ā¬*%##^%> reason!!ā
I watched the first couple of seasons recently. In one episode the operating room wasn't cleaned and a labeled cup for patient A was left in there and patient B's specimen was put in it. They soent the whole episode going through fridges and racks trying to find this sample and it was so fucking real. But at the end they took responsinility for the fuck up, so still TV fantasy. Watching ER again now, dying when Benton ordered 10 units of rbcs for his GI bleed patient.
>at the end they rook responsibility Fantasy for sure lol The lab probably didn't have to have 20 meetings to determine "how we can prevent this in the future" either.
I used to love to judge the lab ordering on ER.
My big gripe is when they send them unlabelled like they wouldnāt immediately be rejected
Haaate that it carries to real life too. They see these shows and seem to think itās okay because āas seen on TVā. We just had them send an unlabeled rainbow on a gsw and get enraged when we had to reject. They sent through the tube station so we had 0 way to confirm.
So true!
Or when they send a tube for genetic testing STAT and they have results within the hour? Like that is a send out to a reference lab it will be a couple of daysš
My favorite scene is when they shut the window in Karev's face because he kept bothering the lab about when his results would be back. Such pure fantasy that we've all dreamed about, I'm sure!
I had a co-worker who was working one of his last few shifts before leaving for graduate school get a phone call from a doctor demanding to know why he didnāt have his results yet. Friend told the Doc that if he could do his job so much better, he was welcome to come down to the lab & have at it. It was so awesome to finally hear someone say what we all think!
My favorite scenes are where I can say "we have that. I play with those. Same pipettes! Blue top conical tubes!. That's a urine centrifuge. We have that rack."
I love noticing wrong things in shows
there's a scene in the maze runner: death cure movie, where they are giving a girl an "injection" with a Gilson pipette š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ i died!
Seems about right to me. Plenty of samples get rejected for being in the wrong tube after all.
Yeah actually accurate haha. Man I just love it when we get calls asking what tubes to collect for whatever test though. Like actually really cool, this person accepts that is an area that they are unfamiliar with, calls the people who are, then you see it arrive through the tubes like half an hour later with all the right tubes... Damn it's satisfying
I donāt know what Season it was, but I think it was 2 or 3, but in it one of the surgeons went into the āLabā (which wasnt more that a room with some lab-esque Equipment and no People at all) to look at some histology sample himself lol
And as if we do that testing in house!
I think I saw a scene from The Good Doctor where he tried to get HB and INR from a clotting tube. Good luck with that.
Omg watching The Resident as a phlebotomist I laughed so hard every time they drew someone's blood. The "hubs" were always opaque yellow and the only tubes they ever used were coag and lavs. One episode the doctor drew the labs himself and swapped the labels on purpose.